Bernard Burgi was a well-known skier who tested the runs and snow conditions on Powder Mountain before its opening.

Ben Cherry was a former Mayor of Pemberton and a former Pemberton Chamber of Commerce President (1964-1965).

Howie Ayers is a former president of the Pemberton Chamber of Commerce.

The Truck Loggers Association was formed in 1943 to give independent timber harvesting contractors a collective voice in the changes taking place in society and the forest industry.
The TLA now represents independent harvesting contractors, independent sawmills, small tenure holders, and industry suppliers located across the coast of BC, with more than 480 member companies.

John W. Drenka was a co-founder of Squamish Mills, a timber mill in Squamish. The fourth among nine siblings, John Drenka was born in 1916 to Joe and Anne Drenka. The family lived on a pig farm in Steelhead, BC, north of Mission, BC. With no employment around the homestead farms where the family lived, Drenka’s father, an iron worker and a fisherman, would be away for long stretches of time. Drenka quit school after Grade 7 and the family moved to Burnaby, BC, where he got a job working at a butcher shop. Not long after, he took to logging with his brother, and, after a few years of logging up and down the coast in BC, he became a rigger. Drenka moved to Squamish in 1937 when a contractor working in Squamish offered him a job with Empire Mills. As time passed, he started contracting for logging companies, finally setting up a company called Howe Sound Timber, which he worked for several years before meeting his future business partner. He co-founded Squamish Mills in 1951 with Patrick Joseph Brennan. The sky hook, a cable car that transported logs between two locations, was brought to Squamish by John Drenka in 1948. The sky-hook garnered considerable industry and media attention and was one of the two logging operators using this particular system in British Columbia. Visitors came from as far away as South America to observe the sky hook logging show in Squamish. He worked as a superintendent at the company until his death, and often donated work, resources, and money to community projects in Squamish and the Sea to Sky. He passed away peacefully at Squamish General Hospital on March 19, 2012 in his 96th year, leaving his sons to continue work at Squamish Mills.

Erik Hagberg was the owner of Hagberg Construction Co. Ltd. during the 1950s and 1960s.

Empire Mills Ltd. was a logging company based in Vancouver which operated a sawmill located in Squamish and held a tree farm license there. In 1937, Empire Logging employed 20 men, and by 1939, they were putting 60,000 - 70,000 board feet of wood in the water per day and employed approximately 30 men. In the 1940s, Empire Mills acquired a sawmill situated by River Road. It had been built by Gerry Dent in the 1930s. In 1945, Empire Logging had bunkhouses set up in the hotel that used to be owned by the Galbraith's at the water's edge. Empire Logging had its first strike in 1948. Unions had just been formed at this time. John Jacobsen was the foreman for Empire Mills. Empire Mills applied for tree farm license #38 on July 25, 1951. The application was approved and granted to Empire Mills on June, 15, 1954. The decision was appealed by the provincial cabinet on September 7, 1954. Empire Logging shut down due to lack of a profitable market in August 1957. In October 1958, Squamish independent sawmill and logging operators (12 firms) protested the granting of tree farm license #38 to Empire Mills stating that it created a dangerous monopoly. H.H. "Buster" Marks acted as chairman of the logger's group. Empire Milles planned to build a sawmill and plywood and board plant in Squamish if the tree farm license was granted. Council approved allocation of timber for Empire Mills in November 1958. On November 26, 1958, MacMillan Bloedell opposed the tree farm license stating that timber remaining outside the license area would be inadequate for independent loggers. Tree Farm License #38 was again approved to be granted to Empire Mills in January 1960. In 1960, Kashmir Lumber Company bought Empire Mills' unused mill on River Road. On June 2, 1961, Tree farm license #38 was granted to Keely and Jacobs of Empire Mills Ltd. A condition of granting the license was that the holder of the license had to build a plywood mill in Squamish to provide a minimum of 25 million board feet of lumber. The contract clause stated that 50% of the production had to be logged by outside contractors. Empire Mills formed a Lumber Division so that a mill could be built as stipulated in the tree farm license. In 1961, Empire Logging produced 41,500 units of lumber (1 unit = 100 cubic feet). Empire Mills Co. was bought by Canadian Colleries Resources Ltd. in 1962 and they obtained control of the tree farm license #38 area. They had the conditions of the license changed to building a hemlock sawmill instead of a plywood plant. This change was due to the overproduction of plywood and the resulting slower market. Howe Sound Timber was a logging contractor for Empire Mills Ltd.