In early 1890, land was cleared along the coast near Sarah Point. The land sat in a small bay, protected mostly from the weather, and small-time loggers and homesteaders started building their lives there. For a year, the little bay received very little attention. It was a rugged coast, with very few places to land a vessel and come ashore.

This year, the name Lund, derived from a southern Swedish city, became part of the West Coast of British Columbia. It began serving tugboats and loggers, gradually developing into the first community not based on an industrial mine or a timber lease, but rather on a true permanent settlement.

By 1893, the tiny cove was a settlement, one of the first on the mainland at the very tip of Malaspina Strait. Although placenames like Malaspina Inlet, Oke Over, and Sarah Point had been on charts for a few years, this little settlement called Lund was gaining attention.

With a Wharf known as Thulin’s Wharf, Mr. A. Anderson was a Foreman for a contract to build a road from Lund to Malaspina Road on the north shore of Malaspina Inlet, for $416.61. Lund was growing in leaps and bounds. The Postmaster, Chas A. Thulin, ran two general stores and one hotel, the Hotel Malaspina. Loggers like William Bell, Al Bithers, William Blaney, Erick Carlson, and Sam Coulter, all residents of Lund, comprised the town’s population of 25 people in 1893. Considering that Lund was an isolated community 85 miles north of Vancouver, it even had a bootmaker and shoemaker named Mr. E. Jonson.

Texada Island, which measures 40 miles in length and an average of 10 miles in width, has long been a well-known and established destination. The island’s importance had been established, attracting attention from the Province of British Columbia, which approved the construction of a trail from Welcome Creek to the mines. The trail, built by James Raper for $350, marked the beginning of provincial funding allocated in the Malaspina Strait.

In another province across the country, at the Department of Indian Affairs, the Indian Superintendent of British Columbia has sent word that tracing for the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Reserve ended on March 3, 1893, along with many others on the coast.

Thomas Humphrey Lee received his Crown Grant for Lot 22 on April 10, 1893, situated on the northern tip of Texada Island. Later, the area was shipping loads of lime from Lime Kiln Bay. They would run a cable from high on the hill out to a ship and slide the lime bags out to the anchored vessel.

Newspapers such as The Weekly News, published in the Courtenay-Comox district, wrote articles about life on Texada Island. The newspaper stated that there were only two or three settlers on the island: Mr. C. R. Miller and his wife, Mr. Lawrence Souveren, and their neighbour, Mr. Ned Barney.

There was not much movement from the Dominion of Canada on First Nations discussions, but they kept their census up to date. In 1893, when the census taker visited Sliammon (Tla’amin) Village, 206 people were counted. During this same time period, a new Dominion map became available from the Dominion Publishing Company, showing the Indian Reservations, Powell Lake, Harwood Island, Savary Island, and the surrounding areas, and establishing name attributions for travellers.

Between January and June 30, 1903, there were numerous letters from a Mr. W. Blaney concerning timber on the reserve at the head of Theodosia Arm. He requested permission to cut and transport the timber.

Past Lund in the Strait of Georgia sat the Ragged Islands. On January 17, 1893, Mr. Edward Stolterfoht received a Crown Grant for District Lots 1420, 1421, and 1422, encompassing all the Islands themselves. Further south, Nils Frolander applied for a Crown Grant for District Lot 1499, granted on December 14, 1893, establishing another name attribution for the coast, Frolander Bay.

Newspapers were paying attention to the area around Powell Lake and Texada Island, as were companies and corporations. The 1893 Williams Official British Columbia Directory, published in April and May, established Lund as a go-to port for travellers heading up the coast.

Mr. Thulin built it, and they were coming in 1893