Mountain Timber is the long-awaited sequel to Mackie's best-selling Island Timber: A Social History of the Comox Logging Company, Vancouver Island.

Mountain Timber describes Comox Logging's operations in the Vancouver Island mountains. As the company depleted its supply of coastal Douglas fir in the 1920s, it moved inland to log the Bevan sidehill, the shores of Comox Lake, and the valleys and tributaries of the Puntledge and Cruickshank rivers. On one level the book is the story of loggers and their machines cold deckers, skidders, geared locies more. But Mountain Timber is also a dense and engrossing social history of Vancouver Island in the mid 20th-century. The book's nine chapters alternate between logging and social history and between working landscapes and the communities they supported. This richly illustrated history contains 340 photographs of the men, women, families and communities supported by logging. Mackie has gathered most of the photos, many of them previously unpublished, from 60 private collections. The book also contains 18 maps and diagrams of logging camps, methods and aspects of railway and highlead logging technology. Softcover, 81/2 x 11", 320 pages, 340 photos.

ISBN: 978-1-55039-171-8

Price: $42.95