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New seedlings at Gold River

Dick Kosick, resident forester at Tahsis Co., Gold River division checks on a 2-year old Douglas Fir in an area replanted following slash burn, Tahsis Company's Gold River Logging division.

Thompson family floathouse at Elk Bay

Dick and Wilena Thompson's floathouse at Elk Bay logging operations. The two girls are daughter so girls are Louise and Frances?

Riggers posed on tongs

P.B. Anderson's logging camp

Steam donkey and engineer at Knox Bay on Thurlow Island.

International Timber Co. camp near Campbell River

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 5 at Brewster Lake

The Camp 5 guesthouse, which was called the Blue Room, the First Aid shack, and George May.

Elk River Timber Co. crew members

Gordon Woods (and an unidentified person) in front of an ERT locomotive at one of their camps.

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.

View of Rock Bay showing hospital and camp

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. 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.

A speeder at Bear Lake

A speeder at the Bear Lake water tank, near Rock Bay.

Campbell River's first sawmill

Wilfert Lumber Co. - Frank Wilfert's sawmill on the slough in Campbellton.

Merrill, Ring and Wilson loggers at Duncan Bay

Standing on far right is Marshall Freek..

Unloading transplants and supplies at Knox Bay

Supplies and saplings being offloaded on the beach at Knox Bay in preparation for planting.

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Log debarking machine at the wood mill operations at Elk Falls.

Bendickson Logging operations on Hardwicke Island

Tom Johnson (wood bucker) and John Nicholson (foreman).

View of booming ground and camp at Elk Bay

Nimpkish Timber Co.

The log dump at Camp 8.

Hasting Co. crew at Rock Bay operations

Hasting co. crew at Rock Bay id from back of photograph " front right August Schnarr, brother-in-law Albert"

The first Bull of the Woods Day, Campbell River

The obstacle pole final.

Spar tree at logging operations at Iron River

Bob and Stan Grant's logging operations which were in the Oyster Bay area.

Logging at Elk Bay

A group of loggers and two donkey engines.

Booming grounds at Oyster Bay

Vic Hampson, the boom foreman, riding a bundle. Iron River Logging experimented with bundled logs for MacMillan Bloedel at this time. It was so successful that it was adapted by other M and B divisions. The strapping was put around the load while it was on the truck, then the bundle was lifted off...

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.

Elk Falls Mill Campbell River

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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