Literature

	Some lumber market recovery in October 1916: George McLaughlin of the Northern Lumber and Mercantile Company visited the east to find eastern lumber markets, consequently a new mill was built at Willow River and the old mill was moved to Giscome (80 men cut 20 million feet a year) (p. 24)
	Cook Lumber Company operated a small mill of 10,000 capacity near Willow River, shut down in 1928 (p. 34)

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

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)

Hawkes, Brad C. (June 1997) "Significant Fire Years in the Prince George Area – A Media Perspective Taken from the Prince George Citizen Newspaper (1912 – 1961)" Submitted as part of a final report on a Retrospective Fire Study, Ecological Processes Team, University of Northern B.C., Faculty of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies. Victoria, B.C.: Fire Research Group, Canadian Forest Service, and Pacific Forestry Centre.

Copy of Article in File: Academic Papers

May 27, 1916:

	WR was threatened by a fire
	District forester Marvin sent 100 fire fighters (sent by G.T.P) (p. 7)

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

	1962: Carrier Lumber acquisition of Tabor Creek Sawmills in the Willow area (p. 6)
	1963: Willow Pulp Harvesting Forest was one of the three first Pulp Harvesting Forests in the province (p. 6)
	1964: Percy Church’s Church Sawmill Ltd.’s assets acquired by Northwood (p. 7) (one of several consolidations during the year)
	1971: completion of the Willow-Cale Forest Road into the B.C.R. industrial site – an off-highway route for logs being hauled to P.G. from the Willow River area (p. 16)

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

	Approx. 1915: a Chicago grain exchange operator named Frost built a mill at Willow River (p. 83)
	After running it for a few years Frost moved it to Giscome (p. 83)
	Frost’s Willow River mill was the first in a rash of openings over the next couple of years (p. 83)

Literature Available

Bernsohn, Ken. (1981) Cutting Up the North: The History of the Forest Industry in the Northern Interior. North Vancouver: Hancock House Publishers Ltd.