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And, against all the odds of the terrain, it’s the route the railways chose to carry the riches of lumber, mining — and the first tourists — across the continent.
Bob Packwood, who successfully lobbied on behalf of lumber mills and other small businesses for a cut in the estate tax.
When Alberta and Saskatchewan acceded to provincial status in 1905, and the country’s mining, lumber, paper, and pulp industries burgeoned, Laurier championed a new transcontinental railway that would take a more northerly route to serve them — the state-owned Canadian National Railway (C.N.R.)
Past the municipal beach lies Playa La Madera, once a loading point for lumber — hence the name, which means “wood beach.”
Some 460 km (276 miles) long and averaging 80 km (48 miles) wide, the mountainous island is covered by the largest stand of lumber in the world, a boon to the province’s most important industry, but also a magnet for nature-lovers.