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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.)
5. "The Federal Reserve's latest beige-book regional economic survey declares the impact of Y2K concerns to be uneven across the country, although one lumber producer said Y2K worries had prompted customers to hold off buying wood until the new year.
I planted bomb disguised to look like scrap of lumber behind Rentech Compute store in Sacramento.
The spruce, fir, and cedar provide three-quarters of Canada’s construction lumber and considerable quantities of wood pulp and paper.
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.