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Everything you see that’s wood, we craft. From raw timber to finished, all happen under our roof. We source our own logs and process them in house.

Canadian Bavarian Millwork and Lumber has built a reputation for quality and service during its 30 years in business. Located in Chemainus BC, the company specializes in high-end custom millwork, manufactured lumber and architectural products. Canadian Bavarian is FSC certified, a reflection of its commitment to environmental and community values. It has taken innovative approaches to make its facilities more environmentally friendly, and its carbon footprint has been reduced significantly with the implementation of a Biomass burner and partnership with BioFlame Briquettes to recycle wood waste. Wood drying services are also available to customers harvesting logs from their own property. From log to finished product, it is our policy to be engaged with all aspects of production. Wood is cut, dried and finished at our facility, allowing us to take full control of every step of production. Our flooring, trim, siding, timbers, doors, cabinets and other wood fabrications are all generated through this hands-on approach. Our custom cabinet shop has a full range of equipment, including a CNC router, veneer press, planers, and wide belt sanders along with basic woodworking equipment. The remanufacturing shop includes two resaws, two moulders, a multi-rip, double-sided planer, custom knife grinding, and storage facilities for the many species of wood handled by the shop. The drying facilities have a capacity of 55,000 FBM divided between 2 kilns.

09/10/2026

Exciting news!

Canadian Bavarian Millwork & Lumber just received investment from the Government of Canada through . With this investment, we will be able to modernize our facility, add advanced manufacturing equipment, and reach new export markets, turning more B.C. wood into higher-value finished products while supporting jobs in our community and the wider regional forestry sector.

This is part of over $30.5 million PacifiCan is investing in 24 B.C. businesses navigating trade disruptions and chasing new opportunities. We're proud to be one of them, and excited for what this means for our team here in Chemainus.

We are ready to make an even greater impact and build a brighter future in B.C.

Read more about the announcement: https://www.canada.ca/en/pacific-economic-development/news/2026/08/backgrounder-government-of-canada-invests-over-30-million-to-help-bc-businesses-navigate-trade-disruptions-and-seize-new-opportunities.html

08/10/2026

Shou Sugi Ban turns ordinary cedar siding into something with real depth and texture.
🪵 Species: Western Red Cedar STK & Clear Douglas Fir
〰 Texture: Shou Sugi Ban - Brushed & Clear By Others

07/10/2026

Sometimes other wood suppliers call us for help.

A hardwood supplier called us last week because their customer needed engineered flooring they don't make.

But that’s not as strange as it sounds. Different shops have different equipment, and sometimes the company that looks like a competitor is really just the one with what you need.

If you're a mill, supplier or manufacturer and there's something your customer needs that you can't provide, give us a shout.

02/10/2026

Why would a professional woodworker pay us to do something he could already do himself?

One of our customers, who is a trained woodworker, still buys his hardwood from us, and pays us to machine it too.

He can do the machining, he’d just rather spend his time building. So the material shows up ready for him to glue and sand.

That’s what partnerships with us are made of.

01/10/2026

There’s always demand for kiln-dried timbers. But how do you know if you actually need them?

Large timbers can take 6 to 8 weeks to kiln dry, adding time and cost that, depending on the application, may not be necessary.

Before you tell us your timbers need to be kiln-dried, tell us what you’re building.
Man, we just said kiln-dried a lot.

30/09/2026

Chemainus is a small town on a small island. On an island this size, sometimes you just gotta help your neighbour out.

Last week a group of neighbours wandered into the yard unannounced looking for lumber. We don’t typically sell one board at a time, but somebody still walked out with a single 1x6.

25/09/2026

One of our clients wants a beautiful wood house, without all the maintenance that can come with one.

That’s how we were briefed on a recent project, and it helped lead our customer to Accoya.

How you want to live with a house can tell us more about the right material than what you want it to look like.

24/09/2026

We're on an island most people need a ferry to reach, but somehow our wood keeps ending up on other islands too.

Like a golf course clubhouse in Hawaii, built with wood shipped straight from our mill in Chemainus.

Island to island, 4,500 kilometers apart.

Turns out when things are great, word really travels.

23/09/2026

Every so often a customer puts in a really tall order like a 16-foot 2x8 in rift-sawn white oak, but there's a catch…

A board like that has to come from one giant tree, and trees capable of producing it does not exist!

The tree shown below is a Douglas Fir, but we wanted to show size for context.

18/09/2026

Back in the day, Brendan left our cabinet shop to pull barges and captain tugboats before eventually finding his way back to us.

Now he’s working on our sales team, volunteering weekly with Habitat for Humanity, and still playing hockey, golf and baseball.

Welcome back, Brendan!

Address

9370 Smiley Road

V0R1K4

Website

http://www.canbav.ca/

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