The Canadian Pacific Lumber Company was built by T.W. and T.F. Paterson in 1899 at the foot of Douglas Street on the north side of the tracks. In 1899 Perry Douglas Roe was hired as Manager and Robert Abernathy as Mill Superintendent. The mill was incorporated on February 2, 1900 with T.F. Paterson, Perry Douglas Roe, and Robert Abernathy as partners with a capital of $40,000.