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Logging truck being loaded at Fulmore Lake, Port Neville

A hayrack boom loading a logging truck at a logging operation at Fulmore Lake, Port Neville.

Quadra Island

Railroad tracks at a logging dump on Quadra Island. This photograph was likely taken in the Granite Bay area.

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

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.

Using a cross cut saw

Gordon Flowerdew is the man on the left.

View of the Oyster Bay logging camp

Hasting Co. locomotive at Rock Bay

The 7 spot loading freight at the store in Rock Bay.

Powell River Logging Co.

Locomotive and trestle, Kingcome Inlet.

Log booms at Call Inlet

Fire at Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

The Campbell River Fire Department works to put out the blaze at the Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill, 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...

Byles and Groves logging

Loading the truck at Port Neville.

Elk Falls Mill Campbell River

Steam donkey near Menzie's Bay

Willamette 12x14 high speed Duplex yarder and loader, known at the Bloedel, Stewart and Welch operation as the Riley Combination Yarder and Loader. 65-ton Shay locomotive in background.

Early Logger Sports

Loggers, Mike Andrews and George Hulbert, champion splicers from Bloedel, Stewart and Welch operations Menzie's Bay, splicing competitively at an Olympia, WA at a loggers's sports held there.

A Canadian Forest Products locomotive

Pioneer Timber Co. in Port McNeill

Power house at the Pioneer Timber Co. camp at Port McNeill.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

Cat logging.

Logger Sports Day in Campbell River

The log birling event.

Students at Gildersleeve logging camp

G.H. 'Doc' Gildersleeve operated a small logging camp at various locations. According to Ken Drushka's book, Working in the Woods he established the first truck logging camps on the mid-coast. This photograph taken when the camp was located at King Island.

View of Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8 at Echo Lake

Large building is the locomotive roundhouse.

The Sayward Forest Fire

Merrill, Ring and Wilson locomotive near Duncan Bay

Elk Falls Mill operations, Campbell River

Mill Assistant Manager Jim Christensen discussing the de-barking process with Ted Baron.

Elk River Timber Co. locomotive at Camp 9

A Shay engine at ERT Camp 9, by Nicki Creek at the south end of Upper Campbell Lake.

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch operations

Bloedel Stewart and Welch logging in Menzies Bay with the 2-speed Willamette Unit.

Softball team from Elk Falls Mill, 1961

Elk Falls Mill softball team possibly the Pipe Shop team.

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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