From about 1859, Otis Parsons, who supervised the team that built the section of the Douglas Road to the head of Anderson Lake, operated the Parsonville ferry until his death.
[10] In 1862, a tollbooth existed at Parsonville, and Otis Parsons and his partner named Nelson were running a successful freight business.
Scott had grown several crops of the finest leaf tobacco prior to buying 68 hectares (168 acres) from Kennedy, who had pre-empted the property months earlier.
[11] In summer 1865, Scott purchased the machinery from the steamer Champion, which had worked on Seton Lake, to build a steam-powered flour mill.
PGE established a divisional point and erected a station and four-stall roundhouse at East Lillooet (former Parsonville vicinity).