• Foto Number: INW-148A-77

Beginning on Vancouver Island as early as 1840, the timber industry has been British Columbia's most important economic base. Indians have worked in the lumber mills since 1856; in later years they also worked as lumberjacks and on log rafts. Today Indian people drive the massive lumber trucks (77) that deliver felled logs directly to the mills or they take them to the coast, from where the logs are floated to the pulp mills.

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