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Logger Sports event at Campbell River

Elk River Timber Co.'s superintendent Danny McKenzie (left) competing in a crosscut saw bucking competition.

Ernie Alexander at a tree

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

Byles and Groves logging

A logging truck on a wooden fore-an aft road at Port Neville.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

An aerial view of the camp.

Clay Anderson at Knox Bay

Campbell River Timber Co. locomotive

Campbell River Timber Co. #2 locomotive on the tracks in front of camp - likely at Camp 1.

Loggers from Powell River Logging Co.

Kingcome Inlet operations.

Woss Lake Loggers' Day

Henry Gauvin, winner of the Molly Hogan Race.

Members of the Joyce family on Quadra Island

From right: Joe, Cecil, Herbert, Arthur, Sam and Alfred Joyce at their logging show on Quadra Island.

The school house at Elk River Timber Camp 8

The schoolhouse at ERT Camp 8 by Echo Lake. The teacher was Frank Gutfriend (from Kelowna) and there were approximately 20 students up to Grade 8. The school teacher's house can be seen in the background.

View of Woss Camp

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Inside the TMP (Thermomechanical Pulp) at Elk Falls.

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 10

Looking east, washrooms on the left.

Logging at Loughborough Inlet

A loaded White truck and trailer at Beaver Creek, Loughborough Inlet.

Clark and Lyford hand fallers near Booker Lagoon

Close view of fallers at work on 6-foot cedar tree, showing undercut, and about 32 feet of the trunk of the tree. Location: Surveyed Timber Limit 8890, Broughton Island, B.C., at an elevation of 120 feet above Booker Lagoon.

Wood and English operations at Nimpkish

Building a trestle bridge in the Nimpkish area.

Merrill and Ring Logging Co.

Merrill and Ring Logging Co. camp at Duncan Bay. Note that the bunkhouses are designed to be moved on the railroad.

Falling a tree using a crosscut saw

Oyster River shingle mill

Canadian Forest Products locomotive

Locomotive 113 near Woss camp.

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 4

The railroad crew at Camp 4, Trout Lake.

The Kusha's backyard at Camp 5

Jenny Fossum, Pat Baynon, Margaret Laird, and Gertie Kusha in the Kusha's backyard at Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 5.

Bendickson Logging crew at their operations at Jervis Inlet

Bendickson Logging ground lead yarding crew. Left to right: Vic Matson (hooker), Smoland ? (chokerman), Happy ? (rigging slinger), Bill Edman (chaser), Julius Sampson (sniper), and Arthur Bendickson (signalman).

A Bendickson Logging camp

Bendickson logging camp on Hardwicke Island.

Reforestation camp 31

The cook, Clyde Hastings, on the right preparing a deer which the crew shot on their off time. The cookhouse pictured in the back ground.

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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