Interior of Bunk House in Camp 2 of Clark and Lyford, Ltd. - typical of the better class of British Columbia logging camps. Shows double steel bunks for 40 men, stove, clothing on lines, etc.
A tour group is taken through the paper making process at the Elk Falls Mill at Duncan Bay. View of the controls for the No. 1 paper machine at the mill. Likely shortly after the mill opened.
Crew includes mostly local men from the Campbell River area - Dick Atchison (3rd from left at rear), Barney Foley (4th from left at front), and Al Wilms (far left at rear).
A cold decker donkey engine with a brand new sled. It has just been loaded onto a bull car and is just about ready to be taken out into the woods, where it will pull itself through the felled and bucked trees to the spar tree for use. This was used at Merrill Ring Wilson Ltd. operations near their...
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.
In the early years a camp was more than just a place for the men to work and sleep, but also a home for their children and families. Larger camps had family housing, schools for the children, and other such amenities.
Logging in the area has not only included Vancouver Island itself, but also some of the smaller islands adjacent to it; including Cortes Island, Read Island, Sonora Island, West Redonda Island (Teakerne Arm), and others.
A variety of companies have logged in the Menzie's Bay area (just north of the city of Campbell River) over the years, including Lamb Lumber Co., Bloedel Stewart & Welch, MacMillan Bloedel, and Campbell River Timber Co.
Dozens of pictures were taken for the 'Lumber World Review' magazine during a June, 1917 timber cruise along coastal BC by Clark and Lyford Ltd., the first forest engineering firm in British Columbia.