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Elk River Timber Co. log dump

Unloading logs at the ERT log dump in the Campbell River Estuary.

Falling near Woss with two-man chainsaw

Gordon Flowerdew is the man on the right, and the man on the left is the head faller who ran the saw.

Paper leaving the Elk Falls Mill

Paper rolls being loaded onto a ship for transport; the ship is the 'Trolleggen Oslo'.

Hammond Logging Co. in Granite Bay, Quadra Island

Bert Hammond, Art Stenfors, and Emil Luoma (left to right) with one of the first gas donkeys that showed up in the area.

Constructing the Elk Falls Mill

Hasting Co. Camp D on Trout Lake

View of Hasting Co. float camp on Trout Lake. The foreman of this camp was John Morgan. Trout Lake is now known as Amor Lake.

Merrill, Ring and Wilson locomotive near Duncan Bay

Hasting Co. crew at Rock Bay operations

Hasting co. crew at Rock Bay id from back of photograph " front right August Schnarr, brother-in-law Albert"

Bendickson Logging's rigging crew

The rigging crew relaxing on a pile of cedar logs. Top row, left to right: Carl Carlson, Carl Aurdahl, Oscar Lind, Julius Sampson; middle row: Harry Brett, Gotfred Sundberg, and Aaron Ericson (high rigger and foreman) at bottom.

International Timber Co. Camp 4 near Campbell River

Notice the bunkhouses on the rail cars - the camp was being organized at this point. Man in foreground was a high rigger. The foreman's building is on the left. At this time families lived one half of the bunk houses.

Aerial view of Raven Lumber operations

View of the Raven Lumber sawmill operations at the mouth of the Campbell river. Note the Campbell River and bridge in the top left corner and Ocean Cedar Products on the right.

MacMillan Bloedel Camp 4

View of rail line and camp.

A MacMillan Bloedel logging truck

Driver Ben Falk at the Menzie's Bay log dump.

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8 at Echo Lake

Building the locomotive round house during the construction of E.R.T. Camp 8. Mitch Hiriart is working with a drag saw to cut firewood.

Quadra Island logging operation

(Bert) Hammond Logging - Granite Bay

Reforestation camp 31

A reforestation camp in the Salmon River area (across high level bridge). White building on the right was the office.

Carvings made by saw filer Oscar Hillgren

Elk River Timber Co. sawfiler Oscar Hillgren was known for his unique carvings.

Hastings Co. Camp C at Hemming Bay

Tightlining logs into the water at the Hasting Co. Camp C operations at Hemming Bay.

Aerial View of Elk Falls Mill

Baikie Bros. Logging at Upper Campell Lake

Bucyrus Erie 30-B heel boom loader being used at the Upper Campbell Lake prior to the lake level was raised for the hydro development project.

Steam donkey operations near Dent Island

Percy Belson's steam donkey operations near Dent Island.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

The loading set up.

Jerry Merrill, Norm Tipper, and Wallace Baikie

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Unloading roles of paper manufactured at the paper mill for shipping.

Entrance to Elk Falls Mill 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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