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Unloading a Pioneer Timber Co.logging truck

Truck is being unloaded at their log dump at Port McNeill.

Dressing a hog for dinner

Bloedel Stewart and Welch camp; butchers dressing a hog for the commissary near camp.

Mel Parker taking a break

Riggers posed on tongs

P.B. Anderson at Knox Bay

P.B. Anderson beside a stand of timber. P. B. Anderson operated early logging camps in the Knox Bay area.

Elk River Timber Co. booming grounds

Photograph appeared in the June 16, 1976 issue of the C.R. Upper Islander newspaper with following caption: Robbie Grant at the controls of a dozer boat.

Canadian Forest Products speeders

Speeders ar lined up in front of cookhouse at Woss camp.

Aftermath of the Sayward Fire

Burned out bunks from a logging camp (or Forbes Landing?) likely T.J. Brown Co. who were logging the Quinsam Lake area.

Students at Gildersleeve logging camp

G.H. 'Doc' Gildersleeve operated a small logging camp at various locations. According to Ken Drushka's book, Working in the Woods he established the first truck logging camps on the mid-coast. This photograph taken when the camp was located at King Island.

Bendickson Logging on Hardwicke Island

Team of horses (known as Tom and Jerry) hauling cedar poles for Carson and Askew on Hardwicke Island.

Elk Bay Timber Co. logging locomotive on a trestle

Logging locomotive belonging to Elk Bay Timber Co.

Campbell River's first sawmill

The booming grounds near the Wilfert Lumber Co. sawmill.

A Canadian Forest Products locomotive

Elk River Timber Co. logging bridge

This bridge over the Campbell River was built by Elk River Timber for their logging ventures, and is still in use today.

A-frame unloading a truck at Oyster Bay

The A-frame going up with the 'Oyster Bar' coffee shop in the background. MacMillan Bloedel bought Iron River logging from Al Simpson (July 1, 1944) who had operated it BATCO (British American Timber Company) Development Ltd. Simpson was dumping by Tyler Line and when MacMillan Bloedel...

Loading a logging truck at Port Neville

Pioneer Timber Co. in Port McNeill

View of the logging camp buildings at Pioneer Timber Co. at their operations at Port McNeill.

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.

Loggers from Elk River Timber Co. camp

George Saarikka, Louie Buchanan, and ??? standing on the tracks.

Elk Falls Co. boy scout tree farm

Parker and Palmer Logging Co.

Otto Peterson in Palmer Bay.

View of St. Michael's Hospital at Rock Bay

Crew at Dick Parker's camp Trevenon Bay

Francis and Amy Barrow (on right) with loggers working for Dick Parker's camp at Trevenon Bay.

International Timber Co. locomotives at Camp 2

Logger Sports Day in Campbell River

The axe throwing event.

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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