Captain Edward Stamp (5 November 1814 – 20 January 1876) was an English mariner and entrepreneur who contributed to the early economic development of

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and

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.Lamb, W. K. (2000). Stamp, Edward. ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography''. Born at

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in Northumberland, Stamp served as the captain of a steam transport in the

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in 1854.

History

In 1865, he formed the British Columbia and Vancouver Island Spar, Lumber and Saw Mill Company to establish a sawmill and logging rights on

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. The company first attempted to locate the mill at

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in what is now

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, but inshore currents and a nearby reef made the site impractical and the site was shifted about a mile farther east, on the south side of the inlet. Because of several business challenges, and perhaps his own difficult personality, Stamp's relationship with the company and his management position came to an end on 2 January 1869. In 1870 the mill was renamed

Hastings Mill Hastings Mill was a sawmill on the south shore of Burrard Inlet and was the first commercial operation around which the settlement that would become Vancouver developed in British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1865 by Edward Stamp, the sawmill oper ...

and eventually seeded the settlement from which the city of

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developed. The stamp had a minor career in politics, serving on the

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in 1867 and 1868. He died at

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, on 20 January 1872.

References

External links

Stamp's Mill and Gastown

Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
Canadian businesspeople People from Alnwick 1814 births 1872 deaths Members of the Legislative Council of British Columbia English emigrants to pre-Confederation British Columbia Pre-Confederation British Columbia people {{Canada-business-bio-stub

History

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