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Mountain Timber: The Comox Logging Company in the Vancouver Island Mountains
Richard Mackie’s Mountain Timber is the second volume of a projected three-volume history of the Comox Logging and Railway Company’s operations on Vancouver Island. This volume begins c.1927 with the company’s expansion of its steam-powered...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 156-57
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Now You’re Logging
Romance, high drama with runaway logging trucks (26-29), and dangerous river crossings of donkey engines (65-72) are all integral parts of this graphic portrayal of British Columbia’s coastal logging scene during the 1930s. Although Griffiths...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 163-64
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‘Call Me Hank’: A Sto:lo Man’s Reflections on Logging, Living, and Growing Old
Old loggers love to tell stories, but few find their way onto paper. We are fortunate indeed, then, that in 1969 linguist Wyn Roberts visited Henry Pennier at his home near Mission and asked the...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 150-2
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Paldi Remembered: 50 Years in the Life of a Vancouver Island Logging Town
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 119, Autumn 1998
BC Studies no. 119 Autumn 1998 | Page(s) 110-1
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Island Timber: A Social History of the Comox Logging Company, Vancouver Island
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 134, Summer 2002
BC Studies no. 134 Summer 2002 | Page(s) 93-5
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Logging the Globe
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 110, Summer 1996
BC Studies no. 110 Summer 1996 | Page(s) 99-101
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More Deadly Than War: Pacific Coast Logging, 1827-1981
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 74, Summer 1987
BC Studies no. 74 Summer 1987 | Page(s) 44-6
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The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest
Telling the story of the timber wars in the national forests of the Pacific Northwest is a task that has moved from journalism to history, William Dietrich suggests in this 2010 edition of The Final...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 171-173
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Forestry and Biodiversity: Learning How to Sustain Biodiversity in Managed Forests
“No more clear-cuts!” So announced MacMillan Bloedel CEO Tom Stephens in a dramatic 1998 policy shift. The gap between global social expectations and the firm’s perceived destructive logging practices, primarily the accusation that it over-harvested pristine...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 145-147
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This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge
Tzeporah Berman entered the public consciousness as a twenty-something leader of the Clayoquot Sound logging protests in 1993. Since then, she has served a variety of roles within the environmental movement, having co-founded organizations such...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 235-236
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An Okanagan History: The Diaries of Roger John Sugars, 1905 to 1919
Between the 1890s and the Great War the Okanagan Valley was transformed from an extensive ranching landscape into an ordered landscape of orchards and townsites. This was a result of access to the valley thanks...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 125-7
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Writing the West Coast: In Love with Place
In the two generations since the first postmodern attempts to create a pan-cultural literature of place on the Pacific Coast, the context of landscape writing in British Columbia has been radically transformed. The environmental movement...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 210-12
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Clearcut Cause
STRUGGLES OVER THE use of British Columbia’s natural resources are a ubiquitous feature of the province’s historical landscape. How we should manage our lumber, fisheries, water, and minerals —and who should manage them – mark...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 117-8
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Nowhere Else on Earth: Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest
The Great Bear Rainforest, also known as the North and Central Coast of British Columbia, is one of the last intact temperate rainforests left in the world. This region has received much attention since 1989,...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 199-201
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This Day in Vancouver
There are some stories about Vancouver that bear retelling. Take the tale of Theodore Ludgate, an American capitalist in the lumber trade who arrived in the city around 1899 with a lease for the...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 206-09
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Indigenous Women and Work: From Labor to Activism
Indigenous Women and Work, edited by Carol Williams, consists of seventeen essays that examine the history of indigenous women and wage labour in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. The object of these...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 146-147
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Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
Charlotte Gill, as many have already observed, has written an extraordinary book that will likely be the definitive tome about tree planting for some time to come. She has a gift for making the...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 234-235
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British Columbia’s Magnificent Parks: The First 100 Years
James D. Anderson’s British Columbia’s Magnificent Parks: The First 100 Years is a tribute to the first century of the Provincial Park system in BC. This thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history, sensitive to ongoing...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 134-5
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The Quadra Story: A History of Quadra Island
Jeanette Taylor’s history of Quadra Island is a welcome addition to Harbour Publishing’s growing collection of Coast histories. It draws on Taylor’s profound local knowledge of the northern strait and complements her histories of Campbell...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 186-187
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Stories from the Magic Canoe of Wa’xaid
The Story of the Wa’xaid’s (Xenakaisla elder Cecil Paul) Magic Canoe is well known throughout some circles. From coastal rain forest conservation groups to International Indigenous networks, Cecil Paul has been invited to tell his...