Bloedel
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Julius Bloedel, was a Seattle lawyer, who originally hailed from Wisconsin. In 1911 he and two partners, John Stewart and Patrick Welch, came to Canada and began acquiring large blocks of forests on British Columbia's Vancouver Island. Their Franklin River logging camp soon became one of the world’s largest logging operations. Here, in the 1930s, the Canadian logging industry saw its first steel spar and chainsaw.
In the 1950's Bloedel's company merged with the HR MacMillan Company to form one of the largest forest products companies in the world. MacMillan-Bloedel or Mac-Blo as some called it, was eventually taken over by Weyerhaeuser in 2000.