The Canadian Puget Sound Lumber & Timber Company

Firm that operated a large sawmill in Victoria's Inner Harbour at the corner of Pembroke Street and Store Street (north of current location of Capital Iron.) The Company was established in the 1870s as Sayward Lumber. In 1910 or 1912, it was acquired by a group of American businessmen as Michigan Puget Sound Lumber Company. The company's name changed to Canadian Puget Sound Lumber and Timber Company around 1915. Mannings Timber took over part of the operation in 1936 and continued in business until 1958. Canadian Puget Sound Lumber Company vacated its site in 1949 and operated in Sooke until the 1970s.