CanWel Commodity Trader Celebrates 50 Years

Harry Hallett, CanWel Commodity Trader for Eastern Newfoundland, recently celebrated his 50th Work Anniversary…that’s is correct 50 year Work Anniversary!!

On October 22, 1969, Harry started at the Canfor St. John’s NL window and door plant. Pierre Elliott Trudeau was in his 1st term as Prime Minister, #1 song was “I Heard it thru the Grapevine”, how appropriate, as Harry has made an indelible mark as a Trader and a Seller!!!

After a couple of years Harry moved to the warehouse, offloading rail cars. Harry recalls offloading a rail car full of cedar mouldings and standing back as you opened the railcar door due to the shifting. At the time Canfor stocked Marine Grade plywood which all had to be hand bombed and stacked into racks.

After several years Harry migrated to the sales counter, and it wasn’t long before he was making calls to Accounts. As Harry says, “you sold everything then”. There was no specific trader of lumber until years later. To this day, Harry still makes outside calls and walks dealer’s yards selling whatever he can of the products CanWel offers. Back when Harry made the annual pilgrimage to the ABSDA Show Harry was known as the man with the “least amount of sleep”, but would be the first one back in the booth in the morning.