the vista of Sumas Mountain to the east. Samuel Maclure’s architectural style can be detected in several features of the design and positioning of the houses and it is likely that he was the architect responsible for the general designing of the first 7 houses: the Plant Manager’s house, the Accountant’s house and 5 foreman’s cottages. By 1909, Charles Maclure had been removed from Clayburn Company and the original ‘townsite concept’ was not maintained. John Browne Millar replaced Charlie Maclure as plant manager and his arrival marked the beginning of a period of expansion both at the plant and in the village. About a dozen new buildings were erected in Clayburn in one year, among them four more cottages that were added to the row of seven original brick houses on Clayburn Road. Two of the four bungalows were built using clinker bricks, overfired rejects that at the time were valued for their special-design effect. The other two fill-in-bungalows were wood buildings. Behind Clayburn Road on Armstrong Ave, more housing was built for the workers; they were referred to as the six green houses and six red shacks. All the homes in Clayburn Village were inhabited by the employees and rent was paid to the Company. Terms for renting a brick house in the original subdivision in 1909 were $3 - $5 per month. (Following the post war inflation in 1920, a foremen’s cottage rent went up to $8). In 1911, an independent store was erected, and the Cooper Seldon Co. general store provided the needs of the community. It was operated by the Cooper family until 1972. The building changed hands a few times and re-emerged as the well-known Clayburn Village Tea House in 1984 and is still the hub of the village. There were other independent stores, Case’s store and Bullock’s butcher shop but neither remain today. A Chinese laundry also operated behind the houses as well as a blacksmith. The Clayburn Company built a wooden school in 1907 and donated the land and bricks for a church in 1912, both are located on Wright St. There was a ‘new subdivision’ in 1911 which expanded the original townsite to the west side of Wright St. For the first time, some of the new lots were offered for purchase to the public except for one new company-built house for Roderick Reid, the Works Accountant. The Clayburn brick plant site