Pretty, Charles N.

PRETTY, Charles N., logger, timber broker (b 7 Mar 1890, Sault Ste Marie, ON; d 6 Apr 1992, Chilliwack). He came to BC a few months after his birth, with his father, Charles Fenn Pretty, a pioneer in the commercial FISHING industry. They settled in NEW WESTMINSTER and Pretty's father sent the first shipment of SALMON on ice east from VANCOUVER by rail. He then homesteaded on the Harrison R, near CHILLIWACK, and in 1908 entered the timber brokerage business with an office in Vancouver. He...

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