Citation
‘A Florentine Slice….. from Canada!’: Peter MacFie, Forest Practices News, Vol 5/3, June 2003, p18 -19.
Outline
A visit to a Canadian logging heritage museum and a discussion on what could be possible in Tasmania with a similar history.
Organisation
Publication
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Forest Practices News, Vol 5/3 June 2003
Index for article
Index for article (2018-06-27).pdf
Excerpt
Last year I went on a study tour of forestry and historic sites in Canada and the United Kingdom. My visit to the Columbia Forestry Centre on Vancouver Island underlined the logging connections between British Columbia and tasmania generally, and the Florentine Valley in particular.
The Forestry Centre is located in a 100 acre (40 ha) historic park and wildlife sanctuary, and has a mandate to collect, research, conserve and interpret the relationship between people and the forests of British Columbia. The centre has a museum and a restored logging town, and hosts a great range of logging machinery from different eras, including locomotives that now haul many of the visitors around the site on a 2.4 km narrow gauge railway.
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Indexed items
ANM
Australian Newsprint Mills
Boyer Mill
British Columbia Forestry Centre
Canada
Canadian workers in Tasmania
Climax logging locomotive
ex-military tanks
Florentine Valley
forestry interpretation centre
forestry museum
Glenorchy Transport Museum
high lead fallers
Huon Timber Company
logging machinery
Madill high lead cable yarders
Maydena
newsprint
Norske-Skog
Ocean Falls Mill
railway, narrow gauge
restored logging town
Risby’s Basin Line
Shay Locomotive
Skagit heel boom loader
Vancouver Island
World War II