Hastings Mill

Hastings Mill was a sawmill on the south shore of Burrard Inlet and was the first commercial operation around which the settlement that would become Vancouver developed in British Columbia, Canada.

Stamp's efforts in developing the mill are summarized by Robert Macdonald in Making Vancouver: Class, Status and Social Boundaries, 1863-1913: In 1865 he formed a company in England, backed by capital of $100,000 , to produce lumber in British Columbia.

Stamp also secured from the colonial government of British Columbia the right to purchase or lease 16,000 acres (65 km2) of timber on the lower coast, and selected a mill site on a point of land along Burrard Inlet's south shore.

Delayed by the failure of crucial machinery parts to arrive from England, Stamp did not begin cutting lumber for export until June 1867.

[3] Operated by the Native Daughters of British Columbia, the museum houses artifacts and curiosities from Vancouver's past, and First Nations art.

Timber being loaded onto flat cars at Hastings Mill, 1925.
Panorama of Vancouver in 1898 with Hastings Mill at the shoreline
The sawmill's store building was re-purposed into a museum in 1932.