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

Fallers at work

Log loading at Elk River Timber Co.

A-frame used to load logs onto the rail cars, likely at their logging operations on Campbell Lake.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

A cold deck pile.

Fire at Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

The Campbell River Fire Department works to put out the blaze at the Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill, which was owned and operated by the Baikie family of Campbell River, and was located in the Campbell River estuary area. The Beecher Lake Lumber Co. milled the wood that was logged by Baikie Bros...

Steam donkey near Menzie's Bay

Willamette 12x14 high speed Duplex yarder and loader, known at the Bloedel, Stewart and Welch operation as the Riley Combination Yarder and Loader. 65-ton Shay locomotive in background.

Working the log booms at Nimpkish Lake

Boom of logs being towed by the 'Kathleen'. 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.

Loggers putting the undercut in a tree before falling

Bendickson Logging operations on Hardwicke Island

Tom Johnson (wood bucker) and John Nicholson (foreman).

Grapple Crane at Elk Falls Mill

The grapple crane lifts log bundles from the mill's booming grounds onto the woodmill log deck.

Bendickson Logging in Jervis Inlet

The handfalling crew: Chris Knutson (head faller) and Fritchof Luke (second faller) above and Gus Pederson (bucker) below.

Tree climbing at logger sports competition

Laurence McIvor scrambling up a 75 foot douglas fir - total time 25.4 seconds.

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8

Looking southeast from camp gate.

The Kusha's backyard at Camp 5

Jenny Fossum, Pat Baynon, Margaret Laird, and Gertie Kusha in the Kusha's backyard at Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 5.

Eric Madsen and Ted Whiting

Ted Whiting was involved with the resforestation of the Sayward Forest in the years followin the Sayward Fire of 1938.

A group of loggers at Gowland Harbour on Quadra Island

Loggers: Thomas Hall (far left), Henry Neil, Charlie Hall, Arthur Neil, Phil H., Willard Hall, Pete B., Joe Sylva, Bill Saunders, Jack Howell, Frank Gagne, and Harry Gagne.

Wooden skid road and spar tree

Elk River Timber Co. camp

Andy Audet with truck.

Aftermath of Sayward Fire

Beavertail Lake on the Elk River Camp 8 road after the fire.

Logger Sports

Ernie Alexander preparing to climb a tree.

Booming grounds at Oyster Bay

Vic Hampson, the boom foreman, riding a bundle. Iron River Logging experimented with bundled logs for MacMillan Bloedel at this time. It was so successful that it was adapted by other M and B divisions. The strapping was put around the load while it was on the truck, then the bundle was lifted off...

Elk River Timber Co. crew at camp

Making a logger pyramid - Ray Manning and Charlie Rogers among the men pictured. This photograph may have been taken at ERT's camp 8, Echo Lake.

Spar tree loading a railcar at International Timber Co. operations near Campbell River

Information from back of photograph: This spar tree was one of two used in this operation. Note the mainline (a cable of perhaps 2 1/4 inches) and the carriage for transporting logs from one spar tree to the other (about 2000 feet away). The carriage would be moved by a donkey engine from tree to...

Campbell River Logger Sports

Choker setting competition at logger sports event. Alan Woodrow on right and Danny McKenzie, manager at the Elk River Timber Co., on left.

Elk River Timber Camp 8 at Echo Lake

View of the remaining camp buildings, offices and wharehouses etc. Photograph taken at the intersection of the camp and the Gold River Highway.

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 Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Fallers at work

Log loading at Elk River Timber Co.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

Fire at Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

Steam donkey near Menzie's Bay

Working the log booms at Nimpkish Lake

Loggers putting the undercut in a tree before falling

Bendickson Logging operations on Hardwicke Island

Grapple Crane at Elk Falls Mill

Bendickson Logging in Jervis Inlet

Tree climbing at logger sports competition

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8

The Kusha's backyard at Camp 5

Eric Madsen and Ted Whiting

A group of loggers at Gowland Harbour on Quadra Island

Wooden skid road and spar tree

Elk River Timber Co. camp

Aftermath of Sayward Fire

Logger Sports

Booming grounds at Oyster Bay

Elk River Timber Co. crew at camp

Spar tree loading a railcar at International Timber Co. operations near Campbell River

Campbell River Logger Sports

Elk River Timber Camp 8 at Echo Lake

Logger Sports

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