1877  (1956)  This British Columbia wood is known in Australia, New Zealand, and Great Britain as "Oregon Pine" though Oregon does not export it to these markets.
1932  The Great Douglas fir is a "spruce" which is named "false hemlock" by the scientists, who give it a Greek prefix "pseudo", meaning false, followed by a Japanese term, "Tsuga", meaning hemlock. This is to describe a "spruce" or "fir" which the lumbermen persist in calling "Oregon Pine"!
1958  Among [the Douglas Fir's] early aliases in the common-name category were Oregon Pine . . . Yellow Fir, and even Spruce Fir.