MacMillan Bloedel

Why does Vancouver exist? We were the terminus of the railway, the port to the Pacific, and we grew off the back of our natural resource extraction industries.

When I was growing up, Macmillan Bloedel was the biggest company in town.

And then after Expo 86, we saw a shift to a real estate-based economy, starting with the sale of the Expo lands.

And since then, we've just seen the financialization of real estate, and we put all our eggs in the real estate basket, frankly.

Remember? Remember that promo from 2005 that we probably reviewed like seven years ago? Anyway, go on.

Yeah, my dad was a Macmillan Bloedel, man.

I don't even remember what the name of the company was.

I assume it was that.

They didn't know which way to go.

Macmillan Bloedel Paper Mill down there.

So we were cutting the, the, the line, and, uh, they would give us bush axes and machetes, but they wouldn't let, and they wouldn't let us run chainsaws 'cause they didn't want us to get hurt.

So we had to cut them down, you know, if you come to them.