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The Lumberjacks by Donald Mackay (Paperback, 2007)

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The 19th century spawned a unique breed of men who took pride in their woodsmen skills and rough codes of conduct. They called themselves lumberers, shantymen, timber beasts, les bucherron -- and, more recently, lumberjacks, working in the vast forests of eastern Canada and British Columbia.Across the country, farm boys would go to the woods, lumbering being the only winter work available. Immigrants -- Swedes and Finns more often than t -- resumed the trades they had learned so well in the forests of rthern Europe. They broke the cold, hard motony of camp life with songs, tall tales and card games.Within these pages, author Donald MacKay allows us a glimpse into that moment in our heritage when men entered the virgin forest to carve out an industry from the seemingly endless array of pine, spruce, maple and balsam fir found there. [Donald] MacKay's book has many virtues. His prose is clean. He lets the surviving pioneers talk for themselves when they have something to say, but never allows them to get too windy. He separates legends and half-truths from facts ... - The Montreal Star ...a superb marriage of text and pictures, a stalgic but t sentimental discussion of one of Canada's primary industries, logging.- The Globe and Mail It's marvellous material of a type often igred by historians ...Such books may do more to help us understand ourselves than all the academic tomes together. - Atlantic Insight

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Dundurn Group Ltd
ISBN-10
1550027735
ISBN-13
9781550027730
eBay Product ID (ePID)
105186233

Product Key Features

Author
Donald Mackay
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Industrial Studies: General

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Toronto
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Date of Publication
15/05/2007
Imprint
Dundurn Group Ltd
Country of Publication
Canada

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