Esquimalt as seen from Parsons Bridge, Six Mile, Vancouver Island, between 1893 and 1900

• Main Author: Macmunn, Charles
• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1893
• Subjects: Cities & towns > British Columbia; Esquimalt (B.C.); Vancouver Island (B.C.); Hudson Bay; Canada; Hudson; British Columbia; Leech; Fenton
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/539

Caption on mount: Esquimalt from Parsons Bridge PH Coll 1496.5a In 1848, millright John Fenton built a saw-mill on a site owned by the Hudson Bay Company. The site would come to be known as Six Mile. The first lumber sawn was used in a barn at the North Dairy Farm. It was also from here that the first export of lumber went to California. It consisted of 8,000 feet and the price was $80. per 1000 feet. The following year Fenton was lured to California by the tales of gold. Bill Parsons (Parson as he was called) replaced Fenton and he built a bridge over Millstream which in the 1863 gold rush provided access to the Sooke and Leech River areas.