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Timber Sale: A B.C. History About Alexander Duncan McRae, Maillardville, The Comox Valley and the Canadian Western Lumber Co.
Rosemary I. Patterson Ph.D.
ASIN: B001VNCBRA
Publisher: Rosemary I. Patterson, Ph.D.
Pages: 146

It is 1907 in the city of Vancouver and its outskirts in the former English colony of British Columbia. Forces are at work that will change the city from an outpost of civilization to one of the leading cities in the world.Wealthy entrepreneur Alexander Duncan McRae will utilize his considerable managerial talents, build the largest saw mill in the British Empire and in the process change the nature of Vancouver, B. C. and its people forever. The largest Douglas Fir forest in North America will be cut down on Vancouver Island, transported and processed into lumber. French Canadians will be drawn from Quebec for the labor force of Fraser Mills, and the largest French settlement outside of Quebec, destined to preserve the French culture and way of life in an English dominated province, will come into existence. Sikh, Chinese, and Japanese workers used as laborers in Fraser Mills will ...
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