Red Cedar Stump

The Red Cedar Stump is a highly visible landmark that can be found on a City lot that extends into the front yard of a single family lot in a urban residential area located at 8920 Queen Mary Boulevard. The stump is approximately nine metres in circumference (30 feet) and about four metres high.

The heritage value of this Western Red Cedar stump lies in the fact that it is a remnant of the first growth trees in North Surrey, representing the landscape of pre-European settlement. This stump reveals the maturity and scale of the natural landscape in the area, prior to European settlement.

Forestry played a crucial role in Surrey's settlement and development and the Red Cedar Stump is evidence of the extent of the local logging industry in the early 1900s. It was the high quality of Surrey's forests which attracted many people and a number of logging and milling firms, to the district. It is estimated that the tree was 500 to 1000 years old at the time it was cut. This stump provides some context of the size of the trees cleared by the early loggers. It has springboard markings that were notches cut into trees allowing loggers to insert a board and stand higher up off the ground to cut the tree.