Hi Malcolm and Brian, Re Minstral Island. http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CA/2/Minstrel_Island.html http://www.minstrelisland.com/about.html There is a contact address at the following - perhaps they can help with the logging history and persons involved. http://bcmarina.com/Places/Minstrel_Island/Websize/thumbnails.html http://www.abcbookworld.com/?state=view_author&author_id=185 http://www.island.net/~kennmac/coastal/ Happy New Year 2005. Cheers, Stella At 02:19 PM 1/12/2005, Malcolm at ACDB-Canada wrote: > Hi Brian, > Not directly what you were looking for but I did a quick > search in our CD of the "Gazetteer & Business Directory of Canada - 1930, > Product # CA0035, for the name Bentley in BC. The one "hit" which looked > possible was listed under "Logging" and was for "Bentley and Kennedy" of > Minstral Island. This must be a small place because it didn't rate a > mention in the Gazetteer part of the directory. > > Not much I'm afraid, but it may help. Of course I'm assuming the > family traded under their family name. Most people did in those days. > > Malcolm > >Archive CD Books Canada Inc. >Attn: Malcolm Moody - President >P.O. Box 11, >Manotick, Ontario, K4M 1A2, Canada. >phone: (613) 692-2667 >e-mail: [email protected] >Canadian web site: http://www.archivecdbooks.ca > > >> >>From: Brian <[email protected]> >>Date: 11 January 2005 21:07:35 GMT-05:00 >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Local History of Field, B.C. about 1925 >> >> >>I am looking for information about independent lumber mills which operated >>around Field or Golden from about 1921 ­ 1928. >>A Bentley family from Nova Scotia (via Edmonton) attempt a start up about >>this time. (Noah Newcomb, Burpee, James, Grant) Is there a local history >>written about Field or Golden that someone can refer me to. >> > > > >==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== >To New Subscribers : The online indexes to British Columbia Vital Records >are at >http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca:9000/sn-301BDDB/bsearch >These records are freely available and there are several possibilities for >accessing them at a low cost.