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Elk River Timber Co. 5 spot locomotive

The 5 spot at ERT Camp 8 near Echo Lake - note that the locomotive is still marked 'International Timber'.

Elk River Timber Co. caterpillar skidding a log

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.

Hasting Co. locomotive at Rock Bay

The 7 spot loading freight at the store in Rock Bay.

Labour Day Logger Sports at Campbell River

Ladies' log bucking competition.

Loaded logging truck Palmer Bay

Sawmill and log boom at Telegraph Cove

Logger Clifford Parker at Byles and Groves operation

Bloedel Stewart and Welch Ltd. locomotive

Woodsman's cabin at Rock Bay

Paper machines at Elk Falls Mill

Possibly a sheet coming out of the pulp drier.

MacMillan Bloedel beach camp Menzies's Bay

Elk River Timber Co. locomotive fuel tanks

Near the dumping grounds at the mouth of the Campbell River.

Elk Falls Mill officials, Campbell River

The Board of Directors: B. Pasero, C.R. Dahl, C.S. Cullenbine, and Junius Sapp, the mill superintendent.

Crew at Campbell River Nursery

Aftermath of 1925 Quadra Island forest fire

After the Quadra Island fire.

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.

Sayward Logger Sports

Brian Herlihy competing in the axe chopping event.

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

A view of the lumber yard at the Elk Falls Sawmill, Duncan Bay.

International Timber Co. locomotive near Campbell River

James Payne, who worked as a brakeman at the camp, is seated on the locomotive near the front.

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.

International Timber Co. camp near Campbell River

I.T. locomotive near Campbell River.

Log boom and the shack at Nimpkish Lake

Buster on the log boom (likely Buster Lansdowne). 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.

Hastings Co. in Granite Bay

A Hastings outfit steam donkey in Granite Bay, Quadra Island. (Left to right): John Sandstrom, Emil Luoma, "Walleen", Charlie Hodall, ???, and Freddie Walker.

Campbell River Logger Sports

Danny McKenzie, manager at the Elk River Timber company, participating in logger sports cable splicing competition held in 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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