WALTER COOKE:  STAN'S SON:

​

I started in the Mill in 1961 doing clean-up on the week ends.  After I graduated I worked steady in the mill on the timber deck.  I pushed edgings in the Swede Mill then went down to the jack ladder for the Swede Mill.

 

About 1966 I then went to the logging division at Hillcrest.  I began as a whistle punk then on to the rigging setting chockers.  From there it was into the landing as a Landing man. I was bucking and limbing logs. Then on to grading peeler logs for export. From there I was scaling for the fallers until Hillcrest shut down. I spent about 10 years at Hillcrest.

 

After 10 years at Hillcrest I scaled for JR Coe at Pacific Logging.  I had a chance to go falling after Fedji & Gunderson took over from Coe.

I had an accident and injured my back.  I tried to go back but didn’t last long.

​

I bought a logging truck at Pacific Logging and worked off highway until they cut back.Then took the truck to Gordon River until that company was shut down.

I sold the truck and began driving off highway trucks for BCFP Caycuse.

I was laid off driving. I then began with the Ambulance.  From there I was asked to try Highway Trucking.

​

I was hauling out of the Dryland Sort at Honeymoon Bay. One of those loads was the ‘’big spruce’’. I was over weight, over height and over width.

I had to phone the scale to see if they would allow me to haul it on the highway. That was approved. When I arrived at the scale the guys were out with their cameras.  The ‘’good old days’’.

 

I ended my career in 2004’’

​