page_title: MacMillan Bloedel
section_title: H.R. MacMillan Export Company
hierarchical_section_title: MacMillan Bloedel / H.R. MacMillan Export Company
caption_attribution_description: English: Workers at Barclay Sound Cedar Company, later Alberni Pacific Lumber
context_page_description: MacMillan Bloedel Limited, sometimes referred to as "MacBlo", was a Canadian forestry company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was formed through the merger of three smaller forestry companies in 1951 and 1959. Those were the Powell River Company, the Bloedel Stewart Welch Company, and the H.R. MacMillan Company. It was bought by Weyerhaeuser of Federal Way, Washington in 1999.
context_section_description: The last of the three pre-merger companies was the H.R. MacMillan Export Company, which was created in 1919 by Harvey, or H.R. MacMillan, British Columbia's first Chief Forester.  MacMillan reportedly gained considerable experience in world lumbering during World War I. With his colleague Whitford Julian VanDusen, another forester, MacMillan incorporated a company in 1919 to sell British Columbia lumber products to foreign markets. In 1924, they established a shipping company that would become one of the world's biggest charter companies. With the creation of Seaboard Lumber by the other mill owners in British Columbia, there was a major threat to MacMillan, as Seaboard was to export all the lumber from the companies that founded it leaving MacMillan without the lumber needed to fulfill their orders.  MacMillan responded by beginning to purchase mills and creating the first truly integrated forestry company in British Columbia.
  During World War II, MacMillan acquired numerous small mills and timber tenures on the south coast of British Columbia.
caption: Workers at Barclay Sound Cedar Company, later Alberni Pacific Lumber
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