Sawlogs on Steel Rails: A story of the 45 years of railway operations in the logging camps of the Port Alberni area - McKnight, George A.

Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; spine straight and uncreased; appears unread; The first major sawmill in British Columbia was the Port Alberni Anderson mill of 1860/1864, which was closed because it ran out of logs. Manager Gilbert Sproat advised the owners that to go get logs to the mill they would need to build a railway. The owners refused so the mills was closed. It was to be almost 50 years until the first logging railway was built in 1912. The last train of logs was delivered to MacMillan Bloedel's Franklin River Camp A in 1957. In the intervening period more than 30 locomotives operated on hundreds of miles of railway grade in the area. Thousands of men were involved in a large number of logging camps, big and small. This 45 year period of railway logging is the subject of our story.
Near Fine
Soft cover
Forest Industry Seniors' History Committee
1997
Port Alberni, BC