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The trade paper Lumberman and Contractor noted the 1906 Incorporation of the McNair Timber Company, Vancouver, with a capital of $100,000. The company's limits were located in what is now the British Properties subdivision of West Vancouver. Initially, shingle bolts were hauled on horse-drawn sleds to the booming grounds near the foot of the present Sixteenth Street, whence they were towed to the Hastings mill. In March of 1907, however, work was started on a standard-gauge railway, and it was completed within a few months. From its terminus on the pier at the waterfront near Sixteenth Street the line extended northeastward through the site to the present Odeon theatre and through the middle of the 1200 block of Inglewood to approximately the location of Eleventh Street, where it turned north. Upon reaching the level of Palmerston Avenue, the line again curved away to the northeast, crossing Brothers Creek (then called Sisters Creek) and its tributaries on a pair of long (two hundred and three hundred foot) trestles. There were two camps, the lower probably situated near Eleventh Street. The upper camp was located a mile and a half beyond the lower, on a site which later became that of the first house built in the British Properties. The grades ran from three to sixteen percent on the lower mills and a quarter of the line, while the upper stretch had grades as steep as twenty-two percent. The lower camp comprised a large stable, a cookhouse and a dormitory, all of cedar shake construction, while the upper included a blacksmith's shop, three bunkhouses and a combination cookhouse, stores and dining hall. The Province reported that the McNairs had a reputation for feeding the loggers well, "a thing which these leaders of a very strenous life