Rain people the story of Ocean Falls


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Authored by Bruce Ramsey and edited by Roland Neave, Rain People: The Story of Ocean Falls chronicles the rise and fall of the isolated, company-owned pulp and paper mill town nestled in the rugged coastal fjords of British Columbia. The book traces the community's mid-century heyday as a thriving industrial enclave accessible only by boat or plane, powered by torrential local rainfall and sustained by a tight-knit working-class population. Through archival photographs and personal accounts, the text details the sudden, devastating corporate closure that transformed a bustling boomtown into a damp ghost town. A keen insight drawn from the work is how corporate paternalism created a profound psychological vulnerability in remote industrial outposts; when distant executives pulled the plug on the mill, residents discovered that their entire social fabric, municipal infrastructure, and sense of identity had been built on foundation stones owned entirely by a corporation.

Author(s): Bruce Ramsey, Roland Neave
Document: Book · Paperback · CIRC [ 1 ]
Edition: 2nd ed.
Published: 1997
Physical Description: xi, 240 p. : ill., maps (1 folded), ports. ; 22 cm.
Genre: History
Notes:

Folded map tipped in on p. [3] of cover

Subjects:

British Columbia Ocean Falls, History, Ocean Falls (B.C.) History, Ocean Falls (C.-B.) Histoire

Related Places: Ocean Falls Central Coast Regional District

 

Circulation

Here are a list of places where this title can be found and the various formats it can be found in.

Collection Resource Available Edition Published Publisher
The Cascade District: Encyclopedia Library Book Paperback 2nd ed. 1997 Wells Gray Tours, Kamloops, B.C., 1997

 

Last updated: 2026-09-13