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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

	Early 40’s: The larger operations at Penny, Sinclair Mills, Upper Fraser and Giscome milled day and night (p. 51)
	1945: Don McPhee, manager of Sinclair Mills and Roy Spurr, the boss at Eagle Lake, tried to get their workers a raise but Labour Relations Board turned them down (p.52)
	American, Ernie Dalskog (IWA) came to organize a union (Eagle Lake, Six Mile Lake Sawmill, Sinclair Mills) (p. 52)
	1959: Midway Terminals bought Sinclair Mills and Upper Fraser, later the Co. changed its name to National Forest Products (p. 104)

Walski, Eileen E. (1985) Homemade Memories: A History of Willow River, BC. Steinbch, Man.: Derkson Printers Ltd.

Location: CNC, FC 3849.W54 H6 1985 c.1

1962: Sinclair Mills sawmill closed down (p. 107)

Bernsohn, Ken. (1981) Slabs, Scabs and Skidders: A History of the IWA in the Central Interior. Prince George: IWA Local 1-424.

Location: PG Public Library, LOC 331.88 BER

Bernsohn provides a description of camp life (~ 1920’s):

"At Snowshoe, Penny, Dome Creek, Newlands, Sinclair Mills, and 129 other camps along the East Line of the CNR, men continued to get up in the dark, eat in the dark, ride down a plank road in the dark, and then sat around in the dark – waiting for enough light to start work. They had to. The camps started the same time summer and winter, whether it made sense or not. The men usually worked in teams: one man would fall, one would limb, and the third would use the horse to haul to the skidways. They’d break for lunch in the woods. This meant standing around for four hours a day in January since there was only enough light to work for six hours, but you were usually paid by the day and the boss wanted a full day. The money came once a week, once a month or never. If people running the camp went broke, the loggers were left holding the bag" (p. 8).

	Logging was declared an essential industry. A law was passed allowing timber to be taken from anywhere necessary (date is not stated in text). The big operators at Penny, Sinclair Mills, Upper Fraser and Giscome milled as long as there was logs to cut, day or night, and still needed more production (p.11)
	By mid-1944 the question was not "should we have a union?" but "what union do we want?" (p. 12)
	At Sinclair Mills one man said:

"Boys, you don’t want the ‘International Workers of the World.’ What you need is a responsible union management will respect instead of making the bosses worry about revolution. Don’t get sidetracked trying to change the world when you really just want to change working conditions"

The bush telegraph carried his message to every camp in the north (p. 12)

	1945: Don McFee manager at Sinclair Mills told his workers that he tried to get a raise for them, but the Labour Relations Board had turned them down saying, "why should we? They’re not even organized." (p. 12)
	1945: IWA sent a union organizer (Ernie Dalskog) to Sinclair Mills (p.13)
	Early 1960’s (Bernsohn doesn’t specify a date) Northwood bought out Church Sawmills, Cornell Mills, Dewey Logging, Penny Spruce Mills, Sinclair Mills, Eagle Lake and Shelley (p. 54)

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

1961:

	Northwood Mines acquired the assets of Sinclair Spruce Mills Ltd. And Upper Fraser Spruce Mills Ltd.
	The name "Northwood Mills Ltd." was incorporated
	Doug Little came to P.G. as Woods Manager of the Company (p. 4)

1968:

Rustad Bros. acquired their position in Sinclair Spruce Lumber (p. 13)

Drushka, Ken (1998) Tie Hackers to Timber Harvesters: The History of Logging in British Columbia’s Interior. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing.

	1925: Don McPhee arrived to Canada, bought the newly rebuilt Sinclair Spruce Lumber Company at Sinclair Mills from Fanshaw (p. 84)
	1930s: Depression some mills lost money consistently on lumber sales and made it back in other ways, such as by selling ties during the early 30s, Sinclair Mills lost money on lumber and made it back on the cookhouse and the horses (p. 101)
	Ivan Andersen started working at Sinclair Mills in the 1930s. With the decline of the East Line mills, Andersen and Bob Stewart set up the first wholesale lumber business in the Northern Interior in 1962 (p. 221).

“Caribou Loggers Have Rediscovered the Fraser River,” BCL 42 (May 1958), 16-20.

-logging and river driving by Dewey Logging Co. for Cornell Sawmills Ltd.  Includes data on

sawmill and camp.

From: The Royal British Columbia Museum’s Forest Industry of British Columbia’s Prince George Region : A Guide to Periodical Literature

“Lumber Operations at Sinclair Mills, B.C.,” BCL 12 (Nov. 1928), 25-26.

-logging, milling, and community conditions

From: The Royal British Columbia Museum’s Forest Industry of British Columbia’s Prince George Region : A Guide to Periodical Literature