 In 1935, a Royal Mail Canada post office was established in the store, with Mr. Sears as postmaster.The first houses were built by Eldon Lamb and Walter and Myrtle Haight and in 1936 Grant and Ray Emery built a general store for Lamb and Earl Johnston who were operating a lumber mill nearby.The population grew as millworkers and lumberjacks moved into the unincorporated community, building homes (usually little more than shacks) for their families.