In 1891 Robert McNair and his brother opened a shingle mill and logging camp at Hastings. The Robert McNair Shingle Company started operating at Hastings in 1904. In 1913 they signed a 25 year lease to use BC Electric Co. railway tracks from Coquitlam Lake. McNair's second and more modern shingle mill opened at Port Moody in 1914. It was logging on Coquitlam Mountain and at Deep Cove.