The preceding two posts discussed Dad’s change of job, which was the reason we moved from our remote logging camp in Port Renfrew, B.C., to the big town of Corner Brook, NL.1 That was the late 1940s; we remained in Newfoundland until shortly after its Confederation with Canada. This is the tale of our three … Continue reading The British Columbia Logger’s Girl in Newfoundland
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NEWFOUNDLAND: LOGGING PRE and POST CONFEDERATION
Our Hemmingsen-Cameron logging operation in Port Renfrew BC, and its management, were classified as “essential” to the Allied war effort.1 That was due to export of the very finest Sitka Spruce to the UK, where it became a component of certain bombers. After the war, the company was sold to British Columbia Forest Products … Continue reading NEWFOUNDLAND: LOGGING PRE and POST CONFEDERATION
REDIRECTING “MEMORIES”: Oldfoundpeople and Newfoundland
The category “Memories” on this blog has covered my early years in our logging camp at Port Renfrew, British Columbia, circa 1940. That era was captured in a series of posts named “From The Logging Camps” that were drawn from a scrapbook my father constructed for me, in 2000. He called it “Forest Regeneration”. … Continue reading REDIRECTING “MEMORIES”: Oldfoundpeople and Newfoundland
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