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Bill Moore was a logging
man and boss of one of the most
enterprising logging camps in the
province, located among the tall
pines at Winter Harbour on the
northern tip of Vancouver Island.

In 1970, Bill Moore had a dream.
It involved organizing the loggers
of the province into a group to
have them compete in sanctioned
tournaments of prize money. The
events would be strictly woodsman
- axe throwing, tree climbing,
power sawing, log burling... all the

Stuff that good loggers are made
of.

‘ And so Moore went to work on
it. He gathered together a handful
of logging buddies from both
management and labour and his
dream began to take shape,

From those organizational! meet-

Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 29, 1990 B9

_Canlog returns to Terrace

ings sprang the Canadian Loggers
Sports Association, as it was soon
to become better known, Canlog.
Less than a dozen communities
were involved in the initial staging
of Caniog events the first year, but
the general interest among the
loggers was one of extreme enthu-
siasm. Word of Canlog spread and
it travelled all the way to

’ Vancouver where an invitation was

made by the PNE. to hold logger
sports competitions during that
exhibition.

By 1976, the Festival of Forestry
event at the PNE was the Fair’s
most popular event and played
daily to sellout crowds of more
than 5,000. And today, Canlog has
grown from a baby into an adult. —

There are now a host of com-
munities throughout the province
who fly the Canlog banner and

conduct sanctioned logger sport
events. The communities with
Canlog ‘sanctions in 1976 were
Nanaimo, Alberni, Victoria, Woss
Lake, Port Hardy, Mission, Gold
River, Sooke, Squamish, Prince
George, Hope, Williams Lake and
Terrace. Loggers vied for close to
$20,000 in prize money at those
centres that year. This year, Ter-
race has renewed their association
with Canlog.

Back to Bill Moore. A second
part of his dream was to eventually
see logger sports recognized as an
official sport. It happened in 1971
when the provincial government
declared logger sports the official
Industrial Sport of British Colum-
bia.

Further, Quebec, Alberia and
Newfoundland asked his advice in
organizing the sport.

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Sunday, noon - 10 p.m.

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