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Those Lake People: Stories of Cowichan Lake

By Lynne Bowen

Book information

Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre
Year
2009
ISBN
9781926706092, 1550544640
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5338026 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-01-16 01:30:20
History; Nonfiction; HIS006000

Description

Twenty-six miles of fresh water teeming with fish and surrounded by old-growth forest: this was Cowichan Lake at the end of the nineteenth century. Home to trappers, hunters and a handful of remittance men, the lake was also the favorite holiday destination for dukes and duchesses, Hollywood actresses and New York tycoons. Soon the giant trees began to fall to the crosscut saws of immigrant loggers from Finland, Norway, Sweden, India, Japan and China. As technology advanced in the logging industry and the woods became a killing ground for loggers, the camps around the lake became the testing ground for union organizers whose clandestine activities contrasted remarkably with those of rhododendron and alpine flower growers who have left their mark on gardens throughout the Pacific Northwest.

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