When Mary Murphy and hundreds of other workers finished their final shifts in 2010 at the Eurocan pulp and paper mill in the northwestern B.C. town of Kitimat, it marked a harsh ending to their jobs at the 40-year-old plant. She estimates that more than 200 of the plant's 535 workers moved away from Kitimat within a year of the closing to seek employment in places such as the natural gas fields of northeastern B.C. or northern Alberta's oil sands.