History

In the early 1970's, a young man by the name of Dave Husby came to the Queen Charlotte Islands looking for work. A short time later he purchased a gravel truck, started Husby Trucking, and began subcontracting to local road builders on the island. 

Husby Trucking grew to include 20 gravel trucks and later took on log hauling contracts for three major forest product companies by adding 6 logging trucks to his fleet - Mack CL350's, the largest in the world. 

Dave started a second company, Husby Allison Trucking, to handle log hauling, log loading and gravel hauling contracts on the North Coast of British Columbia. 

As the business continued to grow, it was a natural evolution to take on full-phased road construction by adding two rock drills and front end loaders to the expanding fleet of 25 gravel trucks, ten Mack log trucks and a TL6 log loader. 

By the early 1980's, the two largest forest licences on the Queen Charlotte Islands became available and were bought by Husby Trucking.. One licence was held by Itochu Japan Ltd.'s subsidiary Canadian CIPA Industries Ltd. and consisted of 1,000,000 cubic metres volume over five years encompassing some 200,000 hectares. The other licence was held by the subsidiary of Kanematsu Corp. of Japan, Naden Harbour Timber Ltd. Upon completing the purchase, the new company consisted of 750,000 cubic metres over a five year period on a 250,000 hectare land base. The company was renamed to Husby Forest Products Ltd. to more accurately reflect its expanded business operations.

This move from transportation into the forest products harvesting business dramatically changed the company's focus. Specialized logging equipment and more logging trucks were acquired. Also, in response to the unique demands of logging in the environmentally-sensitive Queen Charlotte Islands, the company began helicopter logging. By the time heli-logging started to become an essential component of most major forest company operations, Husby management had accumulated over a decade of heli-logging experience, in both Canada and Southeast Asia. The company was now a partner in the largest heli-logging operation in Canada. 

In the late 1980's, two more forest licences came available which allowed Husby Forest Products to acquire the logging operations of Dawson Harbour Logging and Sitkana Timber Ltd. With this move, Husby Forest Products Limited effectively became the largest operator in the Queen Charlotte Islands controlling 83% of the allowable cut. 

Since then, HFP has diversified to have holdings related to log marketing, custom cutting, forest consulting, fabricating, and sport fishing.