Nimpkish Timber Co. operations at Camp 9

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Iron River Logging in Oyster Bay

Dumping a load of logs by tyler line.
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Boom at Camp 2 - Broughton Island

Panorama of the standing boom of Clark and Lyford, Ltd., in the southwest arm of Booker Lagoon, Broughton Island, with Camp 2 on floats in the background. Also note the swing donkey and 108-foot gin pole, with launch 'Kalmor II' at right.
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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.
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Beecher Lake Lumber Co. near Campbell River

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.
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Elk River Timber Co. camp

Loggers at an ERT camp hamming it up in front of the bunkhouses.
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Donkey and spar tree at Bendickson Logging operations

A 10 x 12 Washington yarder set up to a spar tree.
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Log dump Coal Creek Logging Ltd., Granite Bay

Coal Creek Logging Ltd. was owned and operated by Les and Agnes Bestwick. In 1944 they moved their truck logging operations to Granite Bay and logged in that area until 1955/56. They sold their logging operation to the Baikie Brothers of Campbell River.
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A fully rigged spar tree

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Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

Steam engine 103 and speeder 121 at Woss.
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Baikie Bros. Logging at Upper Campell Lake

Bucyrus Erie 30-B heel boom loader being used at the Baikie Brothers operations at Upper Campbell Lake. Logging truck is a Pacific.
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Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8

A 1.5 story bungalow with frame construction, cedar shingle roof, board and batten exterior, and a wallboard felt and paper interior.
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Hauling a log with a spar tree in Port Neville

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Elk Falls Mill near Campbell River

Construction of TMP (Thermomechanical Pulp) plant at the Elk Falls Mill, 1970's. Beside the construction is the original Groundwood Mill and the flume that brought the wood blocks to the mill.
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B.C. Forest Service tree planting camp

Forest Service tree planters camp at Loveland Lake (after the Sayward Fire) in the process of moving to Lawson Lake.
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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.
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Elk River Timber co. camp

Alex Thompson in front of E.R.T. locomotive the 5 spot.
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Logger Clifford Parker at Byles and Groves operation

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Wood and English Camp 2

Booming grounds at Wood and English's operations in the Nimpkish area.
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Pioneer Timber Co. in Port McNeill

View of the workshop and booming grounds at Pioneer Timber Co. logging operations at Port McNeill. A portion of the wooden fore-an-aft road can be seen in the bottom left of the photograph, note the wire rip-rap on the road which was done to provide traction to the high tired logging trucks.
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Reforestation at Knox Bay on Thurlow Island

Part of a fifteen-man tree planting crew with their foreman at the junction of Tucker Point and Blind Channel railroad grades. The remains of the railroad is still visible. This area had originally been logged by P.B. Anderson.
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Gold River Loggers' Sports Day

Young Danny Herrling log birling during a practice session.
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Wood and English camp at Nimpkish

Roderick Haig-Brown (on right) on the steps of a camp building at Wood and English camp 10.
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Grapple Crane at Elk Falls Mill

The grapple crane lifts log bundles from the mill's booming grounds onto the woodmill log deck.
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Gold River Loggers' Sports Day

Crosscut saw bucking competiton at annual loggers sports competition.
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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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Camp Life

In the early years a camp was more than just a place for the men to work and sleep, but also a home for their children and families. Larger camps had family housing, schools for the children, and other such amenities.
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Discovery Islands

Logging in the area has not only included Vancouver Island itself, but also some of the smaller islands adjacent to it; including Cortes Island, Read Island, Sonora Island, West Redonda Island (Teakerne Arm), and others.
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Menzies Bay

A variety of companies have logged in the Menzie's Bay area (just north of the city of Campbell River) over the years, including Lamb Lumber Co., Bloedel Stewart & Welch, MacMillan Bloedel, and Campbell River Timber Co.
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Lumber World Review

Dozens of pictures were taken for the 'Lumber World Review' magazine during a June, 1917 timber cruise along coastal BC by Clark and Lyford Ltd., the first forest engineering firm in British Columbia.
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