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Ernie Alexander at a tree

Ernie Alexander, champion tree climber, stands atop a tree he topped 24 years previously.

Log booms at Call Inlet

Wood and English Camp 2

Booming grounds at Wood and English's operations in the Nimpkish area.

Cat logging near Dent Island

Percy Belson cat logging operations.

Elk River Timber Co. 5 Spot locomotive derailed

Entrance to Elk Falls Mill Campbell River

International Timber Co. locomotive #4

International Timber Co. Locomotive #4, a Lima Shay, at Camp 5.

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.

View of wharf at Oyster Bay

A logging demonstration in Campbell River

Demonstration of cutting a tree with cross cut saw and spring board which was part of the 1966 Centennial Celebrations held in Campbell River. This event was held in the Tyee Plaza. Ture Krooks on right; Wallace Baikie on left.

MacMillan Bloedel Camp 5 at Menzie's Bay

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. locomotive on Gold Creek Bridge by Woss.

Logger Sports Day parade

A Thulin General Trucking company float.

Clay Anderson at Knox Bay

Elk Falls Mill Campbell River

Powell River Co. in Kingcome Inlet

Steam donkey and crew at the Powell River Co. operations at Kingcome Inlet.

Elk Falls Mill paper making

A tour group is taken through the paper making process at the Elk Falls Mill at Duncan Bay.

Elk River Timber at Gooseneck Lake

Logs were brought to Gooseneck Lake truck and dumped and then were loaded on railcars at this loading area.

Canadian Forest Products locomotive

Locomotive 113 near Woss camp.

Elk River Timber Co. loader at Camp 8

Log loader is being worked at ERT Camp 8 near Echo Lake the camp warehouse is the building in the background.

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8

Looking west from the centre of camp.

Logger Sports event at Port Alberni

Vice President of I.W.A. Local 185 Walter Yates (right) presents Laurence McIvor (left) with the Dayton Shoe challenge trophy in Port Alberni.

Hasting co. camp near Rock Bay

View of tugboat 'Active' tied up at wharf at Rock Bay.

Carvings made by saw filer Oscar Hillgren

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

Elk River Timber Co. booming grounds

Ernie Lilburn with a drill and John Perkins at the ERT booming grounds in the Campbell River estuary.

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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