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BC Forest Massacres: Capilano, Comox, Cowichan, Musqueam & Nimpkish Left: One of the countless thousands of ancient Douglas firs felled by the logging industry in the Capilano Watershed — today's North Vancouver. During the 20th century the grand original forest with its primaeval big tree groves was clearcut logged with no regard for the Capilano — Squamish Indigenous Peoples. The same tragic demolition saga took place everywhere in BC as the rapacious international forest industry invaded and laid waste to the land and waters that for thousands of years had sustained the First Nations, and whose names remain as testimony to these crimes.

Capilano   Ancient Forest   Massacre   1900 — 1950s     Right: "A Sample of BC Fir," North Vancouver, c. 1900

Huge fir log, c. 1905	A big fir tree curiosity, 1911	Capilano log train, c. 1920
North Vancouver, Capilano, c. 1920	Capilano Valley logging, c. 1920	Biggest tree, Lynn Valley, 1900

Comox   Ancient Forest   Massacre   1940s — 1980s     Right: Bernard Logging Co, Orford Bay log dump, 1926

Cutting down a big cedar, c. 1920	International Timber Co., c. 1930	Campbell River Logging Co., 1934
Bernard Timber log train, 1926	Logged big fir, Rock Bay, 1934	Campbell River Logging Co., 1934

Cowichan   Ancient Forest   Massacre   1920s — 1980s     Right: large cedar snag, BC Forest Service, 1954

Falling giant fir, Cowichan Lake, 1920	Clearcutting, Cowichan Lake, c. 1940	Clearcutting, Cowichan Lake, c. 1940
Loggers, Cowichan Lake, c. 1940	Snag falling, BC Forest Service, 1954	Loggers, Cowichan Lake, 1960

Musqueum   Ancient Forest   Massacre   1920s     Right: Giant log, Kitsilano logging tract, Vancouver, 1910

Logging tract, Point Grey, University of BC, Vancouver, 1920	Bear in logging tract, Kitsilano, Vancouver, 1910

Nimpkish   Ancient Forest   Massacre   1960s — 2000     Right: Canfor chokermen, Woss Lake, 1994

Logged ancient cedar, 1950	Canfor logging truck, 2000	Canfor ancient fir logging, 1994
Log train, Woss Lake, c. 1945	Canfor logging, Woss Lake, 1994	Canfor's Tree Farm #37, 1996

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