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Pioneer Timber Co. logging truck

Tom Townley with his truck at Port McNeill.

Log loading at Elk River Timber Co.

A-frame used to load logs onto the rail cars, likely at their logging operations on the Upper Campbell Lake.

P.B. Anderson's camp at Knox Bay on Thurlow Island

The cookhouse.

Merrill, Ring and Wilson operations at Duncan Bay

A steam powered wood splitter.

International Timber's 4 spot locomotive near Campbell River

Shay locomotive near Menzie's Bay

Engineer Dick Grandy with a Shay Lima Locomotive at Menzie's Bay.

Smoke from the Sayward Fire

A view from the Campbell River Estuary of the smoke during the Sayward Fire of 1938.

Bloedel Stewart and Welch Camp 2

Frand Jackson in front of the bunkhouses.

Elk River Timber Co. crew members

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

Entrance to Elk Falls Mill Campbell River

Nimpkish Timber Co. operations at Camp 9

Spar tree and rail line.

Fire at Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

Putting out the fire at Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill in Campbell River - owned by the Baikies.

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.

Logger Sports event at Port Alberni

Vice President of I.W.A. Local 185 Walter Yates (right) presents Laurence McIvor (left) with the Dayton Shoe challenge trophy in Port Alberni.

Lamb Lumber Co. operations at Menzie's Bay

Crew and steam donkey at Lamb's Lumber Co. operations near Menzie's Bay.

May Day celebrations at Rock Bay

May Day celebrations at the Hasting Co. logging camp at Rock Bay.

Elk Falls Co. truck being unloaded

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.

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8 near Echo Lake

Elk Falls Mill Paper Makers Local 630 executive

Members of the Elk Falls Paper Makers Local 630 executive. Back row from left: Neil Campbell, ?, Fred Schumland, Garry Heslop, ? Front row from left: ?, Doug McDonald, Jack Torrance, ?

Unloading logs at Rock Bay

Unloading long logs at Rock Bay, the tidewater terminal of the British Columbia Mills, Timber and Trading Company's operation on Vancouver Island, B.C. by means of a simple device of a series of wire ropes passed under the logs, which are pulled taut by another wire rope attached to the...

Wilson and Brady logging

Sunnyside Farm, Quadra Island.

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch locomotives at Myrtle Point

These locomotives were afterwards moved to the Bloedel, Stewart and Welch operation at Menzie's Bay.

Unloading area at Oyster Bay logging operations

Dumping by Tyler Line with donkey supplied power.

Canadian Forest Products operations near Woss

Double ended lowbed moving equipment

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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