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Jul 18, 2016 · This infographic tracks the history of wood as a construction material. Wood is one of the longest standing building materials in existence, with evidence showing homes built over 10,000 years ago used timber as a primary source for construction materials.
Nov 27, 2016 · Ancient Egyptian woodworkers used a variety of tools, including axes, adzes, chisels, pull saws, and bow drills. During the earliest pre-dynastic period (circa 3100 B.C., about the time of the first pharaoh), they also used mortise and tenon joints to join pieces of wood.
Jan 1, 2004 · Pre-1945 history. The first wood pulp mill in BC was at a place called Swanson Bay, operated by BC Pulp Company, which subsequently built Woodfibre and Port Alice. It presumably would have been the only mill running in 1903. It was located about halfway between Ocean Falls and Kitimat, on the mainland coast.
Wood was the staple of Canadian trade for much of the 19th century. Fueled by European demand, the timber trade brought investment and immigration to eastern Canada, fostered economic development, and transformed the regional environment far more radically than the earlier exploitation of fish and fur ( see Fisheries ; Fur Industry ).
The first sawmill in British Columbia, Canada was built by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1848 at Fort Langley. The mill was used to cut timber for the construction of buildings and for trade with other settlements.
Before 650 BC the now famous ancient Greek temples were built of wood, but after this date began to be built of stone. The process of a timber structure being repeated in stone is called petrification [23] or petrified carpentry.
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By the 1920s, B.C. was Canada’s largest source of lumber, and trees from the province were sent across continents and oceans. In 1923, B.C.’s forestry industry employed 40,000 — roughly 10 per cent of the province’s population at the time.