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Green Timbers Forestry Station in Surrey

Showing a bag of sitka spruce and douglas fir saplings packed and ready for shipment to Knox Bay to be planted. Each species would be packed in bundles of 50 with some earth still attached to the roots to prevent them drying out. This box would have contained about 2000 transplants and would have...

Campbell River logger sports

Bill Robinson and Jack Baikie competing in a log birling competition

Pioneer Timber Co. logging truck

Leon Proteau in the cab of his truck near Port McNeill.

Heriot Bay on Quadra Island

The seaplane landing in this photograph was engaged in fighting forest fires in BC, and was being brought in with pumps and chemicals for fighting the Quadra Fire.

View of Woss Camp

Meade at Elk Falls Mill sign

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.

Tree planters' camp at Beavertail Lake

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

Cat logging.

Paper machines at Elk Falls Mill

Cat Tractors and Mill Boom on Bull Cars at Woss

Russell Mills (the General Manager at the Englewood division) invented these mill booms. Woss Camp and Camp A used them for years, first as log loaders and then as transfer or reload machines.

The Wilfert home

Frank Wilfert owned Campbell River's first sawmill, on the slough in Campbellton.

International Timber Co. mainline locomotive in the Campbell River area

International Timber Co locomotive #4 with its longest train of logs at the time - 30 loads in total.

View of family homes at Elk Bay

View of family home from left: Malloney's, Hughes', and Thompson's family homes.

Brown and Kirkland operations at Elk Bay

Crew and family members at the Brown and Kirkland Elk Bay camp. Hemmi and Lempi Kilpelainen, Ada Mykannen, her son George, and David Mykannen.

Hastings co. locomotive Rock Bay area

Likely a veiw of a Hastings Co. locomotive with a load of logs in the Rock Bay area.

Bunkhouses at Elk River Timber Camp 6

View of the Campbell River waterfront

Tom Brown's log dump can be seen here.

Loading logs at Kanish Bay on Quadra Island

Elk Falls Mill Campbell River

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.

Dot Logging Co. at Knight Inlet

Moving the steam donkey to a new setting at Lull Bay in Knight Inlet. Dot Logging Co. was owned by Clarence and Doug Boardman. Doug Boardman on the steam donkey (on left). This steam donkey (a 10 X12) was restored by the Museum at Campbell River and is now on display out front.

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. near Campbell River

An A-frame in the lake in the Port Neville area

Byles and Groves logging operation - picture taken from the loading-out works at their operations at Port Neville.

Elk River Timber co. faller, Oscar Hillgren

Oscar Hillgren was an Elk River Timber Co. hand faller and saw filer, who was also well known for his innovative carvings and sculptures.

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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