Local Voices: Vanishing Skid Roads with Larry Marshik
Thu, Apr 25
|West Vancouver
As settlements were established along Burrard Inlet, logging transformed the forested mountains of the North Shore. Remnants of the industry can still be discovered, more than a century later. It's a matter of knowing where, and how, to look. Watch Recording.
Time & Location
Apr 25, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
West Vancouver, 1950 Marine Dr, West Vancouver, BC V7V 1J8, Canada
About the event
As settlements were established along Burrard Inlet, logging transformed the forested mountains of the North Shore. Remnants of the industry can still be discovered, more than a century later. It's a matter of knowing where, and how, to look.
Larry Marshik's exploration of the rugged Lynn Valley terrain taught him to identify the flumes, chutes and skid roads built, used and abandoned by loggers during 1895 to 1915. His experience as a surveyor helps him trace logging routes, almost invisible today in the remaining forest above Lynn Valley's residential area. These routes led from the forest to the two mills in Lynn Valley and to the flumes that carried shingle bolts down to Burrard Inlet for the Hastings Mill across the inlet in Vancouver.
Marshik's respect for the forest, and the lives the forest supports, past, present, and future, is an essential element of his contribution to our community's heritage.