Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2017.008.001 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Alco 2-8-2, Canadian Forest Products #133, Ex Alberni Lumber Co. #6, 135 ton mikado. Framed photograph. At Camp Woss. |
Image File Name |
1988-1994 - Canadian Forest Products #133 - Woss Camp - 2017008001 - jpg72 - 001 |
Year Range from |
1988 |
Year Range to |
1994 |
Place |
Camp Woss, Nimpkish Valley |
Provenance |
Belonged to C.C.J. Russell, Jim Cawker's (donor) father-in-law. The #133 was built in 1920 as a freight engine by the Portland, Astoria and Pacific Railway. The engine was associated with the creation of Canadian Forest Products (BC Forest Products) in 1944. A Canadian company with Austrian heritage, Canfor was founded by John G. Prentice and his brother-in-law, Leopold Bentley. The two brothers started their own small furniture veneer company, Pacific Veneer that ultimately evolved into Canada's largest softwood lumber producer, Canfor Corporation. The brothers grew their timber supply by acquiring logging rights in Nimpkish Valley on Vancouver Island. This purchase would grow into their company's Englewood Logging division. By the end of the war, Prentice and Bentley controlled far more than just a furniture veneer company, so in 1947, they renamed their company Canadian Forest Products Limited (shortened to Canfor), adopting the name of a small timber operation included in the acquisition of timber rights in the Nimpkish Valley. The company continued to grow and remains one of the largest and most successful Canadian forestry companies. |
Search Terms |
Canadian Forest Products Alberni Pacific Lumber Co. Woss Camp 113 locomotive American Locomotive Company Alco 2-8-2 Mikado Nimpkish Valley Canadian Forest Products |
Collection |
Locomotives |
People |
Cawker |
Subjects |
Locomotives Documentary, Vancouver Island Camp |