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In the summer of 1865 when Captain Edward Stamp began to organize the construction of a small saw milling operation on the south shore of Burrard Inlet, he likely never realized that a future metropolis was in the making. The fledgling Stamp’s Mill, later to become known as Hastings Mill, was Vancouver’s first community — a townsite inhabited by an eclectic mix of colourful characters from widely diverse backgrounds.

Learn about our neighbour three blocks to the east, Old Hastings Mill Store Museum, Vancouver's oldest surviving building c. 1868. Brock House member Lisa Smith is a longtime volunteer at the museum and has done much research on its colourful past . Her book,  Hastings Mill: The Historic Times of a Vancouver Community, was published by Ronsdale Press in 2021.