Bernsohn, Ken. (1981) Cutting Up the North: The History of the Forest Industry in the Northern Interior. North Vancouver: Hancock House Publishers Ltd.
Spanish Flu: reported cases in 1918, lumber camps hit hard, shortage of workers, sawmills and lumber companies ran advertisements in the Citizen. (Upper Fraser Lumber Co. of Dome Creek needed bushmen, teamsters, fallers, swampers; Red Mountain Lumber Co. of Penny wanted bushmen and millmen; British Columbia Express Company wanted woodcutters to cut steamer cordwood (p. 27) |
May 28, 1942: Lightning caused many fires in the Dome Creek area (p. 23) |
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Aug,
1942: Lightning storms caused more fires in Dome Creek (p. 25)
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