Englewood


Englewood (50˚32'00" 126˚53'00" Head of Beaver Cove, W Johnstone Str, NE side of Vancouver I). The name of this former sawmill community came from the mill’s owners, US lumbermen Edward G English (1851–1930) and Frederick J Wood (1869–1937), who formed Wood & English Ltd in order to log on Vancouver I. They were operating in the Nimpkish valley as early as 1917 and constructed the Englewood mill in 1924. It was taken over by Canadian Forest Products during WWII and has since been...

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