HEATH:  After the first Beaver Mills burned in 1894, John Heath (1848-1925) and his brother Thomas Heath (1853-1922) set out for British Columbia to work in the logging camps south of Vancouver and in the vicinity of Richmond.  The destruction of the old-growth forests of the west coast apparently did not give the Heath brothers a moment’s pause, and John’s earnings allowed him to build the second Beaver Mills.

The picture above dates to circa 1900 and shows John Heath bottom left, and Thomas Heath bottom right.