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Bendickson Logging operations on Hardwicke Island

Bill Edman and Oscar Sunbeck with high grade cedar.

Campbell River Logger Sports

Log rolling event at logger sports, Campbell River. Event was held at Lane Field and sponsored by the Kinsman Club.

International Timber locomotive near Campbell River

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. Campbell River

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.

Inside the cookhouse at Bendickson Logging camp

Doorway leading into the dining room.

International Timber Co. 4 spot locomotive near Campbell River

On left Tony Carmichael and Pete Malphante. Both were brakemen on the 4 spot which hauled loads from the International Timber camp to the beach.

Pioneer Timber Co. camp

Panorama view of the camp at Port McNeill.

P.B. Anderson at Knox Bay

P.B. Anderson beside a stand of timber. P. B. Anderson operated early logging camps in the Knox Bay area.

Bendickson Logging crew at Hardwicke Island

The camp crew by the bunkhouse with bottles of 2.5% 'near-beer' in front. Every week when the Union Steamship S.S. Cassiar stopped at Kelsey Bay the crew would get 4 barrels of near-beer bottles packed in straw and one barrel of apple cider to have in the commissary. This was during...

Building Canadian Forest Products trestle

Dot Logging Co. at Knight Inlet

Moving the steam donkey to a new setting at Lull Bay in Knight Inlet. Dot Logging Co. was owned by Clarence and Doug Boardman. This steam donkey (a 10 X12) was restored by the Museum at Campbell River and is now on display out front.

Canadian Forest Products Locomotive in the Nimpkish Valley

Loggers on a large fir log on its way to the log dump

View of breakwater at Oyster Bay

Clay Anderson at Knox Bay

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.

Sayward Logger Sports

Ron Sprout competing in the axe throw.

Roderick Haig-Brown's shack

Moving the shack to a new location. This photograph was likely taken when Roderick Haig-Brown, along with Ed and Buster Lansdowne spent the summer beachcombing logs from the Nimpkish Lake. The logs that they collected had escaped when being floated to the railhead. Either Ed or Buster can be...

Englewood Safety Council - Nimpkish Community Hall

International Timber's 4 spot locomotive near Campbell River

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8

Looking west from the centre of camp.

Merrill, Ring and Wilson loggers at Duncan Bay

Standing on far right is Marshall Freek..

Fighting the Sayward Forest Fire

Baikie Bros. Logging at Upper Campell Lake

Don Parkin at Upper Campbell Lake before the water level was raised for the hydro development project.

Powell River Co. in Kingcome Inlet

Locomotive in front of bunkhouses at the Powell River Co. operations at Kingcome Inlet.

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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