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Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

The rail yard.

Fighting the Sayward Forest Fire

Bendickson Logging crew and families at Jervis Inlet

Part of the camp crew at Bendickson Logging operations at Patrick Point, Jervis Inlet.

Canadian Forest Products locomotive

Pioneer Timber Co. logging truck

Leon Proteau in the truck at their logging operations at Port McNeill.

Loading a log at Bloedel Stewart & Welch Camp 4

Bendickson Logging's first high rigger

The first high rigger for Bendickson Logging on Hardwicke Island. His last name was Dempsey.

Beecher Lake Lumber sawmill operations

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.

Wilson and Brady log dump in Drew Harbour

Wilson and Brady operations on Quadra Island at what appears to be their log dump at Drew Harbour. The locomotive is a wood-burning Climax model.

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch's 6 spot locomotive in Menzie's Bay

Locomotive #6 was a 2662 saddle tank side rod.

Fallers at work

Entrance to Elk Falls Mill Campbell River

Stacker on front end loader

Bendickson Logging operations at Jervis Inlet

Hand loggers hamming it up at Patrick Point in Jervis Inlet.

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.

Aerial View of Elk Falls Mill

View of the mill in 1966 which was the year that the mill became a four machine operation with the addition of No. 3 pulp dryer and No. 4 specialty machine.

Loaded logging truck

Elk River Timber Co. truck and timber.

Elk River Timber Co. 5 Spot locomotive derailed

Wood & English locomotive off of the tracks at Camp 8

Powell River Logging Co.

Camp 1, Kingcome Inlet.

Using a cross cut saw

Gordon Flowerdew is the man on the left.

T.J. Brown Logging Co. near Campbell River

Jack Higgins in front of the Cookhouse, the car parking shed, and the edge of the filing shack.

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Gold River Sawmill

Left to right: Tahsis Co. guide, Arnold Cameron, John Jackson, guide, Jack Lee, Carl Thulin, Ian Pate, and Ron Bartlett.

Carvings made by saw filer Oscar Hillgren

Elk River Timber Co. sawfiler Oscar Hillgren was known for his unique carvings.

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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