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HASTINGS MILL AND ME
Re-visit the historic times of Hastings Mill, a sawmilling community on Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet, with a colourful ensemble of real-life and fictional characters.
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Young Johnnie Scales is given a job shovelling sawdust at the new mill. A sports field and a thrilling soccer game result.
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Alice Patterson is injured on a lonely beach during her “mission of mercy” down-inlet from her Hastings Mill home. Can she trust her rescuer?
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Harry Alexander, son of the mill manager, runs for his life as the Great Vancouver Fire bears down upon the city.
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“Queen of the May” Aldyen Hamber attempts to help a deserving but overlooked Hastings Mill employee meet a visiting duke and duchess.
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Rupert, the white son of a Hastings Mill log boomer, strikes up an unlikely friendship with Japanese-Canadian Akira. Will their bond survive the anti-Asian riots of 1907?
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Schoolteacher Mary DesBrisay reminisces about life in a remote Hastings Mill logging camp.
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Will long-time tugboat captain Charles Cates be able to help a determined group of ladies save the much-loved Hastings Mill Store from destruction?
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Native Daughter Norah Hampton Bole learns just what it takes to turn the old store into a museum.
Join the cast for an eyewitness journey through time like you have never experienced before.
Published 2026
Time Talk Press
Language: English
Paperback