Lumberjacks who felled the giant trees of British Columbia

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c. 1920

A high rigger cuts the top off a tree as his colleagues watch from below.

Image: University of British Columbia Library

With the completion of the Panama Canal and the exhaustion of the forests in eastern Canada, British Columbia became the center of the...

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