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Obvious but Invisible: Ways of Knowing Health, Environment ...

On a nice clear day I can see when that pulp mill shoots out one big shot of smoke up into the air I can see that thirty-six miles away. And it looks like a mushroom. It looks like somebody dropping that atomic bomb on Gold River. That's the way it looks from way back there." Footnote 66. Community members feared especially for their children.

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Nardella - Other sectors

Bowater – Gold River decommissioning YEAR: 1999-2003 LOCATION: Gold River, British Columbia PROJECT: In 1999, LNA was mandated to permanently close the Bowater Gold River Pulp & Paper Mill located in Gold River B.C. (Vancouver Island).

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John Veerman – Vancouver Island Free Daily

The family moved to Gold River in 1984 and John continued his career with the Tahsis Company. In 1987, six months after having open heart surgery, John went to work for Bob Warwick at the pulp mill. He described Bob, who became his good friend, as the best boss he ever had.

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SHUTDOWN: BC PULP MILL PLACES HOPES IN NY - Pulp and …

VANCOUVER, BC — The workers of Gold River's pulp mill on Vancouver Island are looking to New York-based turnaround artists Keilin & Co. to put together a deal that will save the mill from closing. Bowater Inc. of Greenville, SC, announced plans to close the mill effective February 16. The town can expect little help from the provincial government.

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Thunder Bay Mill Operations - Pulp and Paper Canada

Thunder Bay. Advertisement. In Thunder Bay, Ontario, Bowater operates the largest pulp and paper complex in the country, occupying 300 acres beside the Kaministiquia River. The manufacturing facilities include three paper machines, two kraft pulp mills, a recycling plant, a thermomechanical pulp mill (TMP), and secondary effluent treatment plants.

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Vancouver Island Map - Vancouver Island Cities

Gold River was always dependant upon the Pulp Mill and the forest industry. Since the closure of the Pulp Mill in October 1998, Gold River has focused on rebuilding the community: Vancouver Island Highlands BC: The Highlands is a stunningly beautiful rural residential area just northwest of Victoria British Columbia Canada. It's blessed with an ...

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West Coast Marine Terminals

Carlson Construction Group has partnered to acquire the former Gold River pulp and paper mill site in Gold River, British Columbia. It is now doing business as West Coast Marine Terminals. Learn more. Facilities.

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William Macaulay Coulter Obituary - Courtenay, BC

Bill worked at the Gold River Pulp Mill from 1969 to 1995. Upon his early retirement Bill & Sharlene moved back to the Comox Valley. Bill was an avid golfer, fisherman, craftsman, photographer & marksman. He was a member of the Sunnydale Golf & Country Club in Courtenay, Rod & Gun Club, Legion, Kinsman and was a Founding Member of the Gold ...

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A SUBMITTED THE DEGREE MASTER In

Gold River Pulp Mill Gold River Townsite: The First Houses, 1967 Gold River Mill and Townsite ~eballos General Store, showing pilings Miner's Home, Zeballos Hayes Logging Truck, Gold River Logging Camp Page 34 36 55 61 90 93 97 112 117 119 124 . ...

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Steelhead Fishing On The Gold River - BC Adventure

My first trip to Vancouver Island's premier wild steelhead river in the late sixties was an experience I will never forget! A new highway, gravel, had been built to reach the instant town of Gold River.The town had been built about five miles upriver from the pulp mill that was constructed at the river estuary on Muchalat Inlet.

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Yves Laflamme | Clean50

Yves took charge of Resolute in February 2018 just as the company achieved a 76% reduction in absolute GHG emissions compared to 2000 levels. He initiated a $29 million project at the Thunder Bay (Ontario) pulp and paper mill, including $14.7 million to reduce the mill's annual GHG emissions by over 20%, as well as a $61 million strategic investment plan at the Saint …

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Land-based Gold River Aquafarms project could provide up ...

"The owners are quite keen on this project, and of course, all of Gold River is very keen for many reasons," he said. The project has the potential to help reinvent Gold River, which lost its pulp and paper mill in 1998, by creating 75 to 100 jobs and generating tax revenue, both directly and indirectly, said Mayor Brad Unger.

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Raven Lumber Archives - Decafnation

The Gold River Bowater pulp mill, also located on a river, closed in 1999. In Port Alberni, the Somass sawmill officially closed in August, but has been essentially shut down for a year. The APD mill there is down to just one shift of workers per day. Both are located on …

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Texas Mill Pioneers First Use of Southern Pine Furnish in ...

Avenor Gold River Newsprint mill in Vancouver, B.C., in the mid-1990s.The Gold River mill went bankrupt soon afterwards, and Fletcher Challenge of Australia bought the machine, subsequently selling it in 1999 to Donohue, who planned to rebuild and upgrade it for valued-added pro-duction at Lufkin.When Abitibi-Consolidated acquired

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Phillip Lum Obituary (1941 - 2021) - Victoria, BC - The ...

