H.R. MacMillan Space Centre

This guide to the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver follows Harvey Reginald MacMillan, a farm boy turned forester who became the province's first chief forester before building one of the largest timber companies on earth. You'll hear how his firm grew into MacMillan Bloedel, controlling roughly a million acres of British Columbia forest, and how his late-life donation reshaped a planned centennial museum in Vanier Park around a single new idea. Listen for the design that architect Gerald Hamilton built around that gift, said to echo a Coast Salish woven hat.