Logging as it was : a pictorial history of logging on Vancouver Island

Summary: "[...] The collection of photographs, many by the author, a professional photographer, has something for every interest--logging locies (locomotives), loggers at a groaning cookhouse table, big trees, forest fires, personalities, and the women and children who made logging communities worthwhile as a place to work and live. Gold and his family lives most of their lives on beautiful Lake Cowichan on Vancovuer Island. His vignettes of logging lore, including interviews with some fascinating individuals, make for folksy text to accompany his great pictures. Inside the front and back covers is a map of Vancouver Island with the exact locations of many early-day logging and sawmilling operations. Some of the well-known ones include Shawnigan Lake Sawmills; Hillcrest Lumber; Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing; Comox Logging and Railway; Bloedel, Stewart and Welch; and MacMillan Bloedel. The last of these became Canada's largest forest-products and today includes western North America's largest newsprint manufacturer, the Powell River Company, for whom this reviewer worked forty years ago."--