Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2020.002.026c |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
MacMillan Bloedel grapple loader. |
Image File Name |
1980-96 - M&B Grapple Loader - Clayoquot Sound - 2020002026c - jpg72 - 001 |
Year Range from |
1980 |
Year Range to |
1996 |
Place |
Clayoquot Sound |
Provenance |
Depicts MacMillan Bloedel's logging operations at Clayoquot Sound. The area was once the site of major industrial logging but a series of peaceful protests that culminated in a blockade in 1993 that had almost 1,000 people arrested resulted in the company leaving the area. In 1998, MacMillan Bloedel's cutting rights were transferred to Iisaak Forest Resources, a 51% First Nations-owned logging company. From 1988-2008, approx. 6,260,000 cubic metres of wood were logged in Clayoquot Sound. Photograph might be more specifically from MacMillan Bloedel's logging camp at Rankin Cove, which they built after turning away from Meares Island due to protests in 1985. The camp was taken over by Friends of Clayoquot Sound and Greenpeace in 1996, which led to First Nations-brokered truce between MacMillan Bloedel and environmentalists. MacMillan Bloedel Limited was a Canadian forestry company with headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1951 Bloedel, Stewart and Welch merged with H.R. MacMillan to form MacMillan Bloedel Limited. Bloedel, Stewart and Welch held many timber resources and MacMillan was the first truly integrated forestry company in British Columbia. The two companies had timber holdings side-by-side and there was a natural synergy from this merger. In 1959 Macmillan Bloedel merged with a third company, Powell River Limited. MacBlo was purchased by Weyerhaeuser in 1999. |
Search Terms |
Grapple Loader MacMillan Bloedel M&B Rankin Cove Clayoquot Sound |
Collection |
Heavy Equipment |
Subjects |
Yarding & Loading Documentary, Vancouver Island |