Tide Change;
Good afternoon sir, I hope your part of the world is getting the mild winter we're having up here thus far and that you're well.
In our part of south central BC, I have seen a couple smaller houses or better said cabins built like that and an octagon house built with full dimension 2"x 6" planks that way.
If I was to guess at their age, I'd say just post war, perhaps pre, but somehow I don't believe they were made as far back as the Depression.
On the octagon house, the roof was sheathed with some sort of metal that was from the printing industry as there were either flyers or newspapers on it as I recall. Please understand it was nearly 40 years back that we saw it so I'm reaching back into the time machine big time for this.
In the earlier days when this area was settled, boards were quite expensive apparently, as we'd see logs from cabin bases, but any and all boards were pulled up and used elsewhere.
There's a local church in the small village we're closest to, there's a church which was initially 16 miles up the mountain in a mining camp. In order to salvage the wood, they actually blasted the church with dynamite to loosen the boards, then they took it apart moved it into town and reassembled it, where it stands today near where our daughter and her husband's place is.
https://blastedchurch.com/story/Here's a link to some photos of it today.
https://okfallsunited.ca/Back to that method of construction though, if I'm not wrong, the prairie grain elevators that I recall as a kid were built with wood on the flat like that or at least some of it was. Again the way back machine isn't quite firing on all cylinders, but when they were taking the elevators down, they salvaged tons and tons of wood from them.
Sorry for the meandering response, but for sure Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Dwayne
