Two vertical photos, one an aerial shot taken by the provincial government in the early 1970s (l), the other a Google image recently taken from a satellite (r), show the before and the after of the site occupied by KP Wood Products sawmill at Avola. As reported in the Valley Voice: Father and son celebrate milestones, Sowaran Singh Heer started work at the KP Wood sawmill in Avola soon after coming to Canada in 1966.
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The Avola sawmill, along with mills in Blue River and Kamloops, were closed in about 1973 when Weyerhaeuser opened its new sawmill in Vavenby. According to a news report from the time, the new operation employed 300, while the three older mills had employed 225.
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