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Ocean Falls Museum - Personal
Recollections
John Denniston -
Newspaper
Photographer
Below - December 1980 — Many of the streets of
Ocean Falls were made from wood planks, 8 inches wide and 4 inches
thick, and snaked up the hill to the bunkhouses and homes for the people
who worked in the town’s pulp mill.
This woman owned the Ocean Falls super market which would close in a few weeks after this picture was taken. There weren’t enough people left in the town after its pulp mill, which was the sole reason for the town’s existence, was closed for the last time. Only people required to maintain machinery until it was dismantled and taken away stayed on.
The last fire truck in Ocean Falls with the fire chief at the wheel just after its pulp mill, had been closed for the last time. There were only a few dozen people left of a population which once reached 3500. They would maintain the machinery until it was dismantled and taken away.
Inside the fire hall of Ocean Falls
John Denniston spent 35 years
photographing for newspapers beginning with Edmonton Journal
in 1967. His pictures have been published in the Edmonton
Journal, The Vancouver Sun, The Vancouver Province, and a
few were picked up by
Life, People, Macleans, and many magazines devoted to his
favourite sports, automobile and motorcycle racing. He was
part of the team which in 1995 turned the Vancouver Province
into North America’s first newspaper with a completely
digital photo department. John retired in 2002 after 30
years as a staff photographer and then photo editor at the
Vancouver Province.
His current project is
photographing reality, exploring how to take pictures where
bias does not hide truth from the viewers.
Examples of these
projects can be found at
www.johndenniston.ca
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