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A burnt out logging camp

T.J. Brown Co. Camp after the Sayward Fire.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

The loading set up.

The log dump at Camp 0 on Thurlow Island

Elk River Timber Co. crew members

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

Area previously logged by P.B. Anderson ready for planting

A view looking north and east from the junction of Tucker Point and Blind Channel grades - the rocky areas in the immediate background were to be strip or plot planted.

Elk River Timber Co. logging truck

Tom Masters standing beside the truck that he drove for the Elk River Timber Company.

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

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 White logging truck at Beaver Creek

A White duplex truck with loaded trailer on a fore-an-aft road at Beaver Creek in Loughborough Inlet.

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

Expansion at the Elk Falls Mill, 1960's

View of the tanks that were being built for the construction of the No. 3 and No. 4 machines, early 1960's.

Brown and Kirkland operations at Elk Bay

Crew and family members at the Brown and Kirkland operations at Elk Bay. Left to right: Hemmi and Lempi Kilpelainen, Ada Mykkanen, Mrs. Vic Saarikko, Daniel Mykkanen, lady in a hat, Victor Saariko, and Eino Saarikko is the young boy in front.

Bendickson Logging on Hardwicke Island

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

Bloedel, Stewart & Welch's #6 locomotive at Menzie's Bay

The #6 Mallet (2-6-6-2) locomotive Bloedel, Stewart & Welch's log dump at Menzie's Bay. Note the saddle tanks for water. The railroad was taken out of Menzie's Bay in 1953, and the engine went to Franklin River, where it was scrapped in 1957.

Loading logs at Elk River Timber Co operations

Loading logs with the use of 'L' hooks on a skyline onto rail cars. This was an extremely unstable and dangerous process.

Elk Bay Timber Co. logging locomotive on a trestle

Logging locomotive belonging to Elk Bay Timber Co.

Crew from Elk River Timber Co. at the log dump

One of men pictured is Spoolie Kusha who was a locomotive engineer for Elk River Timber Co.

Expansion at the Elk Falls Mill, 1960's

Construction of No. 2 Recovery on left beside No. 1 Recovery, 1960's.

Moving a steam donkey on a float

Moving the 11x14 Empire No. 242 High Lead Yarder on a raft in Booker Lagoon off Broughton Island. It was towed to a new location on the opposite side of the lagoon.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

The loading set up.

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

Crew at Campbell River Nursery

Campbell River Nursery (aka Quinsam Nursery) crew preparing seedlings.

Constructing the Elk Falls Mill

Nimpkish Timber Co. locomotive at Camp 9

Nimpkish Timber Co., 5 spot locomotive on the tracks at camp 9, Nimpkish Lake area.

Campbell River Logger Sports

Crew from Bendickson Logging enjoying a break

Lewis Larson, an unknown man, and Julius Sampson trout fishing in Patterson Creek on a Sunday off. Note the remains of a skid road bridge across the creek above their heads - this was a skid road built by Patterson Logging about 10 years earlier.

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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A burnt out logging camp

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

The log dump at Camp 0 on Thurlow Island

Elk River Timber Co. crew members

Area previously logged by P.B. Anderson ready for planting

Elk River Timber Co. logging truck

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

A White logging truck at Beaver Creek

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

Expansion at the Elk Falls Mill, 1960's

Brown and Kirkland operations at Elk Bay

Bendickson Logging on Hardwicke Island

Bloedel, Stewart & Welch's #6 locomotive at Menzie's Bay

Loading logs at Elk River Timber Co operations

Elk Bay Timber Co. logging locomotive on a trestle

Crew from Elk River Timber Co. at the log dump

Expansion at the Elk Falls Mill, 1960's

Moving a steam donkey on a float

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

Crew at Campbell River Nursery

Constructing the Elk Falls Mill

Nimpkish Timber Co. locomotive at Camp 9

Campbell River Logger Sports

Crew from Bendickson Logging enjoying a break

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