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The McNair-Fraser Lumber Company One Saturday in early June of 1907, readers of the Vancouver Province were surprised to learn of a train wreck on the north shore of Burrard inlet. Surprised indeed, for until then few of Vancouver's citizens were aware of the existence of a logging railroad on the rugged mountainside virtually on the city's doorstep. But there it was, an eyewitness report, and a photograph of forty-five tons of capsized engine "looking as ignominious a wreck as a locomotive in such circumstances usually does." The north shore railroad, a substantial work ("it might be a section of the C.P.R.," said the Province) some two and a half miles in length, proved to be yet another undertaking of the industrious McNair brothers. Robert McNair was born in 1858 in Restigouche, New Brunswick, and his brother, James Archibald, some eight of nine years later, at Jacquet River, in the same province. Lumbering was in the McNair blood, and when the smaller trees of Restigouche County failed to challenge the brothers, the turned their attention, as did many of their clan, to the towering firs and cedars of the Pacific coast. Jim and Robert McNair came to British Columbia in 1891 and soon made their mark in the lumber industry. The Hastings Shingle Manufacturing Company, which they established, at one time operated the largest shingle mill in the west, and James McNair eventually became known as "the shingle king".