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The women's log rolling competition (Myrtle Baikie is one of the women).

The camp boat used by Bendickson Logging

Raven Lumber operations

A big load is lifted off the truck and piled for sawing. Clamps just barely made it around the butt of this log.

Elk River Timber Co. camp crew members

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 5 at Brewster Lake

View of the Point and the houses on the hill at Camp 5. The bunkhouses for the single men are in the foreground and the married living quarters are across the lake.

Elk Falls Mill paper machine #2

Controls at the No. 2 paper machine, Elk Falls Mill.

Steam donkey and spar tree used by Bendickson Logging

A 10 x 12 Washington yarder (steam donkey) set up with spar tree and ready for yarding logs.

Elk River Timber Co.'s 5 spot locomotive on it's last trip

Elk River Timber Co. operations near Campbell River

Locomotive and steam donkey.

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Spar tree at work loading a railcar in Elk Bay

Building Canadian Forest Products trestle

Brian Christiansen competes at PNE

Joe Zanatta's sawmill at Campbell River

Loading lumber at the Joe Zanatta's sawmill which was located behind the Quinsam Hotel in Campbell River. Mill was operated by his company Quinsam Trucking and in this photo is one of his Hayes Diesel trucks.

Shay locomotive near Menzie's Bay

Engineer Dick Grandy with a Shay Lima Locomotive at Menzie's Bay.

Schunaminor Camp in Blind Channel

Steam donkey and cat at work.

Pioneer Timber Co. in Port McNeill

Pioneer Timber Co. camp buildings at Port McNeill. This was a truck logging operation and a wooden plank road can be seen in the running along the edge of the camp.

Hauling a log with a spar tree in Port Neville

Boom tug at work near Elk Falls Mill

B.C. Forest Service tree planting camp

Forest Service tree planters camp at Loveland Lake (after the Sayward Fire) in the process of moving to Lawson Lake.

Elk Falls Mill officials, Campbell River

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

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.

Logger Sports Day in Campbell River

The tree climbing event.

Wood chip burner at Beecher Lake Lumber Co.

Constructing the wood chip burner at Beecher Lake Lumber Co., 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. Logging.

Elk Falls Mill operations 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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Campbell River Logger Sports

The camp boat used by Bendickson Logging

Raven Lumber operations

Elk River Timber Co. camp crew members

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 5 at Brewster Lake

Elk Falls Mill paper machine #2

Steam donkey and spar tree used by Bendickson Logging

Elk River Timber Co.'s 5 spot locomotive on it's last trip

Elk River Timber Co. operations near Campbell River

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Spar tree at work loading a railcar in Elk Bay

Building Canadian Forest Products trestle

Brian Christiansen competes at PNE

Joe Zanatta's sawmill at Campbell River

Shay locomotive near Menzie's Bay

Schunaminor Camp in Blind Channel

Pioneer Timber Co. in Port McNeill

Hauling a log with a spar tree in Port Neville

Boom tug at work near Elk Falls Mill

B.C. Forest Service tree planting camp

Elk Falls Mill officials, Campbell River

Elk River Timber Co. booming grounds

Logger Sports Day in Campbell River

Wood chip burner at Beecher Lake Lumber Co.

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

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