Old powerhouse meters for sale

By Mark Lauckner; posted December 16, 2014

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3 meters I took from a 1905 powerhouse at the Bamberton Cement Works, Vancouver Island, BC in about 1988. One has no glass, the other 2 have glass a bit hazy, easily can be replaced. I did not take the instrumentation transformers that the meters were attached to. I was kind of in a rush to score as much as possible from the site in a short period of time.

How about $55 plus post for all 3...

The cement plant was built there in 1905, after it was moved from the previous location across the inlet. The old quarry and works site was sold to the Butchart family when a much richer limestone deposit was found at Shawnigan Lake on the opposite side of the inlet. The Butchart family developed the old site into the now world-famous Butchart Gardens. I knew the daughter of the industrialist who bought the site from Ocean Cement in the mid-80's, he was planning on making it into a retirement town. There was too much opposition from the local residents, so the site was never developed into a town. In the mid 90's the entire site was bulldozed and buried except for the office building and old laboratory building down at the waterfront. The 3rd and current owner is still trying to get approval for a theme development there.

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