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...His father Jack worked as a ship’s carpenter during the glory days of shipbuilding, while his mother Georgina helped pay the bills as a book-keeper....
...Beginning in the sixteenth century, the boom in the need for wood—used for shipbuilding and construction but, most important, for domestic heating— led to the integration of Norway and Sweden, and then North...
...Docks, mills, salmon canneries and shipbuilding yards quickly assembled themselves along the waterfront, forming a basic infrastructure that shaped Seattle’s development for more than a hundred years....
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