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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.

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• Full title: Forests, Power and Policy: The Legacy of Ray Williston
• Author: Eileen Williston, Betty Keller
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318
• EAN: 9780920576694
• ISBN: 0920576699
• ID: 13527150
• Publisher: CAITLIN PR
• Weight: 553 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 160 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: January 1997

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