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Jul 26, 2022 - N Scale

Columbus Trainmaster - N Scale - A Load of Canadian Lumber To Check Out!

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Dear N Scale Customers;

 

Columbus Trainmaster reached out to us with beautifully updated photos of their lumber loads, they also expanded their offerings to provide all three scales HO, N, and Z scale for these loads. 

Check out the great images, and information about the Canadian companies in the forestry industry!



 

 

In 1995 Tl'oh Forest Products opens in Fort St. James, BC in partnership with Nak'azdli First Nation

Tl’oh Forest Products helped set the table in demonstrating what the Sinclar Group can accomplish with people-powered energy conservation initiatives.

Challenged with a goal of identifying 100,000 kilowatt hours of potential savings, the mill’s employees combined to deliver six times that figure. “It was a huge success and predominantly floor-driven,” recalls Laura Chernowski, Tl’oh’s general manager.

Tl’oh is a limited partnership between the Nak’azdli First Nation based in Fort St. James and Apollo Forest Products.

A further legacy from the energy blitz at Tl’oh is an increase in communication within the mill. “The realization among Tl’oh’s people that they do impact the big picture was the most thrilling part of the program for me,” says Chernowski.

Tl’oh’s people are 90 per cent First Nation and the finger jointing operation has been offering stability to the regional economy since 1995. The mill currently operates two eight hour shifts daily with 16 production staff on each. Annual production is around 35 million board feet in a variety of dimensions for both the U.S. and Canadian markets.

Approximately six primary sawmills typically provide Tl’oh with the types of raw material it requires to manufacture quality finger jointed studs and other wood products. But fibre supply is becoming more restricted, notes Chernowski. Factors influencing that include the permanent closure of one sawmill/planer complex in Fort St. James and the re-start of another under different ownership.

The increase in bioenergy development and wood pellet manufacture add to the fibre supply scenario. Add in a future reduction in AAC among regional licencees as the mountain pine beetle epidemic declines and traditional fibre supply sources are further impacted. And just for good measure, a new mine is being developed north of Fort St. James that Chernowski declares “is hot for people.”

But Tl’oh has advanced its reputation as a quality producer in its markets during the last 15 years. And has a history of
successfully responding to its challenges.

 


 


The Cheslatta Carrier Nation office is based at Southbank, on the south shore of Francois Lake, 23 kilometres south of Burns Lake British Columbia.

the Cheslatta nation is guided by their members and governed by a Chief and two Councillors. Current Chief Corrina Leween works with Councillors Hazel Burt and Janet Whitford, and a dynamic team of Cheslatta staff to provide services and support to Cheslatta members. They also work with governments and industry on matters of importance to the nation.

The Cheslatta Carrier Nation owns several businesses including the Pondosy Bay Resort, Cheslatta Marine Services, Cheslatta Logging and others which provide employment for members and revenues to support the nation.

A First Nation Builds a Forestry Future from the Ashes of the Past

By Amanda Follett Hosgood

…In August 2018 — the worst fire season on record … three-quarters of the Cheslatta Community Forest was lost….with a $1.25-million grant from B.C.’s Forest Enhancement Society to log and rehabilitate burned forests, the Cheslatta Carrier Nation hopes that some of the timber and economic opportunities damaged by the fires can be salvaged. Already, logging is underway in burned areas of the Cheslatta Community Forest, where timber harvest wouldn’t otherwise have been economically feasible, creating jobs for the community and spinoffs across the region. The work is being done with a view to creating healthy forests, speeding up regeneration and reducing carbon emissions by ensuring waste wood is used rather than burned. It’s also reducing the risk that fire could consume more of Southside’s forests. The partnership is a step toward correcting a history of mistrusting the provincial government by local residents.

 

These loads are based on the logging from the Cheslatta Community Forest.

 


 

 

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MacMillan Bloedel Limited, sometimes referred to as "MacBlo", was a Canadian forestry company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was formed through the merger of three smaller forestry companies in 1951 and 1959. Those were the Powell River Company, the Bloedel Stewart Welch Company, and the H.R. MacMillan Company. It was bought by Weyerhaeuser of Federal Way, Washington in 1999.

 

H.R. MacMillan Export Company

The last of the three pre-merger companies was the H.R. MacMillan Export Company, which was created in 1919 by Harvey, or H.R. MacMillan, British Columbia's first Chief Forester. MacMillan reportedly gained considerable experience in world lumbering during World War I. With his colleague Whitford Julian VanDusen, another forester, MacMillan incorporated a company in 1919 to sell British Columbia lumber products to foreign markets. In 1924, they established a shipping company that would become one of the world's biggest charter companies. With the creation of Seaboard Lumber by the other mill owners in British Columbia, there was a major threat to MacMillan, as Seaboard was to export all the lumber from the companies that founded it leaving MacMillan without the lumber needed to fulfill their orders. MacMillan responded by beginning to purchase mills and creating the first truly integrated forestry company in British Columbia.

During World War II, MacMillan acquired numerous small mills and timber tenures on the south coast of British Columbia.

 

In 1951 Bloedel, Stewart and Welch merged with H.R. MacMillan to form MacMillan Bloedel Limited. The two companies had timber holdings side-by-side and there was a natural synergy from this merger. Bloedel, Stewart and Welch held many timber resources and MacMillan was the first truly integrated forestry company in British Columbia. The merger in 1951 created a company that would be able to compete on the global scene.

 

Beginning in the 1960s, MacMillan Bloedel expanded across North America as well as to Europe and the United Kingdom. At its peak, acquisitions and construction activities gave MacMillan Bloedel worldwide assets of more than C$4 billion.

 


 

Columbus Trainmaster - HO Scale - Great West Timber - 4 tier wrapped FULL loads (for Red Caboose centerbeam cars)

 


 

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