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HISTORY
The Meeker family has a long history in the cedar products manufacturing
business, dating back to 1925, when Henry C. Meeker moved his family to
British Columbia from Connecticut and began manufacturing lumber in the
interior region.
This
interest in the wood business carried on when his son Townsend, better
known as Toke, moved to the Fraser Valley in the 1940's and built what
is still one of the largest shake mills in the industry. He traveled
the US extensively over the years, promoting and virtually creating the
marketplace for handsplit and resawn shakes, as the market had seen only
shingles previously. His efforts paid off, and split and resawn shakes
became predominant in many regions in the US.
The family
tradition continued when Toke's son Clayton, not to mention his five other
sons, became actively involved in the cedar shake and shingle industry.
Clayton
built his first mill, Clayton Cedar Products in the early 1970's and later,
Anbrook Industries began producing shakes and shingles next door to the
Clayton Cedar mill.
Today,
Anbrook Industries Ltd. is known throughout the industry as a leading
producer of premium quality shakes and shingles, which since the mid 1990's,
have been marketed throughout the world by Clayton's daughter, Brooke.
As the
climate in the forest industry continues to shift, our commitment to quality
and consistency remains our number one priority. In the tradition of our
family, we look to the future with confidence, continually striving for
a better quality product to offer to our customers at a competitive market
price.
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