Empire of Wood: The MacMillan Bloedel Story

Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0888943709 . "The story of British Columbia's biggest forest products company, employer of 24,000 is the fascinating subject of this corporate drama. MacMillan Bloedel Limited - its successes and setbacks, boardroom battles and takeover raids, local acquisitions and global expansion, the stuff of business legend - is synonymous with the industry at the very heart of B.C.'s birth and development. Reveals the men who made the ledends: the dynamic H.R. MacMillan, a penniless Ontario farm boy who parlayed a small lumber brokerage firm into a billion-dollar corporation, owner of the largest chartered fleet of cargo ships in the world; J.H. Bloedel, one of the great lumber entrepreneurs of North America; strong-willed J.V. Clyne, former judge, who took MB into Europe, Asia and the southern U.S.; Calvert Knudsen, a 'team' man hired to revive MB after the company's shipping business collapsed in 1975 and the company faced its first traumatic losses. MacKay has had access to company records and has interviewed scores of former and present employees in the mills and woods. His text is supplemented with 125 photos evoking the colour of the old days of logging." - dust jacket. 361 pages. Selected reference list. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper, title page and page one, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this informative history. ; 8vo .