"This is an account of the formative years of the British Columbian forestry industry. With the concept of market capitalism as his focal point, Hak traces the political, geographical, and technological developments that occurred as small, financially tentative logging operations grew into a major economic force. Hak examines the labour conditions, union activities, use of immigrant labour, and role of the First Nations, as well as the mill industry, tariffs and trade, effects of the Canadian Pacific Railway, industrialization, entrepreneurialism, and conservation movements that compose the rich terrain of B.C. forestry." "This study provides readers with essential information that has long been missing from public discourse."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved