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Hastings Mill was a sawmill on the south shore of Burrard Inlet and was the first commercial operation around which the settlement that would become Vancouver developed in British Columbia, Canada. In 1867, Captain Edward Stamp began producing lumber in Stamp's Mill at the foot of what is now Dunlevy Avenue after a planned site at Brockton Point proved unsuitable due to difficult currents and a shoal. Stamp's efforts in developing the mill are summarized by Robert Macdonald in ''Making Vancouver: Class, Status and Social Boundaries, 1863-1913'':
The early settlement was in effect a company town. People shopped at the Hastings Mill Store and sent their children to the Hastings Mill School, which included students from Moodyville on the opposite side of the inlet. This would change after the CPR chose Vancouver as the terminus for the transcontinental railway. Nevertheless, the lumber industry remained the backbone of the new settlement's economy, and Hastings Mill was "the nucleus around which the city of Vancouver grew up in the 1880s" and remained important to the local economy until it closed in the 1920s.〔(Chuck Davis, "A Brief History of Greater Vancouver," ) from ''The History of Metropolitan Vancouver'' website.〕 When Hastings Mill closed, the building that housed the Hastings Mill Store was transported by barge to the foot of Alma Street to begin a new life as the Old Hastings Mill Store Museum. Operated by the Native Daughters of British Columbia, the museum features Native American, pioneer and immigrant artifacts.〔http://www.venturevancouver.com/old-hastings-mill-store-vancouver-oldest-building Venture Vancouver〕 This was also one of the only structures to survive the great fire in 1886 and was used as a hospital and morgue for the fire's victims.〔("The Old Hastings Mill Store Museum," ) ''Walking tours of Vancouver with John Atkin'' website.〕 == References == *(Information about the museum ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hastings Mill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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