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.
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.
Beach front view of the logging camp buildings and wooden fore-an-aft road at Pioneer Timber Co. at their operations at Port McNeill. This was a truck logging operation. Note the wire rip-rap on the road which is meant to provide traction to the hard tired logging trucks.
Campbell River Courier newspaper foreman Bob Lealess (left) and Canadian Forest Products employee Phil Vecqueray viewing the new posters for an upcoming Logger's Sports event at Woss.
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.
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.