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MacMillan Bloedel Limited
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- H.R. MacMillan Export Company Limited
- MacMillan Bloedel and Powell River Company Limited
- MacMillan & Bloedel Limited
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The H.R. MacMillan Export Company was formed by ex-Chief Forester Harvey Reginald MacMillan on July 28 1919. Originally formed as a trading company, the successor companies which bore MacMillan name quickly became known as the largest softwood producing companies in the history of the Province during the years of its operation. MacMillan quickly started acquiring operations within province, such as what would be known as the Canadian White Pine Division mill in 1929, as well as the historic Humbird family owned Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company Limited in 1946. A number of large mergers in the post-War era with Bloedel, Stewart and Welch and the Powell River Company - 1951 and 1959 respectively - led to the dominance of the firm in the province's softwood sector. While surviving economic downturns in the 1970s and 1980s with a programme of corporate restructuring, the company was left weakened. In 1999, the company was acquired by Weyerhaeuser after many years of closures and asset sales.
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KHUGHES 2013-04-10
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Moving Images MI_CREATORS_CREDITS|Company file|Oracle database|Central Name Authority File|Robert Brian Griffin. "Success and Failure in British Columbia's Softwood Plywood Industry, 1913 to 1999." PhD diss., University of Victoria, 1999.
Maintenance notes
Name authority researched and written by contractor Patrick Craib, April 3, 2013.