It is just too hard to leave Port Renfrew, so we will not tell of life in Corner Brook, NL, or the BC environs of Victoria, Port Alberni, Great Central Lake, or Nanaimo just yet. Lake Cowichan, Chemainus and the Malahat shall equally wait. By this time of his life, Grandad James Dickson, who … Continue reading From the logging camps (3)
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From the logging camps (1)
I am granddaughter of a coal miner and a logger. The miner made his way to British Columbia (BC) from Scotland; the logger, from Norway, through Wisconsin. PORT RENFREW: EARTHQUAKE and TSUNAMI 1940s I was just a little girl, with a pet deer, growing up in a logging camp at Port Renfrew, BC. We were … Continue reading From the logging camps (1)
