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Shingle Mill near Green Point Rapids

Shingle mill of A. P. Allison and Co. of Vancouver, B.C. on the mainland, and on Cordero Channel, opposite Green Point Rapids.

Falling a tree using a crosscut saw

Carvings made by saw filer Oscar Hillgren

Elk River Timber Co. saw filer Oscar Hillgren was known for his unique carvings.

Don Brosseau on railroad track at Elk River Timber Co. camp

Loading logs at Elk River Timber Co operations

Loading logs with 'L' hooks onto rail cars, which was an extremely unstable and dangerous process.

Log rafts at Port Neville

Fir log rafts of the Vancouver Lumber Company at Port Neville, B.C., viewed from the launch 'Kalmor II' and showing the locomotive at camp ready to start into the woods.

Elk Falls Mill paper machine #2

Crew at Campbell River Nursery

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

Wooden skid road and spar tree

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).

Constructing the Elk Falls Mill

Hammond Logging Co. in Granite Bay, Quadra Island

Bert Hammond, Art Stenfors, and Emil Luoma (left to right) with one of the first gas donkeys that showed up in the area.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

The loading set up.

Bendickson Logging camp at Jervis Inlet

The cookhouse with woodshed, commissary, and offices of the Bendickson Logging camp at Jervis Inlet (Patrick Point). The sidewalks were made from split cedar. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Whittaker holding hands in front of one of the camp buildings.

Deep Bay Lake, A-frame and donkey

Small building in the background is Dick

Hastings Co. booming grounds at Rock Bay

Iron River Logging behind Oyster Bay

Logs being loaded into a truck by spar tree - head loader Grantly Hinch working under the boom.

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch operations near Camp 5

High rigger Gerry Miller rigging a spar tree.

Gold River Loggers' Sports Day

Shannon Messer invites the public to Gold River Loggers Sports.

New seedlings at Gold River

Dick Kosick, resident forester at the Tahsis Co., Gold River division checks on new grafts in an area replanted following slash burn, Tahsis Company's Gold River Logging division.

Loggers with a steam donkey in Phillips Arm

From Right: , Charlie Gustafson (70 yrs. Old), Elmer Ellingsen, and J. Stark beside a steam donkey in the Phillips Arm area.

Fire at Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

The Campbell River Fire Department works to put out the blaze at the Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill, 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...

Elk Falls Mill paper making

A tour group is taken through the paper making process at the Elk Falls Mill at Duncan Bay.

The 5-spot locomotive at Rock Bay

Iron River Logging Co. camp in Oyster Bay

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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