Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2020.002.033e |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
John Gouweleeuw driving the MacMillan Bloedel grapple loader at Rankin Cove. |
Image File Name |
1983-85 - Driving Grapple Loader - Rankin Cove - 2020002033e - jpg72 - 001 |
Year Range from |
1983 |
Year Range to |
1985 |
Place |
Rankin Cove |
Provenance |
In 1985, MacMillan Bloedel's crew boat, Kennedy Queen, headed towards Meares Island (it's important to note that Meares Island, Kennedy Lake and Rankin Cove are all part of Clayoquot Sound, which has had decades long protests regarding logging operations), a group called Friends of Clayoquot Sound (FOCS) and First Nations blocked MacMillan Bloedel from logging on the island. The company turned away. A court injunction was granted, which suspended logging on Meares. MacMillan Bloedel later built a logging camp at Rankin Cove with sorting and loading facilities. It was taken over by FOCS and Greenpeace in 1996, which led to First Nations-brokered truce between MacMillan Bloedel and environmentalists (From: wildernesscommittee.org). 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 |
Rankin Cove MacMillan Bloedel M&B Logging Cable Logging Clayoquot Sound Grapple Loader People |
Collection |
Documentary, Vancouver Island |
People |
Lee, Ernie Gouweleeuw, John |
Subjects |
Heavy Equipment Yarding & Loading People People associated with manual labor |