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Bernsohn, Ken. (1981) Cutting Up the North: The History of the Forest Industry in the Northern Interior. North Vancouver: Hancock House Publishers Ltd.
Location: PG Public Library, 338.47 Ber
1920 – dimension lumber selling (rough) at $32 per thousand board feet, (planed at $38 per thousand board feet); all major mills busy: United Grain Growers (the largest), Eagle Lake at Giscome, Upper Fraser Lumber Company, Aleza Lake Mills, Hansard Lake Lumber, Penny Lumber, Gale and Trick at Hansard Lake, and eleven other smaller mills (p. 31)
Ramsey, Bruce. (1964). John Giscome's Country. Giscome: Eagle Lake Sawmills Limited.
Location: PG Public Library, 971.12 Ram LOC.  Copy in file: Academic Papers
"Hansard" named after Hugh Hanzen Hansard, the Grand Trunk solicitor who worked out the details for the incorporation of P.G.
Hansard received its post office on Aug. 1, 1924, E.F. Hendren as postmaster
Post office closed on April 11, 1957 (p. 51)
Young, W. (1985) The Forest Industry of the Prince George Area: 1960 - 1984 --- Including the Dynamic Area. Paper presented at a Forest History Seminar in Prince George, 26 February 1985.
Location: Prince George Public Library, Local History Vertical File.  File name at Library: Forests and Forestry - BC - PG.  Copy of item in file: Forestry
1964: Hansard Lumber Co. Ltd. acquired by Northwood (p. 7)