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A truck loaded with big timber

Linda Workman standing on the exhaust pipe of a loaded logging truck.

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.

An early White logging truck in Loughborough Inlet

Loading a White logging truck with a McLean Boom at Beaver Creek in Loughborough Inlet.

Rock Bay

William Carmichael.

Brown and Kirkland logging crew and their families

The logging crew of Brown and Kirkland at Elk Bay, with their families. Annie (Stenfors) Sproule, a flunkey at camp, sitting on the end of a log at front centre; "step-and-a-half" Phelps (Jack), the foreman, sitting at the bottom on the far right; and Charles "Dutchie" Neuberg...

International Timber Co. operations near Campbell River

A steam donkey and spar tree in operation.

Kokish Logger Sports Days

Bloedel, Stewart & Welch loggers with their families at Camp 5

Bloedel, Stewart & Welch crew and family members from Camp 5, Brewster Lake. Front row (left to right): Ely Van Humbeck and Granddaughter, Danny MacDonald, Harry Parker, Eddie MacDonald, John Kusha, and Walter Antifave. Middle row: Dorothy Mattson, unknown, Patricia McKellar, Louise Antifave,...

Elk River Timber Co. camp

A group of ERT loggers taking a break.

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.

Green Timbers Forestry Station in Surrey

Showing a bag of sitka spruce and douglas fir saplings packed and ready for shipment to Knox Bay to be planted. Each species would be packed in bundles of 50 with some earth still attached to the roots to prevent them drying out. This box would have contained about 2000 transplants and would have...

Elk River Timber Co. operations Campbell River

Yarding crew at E.R.T. - setting a turn.

Campbell River Nursery seedling fields

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

Early logging truck on a fore-an-aft road

Morris Carlson (driver) in a hard-wheeled logging truck on a fore-an-aft logging road - part of the Byles and Groves operations at Port Neville.

Merrill and Ring Logging Co.

Merrill and Ring Logging Co. locomotives and crew at Duncan Bay. Locomotive at back is a Shay engine and in front is a locomotive used as a "crummy" for the woods crew. Crew indentification includes: Third on right, Bill ??, and fifth on right Gus Clements.

View of wharf at Rock Bay

The tugboat 'Active' tided up at end of Rock Bay wharf.

Aftermath of the Sayward Fire

Burned out bunks from a logging camp (or Forbes Landing?) likely T.J. Brown Co. who were logging the Quinsam Lake area.

Log dump at P.B. Anderson's Camp at Knox Bay, Thurlow Island

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Working on the paper machine at the mill. View of the No. 1 paper machine reel. Man on right is possibly Garry Heslop.

Loggers with a steam donkey in Phillips Arm

From Right: , Charlie Gustafson (70 yrs. Old), Elmer Ellingsen, and J. Stark beside a steam donkey in the Phillips Arm area.

Elk Falls Mill paper machine #2

At the winder threading the sheet on the core.

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.

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8

Looking southeast from the centre of camp.

Early logging trucks at Palmer Bay

Bendickson Logging camp being moved

Moving the Bendickson Logging float camp from Wellbore to Port Neville. Cliff tug "Queen" towing and Wilmot Cliff was the captain.

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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