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Throughout the 1920s, the company continued upgrading their facilities in The Pas and acquiring new timber berths. Within their first ten years of operating, they doubled their shipping capacity to four steamboats. So much wood was cut along the Carrot River that the river became impassable for ships
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were running out of wood, and many of the lumbermen began moving to Canada to find new forests to harvest. In 1919, the
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