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(Globe and Mail)Donald MacKay's book has many virtues. 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 (Montreal Star) . It's marvellous material of a type often ignor

Title	:	The Lumberjacks
Author	:	Donald MacKay
Rating	:	4.64 (488 Votes)
Asin	:	1550027735
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	320Pages
Publish Date	:	2016-11-4
Language	:	English

(Globe and Mail)Donald MacKay's book has many virtues. 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 (Montreal Star) . 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. His prose is clean. (Atlantic Insight) a superb marriage of text and pictures, a nostalgic but not sentimental discussion of one of Canada's primary industries, logging

They broke the cold, hard monotony of camp life with songs, tall tales and card games.

Within these pages, author Donald MacKay 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.

"Donald MacKay's book has many virtues. He separates legends and half-truths from facts "
– The Montreal Star

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

"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."
– Atlantic Insight. He lets the surviving pioneers talk for themselves when they have something to say, but never allows them to get too windy. His prose is clean. Immigrants – Swedes and Finns more often than not – resumed the trades they had learned so well in the forests of northern Europe. The 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.

Across the cou

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.

. 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.

Donald MacKay has had a forty-year career as journalist, broadcaster and author

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