Part 1 of Essay
The Steam in Martin Grainger's Woodsmen of the West In the beginning of the 20th century, the logging industry in B.C. and around the world saw a dramatic change in the way logs were being logged. Techniques came and went although some stayed longer than other. New technologies played a very important role in this chang ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... factors attracting immigrants to B.C. was the opening of the CPR. It opened up new trade routes previously unknown to the isolated British Columbians. This increase in demand for lumber forced logging camps to look for new methods to log as much forest in the quickest amount of time possible. Carter, the boss-logger, money hungry man that he was, got his loggers only to fell trees that were close to shore. As Grainger explains, "In those days good timber was plentiful- good timber, on sea-coast slopes, tha ....