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  2. Englewood Railway - Wikipedia

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    Englewood Railway was a logging railroad on northern Vancouver Island, Canada. Headquartered in Woss, British Columbia, the line ran 90 km (56 mi) from Vernon Lake, through Woss, and past Nimpkish Lake Provincial Park to Beaver Cove. It was the last operating logging railroad in North America.

  3. MacMillan Bloedel - Wikipedia

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    In 1911 Julius Bloedel, a Seattle lawyer, along with his two partners, John Stewart and Patrick Welch, began acquiring large blocks of Vancouver Island forests. Their Franklin River camp soon became one of the world's largest logging operations. Here, in the 1930s, the Canadian industry saw its first Lidgerwood steel spar yarder and chainsaw.

  4. Fairy Creek old-growth logging protests - Wikipedia

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    Protests against old-growth logging in the southern Vancouver Island region of British Columbia, Canada escalated through later 2020 and into 2021.These events, many coalescing around the Fairy Creek watershed northeast of Port Renfrew, represent a critical moment in BC's recurring history of conflict related to ecological values and the forest industry, recalling the Clayoquot Protests (or ...

  5. Franklin River (Vancouver Island) - Wikipedia

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    In 1911 Seattle attorney Julius Bloedel and the Bloedel Stewart Welch Company began purchasing Vancouver Island land for logging. Their Franklin River location became one of the largest logging operations in the world. Later in 1938 the company would become the first in British Columbia to plant seedlings in areas that had been logged.

  6. List of ghost towns in British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    Logging outpost Barr Brothers Logging Company [1] 70 (c.1930) [2] 0 1923–1966 Parsonville: Parsonsville Lillooet: Squamish-Lillooet Fraser Canyon Gold Rush: 0 Pemberton Meadows: Lillooet: Squamish-Lillooet 0 Phoenix: Greenwood Camp Boundary

  7. Why is logging the most dangerous job in America? - AOL

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    The American average, for reference, is 3.4 per 100,000, making logging 39 times more dangerous than the average job in the U.S. So what is it that loggers do on a daily basis, and why does it ...

  8. Island Rail Corridor - Wikipedia

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    ICF chose Southern Railway of British Columbia (SRY) to operate the Island railway on Vancouver Island, after ICF's acquisition of the railroad. [22] The operator agreement started on July 1, 2006. In January 2010, the Southern Railway of British Columbia new train ferry terminal started operating in the Fraser River on Annacis Island shipping ...

  9. British Columbia Highway 28 - Wikipedia

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    Highway 28 is an east–west highway on the northern part of Vancouver Island, within the Strathcona Regional District. It is the main link to the northern part of Strathcona Provincial Park and the remote logging communities of Gold River and Tahsis, on the northwest coast of the Island. The highway first opened in 1970.