{"product_id":"the-lumberjacks-paperback","title":"The Lumberjacks - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald MacKay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 19th century spawned a unique breed of men who took pride in their woodsmen skills and rough codes of conduct. They called themselves lumberers, shantymen, timber beasts, les bucherron - and, more recently, lumberjacks, working in the vast forests of eastern Canada and British Columbia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross the country, farm boys would go to the woods, lumbering being the only winter work available. Immigrants - Swedes and Finns more often than not - resumed the trades they had learned so well in the forests of northern Europe. They broke the cold, hard monotony of camp life with songs, tall tales and card games.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithin these pages, author \u003cb\u003eDonald MacKay\u003c\/b\u003e allows us a glimpse into that moment in our heritage when men entered the virgin forest to carve out an industry from the seemingly endless array of pine, spruce, maple and balsam fir found there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[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 ...\"\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Montreal Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"... a superb marriage of text and pictures, a nostalgic but not sentimental discussion of one of Canada's primary industries, logging.\" \u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Insight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald and his wife, Barbara, live in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9.99 x 7.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52616656290074,"sku":"9781550027730","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/5604\/6618\/files\/0nXwu10gN29781550027730.webp?v=1785463921","url":"https:\/\/j-s-five-and-dime.myshopify.com\/products\/the-lumberjacks-paperback","provider":"J \u0026 S Five and Dime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}