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Elk River Timber Co. booming grounds

Photograph appeared in the June 16, 1976 issue of the C.R. Upper Islander newspaper with following caption: Robbie Grant at the controls of a dozer boat.

Elk River Timber Co. logging camp

Elk River Timber co. crew

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8 at Echo Lake

View of camp looking northeast towards Campbell River from Camp 8 at Echo Lake. The offices are on the left, a railroad crummie in the centre, the first aid shack, the cookhouse, the dining room, the filing shed, and the bunkhouses also pictured. This camp housed 365 men at a time.

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

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

Logging crew

View of the Oyster Bay Logging Camp

Interior of the 'Kalmor II'

Interior of cabin of launch 'Kalmor II', with B.A. Johnson, Dr. Judson F. Clark, Harold Gardiner and Chas. A. Booth at breakfast while at anchor in Creasy Bay, Acteon Sound, B.C. - adjacent to Surveyed Timber Limit 2921.

Beecher Lake Lumber sawmill operations

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.

Coal Creek Logging camp at 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.

B.C. Forest Service Station in Campbell River

Sayward Logger Sports

Crosscut saw bucking competiton at annual loggers sports competition.

Loading rail cars at Bloedel Camp 5 near Menzie's Bay

Elk River Timber Co. steam donkey

Children from the Elk Bay logging camp

Left to right: Bev Parker, Mervin Stewart, Ron Hughes, Allan Burman, Gordon Stewart, Mel Parker, and Alphild Burman.

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 10

Taken facing southeast from the water tank; showing the oil stores, filing room, and storage shed.

Elk River Timber Co. operations near Campbell River

Locomotive and steam donkey.

Loading logs

Heel boom and a 'cheese block' load. Timber was so big that they didn't need high stakes - three or four logs were loaded with 'cheese blocks' (pyramid shaped blocks) holding the logs in place.

Douglas fir seedlings heeled in at Knox Bay

Saplings were rested in troughs in the dirt to allow their roots exposure to soil and water before they were ready to be taken out in the field and planted.

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Log debarking machine at the wood mill operations at Elk Falls.

Topaze Harbour

View across Topaze Harbour from Surveyed Timber Limit 30343 to J.C. Turner's Limits 3045, 3046, 3048, 3427, 3430, 3431, 3867, 3868, 3869, and Crown Grants 654, 661, 669, 974 and possibly 6818, lying back of Read Bay, with part of Mt. Spencer, 2345 feet high, at left. Launch 'Kalmor II...

Byles and Groves Logging at Call Inlet

Float camp, log booms, and crew in Call Inlet.

Smoke from the Sayward Fire

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

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. near Campbell River

Drilling boom sticks

John Perkins with an electric auger used for drilling boom stick on his shoulder. He is working at the Elk River Timber Co. booming grounds at Campbell River.

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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Elk River Timber Co. booming grounds

Elk River Timber Co. logging camp

Elk River Timber co. crew

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8 at Echo Lake

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Logging crew

View of the Oyster Bay Logging Camp

Interior of the 'Kalmor II'

Beecher Lake Lumber sawmill operations

Coal Creek Logging camp at Granite Bay

B.C. Forest Service Station in Campbell River

Sayward Logger Sports

Loading rail cars at Bloedel Camp 5 near Menzie's Bay

Elk River Timber Co. steam donkey

Children from the Elk Bay logging camp

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 10

Elk River Timber Co. operations near Campbell River

Loading logs

Douglas fir seedlings heeled in at Knox Bay

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Topaze Harbour

Byles and Groves Logging at Call Inlet

Smoke from the Sayward Fire

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. near Campbell River

Drilling boom sticks

Logger Sports

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Menzies Bay

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