Qualla: Union Bay Post Office https://qualla.com/union-bay-post-office en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:34:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Union Bay Post Office https://qualla.com/union-bay-post-office Union Bay Post Office: Introduction https://qualla.com/union-bay-post-office/ Buy a stamp here and you are handed it through a brass wicket that has been in the same frame since before the First World War. The Union Bay Post Office went up in 1913, and it is still a post office — not a museum with a mail slot, an actual working Canada Post outlet with a counter and the outgoing mail for Denman Island, Hornby Island, and Fanny Bay stacked behind the partition. It is also one of only two old wooden post offices left standing in Canada. Everything else that gave this place a reason to exist is gone.

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]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/z/4/union-bay-post-office-wp/c0z4-union-bay-post-office-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Union Bay Post Office: The Deep Water That Made a Town https://qualla.com/union-bay-post-office/ Coal came out of Cumberland, a dozen kilometres inland, and it had to reach the ocean. Union Wharf opened in 1889 on Baynes Sound - the largest wharf complex built in the province at the time - because the water here is deep enough for seagoing ships to tie up close to shore, and...

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]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/z/4/union-bay-post-office-wp/c0z4-union-bay-post-office-the-deep-water-that-made-a-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Union Bay Post Office: The Men at the Ovens https://qualla.com/union-bay-post-office/ The labour that built and ran this port was largely done by workers the colony's newspapers rarely named. South Asian crews built and rebuilt sections of the dock to handle coke gently, since coke shatters if you drop it. Japanese workers stoked the ovens, standing in heat that m...

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]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/z/4/union-bay-post-office-wp/c0z4-union-bay-post-office-the-men-at-the-ovens.mp3 0:06 3 full Union Bay Post Office: Built as the Tide Turned https://qualla.com/union-bay-post-office/ The post office opened in 1913, a wooden federal building for a company town at what looked like the height of its importance. The peak did not hold. Oil displaced coal in ship bunkers and smelters changed their processes, and coke production wound down not long after. The beehiv...

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]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/z/4/union-bay-post-office-wp/c0z4-union-bay-post-office-built-as-the-tide-turned.mp3 0:06 4 full Union Bay Post Office: Rescued at the Counter https://qualla.com/union-bay-post-office/ In the 1990s the building was put up for sale, which in a small community usually means the end. The Union Bay Historical Society bought it instead, and then did the harder thing: restored the interior to its original fittings, brass wicket and all, rather than gutting it into so...

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