TRESTLE HISTORY
Kinsol Historical Timeline
1911 Canadian Northern Pacific Railway (CNPR) begins 250-mile line through southern interior of Vancouver Island linking Victoria to Port Alberni.
1918 Construction resumed by federal government, who took control of Canadian Northern Railway (and subsidiary, CNPR) in 1917. Downgraded to logging railway with wood trestles, rather than steel bridges.
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The Kinsol heritage illustrates the powerful draw of resource extraction and the fierce competition to be the first to extract the most that consumed politicians and corporations of a growing Canada at the turn of the 20th century.
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Jack was employed by MacMillan Bloedel but he spent the majority of his life being a champion of preserving history and heritage in the Cowichan Valley, and recording the history of the Cowichan Valley. He won a writing prize at the age of ten and wrote for the Cowichan Leader Newspaper from the age of 27 until he died in 1998.
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