Lumberjack
The Loggers of British Columbia
Once, in the British Columbian forests, communal bunkhouses and cookhouses with trestle tables heaped with hoteakes, meats and soups were home for the logger. Day after day by sweated labour he brought down trees 25 feet across and 150 feet high. Then he dragged them through the forest by teams of oxen and later by steam engine - all this for 25 cents an hour.
Today, the same men earn as much as$100 a day;$250,000 mechanised giants and intensive re-growth programmes have changed logging into a farming business. But the old skills have not died and the Canadian lumberjack remains a breed on his own. Written by RENÉ CUTFORTH Narrator BLAIN FAIRMAN
Producer Richard ROBINSON
Series editors ANTHONY ISAACS and MICHAEL ANDREWS