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Preparing a spar tree

David Aitken topping a spar tree.

Elk Falls Mill operations, Campbell River

Removing bark by water pressure.

Tree planters' camp at Beavertail Lake

Elk Falls Mill paper machine #2

At the winder threading the sheet on the core.

Elk Falls Mill First Aid training

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 5 at Brewster Lake

Setting up Camp 5. Russ Wilson's house is being unloaded on the Point and Bonar's house is on the car.

Elk River Timber Co. camp

Andy Audet with truck.

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8

Looking southeast from camp gate.

Logging truck being loaded at Fulmore Lake, Port Neville

A hayrack boom loading a logging truck at a logging operation at Fulmore Lake, Port Neville.

Powell River Logging Co.

Locomotive and trestle, Kingcome Inlet.

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.

Coal Creek Logging Ltd. camp, Granite Bay

Coal Creek Logging Ltd. was owned and operated by Les and Agnes Bestwick. In 1944 they moved their truck logging operations to Granite Bay and logged in that area until 1955/56. They sold their logging operation to the Baikie Brothers of Campbell River.

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Loading rolls of paper manufactured at the Elk Falls Mill at Duncan Bay onto a freighter.

Elk Falls Mill Campbell River

Installing the head box at No. 2 paper machine, Elk Falls Mill

MacMillan Bloedel beach camp Menzies's Bay

Baikie Bros. Logging at Upper Campell Lake

Baikie Bros. Logging Co. log dump.

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Mill carpenters replacing the roof on the top of a paper barge at low tide.

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 5 at Brewster Lake

Campbell River Logger Sports

Reforestation camp 31

The cook, Clyde Hastings, on the right preparing a deer which the crew shot on their off time. The cookhouse pictured in the back ground.

Fire at Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

The Campbell River Fire Department works to put out the blaze at the Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill, which was owned and operated by the Baikie family of Campbell River, and was located in the Campbell River estuary area. The Beecher Lake Lumber Co. milled the wood that was logged by Baikie Bros...

Canadian Forest Products locomotive

Locomotive 113 near Woss camp.

Canadian Forest Products near Woss camp

Rebuilding the bridge to Woss camp using a spar tree and steam donkey.

Expansion at the Elk Falls Mill, 1960's

Construction of No. 2 Recovery on left beside No. 1 Recovery, 1960's.

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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Preparing a spar tree

Elk Falls Mill operations, Campbell River

Tree planters' camp at Beavertail Lake

Elk Falls Mill paper machine #2

Elk Falls Mill First Aid training

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 5 at Brewster Lake

Elk River Timber Co. camp

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8

Logging truck being loaded at Fulmore Lake, Port Neville

Powell River Logging Co.

Reforestation at Knox Bay on Thurlow Island

Coal Creek Logging Ltd. camp, Granite Bay

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Elk Falls Mill Campbell River

Installing the head box at No. 2 paper machine, Elk Falls Mill

MacMillan Bloedel beach camp Menzies's Bay

Baikie Bros. Logging at Upper Campell Lake

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 5 at Brewster Lake

Campbell River Logger Sports

Reforestation camp 31

Fire at Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

Canadian Forest Products locomotive

Canadian Forest Products near Woss camp

Expansion at the Elk Falls Mill, 1960's

Logger Sports

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Menzies Bay

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