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Lumber Crew at Comaplix, circa 1910

A grayscale photograph of a group of men, a work-crew, standing in front of a pile of wood. The men were from Japan, India, and across Canada and Europe. Trees in the background of the photo..

Revelstoke Museum and Archives photograph 2245.

A large sawmill operated at Comaplix on the northeast arm of the Upper Arrow Lake in the early 1900s. The mill had a diverse work crew, with men from Japan, India, and across Canada and Europe. Men of each ethnicity were housed in segregated boarding houses. The Comaplix sawmill was destroyed in an arson fire in 1915.