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Tour of the Waldun Forest Products Shingle Factory

Bob travels to British Columbia and tours the Waldun Forest Products Company shingle manufacturing plant with Jack Davidson, manager of the Cedar Shake & Shingle Bureau.

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Tour of the Waldun Forest Products Shingle Factory

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" We're on the Fraser river about forty miles east of Vancouver British Columbia Canada -- And we're going to show you how to make shingles today we're visiting the Walden forest products company and our tour guide today we'll be -- it was manager of the cedar shake and shingle bureau. I just noticed something very much good morning this is an impressive place I mean. These lives are very sizable affairs -- they'll come from. The interlock. Often down the west coast of British -- from Washington State all the way up. All the way up to Alaska and it's certainly not a new industry it's been established for many decades the very old industry -- along the river. Second third generation. Before them Indians use -- that long ago. And they've been shipping them down to California and the Washington as well as. I think since the early part of the in the nineteen hundred's all the way out to the east coast all over the -- all over the United States. West coast. Before we get started on taking a tour of the plant I've got to ask you about this little -- back here. So this wall then one Vancouver BC what do you call that bodes well -- hollow -- brought the west coast widener. It has that from valor in the middle of the vote the very center. And it spins around any direction you want that moment ago one of the guys take dramamine every morning needs -- album well we did start with a do up there -- there. Live now. The red cedar grain that is how old phone. That probably. Under the I would -- we're looking. --"

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