Whistle Punks and Widow-Makers: Tales of the BC Woods

Ken A. Armson, a former executive co-ordinator of the Ontario Ministry
of Natural Resources’ Forest Resources Group, is currently a forestry
consultant.

Robert Swanson is a storyteller and poet who has chronicled the people,
machines, and logging activities of coastal British Columbia for many
years. This collection of 26 tales of loggers and other woodsworkers
from the turn of the century through to the 1950s is a gold mine of
history, humor, and descriptions of places, times, people, and the
machines they used in logging the coastal forests. Swanson’s ear for
the speech used and his knowledge of the men and the society in which
they lived are very much in evidence. Each section is copiously
illustrated with excellent black-and-white photographs. Readers of this
enjoyable book will sense a colorful and important period in British
Columbia’s (and Canada’s) past.