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View of logging camp from the water

Panorama of the log booms and the camp of the Booth Logging Company, of Vancouver, BC., at Menzies Bay, on Vancouver Island, near the south entrance of Seymour Narrows. View shows approximately 1,500,000 feet of Fir, Cedar and Hemlock logs in standing boom. The land on which this timber was cut is...

Schunaminor Camp in Blind Channel

Steam donkey and cat at work.

Elk Falls Mill paper machine #2

Controls at the No. 2 paper machine, Elk Falls Mill.

A converted steam donkey

Two men standing on a steam unit that has been converted for deisel use (consisting of a loading pot and yarder combined).

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

Beecher Lake Lumber Co., which was owned and operated by the Baikie family of Campbell River, was located in the Campbell River estuary area. The Beecher Lake Lumber Co. milled the wood that was logged by Baikie Bros. Logging.

Heli-logging

The dawn of heli-logging, and the much later invention of standing-stem logging, helped to revolutionize coastal logging into the industry it is today.

The first aid building at Bendickson Logging camp

Von Donop Creek, Cortes Island`

Clarence Byers, a truck driver, with a load of big timber.

Brown and Kirkland operations at Elk Bay

Mr. Jack 'step-and-a-half' Phelps, who was the foreman of Brown and Kirkland's operations at Elk Bay with his family.

A rock cut near Rock Bay

Hastings co. operations near Rock Bay, a view of the railline running along Bear Lake.

Logging crew near Green Point Rapids

Man in centre is Kenneth Houghton-Brown.

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch's #29 locomotive in Menzie's Bay

Bendickson Logging crew at their operations at Jervis Inlet

Bendickson Logging ground lead yarding crew. Left to right: Vic Matson (hooker), Smoland ? (chokerman), Happy ? (rigging slinger), Bill Edman (chaser), Julius Sampson (sniper), and Arthur Bendickson (signalman).

The Union Steamship Camosun

Union Steamship Camosun tied up at the dock at P.B. Anderson's logging camp at Knox Bay, Thurlow Island. This camp was established in 1917.

Loading rail cars at Bloedel Camp 5 near Menzie's Bay

Steam donkey at Elk Bay

Aerial view of Nimpkish Camp

Crew at Campbell River Nursery

Campbell River Nursery (aka Quinsam Nursery) crew preparing seedlings.

Byles and Groves crew at Port Neville

Elk River Timber Co. crew at camp

ERT crew members, Ray Manning, Shorty LaRock, and one unidentified man.

Constructing the Elk Falls Mill

Woss Lake Loggers' Day

Art Williams, Best All Round Logger and recipient of the Pierre Paris Trophy. He also received 1st place for Power Saw Bucking, 1st place for Log Birling, 2nd place for Eye Splicing, and 3rd place for Obstacle Pole Bucking.

Reforestation at Knox Bay on Thurlow Island

Tree planters making stakes for the base lines near Knox Bay. This area had previously been logged by P.B. Anderson.

Elk Falls Co. boy scout tree farm

Trestle Bridge

The 1100 foot long trestle bridge across the Glory Hole - near MacMillan Bloedel camp 4.

Logger Sports

A long-standing tradition on Vancouver Island - beginning with log sawing competitions around 1910, and being continued now with Campbell River's Annual North Island Logger Sports - the largest logger sport competition in Canada for the last 5 years running.

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