Mural #2 Legion Street (right side only)

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 harbour 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’.

At the centre, a boomman sorts logs in the slippery danger of the log dump. The mill is portrayed here as it was in 1892, it was the third operation to be built on the site. Owned by the Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company Limited, it was improved over the years until a fire destroyed it in 1923.

On the right, Engine No. 21 of the V.L. & M. Company rolls off another load into the Chemainus log dump. The year is 1899. The locomotive, a 2-8-0, has already seen two decades of work having been built for the Pennsylvania Railroad as Engine No. 248 in 1879 (CN 433).