The Sommers' Scandal: The Felling of Trees and Tree Lords

by Ian Macdonald and Betty O'Keefe

In 1953, Forests Minister Robert E. Sommers was one of the most powerful men in BC, able to influence the province's major industry, forestry, with a stroke of his pen. Five years later he plummeted from the heights when he was sent to jail for conspiracy and accepting bribes. The Sommers scandal was the first and biggest stain on the record of Premier W.A.C. Bennett's Socreds. Betty O'Keefe and Ian Macdonald have recreated those stormy days of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1895811961
• ISBN13: 9781895811964
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd.
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"