Truck Loggers' Association

TRUCK LOGGERS' ASSOCIATION (TLA) was founded in NANAIMO in 1941 by a group of small, independent coastal loggers. Using the new technology of motor trucks and inexpensive gas-powered LOGGING equipment, truck loggers had become a major force in the coastal logging industry during the 1930s. Over the next 50 years the TLA fought vigorously on behalf of the small-business sector of the provincial FOREST INDUSTRY in the face of continuing growth and expansion by the major integrated companies. It...

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