Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2007.200.029 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Tyee yarder/holer used in Nanaimo River by MacMillan Bloedel. |
Image File Name |
1965 - Tyee Yarder - Nanaimo River - 2007200029 - jpg72 - 001 |
Date (y/m/d) |
1965/ / |
Provenance |
H.R. MacMillan Export Company was started in 1919 by Harvey Reginald MacMillan. The company was also B.C.'s first privately-owned lumber export brokerage firm. MacMillan was instrumental in developing international lumber markets as well as establishing the British Columbia Forest Service as B.C.'s first Chief Forester. The creation of the Seaboard Lumber Company threatened MacMillan's success by leaving the company without the necessary lumber to fulfill their orders. MacMillan responded to this threat by purchasing other mills, thus, creating B.C.'s first truly integrated forest company. In 1951 H.R. MacMillan Export Company merged with Bloedel, Stewart, and Welch to form MacMillan Bloedel Limited. The two well-established companies possessed neighbouring timber holdings and their synergy produced a forestry company which could compete at a global level. |
Photographer |
Fenner, Clifford |
Search Terms |
MacMillan Bloedel Logging Nanaimo River Yarder Holer Tyee |
Collection |
Logging T&E |
People |
Shale Fenner MacMillan Bloedel |
Subjects |
Logging Heavy Equipment Vehicle |