| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Book Review

Turning Trees into Dollars: The British Columbia Coastal Lumber Industry, 1858–1913. By Gordon Hak. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 239 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $65, £42 cloth; $22.95, £15, paper.)

Gordon Hak's well-researched and multi-faceted examination of the early British Columbia forest industry is a welcome addition to lumbering and regional historiography. Making effective use of business and provincial records, he details the incorporation over the latter half of the nineteenth century of Vancouver Island and the lower mainland of the Fraser River Valley into the "world of capitalism" (p. 5). More properly, since the Hudson's Bay Company and the great mining rushes to the Fraser and the Cariboo had already produced substantial integration, Hak provides an additional, and highly significant, component to our knowledge of the economic situation. While the fur trade and the mines had their undeniably colorful—or at least adventurous—aspects, the commerce in lumber was largely a mundane, ink-smeared accountant's enterprise. "The standing trees themselves had no use," the author points out. "Only when processed into logs at millside did they have money value" (p. 6). . . .

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