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- catalog abstract ""This is an account of the formative years of the British Columbian forestry industry. With the concept of market capitalism as his focal point, Hak traces the political, geographical, and technological developments that occurred as small, financially tentative logging operations grew into a major economic force. Hak examines the labour conditions, union activities, use of immigrant labour, and role of the First Nations, as well as the mill industry, tariffs and trade, effects of the Canadian Pacific Railway, industrialization, entrepreneurialism, and conservation movements that compose the rich terrain of B.C. forestry." "This study provides readers with essential information that has long been missing from public discourse."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11625669.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This is an account of the formative years of the British Columbian forestry industry. With the concept of market capitalism as his focal point, Hak traces the political, geographical, and technological developments that occurred as small, financially tentative logging operations grew into a major economic force. Hak examines the labour conditions, union activities, use of immigrant labour, and role of the First Nations, as well as the mill industry, tariffs and trade, effects of the Canadian Pacific Railway, industrialization, entrepreneurialism, and conservation movements that compose the rich terrain of B.C. forestry." "This study provides readers with essential information that has long been missing from public discourse."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "1. Markets -- 2. Mill Companies -- 3. Business Strategies -- 4. Government Policies -- 5. Critics -- 6. Independent Logging Companies/Timber-Tenure Troubles -- 7. Industrialization -- 8. Loggers -- 9. Millworkers.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-227) and index.".
- catalog extent "[ix], 239 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Turning trees into dollars.".
- catalog identifier "0802047459 (bound) :".
- catalog identifier "0802083056 (pbk.) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Turning trees into dollars.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto : University of Toronto Press,".
- catalog relation "Turning trees into dollars.".
- catalog spatial "British Columbia".
- catalog subject "338.4/7674/09711 21".
- catalog subject "HD9764.C4 B768 2000".
- catalog subject "Lumber trade British Columbia History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Lumber trade British Columbia History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Markets -- 2. Mill Companies -- 3. Business Strategies -- 4. Government Policies -- 5. Critics -- 6. Independent Logging Companies/Timber-Tenure Troubles -- 7. Industrialization -- 8. Loggers -- 9. Millworkers.".
- catalog title "Turning trees into dollars : the British Columbia coastal lumber industry, 1858-1913 / Gordon Hak.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".