Lower Lonsdale
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Lower Lonsdale is an old waterfront area in the City of North Vancouver. Its history is inseparably connected to the lumber and shipbuilding industries on the North Shore of Burrard Inlet.
[edit] History
In 1860 a Catholic Missionary was ordered to build a church on the water front of what is now called St. Pauls Church
Shortly afterwards two men by the name of T. W. Graham and George Scrimgeour secured a pre-emption of 150 acres, the first on the North Shore of the Burrard Inlet.
They proceeded to build a lumber mill and named it The Pioneer Mills and was the the first industrial lumber plant on the Inlet. This consequently initiates an influx of residents.
With the mill facing bankruptcy, an American by the name of Sewell Prescott Moody bought the Mill.
Being linked to Downtown Vancouver and its booming real-estate market by Seabus, this area presents the second-best opportunity to live close to Vancouver's downtown core for condo buyers and is currently undergoing its own contruction boom. Lower Lonsdale has a number of interesting heritage buildings from the early 20th c.
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