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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.

Reforestation camp 31

A reforestation camp in the Salmon River area (across high level bridge)

Elk Falls Mill First Aid training

Jerry Merrill, Norm Tipper, and Wallace Baikie

Early White logging truck, Port Neville area

Logging truck driver Ed Magnall behind the wheel of an early White logging truck on a fore-an-aft road. Part of Byles and Groves operations at Port Neville.

Labour Day Logger Sports at Campbell River

High rigger participating in tree climbing competition.

Bloedel, Stewart & Welch loggers with their families at Camp 5

Bloedel, Stewart & Welch crew and family members from Camp 5, Brewster Lake. Front row (left to right): Ely Van Humbeck and Granddaughter, Danny MacDonald, Harry Parker, Eddie MacDonald, John Kusha, and Walter Antifave. Middle row: Dorothy Mattson, unknown, Patricia McKellar, Louise Antifave,...

A stand of timber on Redonda Island

Stand of Fir and Hemlock timber on Surveyed Timber Limit 743, Redonda Island, 100 miles northwest of Vancouver, BC, about 10 chains south from northwest corner, at elevation of 250 feet. Medium sized timber standing on good logging ground. The timber on this limit is of medium size, 85.3% Fir, 13....

Loggers in the city

One of the men in photo is Mel Parker.

Percy Belson's float camp near Dent Island

Percy Belson's logging operations near Dent Island. Float camp with a view of a A-frame in the background which was presumably used in his logging operations.

Canadian Forest Products operations near Woss

Double ended lowbed moving equipment

Reforestation at Knox Bay on Thurlow Island

A fifteen-man tree planting crew at work in the area immediately north of Lot 14, Knox Bay. The large number of stumps, downed timber and ground cover shown was not uncommon, and made tree planting difficult work. This area had previously been logged by P.B. Anderson.

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.

Sawmill and log boom at Telegraph Cove

Ellingsen's camp

Ellingson's logging camp at the mouth of the river in Phillip's Arm.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

An aerial view of the camp.

Clay Anderson at Knox Bay

Loaded logging truck

Elk River Timber Co. truck (ridged frame Kenworth - model 849RF) and timber.

Woss Logger Sports Days

Tree climbing competition at logger sports event.

Aftermath of 1925 Quadra Island forest fire

After the Quadra Island fire.

The first Bull of the Woods Day, Campbell River

Alan Boyko participates in the elimination round of the Standing Block Chop.

View of Elk Falls Co. sawmill yard near Campbell River

Iron River Logging behind Oyster Bay

Logs being loaded into a truck by spar tree - head loader Grantly Hinch working under the boom.

Felling a tree with an axe and a cross cut saw

Two fallers standing on springboards inserted into the base of a fir after chopping a wedge into it. Albert Sehlen on right.

Nimpkish Timber Co. operations at Camp 8

The log dump.

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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