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Port Neville float camp

Dewey Parker's floathouse, part of a logging camp operations at Port Neville..

Log dump at Englewood operations, Nimpkish

Oyster River shingle mill

Log loading at Elk River Timber Co. operations

Steam donkey used for loading logs onto rail car near ERT Camp 7, Quinsam River.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

A view of loaded railroad cars at Woss.

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill and wood chip burner

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.

Tree planters at work near Campbell River

Photograph possibly taken at Quinsam Flats.

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.

Elk River Timber Co. locomotive near Campbell River

This photograph was taken on the rail lines below Camp 8 - note that it is still marked 'International Timber'. Andy Teck, engineer, among the men in photo.

Pioneer Timber Co. in Port McNeill

Truck repair shop at Pioneer Timber Co. camp at Port McNeill. This was a truck logging operation and according to Ken Drushka this camp mainly used 1920 vintage White logging trucks.

Accident Prevention Committee Meeting at Woss Camp

Back row, standing, left to right: Ted Boucher (First Aid Attendant), Art Newman (F and B Superintendent), Dunc Forbes (Woss Camp Superintendent), Viv Hunter (Personnel and Safety), Stan Lowe (Chairman, Woss IWA), and Patrick Shannon (Construction Foreman). Front row, seated, left to right: Cecil...

Bendickson Logging operations on Hardwicke Island

Bill Edman and Oscar Sunbeck with high grade cedar.

P.B. Anderson's abandoned Knox Bay headquarters

P.B. Anderson's old logging camp at Knox Bay was later used by forestry crews working to plant trees in the area.

Wood chip burner at Beecher Lake Lumber Co.

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.

T.J. Brown Logging Co. near Campbell River

Hayrake and spar tree in operation. This was the first time T.J. Brown Co. used this set up and the operator had rigged the hayrake too high.

Campbell River Logger Sports

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.

Dot Logging Co. at Knight Inlet

Dot Logging Co. (owned by Clarence and Doug Boardman) operations in Lull Bay, Knight Inlet. This steam donkey (a 10 X12) was restored by the Museum at Campbell River and is now on display out front.

Elk River Timber Co. operations

An area near Campbell River that was logged by the Elk River Timber Co.

School class photo at Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 6

Janet Bodie, Jim Lythgae, Neil Robertson, Dorothy Eden, Bruce Clements, Freddy Busha, Sheila Warner, Carol Matthews, Kenny Kennedy, Doug Smith, Marie Detwila, and Berye Busha.

The first Bull of the Woods Day, Campbell River

Elimination round of the Underhand Chop (the man pictured here won the round).

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Role of paper manufactured at the Elk Falls Mill being loaded on a freighter.

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

View of the No. 1 bleach plant.

Shay locomotive near Menzie's Bay

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

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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Port Neville float camp

Log dump at Englewood operations, Nimpkish

Oyster River shingle mill

Log loading at Elk River Timber Co. operations

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill and wood chip burner

Tree planters at work near Campbell River

High lead spar tree near Menzie's Bay

Elk River Timber Co. locomotive near Campbell River

Pioneer Timber Co. in Port McNeill

Accident Prevention Committee Meeting at Woss Camp

Bendickson Logging operations on Hardwicke Island

P.B. Anderson's abandoned Knox Bay headquarters

Wood chip burner at Beecher Lake Lumber Co.

T.J. Brown Logging Co. near Campbell River

Campbell River Logger Sports

Interior of the 'Kalmor II'

Dot Logging Co. at Knight Inlet

Elk River Timber Co. operations

School class photo at Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 6

The first Bull of the Woods Day, Campbell River

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Shay locomotive near Menzie's Bay

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