Determined to pull rural B.C. into the modern era, Socred Minister of Lands and Forests Ray Williston oversaw the building of the Bennett Dam on the Peace River and the flooding of the valley behind it, now called Williston Lake. Controversial and influential, Williston's life is profiled by his wife Eileen Williston and Sunshine Coast writer Betty Keller in Forests, Power and Policy: The Legacy of Ray Williston (Caitlin $34.95)
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[BCBW 1997]