There was only one giant golden spruce in the world, and, until a man named Grant Hadwin took a chainsaw to it, in 1997, it had stood for more than three hundred years in a … [4] Hadwin stated that he feared for his safety if he were to travel from Prince Rupert to Masset by ferry or plane, and decided to make the trip across the Hecate Strait (a notoriously stormy and violent body of water) alone by kayak.

A rare genetic mutation rendered the tree’s needles a deep gold, making it stand out like a lit candle in the cathedral-like splendor of the rainforest.

Grant Hadwin was a logging engineer and expert woodsman who lived and worked in British Columbia’s remote and ancient forests. In the ensuing controversy and leading up to Hadwin’s court date, he disappeared after attempting to solo kayak the Hecate Strait, one of the world’s most dangerous and unpredictable bodies of water. Overall, I loved this book. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2005.

Thomas Grant Hadwin (born October 25, 1949) was a Canadian forest engineer. Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your Grant Hadwin family tree. We hope you find this information useful!

Thanks Reg, I guess I should have read it a little closer.

In 2007 the two authors traded two incredible stories about man’s conflict with nature.

List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea. Unable to reconcile his love for the forest with the highly skilled part that he was playing in destroying it, he was driven to commit a strange and unprecedented crime, one that ran contrary to all he had come to hold sacred.

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You must log in or register to reply here. Thanks for posting this Reg. Applicants will be considered for University Entrance Scholarships which … The cuts were designed to leave Kiidk'yaas standing but weakened, so that it would be knocked over by the next strong winds. Hope the movie lives up to the book as well. I probably read even less books than what I watch movies but there was something compelling and empathetic about this story. There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These may not be new solutions – I have a sense we are going to look more frequently to the past for solutions to technology-created problems – but they will be solutions that take the long-term into account instead of short-term profit. His job was to find and then remove the largest, oldest and most valuable trees.

Vaillant, John. Sounds like it boils down to mental illness. To install click the Add extension button. Have you reached a brick wall in your Hadwin Tree? This is the first I've heard of this guy.

Look at the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Grant Hadwin. Vaillant does a good job in his epilogue showing signs of hope in the Queen Charlottes, and I think we need to focus on these stories rather than being paralyzed by a sense that nothing we do matters. One of my favorite books.

I would highly recommend it for anyone interested in environmental issues, or anyone living in Canada for that matter. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. Investigate Parish Records for Grant Hadwin at Find My Past. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. However, Vaillant writes The Golden Spruce like a mystery novel, keeping back key facts and points until he must reveal them, a tactic that I think pays off by the book’s end.

Hadwin was arrested, ordered to return to Haida Gwaii to stand trial, and released on bail. Vaillant uses this mystery to not only give a thoroughly detailed history of the Queen Charlotte Islands, logging practices in British Columbia, and the geography of the Pacific Northwest, but he also gives a sizeable dollop of environmental reflection on our paper-hungry society.

Hadwin publicly took responsibility for cutting down the spruce, which stood 50 metres high and 180 centimetres across and was known for its bright golden needles. Join Facebook to connect with Grant Hadwin and others you may know. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Grant Hadwin family tree.

While facing criminal charges for the act, he disappeared en route to his trial. Hadwin’s one-man crusade culminated in a perverse and outrageous act of protest that was, in itself, a crime against nature. In a way, it’s like the oil crisis, except we haven’t been using oil for five thousand years. Check out House Of Names to investigate the origins of the

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