Thursday, October 25, 2007

Walter J. Riva

1922--Alive?
He's a Coal man from Coal country, Canmore Alberta. (a town and a mine)
Went to WWII as an RCAF fighter. amazing.
Began as a labourer in a coal mine. Wow--ground up--
then went to mining engineering at U of A.
Joined Canmore--moved up and became the Exec VP.

Went to Dennison, then Kaiser, then did Coalmining for Sparwood BC--from 80's on was in BC.
Just the master of Coal, you know.
Became a CEO. Chairman. A lot of other executive titles at BC resources.
Sold Canadian coal around the world--Asian markets.

Did reclamation of Coal-mining \lands in the west, did mechanized mining.

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