Hey Mike,

Wow, you really are "central" BC! My map program show streets for
like about 1500 people there??. My town has just under 1,000, but we
are now part of Chatham-Kent, which is a whole county and has just
over 100,000. We also have a rez a couple of miles away with another
1,000 population.

Well, both my brother and I are not exactly good ones to ask about the
work situation. We're both retired ( he VERY recently), and living on
fair pensions that I don't expect to see hit too hard by the latest
economy (I hope-I hope-I hope!! He did mention in a phone call that a
lot of rail jobs are sssssslllloooow due to the sawmill low
production. He was a (former BC Rail) CN engineer out of Williams
Lake, usually running up to Quesnel and back, with the odd trip to
Prince George and summers running the Rocky Mountaineer into Whistler.
And I live in the middle of the automotive industry here in SW
Ontario, and things are definitely glum. I moved here from Windsor
after I retired, and this little town has only two small manufacturing
plants, one that makes farm silos and still seems busy, and one that
makes tube bending machines so they may not see the downturn for a
year or so. But Windsor, Chatham, St. Thomas, London and this area
are hit pretty good. Headlines yesterday say 128,000 job losses in
Canada in January, and over 70,000 of those in Ontario. Kinda tells
the story right there. I was in a construction trade (elevators),
and out Local is still very busy with current buildings going up, but
the forecast is kinda shaky.

Doug says they had a lot of snow this year. We have too. How about
you?

And has that new Prince Rupert container terminal made things busier
for you at all?

Take care.

Brian Lawson,
Bothwell, Ontario.
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On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:42:09 GMT, Michael Gray
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:55:45 -0500, Brian Lawson wrote:

On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:50:38 GMT, Michael Gray
wrote:


TIA,
Mike in northcentral BC

Hey Mike,

My brother Doug lives a couple miles north of Williams Lake. Where are
you located?

Brian Lawson,
Bothwell, Ontario.



Hi Brian, in Burns Lake, Gateway to Tweedsmuir Park, offering 3000 miles
of fishing - well that's what the tourist blurbs say. What they don't
say is "millions of hectares of red trees, including Tweedsmuir Park".
Things are looking pretty sad around this country as your brother has
probably told you what with mills running 3 day weeks or shutting all
together. Here in Burns we only have Decker Lake Sawmills running full
time but with only one shift; Babine Forest Products is shut for all of
March is the latest.
How're things in your neck of the woods?
Mike