In 1911 Julius Bloedel, a Seattle lawyer, along with his two partners, John Stewart and Patrick Welch, began acquiring large blocks of Vancouver Island forests.
•
--now owned by who?--> located at Thurlow and Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver was a highlight of the early architectural career of Arthur Erickson, who advocated the use of concrete as "the new marble" and employed it in the building's stark design, which is often compared locally to a concrete waffle.
Some of their guests were renowned, including H.R. MacMillan, president of the forest company MacMillan Bloedel; he visited twice a year with an entourage of business friends and owned property on the Clearwater River from 1949 to 1972.
The house and surrounding property were sold in the 1970s to MacMillan Bloedel, a forestry company.
The Nuu-chah-nulth, with significant cooperation from environmental groups, eventually erected a blockade, preventing MacMillan Bloedel from logging the island.
In 1993, the Clayoquot Sound Land Use Decision had granted pulp-and-paper giant MacMillan Bloedel rights to clear cut two thirds of a 650,000 acre lowland coastal temperate rainforest—the largest of its kind in the world.
His consulting experience ranges from strategic planning to foreign affairs to the Conference Board, U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute, the Foreign Service Institute, Dean Witter Reynolds, A.G. Becker & Co., MacMillan Bloedel, Honda Motor Company, Tong Yang Securities, 13-D Research, Matterhorn Palmyra Fund, and numerous other corporations.
Harold Macmillan | Macmillan Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan | Macmillan | James MacMillan | Macmillan Cancer Support | MacMillan Bloedel | Donald Baxter MacMillan | Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton | Michael MacMillan | MacMillan | David MacMillan (sound engineer) | David Macmillan | Macmillan Publishers (United States) | James MacMillan (composer) | Hugh Macmillan | Violet MacMillan | Romeo and Juliet (MacMillan) | Robert MacMillan | Norma MacMillan | Macmillan's Magazine | Macmillan Publishers | Macmillan Media | MacMillan Bloedel | Macmillan Birder's Guide to European and Middle Eastern birds | Macmillan 4x4 UK Challenge | Lawrie MacMillan | Kirkpatrick Macmillan | Julius Bloedel | John Macmillan Brown |