Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2020.002.025h |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
MacMillan Bloedel grapple loader being transported on the trailer of a Pacific logging truck. Maddie Paterson standing in front. |
Image File Name |
unk - Grapple Loader & Truck- Clayoquot Sound - 2020002025h - jpg72 - 001 |
Year Range from |
1980 |
Year Range to |
1994 |
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. 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 |
Pacific People Grapple Loader Logging truck Clayoquot Sound MacMillan Bloedel M&B Paterson, Maddie |
Collection |
Transportation |
People |
Paterson, Maddie |
Subjects |
Hauling Documentary, Vancovuer Island Heavy Equipment People People associated with manual labor |