This photograph was likely taken when Roderick Haig-Brown, along with Ed and Buster Lansdowne spent the summer beachcombing logs from the Nimpkish Lake. The logs that they collected had escaped when being floated to the railhead.
International Timber Co. locomotive near Campbell River. Guy Olgood looking out of cab door with a cap on (after working at I.T he served in world war I and died in England of the flu in 1918).
Russell Mills (the General Manager at the Englewood division) invented these mill booms. Woss Camp and Camp A used them for years, first as log loaders and then as transfer or reload machines.
May Day event held by Hasting Co. employees a the Rock Bay. May Queen (centre) is Mary Cavanaugh, and the Queen's court is Vida Holroyd, Margaret ???, Ethel Holroyd, Margaret Cavanaugh, and Pearl Lappleton.
A 5-foot stump, 4 cedars and a number of small trees in the back, and fallers making an undercut into a 6-foot cedar, on Surveyed Timber Limit 8890 (about 10 chains above Booker Lagoon, Broughton Island, B.C. at an elevation of 120 feet).
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.
In the early years a camp was more than just a place for the men to work and sleep, but also a home for their children and families. Larger camps had family housing, schools for the children, and other such amenities.
Logging in the area has not only included Vancouver Island itself, but also some of the smaller islands adjacent to it; including Cortes Island, Read Island, Sonora Island, West Redonda Island (Teakerne Arm), and others.
A variety of companies have logged in the Menzie's Bay area (just north of the city of Campbell River) over the years, including Lamb Lumber Co., Bloedel Stewart & Welch, MacMillan Bloedel, and Campbell River Timber Co.
Dozens of pictures were taken for the 'Lumber World Review' magazine during a June, 1917 timber cruise along coastal BC by Clark and Lyford Ltd., the first forest engineering firm in British Columbia.