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Title: Canadian wood products industries
Year: 1916 (1910s)
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Subjects: Furniture industry and trade Woodworking industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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uldbe thoroughly kiln-dried. This is of great importance,as beautiful and permanent effects cannot be secured struction and finishing of any building, be it cottageor mansion. No other material combines such natur-ally beautiful effects with the wearing and sanitaryqualities of wood, and no other is so universally used.Again, wood is the most easily handled material thatman has; with simple tools it responds to the crafts-mans skill and shows its beauty in many and variedforms. The superiority of wood over the manufac-tured materials for covering walls, floors, and ceilingsis apparent to all who value the beauty and cleanlinessof a polished floor, the quiet dignity of a panelled room,or the old-world homelike appearance of a beamed orpanelled ceiling. Western woods are remarkable for their excellent Mr. Beale is the British Columbia Lumber Commissioner for EasternCanada, with headquarters in the Excelsior Life Buildintr. Toronto, where afine exhibit of British Columbia woods is shown.
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IS C A X A Dl A N WOODWORKER March, 1916 if the material used is not perfectly driocl. In Douglasfir and other resinous woods this fact must be empha-sized, as if not perfectly dry, moisture and gum mayOOze through the finish in small huhhles. Fdge-grainflooring laid as it comes from the mill should alwaysbe cleaned off after laying until it is perfectly smoothbefore any finish is applied. These western woodsnaturally lend themselves to a variety of attractiveStyles and colors and so can he made to harmonizewith almost any kind of decoration. Experience aloneteaches the best method of accentuating or softeningthe individual markings of each. Douglas Fir I he chief wood of British Columbia is Douglasfir, probably the linest wood for all-round use on the walls, beam ceiling, staircase and floors are Douglasfir, and present a very beautiful appearance. A beautiful effect can be secured by using rotarycut panels with edge-grain framing for base, muntinsand capping. Douglas fir edge-grain

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