Photo: Leonard W.B. Lovick. Ladysmith, mid-1940s.

Lecture: Beyond Steam and Skidders: Comox Logging in the Postwar Years, 1945-1960 Guest Speaker: Dr. Richard Mackie When: 7pm, Tuesday, March 13th Where: Rotary Gallery, Courtenay and District Museum Admission: $5 for museum members; $6 for non-members (plus HST). Advance tickets are recommended. Popular author and historian Richard Mackie returns to the Courtenay and District Museum lecture series. In this illustrated presentation, Mackie will discuss Comox Logging's postwar logging shows at Comox Lake, Tsolum, Headquarters, Ladysmith, Nanaimo Lakes and elsewhere on the coast. Major changes of the 1940s and 1950s included the replacement of crosscut saws by power saws, railways by logging trucks, steam skidders and wooden spar trees by steel spars, and boom crews by boom boats. Mackie will discuss the 1953 transition in ownership from Comox Logging to U.S.-based Crown Zellerbach, predecessor of Fletcher Challenge and TimberWest. He will also show how the old "homeguard" logging families of Comox Logging were dispersed around coastal British Columbia with the gradual disappearance of available timber in the Comox Valley. Following the lecture, Mackie will be on hand to sign copies of his books. This award-winning author has composed a number of Comox Valley history books including The Wilderness Profound, Island Timber and Mountain Timber. For more info: 250-334-0686.

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