In my expansion of this build, I put a whole bunch of custom armour stands down. Here are some of my favourites.
Look at all these fish in the little fisherman's hut!
Two of the logging camp crew carry a log. This log is also a set of armour stands - which allows it to be off-grid.
And two entertainers on the road; a juggler and an acrobat. The hand standing friend is 2 armour stands just to make sure all the parts sit in the right place!
All of this was built on the cakejumper community minecraft server. Shaders are BSL v10.1.3.
Scenes of the Green Point Logging Company’s operations on Harrison Lake, August 27, 1932. Photographed by Stuart Thomson.
City of Vancouver Archives, Stuart Thomson fonds, AM1535.
From top to bottom:
1. CVA 99-2660 [view of lake and log dump]
2. CVA 99-2671 [Spar tree - log loading]
3. CVA 99-2672 [Spar tree - log loading]
4. CVA 99-2674 [logger at base of spar tree]
5. CVA 99-2658 ["Climax" type locomotive #2 at camp]
6. CVA 99-2659 [log dump and camp]
7. CVA 99-2661 ["Shay" type locomotive at log dump]
8. CVA 99-2664 ["Jill-Poke" log unloading devise at log dump]
9. CVA 99-2665 ["Shay" locomotive working at log dump]
10. CVA 99-2666 ["Shay" locomotive working at log dump]
Archeologist Bob Muckle has a theory that it was an oasis of Japanese culture, on the fringe of Vancouver, decades ago, that was heretofore unknown
By Tyler Dawson
EDMONTON — Hidden away in British Columbia’s North Shore mountains are the remnants of a Japanese-Canadian logging camp, shrouded by forest and veiled from memory after it was apparently abandoned because of internment during the Second World War.
Since 2004, Vancouver archeologist Bob Muckle has been visiting and excavating the site; almost everything had been swallowed by the forest and has been gradually and carefully uncovered. There are as many questions as answers, still, but Muckle has a theory that it was an oasis of Japanese culture, on the fringe of Vancouver, decades ago, that was heretofore unknown.
Sherri Kajiwara of the Nikkei National Museum in Burnaby, B.C. says there is no record, yet, of anyone remembering living there, or remembering that their ancestors resided there, although there were plenty of Japanese-Canadians in Canada at the time.
“By the 1940s the community was very established and spread across metro Vancouver and the province,” Kajiwara said.
Her museum is putting together an exhibit about the history of Japanese-Canadian internment, and one of the main characters is Eikichi Kagetsu, a successful businessman who had logging rights in the area where Muckle found a settlement.
Muckle’s involvement with the camp began as a search for an area where he could teach his Capilano University students about proper excavation. He found one, a logging camp, by the looks of it, since there were bits of saw blades around. But, the excavation soon revealed it “was not really a typical logging camp at all.”
A typical camp, Muckle explained, would have bunk houses and a mess hall for the men working there. This one has 14 locations that were, to Muckle’s eyes, houses. There is also evidence of a shrine, a garden space and a water reservoir system.
“The most significant find is evidence of what may be a Japanese bathhouse,” Muckle noted. “Very few bathhouses have been excavated outside of Japan.”
The final detail to close out this week of fun are two boats and some other little details!
This first boat is a match to my other barges, but with a chimney and smoke cloud!
The second boat is this little fisherman's boat, currently docked. This boat is the one used by the fisherman in the house behind.
And finally I have these animated little geese, which are a design by Jake Kelton Crafts.
This is all built on the cakejumper community server. I am using BSL Shaders (v10.1.3)
This was also all built in a timelapse! Enjoy that below.
One is used to load up logs onto boats which then take them away, while the bigger one is used to store logs as they come in from the tree farms.
Both are the same industrial-esque style that the smeltery was, red brick industrial buildings with that slanted roof. The shader makes the glow lichen way more obvious unfortunatly, but it keeps the roof subtly lit.
I did that batch of pine trees custom too! But then I felt the need to actually stop and put this video out. Maybe more big custom trees are in my future.
