DCHP-3

Alaska pine

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a species of hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, common on the British Columbia coast.

Quotations

1905
The Pacific Coast is heavily timbered as far north as Alaska, and it is estimated that the Douglas pine, cedar, spruce, Alaska pine, etc., along the railway line, are worth $25,000,000.
1958
It took the Koerners . . . to appreciate the province's enormous stocks of this scorned wood, give it back its melodious and forgotten name of Alaska Pine, and refine it for the carriage trade.