CHEMAINUS, BC — The family owned Centurion Lumber in Chemainus has handed over $592,000 to the T’Sou-ke First Nation. President and CEO Jerry Doman, son of Gordie Doman who started Centurion Lumber in 1968, said the payout is the result of a mutual benefit agreement with the T’Sou-ke First Nation. He said for a number of years, Centurion has been supplying tens of thousands of wooden mats, which are used to build roads that equipment is run on, for the Trans Mountain Project in Alberta and B.C. Doman said, as part of the bidding process on which companies received the contracts for the mats, the Trans Mountain Project looked at each company’s employment records with First Nation workers and other protocols to determine their eligibility. Other First Nations will receive payouts from Centurion, but the T’Sou-ke First Nation is receiving the most.