Sawmills--British Columbia--Vancouver Island

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Percy Clements interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Union organizer at BCFP RECORDED: Mackenzie (B.C.), 1974-12-09 SUMMARY: Started at Youbou sawmill for Industrial Timber Mills in February 1946; union organising for IWA; strike of 1946 and the results; Woodworkers Industrial Union of Canada breaks away from IWA in 1948; re-building the IWA; strike of 1952; the drive for better working conditions during the 1950s; serving as business agent and president of Local 1-80, 1962/63; back at Youbou; in 1974 was senior "C" mill foreman, Mackenzie.

Ray Elford interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ray Elford : Shawnigan Lake Lumber Company, 1897-1920 PERIOD COVERED: 1897-1922 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1960-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born 1880. Began to work for his family's lumber company near Shawnigan Lake about 1897. Costs of land and timber from the E&N Railway. Oxen versus horses for logging. Wages. Shawnigan Lake Lumber Company. Marketing lumber in Victoria and elsewhere. Supplied flag poles for Parliament Buildings and Beacon Hill. The mill at Youbou described, 1920. Anecdotes about working in coastal mills. TRACK 2: Establishing a small mill near Princeton. Milling in the Princeton area. Camp conditions at Shawnigan Lake, 1900. Efforts to unionize labour at Shawnigan Lumber Company, 1914. The introduction of locomotives. (End of interview)

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