The Lumberjacks - 3rd Edition by Donald MacKay (Paperback)

About the Book

This is definitive history of lumbering in Canada captures the vitality of the lumber camps and documents the evolution of a major industry.

Book Synopsis

This is definitive history of lumbering in Canada captures the vitality of the lumber camps and documents the evolution of a major industry.

Review Quotes

... a superb marriage of text and pictures, a nostalgic but not sentimental discussion of one of Canada's primary industries, logging.

[Donald] MacKay's book has many virtues. His prose is clean. He lets the surviving pioneers talk for themselves when they have something to say, but never allows them to get too windy. He separates legends and half-truths from facts ...

It's marvellous material of a type often ignored by historians ... Such books may do more to help us understand ourselves than all the academic tomes together.

About the Author

Donald MacKay has had a forty-year career as journalist, broadcaster and author. Descended from Pictou County settlers, and born and educated in Nova Scotia, he was a wartime merchant seaman, has been a reporter for Canadian Press, and covered major stories in a dozen countries for United Press International. He spent a decade as chief European correspondent for UPI Broadcast Services, based in London, and was general manager of UPI in Canada for five years before turning to writing books.

Donald and his wife, Barbara, live in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.