[Group photo of lumber mill workers from the British Columbia Forest Products community in Youbou, B.C.]

1947

Group photo 66 lumber mill workers from the British Columbia Forest Products community in Youbou, B.C. The workers are posed in 4 haphazard rows amidst the sawmill equipment and piles of lumber at a log deck[?].

BCFP Youbou Community, 1947. Kaatza Station Museum & Archives, N00383, IWA Local 1-80, Wilmer Gold Photo Collection, ©United Steelworkers Local 1-1937. British Columbia Forest Products was a milling company founded in 1946. In 1987, it was bought out by Fletcher Challenge Limited and renamed Fletcher Challenge Canada. In 2000, it was bought out by Norske Skog and renamed Norske Canada. In 2005, the company rebranded as Catalyst Paper Corporation, the name it is presently known by. According to the Labour History exhibit collection, Industrial Timber Mills Ltd. was incorporated into British Columbia Forest Products [date not known].

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