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Forest and Paper

BC Forest Products

1 picture · 1979

Founded
1946 (incorporated 31 January 1946)
Head office then
Vancouver, British Columbia

British Columbia Forest Products made lumber, pulp and paper from coastal and interior timber. E.P. Taylor assembled it in 1946. It built the Crofton mill on Vancouver Island and later worked Mackenzie. The 1979 report shows lumber assembled at Crofton wharves for deep-sea loading.

It converted B.C. timber into export lumber and paper, and was long treated as the province’s second-largest forest company.

Why it mattered

It converted B.C. Crown and private timber into lumber and pulp/paper for export through Crofton and other ports, and it was a major industrial employer on Vancouver Island and in the interior (Mackenzie).

Now

Fletcher Challenge took a majority in 1987 and renamed the company Fletcher Challenge Canada in 1988. The paper mills, including Crofton, later sat in Catalyst and were bought by Paper Excellence in 2019. That group now operates as Domtar.

Changed hands (1988) · Now: Fletcher Challenge Canada / NorskeCanada / Catalyst / Paper Excellence / Domtar (Crofton pulp/paper); some timber later Riverside / Tolko

Still open

  • Street address of the 1979 head office in Vancouver was not confirmed from an annual-report page.
  • UNBC describes BCFP as operating 1946–1986; the legal name change to Fletcher Challenge Canada is dated 2 September 1988.
  • McGill's successor line says 'Fletcher Challenge of Canada Limited'; contemporary B.C. filings and tenure histories use Fletcher Challenge Canada Limited.
Lumber-loaded barge deck stretching to the cranes.

BC Forest Products · 1979

Lumber-loaded barge deck stretching to the cranes.

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