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Inside the cookhouse at Bendickson Logging camp

Doorway leading into the dining room.

Parker and Palmer Logging Co.

Otto Peterson in Palmer Bay.

Bendickson Logging at Jervis Inlet

A 10 x 12 Washington 4 drum tyler steam donkey. Left to right: Lars Lovick (chaser), Tony Johnson (dog up man), Gust Halverson (engineer), Hans Bendickson (owner), and unknown man is the fireman.

Iron River Logging in Oyster Bay

Norm Hammond and Bear - the camp pet.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

An aerial view of the camp.

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8 on Echo Lake

View of the married quarters at ERT Camp 8 (this was located where cross roads were later built).

B.C. Forest Service Crew

B.C. Forest Service fire fighting crew preparing to fight the Sayward Fire. This photograph is likely taken at Forbes Landing.

Meade at Elk Falls Mill sign

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.

Wood chip burner at Beecher Lake Lumber Co.

Constructing the wood chip burner at Beecher Lake Lumber Co., 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. Logging.

A tugboat on Nimpkish Lake - the 'CanFor 6'

Canadian Forest Products locomotive

Locomotive 113 near Woss camp.

Woss Lake Loggers' Day

Brothers Paul and Danny Herrling compete in log birling event.

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.

Campbell River Logger Sports

Chainsaw log cutting event at logger sports, Campbell River. Event was annually held on the Labour Day weekend and sponsored by the Kinsmen's Club.

Constructing the Elk Falls Mill Campbell River

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch operations

A duplex loader with a heel boom.

An Elk River Timber Co. camp

This may be a view of ERT Camp 9 near Campbell Lake.

The first Bull of the Woods Day, Campbell River

The obstacle pole final.

Joe Zanatta of Quinsam Trucking with large log

Joe Zanatta (on left) was the owner of Quinsam Trucking and a sawmill on the Campbell River, he also logged a few tracts of land in the Campbell River area (one along the Quinsam River and another up near Gooseneck Lake).

MacMillan Bloedel Camp 5 at Menzie's Bay

Deep Bay Lake, A-frame and donkey

Small building in the background is Dick

Camp 10 in the Elk Valley alongside logging railline

Reforestation at Knox Bay on Thurlow Island

Tree planters ready to start planting at Knox Bay. Each planter is carrying a pack containing approximately 600 seedlings and weighing about 40 pounds. This area had previously been logged by P.B. Anderson.

Reforestation headquarters at Knox Bay

After being remodelled for use by the planting crew. The cabin faces south into the bay, and two rows of yellow pine and douglas fir were heeled in nearby.

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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