Known as Charles.
Fire Clay Expert.
In 1905 John Charles MacClure founded the Vancouver Fireclay Company Ltd. and established a brickworks in the newly created village of Clayburn, near Abbotsford, B.C. and forty miles east of Vancouver.
By 1909, when the firm's name was changed to that of the village. the Clayburn Company had surpassed in output its largest competitor in the province, the Columbia Clay Company of Anvil Island.
After a period of expansion Clayburn purchased its nearby rival, Kilgard Fireclay Company, in 1918.
Dual operations continued at both the Clayburn plant, which specialized in brick, and the Kilgard plant, which specialized in clay tiles and pipe, until 1930 when the plant at Clayburn was abandoned and that at Kilgard enlarged to accommodate brick manufacturing as well.
When Charles' father John died in 1907, poisoned from drinking brackish water out of a stream while in the woods, he was originally buried behind the family home, known as Hazelbrae, in the Clayburn district. The vault was carefully constructed of the first bricks Charles had produced at his Clayburn Brick Factory.
Charles was predeceased by his wife Alice Cecelia Richardson, married August 31, 1883 in Victoria, British Columbia.
Fire Clay Expert.
In 1905 John Charles MacClure founded the Vancouver Fireclay Company Ltd. and established a brickworks in the newly created village of Clayburn, near Abbotsford, B.C. and forty miles east of Vancouver.
By 1909, when the firm's name was changed to that of the village. the Clayburn Company had surpassed in output its largest competitor in the province, the Columbia Clay Company of Anvil Island.
After a period of expansion Clayburn purchased its nearby rival, Kilgard Fireclay Company, in 1918.
Dual operations continued at both the Clayburn plant, which specialized in brick, and the Kilgard plant, which specialized in clay tiles and pipe, until 1930 when the plant at Clayburn was abandoned and that at Kilgard enlarged to accommodate brick manufacturing as well.
When Charles' father John died in 1907, poisoned from drinking brackish water out of a stream while in the woods, he was originally buried behind the family home, known as Hazelbrae, in the Clayburn district. The vault was carefully constructed of the first bricks Charles had produced at his Clayburn Brick Factory.
Charles was predeceased by his wife Alice Cecelia Richardson, married August 31, 1883 in Victoria, British Columbia.
Known as Charles.
Fire Clay Expert.
In 1905 John Charles MacClure founded the Vancouver Fireclay Company Ltd. and established a brickworks in the newly created village of Clayburn, near Abbotsford, B.C. and forty miles east of Vancouver.
By 1909, when the firm's name was changed to that of the village. the Clayburn Company had surpassed in output its largest competitor in the province, the Columbia Clay Company of Anvil Island.
After a period of expansion Clayburn purchased its nearby rival, Kilgard Fireclay Company, in 1918.
Dual operations continued at both the Clayburn plant, which specialized in brick, and the Kilgard plant, which specialized in clay tiles and pipe, until 1930 when the plant at Clayburn was abandoned and that at Kilgard enlarged to accommodate brick manufacturing as well.
When Charles' father John died in 1907, poisoned from drinking brackish water out of a stream while in the woods, he was originally buried behind the family home, known as Hazelbrae, in the Clayburn district. The vault was carefully constructed of the first bricks Charles had produced at his Clayburn Brick Factory.
Charles was predeceased by his wife Alice Cecelia Richardson, married August 31, 1883 in Victoria, British Columbia.
Fire Clay Expert.
In 1905 John Charles MacClure founded the Vancouver Fireclay Company Ltd. and established a brickworks in the newly created village of Clayburn, near Abbotsford, B.C. and forty miles east of Vancouver.
By 1909, when the firm's name was changed to that of the village. the Clayburn Company had surpassed in output its largest competitor in the province, the Columbia Clay Company of Anvil Island.
After a period of expansion Clayburn purchased its nearby rival, Kilgard Fireclay Company, in 1918.
Dual operations continued at both the Clayburn plant, which specialized in brick, and the Kilgard plant, which specialized in clay tiles and pipe, until 1930 when the plant at Clayburn was abandoned and that at Kilgard enlarged to accommodate brick manufacturing as well.
When Charles' father John died in 1907, poisoned from drinking brackish water out of a stream while in the woods, he was originally buried behind the family home, known as Hazelbrae, in the Clayburn district. The vault was carefully constructed of the first bricks Charles had produced at his Clayburn Brick Factory.
Charles was predeceased by his wife Alice Cecelia Richardson, married August 31, 1883 in Victoria, British Columbia.
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