Port Mellon Traditional Cache
Bedunga: As this area is now signed as the private property of the Squamish Nation, I have removed the cache.
Besides, it was never Port Mellon, it was Chenchenstway (Helping One Another).
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Just before the mill Guard House, there is a path down to a small wharf (old log dump). There is a great view up Howe Sound from this point.
Port Mellon, at the mouth of Rainy River, has one claim to fame - it is the site of the longest surviving pulp and paper mill in the province. Although it is now a large, modern, technically advanced operation, this hasn't always been the case. The mill had very modest beginnings.
In 1908, Captain Henry A. Mellon (the site is named after him) and the British Canadian Wood Pulp & Paper Company, drawn by the reliable water supply from the river and the easy access by cargo ships, built a small plant that produced BC's first wood-fibre pulp. The site changed hands several times until Canadian Forest Products bought it in 1951. As there was no road into the site until 1954, the mill supported a substantial company townsite complete with school, hotel, restaurant and community hall. After the road connected the mill to the outside world, the townsite slowly diminished until the last house was demolished in the late 1980s. The old school building and community hall still survive, however.
In 1988, Canadian Forest Products entered into a partnership with Oji Paper of Japan. The pulp mill was completely rebuilt, newsprint production was added, and the site was transformed into one of the most modern mills in Canada.
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