Has anybody else run across plank used as clapboard?


I am working with an 1855 Georgian style house, the third oldest surviving house in British Columbia, that has 1 x 8 sawn lumber installed as clapboard siding.    Built for a Hudson's Bay Company farm manager by HBC employees, the first floor structure is in traditional HBC broad-axed piece en piece style, while the second floor is a sort of attempt at framing.   The whole thing was/is covered with the squared clapboard siding to give it "class".    In 1853, the farm manager brought his own steam engine and 42" circular saw from Scotland, and apparently set a new standard for finish out here in the really wild west when he arrived to set up the farm.   

With 40 staff and families, the farm's 70 people helped create a British settlement at the Southern tip of Vancouver Island, keeping it out of American hands during boundary negotiations since this area (Victoria, BC) is below the 49th parallel.   But for that clapboard siding, I would still be talking Yank.

While the manager's house was begun in 1853 by French Canadian or English HBC employees from the nearby Fort Victoria, the farm's 1855 two story Georgian schoolhouse was actually completed first has the same finish.   However, it is totally timber frame style construction.   The Scottish farm workers appear to have built that one themselves.  Diary Note: "Gideon has a crew erecting the schoolhouse frame.  Entire crew notoriously drunk."

Sound familiar?

cp in bc
where some things never change

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