Person
Forestry
Robert Filberg
Role: President of Comox Logging and Railway Company
Date of birth: 13 Jun 1892
Date of death: 29 Mar 1977
Age at death: 87
Robert Filberg was born in Colorado, USA in 1892, to Adolf and Elizabeth (nee Degnan) Filberg. After his father's death in Alaska, he was left to provide for himself and his mother. In 1909 he moved to the Comox Valley as a surveyor's assistant. He returned to the United States to study engineering in Seattle, and by 1919 was the superintendent of the Comox Logging and Railway Company, and later its president. Filberg was known for his "home guard policy" and safety improvement in the logging camps.
He married Florence McCormack in 1916, and they had two children, Mary and Robert Jr. Filberg.
