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Falling Industry?: Even though 10 per cent of the world's forested land is in Canada, experts say the old-growth rain forest could all but vanish in 60 years
Falling Industry?: Even though 10 per cent of the world's forested land is in Canada, experts say the old-growth rain forest could all but vanish in 60 years

Falling Industry?: Even though 10 per cent of the world's forested land is in Canada, experts say the old-growth rain forest could all but vanish in 60 years

Date9/17/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Falling Industry?: Even though 10 per cent of the world's forested land is in Canada; experts say the old-growth rain forest could all but vanish in 60 years.
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11/29/1974
The write stuff: CP Forest's renovated Thunder Bay paper mill recycles 115,000 tonnes of newsprint per year
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11/1/1983
Fight goes on: From left, experts Robert Day, Chris Maser and Peter Quinby differ on how Ontario's old growth forests should be handled.
Fight goes on: From left, experts Robert Day, Chris Maser and Peter Quinby differ on how Ontario's old growth forests should be handled.
1/20/1990
Fight goes on: From left, experts Robert Day, Chris Maser and Peter Quinby differ on how Ontario's old growth forests should be handled.
Fight goes on: From left, experts Robert Day, Chris Maser and Peter Quinby differ on how Ontario's old growth forests should be handled.
1/20/1990
Fight goes on: From left, experts Robert Day, Chris Maser and Peter Quinby differ on how Ontario's old growth forests should be handled.
Fight goes on: From left, experts Robert Day, Chris Maser and Peter Quinby differ on how Ontario's old growth forests should be handled.
1/20/1990
Sounding a sweet note for Canada's music industry is W. J. I. Croombs, president of Boosey and Hawkes Canada Ltd. and the Canadian Music Industries Association. Industry, with a growth rate of 10-15 per cent, is holding its annual trade show in Toronto with 46 manufacturers and distributors on hand.
Sounding a sweet note for Canada's music industry is W. J. I. Croombs, president of Boosey and Hawkes Canada Ltd. and the Canadian Music Industries Association. Industry, with a growth rate of 10-15 per cent, is holding its annual trade show in Toronto with 46 manufacturers and distributors on hand.
8/25/1975
Show of strength by western economy has been the fact that the house-building slump has slashed market for British Columbia lumber without making much of a dent in over-all western growth
Show of strength by western economy has been the fact that the house-building slump has slashed market for British Columbia lumber without making much of a dent in over-all western growth
9/17/1973
Big plans: Bob Collins-Wright, president of Inglis, says his company will invest $60 million over the next five years and hire an additional 1,000 workers. He predicts his expanded firm will capture 35-to-40 per cent of all appliance sales in Canada this year.
Big plans: Bob Collins-Wright, president of Inglis, says his company will invest $60 million over the next five years and hire an additional 1,000 workers. He predicts his expanded firm will capture 35-to-40 per cent of all appliance sales in Canada this year.
3/29/1982
Brian Doe, 29-year-old Briton, heads the British Ever Ready Co.'s assault on the Canadian battery market - estimated at $40 million a year. Doe, backed by a hefty advertising budget, hopes to capture 25 percent of battery sales in this country within five years. Growth rate in demand is about 8 per cent annually.
Brian Doe, 29-year-old Briton, heads the British Ever Ready Co.'s assault on the Canadian battery market - estimated at $40 million a year. Doe, backed by a hefty advertising budget, hopes to capture 25 percent of battery sales in this country within five years. Growth rate in demand is about 8 per cent annually.
10/29/1969
The $4 Billion-a-year pulp and paper industry is having a tough time finding people to cut down the trees from which it makes everything from newsprin(...)
The $4 Billion-a-year pulp and paper industry is having a tough time finding people to cut down the trees from which it makes everything from newsprin(...)
9/17/1973
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1851
Forest life and forest trees, : comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure, with descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick
Forest life and forest trees, : comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure, with descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick
1852