Garner, Joe


GARNER, Joe, logger, contractor (b 11 Feb 1909, Saltspring Island; d 27 Oct 1998, Nanaimo). He began LOGGING for his father when he was a youngster. Later he worked as a longshoreman and construction worker and owned a fleet of float planes and helicopters. He was an entertaining storyteller with a wide knowledge of BC, and in 1980 he was ready to publish his memoirs. Garner decided that he could do the job better than any publisher (see BOOK PUBLISHING), so he created Cinnabar Press and...

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