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Aerial View of Elk Falls Mill

Pioneer Timber Co. logging trucks

Tom Townley standing by his truck near the camp at Port McNeill. Note the wooden planked roads.

Hastings Co. Camp C at Hemming Bay

Tightlining logs into the water at the Hasting Co. Camp C operations at Hemming Bay.

Yarder at MacMillan Bloedel operations

Married quarters at Camp 5, Brewster Lake

Pioneer Timber Co. in Port McNeill

View of the logging camp buildings at Pioneer Timber Co. at their operations at Port McNeill.

Logger at Elk River Timber Co. camp

Sparky Hughes holding a baby.

Thompson family floathouse at Elk Bay

Dick and Wilena Thompson's floathouse at Elk Bay logging operations. The two girls are daughter so girls are Louise and Frances?

View of Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8 at Echo Lake

Large building is the locomotive roundhouse.

Clark and Lyford logging float camp at Booker Lagoon

Wood and English Camp 9

Rail cars loaded down with timber at Wood and English operations in the Nimpkish area.

Ernie Alexander competing in a loggers sports event

Logger sport competitor Ernie Alexander climbing a tree in Mohan Park, Vancouver. He was the Pacific Northwest tree climbing champion at this time, and would become the world champion later that same year.

Byles and Groves logging

A logging truck on a wooden fore-an aft road at Port Neville.

Powell River Logging Co.

Rail car at Kingcome Inlet.

Powell River Co. in Kingcome Inlet

Shower stalls at the Powell River Co. logging camp at Kingcome Inlet.

Canadian Forest Products locomotive

Locomotive 113 near Woss camp.

Steam donkey cold decking logs near Port Neville

The steam donkey is an 11 x 17 Washington.

Booming ground and log chute Call Inlet

View of the booming grounds at Call Inlet. Note the two steam donkeys at the top of the log chute.

High lead spar tree near Menzie's Bay

High lead spar tree, near Bloedel, Stewart and Welch camp, in their British Columbia operations 70 miles north of Vancouver. Spar tree 160 feet high.

S and S Trucking fleet

S and S Trucking had a contract hauling timber for Iron River Logging Company in Oyster Bay. S and S stood for Schnare and Schnare - a father and son business which also hauled for the Elk River Timber Company.

A large fir with an undercut near Woss Camp

International Timber Co. camp near Campbell River

Loading logs at I.T. operations with a steam donkey and spar tree.

The B.C. Forest Service launch 'BC Forester'

This launch was used for all transportation purposes on the Thurlow Island reforestation project - pictured here heading out of Knox Bay with a scow in tow.

Elk River Timber Co. booming grounds

Ernie Lilburn with a drill and John Perkins at the ERT booming grounds in the Campbell River estuary.

Elk River Timber Co. log dump

Unloading logs at the ERT log dump in the Campbell River Estuary.

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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