“The Thirty-Three Metre Collage” by artists Frank Lewis and Nancy Lagana,
painted in 1982. Restoration in 2006 by Cim MacDonald.
On the left, a crew of stevedores at the Chemainus wharf stands before a fully
rigged ship, her sails clewed up for drying. Based on a photograph from
1901, the scene is typical of the busy harbor on any given day. Sailing ships and
steamers, as many as five at a time, would be loading or waiting to begin their
‘lay days’.
On the right, a boom man sorts logs in the slippery danger of the log dump.
The mills is portrayed here as it was in 1892; it was the third operation to be
built on the site. Owned by the Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Co. Ltd., it
was improved over the years until a fire destroyed it in 1923.
Best viewed in original size
