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Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Examining lumber at the sawmill side of the Elk Falls Mill.

Building timber road for truck logging operation

Powell River Logging Co.

Camp 1, Kingcome Inlet.

Group of loggers at Elk River Timber Co. camp

Eno Saarikko, Bill McGimpsey and two unidentified men standing in a doorway.

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8

A 1.5 story bungalow with frame construction, cedar shingle roof, board and batten exterior, and a wallboard felt and paper interior.

Loaded Hayes logging truck

Bundling trees at the Campbell River Nursery

The Campbell River Nursery, which later became known as the Quinsam Nursery was established in 1939.

Parker family float house

Elk River Timber Co. steam donkey

International Timber Co. operations near Campbell River

A spar tree and a steam donkey.

Pioneer Timber Co. in Port McNeill

View of the logging camp buildings at Pioneer Timber Co. at their operations at Port McNeill. Note the wooden road this was a truck logging operation and the trucks drove on these wooden plank roads.

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.

Unloading transplants and supplies at Knox Bay

Supplies and saplings being offloaded on the beach at Knox Bay in preparation for planting.

Wood and Armitage logging camp

A Wood and Armitage camp at Refuge Cove on West Redonda Island.

Elk River Timber Co. operations near Campbell River

Locomotive and steam donkey.

The Union Steamship 'Chelosin' at Rock Bay

The 'Kalmor II'

Log boom and launch 'Kalmor II' viewed from the landing on Surveyed Timber Limit 2001, looking towards Camp 2 across the southwest arm of Booker Lagoon, Broughton Island, B.C.

Early Construction of the Elk Falls Mill

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8 at Echo Lake

The big gas speeder on the rail lines moving the ERT bunkhouse into Camp 8 from Camp 7.

Elk Bay Timber Co. locomotive and crew

Elk Bay Timber Co.'s 1spot locomotive on the rail line at their operations at Elk Bay.

Englewood Safety Council - Nimpkish Community Hall

Smoke from the Sayward Fire

A view from the Campbell River Estuary of the smoke during the Sayward Fire of 1938.

An Elk River Timber Co. Mack truck

One of five Mack trucks in the ERT's fleet - near Campbell River.

Campbell River Logger Sports

Reel of paper Elk Falls Mill

Reel of paper being positioned for the No. 2 winder.

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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