{"product_id":"the-lumberjacks-9781550027730","title":"The Lumberjacks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Short-listed for the 1978 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The 19th century spawned a unique breed of men who took pride in their woodsmen skills and rough codes of conduct. They called themselves lumberers, shantymen, timber beasts, les bucherons - and, more recently, lumberjacks, working in the vast forests of eastern Canada and British Columbia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Across the country, farm boys would go to the woods, lumbering being the only winter work available. Immigrants - Swedes and Finns more often than not - resumed the trades they had learned so well in the forests of northern Europe. They broke the cold, hard monotony of camp life with songs, tall tales and card games. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Within these pages, author \u003cb\u003eDonald MacKay\u003c\/b\u003e allows us a glimpse into that moment in our heritage when men entered the virgin forest to carve out an industry from the seemingly endless array of pine, spruce, maple and balsam fir found there. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Natural Heritage Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550027730\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.99h x 7.08w x 0.88d","brand":"Donald MacKay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38606796619957,"sku":"9781550027730","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_05457a58-86b8-4edc-ace1-6336bab818a4.jpg?v=1614086439","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-lumberjacks-9781550027730","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}