In 1966, he moved back to Canada with Jean and 2 boys in tow and settled in Gold River to work in the pulp mill, with a third son arriving shortly thereafter. As a …

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PROVINCE HELPS GOLD RIVER BUILD NEW FUTURE

The pulp mill was Gold River's primary employer, directly employing over one-third of the community's workforce and was responsible for 82 per cent of the municipal tax base. The mill closure resulted in the loss of 380 direct and 150 indirect jobs. In total almost 1,000 residents were affected by the mill closure, or one-half of the ...

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About - Gold River

The District of Gold River was incorporated on August 26, 1965 and reincorporated as the Village Municipality of Gold River on January 1, 1972. Taking advantage of its deep water and abundant forests, the Village of Gold River developed as a prototypical logging and pulp/paper industry community.

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Fatality Reports: 1868

leak at the Gold River pulp mill, Gold River, BC forced a mill shutdown. The deceased was in the process of shutting a valve beneath a molten sulphur storage tank, when the bottom cone section of the tank fell out, covering him in molten sulphur …

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Manley Allison Obituary - Campbell River, BC

One of the first employees of the Gold River Pulp Mill, he and his wife Flora arrived in the brand new community via gravel road in 1966 where they remained for 52 years. In 1975 he and two partners took a chance and started their own business, Gold River Maintenance & Supply, a business that grew and continues to thrive.

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Preventing future Gold Rivers requires thinking outside ...

February 23, 1999 When the workers at the ill-fated Gold River pulp mill took their severance packages last week, it marked closure on a frustrating struggle to save the mill. The workers are now moving on and there is little point in continuing the polemic over the mill's viability or what government could or should have done.

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Gold River BC - Vancouver Island Planner: Your Guide to ...

A relatively young community, the Village of Gold River was founded in 1965 to service the pulp mill about five miles out of town. On the edge of Strathcona Park, Gold River, 91 kilometers west of Campbell River, boasts incredible scenery, fantastic fishing and amenities – such as its acclaimed Anne Fiddick Aquatic & Sports Centre – of much ...

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Gold River Council Announcement - Gold River

Gold River Council Announcement. May 5, 2021 in Council. Council for the Village of Gold River are very pleased to announce the appointment of Michael (Mike) Roy, as our Chief Administrative Officer/ Corporate Officer. Mike has been the interim CAO since the resignation of Brad McRae and has been our Deputy Corporate Officer for the last 18 months.

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New land-based fish farm proposed in Gold River | Ha ...

Gold River, BC A new land-based steelhead fish farm is being proposed in Gold River at the site of a former pulp and paper mill that closed in the '90s. Ushered by Gold River Aquafarms, the development project would be a "win" for the small Vancouver Island village, said Gold River Mayor Brad Unger.

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Preventing future Gold Rivers requires thinking outside ...

A second way to prevent mill closures is to encourage producers to add more value to our pulp and paper products. BC paper companies have been earning profits in 1998, while those firms focused on pulp have not. (A tragedy of the Gold River story is that the mill had a paper machine a decade earlier, which was taken apart and sold.)

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» Green Island, Gold River, Jewel, and the Crown Yule ...

Green Island, Gold River, Jewel, and the Crown April 10, 2003 at 2:30 pm | In yulelogStories | Comments Off on Green Island, Gold River, Jewel, and the Crown. A group of investors has purchased a former pulp mill on northern Vancouver Island and plans to turn it into an electrical generating plant.

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Gold River Lament – Steelhead Voices

That level was reached earlier than ever and persisted longer. My guess is the WSC gauge was installed in preparation for the soon to be built pulp mill at the mouth of the river. Pulp mills need assurance of adequate water supplies so it seems logical that was the rationale for gauging the stream, especially during the summer.

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Gold River | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Gold River was developed in the late 1960s as an "instant" community to house the employees of a pulp mill built by Tahsis Company Ltd. First incorporated in 1965 as a district municipality, it was soon reincorporated as a village.

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BOWATER INC - Annual Report (Regulation S-K, item 405) (10 ...

In February 1999, the Company permanently closed its Gold River pulp mill in British Columbia, which had been closed due to market conditions since August 1998. Information regarding the Company's acquisition of Avenor is incorporated herein by reference to pages 24-25 and 37-38 of the Company's Annual Report.

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History – Critter Cove

Family History. The Forbes family moved to Gold River in 1973 and started exploring and enjoying adjacent Nootka Sound. Cam Sr. was a steam engineer for the Gold River pulp mill, and he moved to Gold River with his wife Julie and …

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The Log Barge Island Titan

The Stamish Chief at the Tahsis Co. Gold River Pulp Mill with big chip barges behind. (Photo from the Steve McBeath collection. ) The Stamish Chief was the first tug I ran as skipper in 1972. She was a McLaren & Co. design built in 1952 by Allied Shipbuilders Ltd. in Vancouver BC. In 1952 she was owned by Cowdell Towing Ltd., Squamish BC.