Logging History

Logging history of Lasqueti (Xwe?etay/Xwe”i”tay)

While doing my research on pre-settlement CDF forests, I picked up a lot of additional information about historical logging and logging on Lasqueti. Much of the logging history of Lasqueti needs to be interpreted from other areas, because I have found little direct information.

This report documents:

• First Nation use

• Rat Portage Timber lease

• Machinery used by Rat Potage/Hillis Logging

• General Logging history

• Johnny Osland and local oral history

• Other patterns from logging

• Summary of logging on the Unceded lands/Crown Lands

And covers periods:

• pre-1920
• 1920 - 1940's
• 1947 - late 1960's
• 1976 - present

... Please see attached PDF for complete report ...