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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blooey, post: 2036627, member: 12007&quot;]Very Cool local history!</p><p><br /></p><p>I know where Lime Bay is in Victoria and the cedar shake mill was one of the first in BC to try to be run by the employees after the housing market crashed and interest rates hit 20%.</p><p>Unfortunately there was one recession too many later and I believe they folded sometime in the early 90&#039;s.</p><p>Ironically, it was one of the only mills to peel cedar logs in BC, but as there was no market or demand for cedar plywood in Canada, their peeled veneers were sold for next to nothing to a cedar plywood manufacturer in Port Angeles, Wa.</p><p>The cheap raw material was then made into cedar plywood in the States and sold expensively all over the world for the production of saunas.</p><p><br /></p><p>The owners of the mill told me this story in 1982 when they donated a palette of veneers to my boat building school.</p><p>Nowadays, the site of the mill has become a strip mall ...&quot;Admiral&#039;s Walk&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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