A Fruitful Century

• Author's Note
• Introduction: Preparing the Ground
• Chapter One: Rootstock 1889 - 1910
• Chapter Two: Grafting Over 1910 - 1927
• Chapter Three: Shaping the Framework 1927-1939
• Chapter Four: Blossom 1939 - 1957
  • Central Selling: From Resolution to Reality
  • The Growers' Parliament
  • The B.C.F.G.A. and Research
  • The New Technology
  • Post-War
  • 1949: A Year of Disaster
  • Unrest in the B.C.F.G.A.
  • Mutual Insurance
  • Struggling Along
• Chapter Five: Thinning 1957 - 1973
• Chapter Six: Harvest 1973 - 1989
• Afterword: Next Year's Crop - Looking on to the Second Hundred Years
• Appendix

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Chapter Four: Blossom 1939 - 1957

Rarely in the history of farming in Canada has there been such a combination of circumstances, all favouring an organization and the structure of an organization. . . . If we were going to have a war, we sure as hell had it at the right time for the creation of B.C. Tree Fruits. If we were going to have all those post-war restrictions and controls, they just played into our hands. . . . We certainly took a lot to ourselves of credit for what nature and geography, politics, human nature, had all done for us. [Interview of Art Garrish, Aug. 5, 1988.]

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