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list price: $19.95
edition:Paperback
category: Biography & Autobiography
published: Jan 1997
ISBN:9780920576694
publisher:
Caitlin Press
Description
As education minister, Ray Williston introduced the idea of university education for teachers, among other then-radical innovations. As minister of lands and forests, he had his greatest impact. From the mega-power projects to improved forestry practices, all major industrial developments in interior and northern BC during the 1950s and 1960s had Williston’s stamp on them.
He oversaw the building of the Bennett Dam on the Peace River and subsequent flooding of the valley behind it—now called Williston Lake—and the flooding of the Arrow Lake and displacement of many people in the Kootenays, but he was a man of his times and was determined to pull rural British Columbia into the modern era.
Contributor Notes
Eileen Williston, the late wife of Ray Williston, was the main author and power behind Forests, Power, and Policy, the biography of her husband, who himself was responsible for changing the lives of the people in BC during his tenure as the Minister of Education, Lands and Forests. He oversaw the building of the Peace River Dam as well as negotiating the Columbia River Treaty.
