A LENS ON VANCOUVER'S PAST

LUMBER

M.S. KERTOSONO [at dock] 
August 19, 1954
CVA 447-5443.2

Dimensional lumber, the product of sawmills, was prepared mostly as planks and boards. 
 

As shown, lumber arrived on barges from coastal sawmills and was cross-loaded onto the freighters such as the KERTOSONO.
 

Immediately after the war, lumber exports from B.C. to the Netherlands were over 52 trillion board feet in 1947 needed to rebuild.