Forestry
The large old-growth forests of Vancouver Island were prized for their valuable lumber. Logging and timber production was, and continues to be, a major industry in the Comox Valley.
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I was born in Cumberland in 1909 and worked in the coal mines: Nos. 4, 5, and 8. I could have stayed as a miner, but I went into logging because that's where the money was!"
Chuna Tobacco, in "Mountain Timber" by Richard Somerset Mackie (2009), pg. 195.
I can remember in the mid-twenties when I started in the woods, if you mentioned union in a camp, the men - not the operators-would run you out of the camp. This condition went out for about twenty years."
Harper Baikie