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Wharf at Lamb Lumber co. operations Menzie's Bay

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Lime plant's award winning electronic participator.

Elk Falls Mill paper machine #2

Bendickson Logging operations

Replacing the boiler on a donkey engine after it was pushed off by a runaway log. The log hit the front of the frame of the donkey and split, and the upper half slip up one drum striking the boiler.

Steam donkey in operation

Possibly Pidcock's donkey engine - in operation on Quadra Island.

Beecher Lake Lumber Co.

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.

Woss Lake Loggers' Day

Gino Marino of North Vancouver in the Power Saw Bucking competition.

Moving lumber at Beecher Lake Lumber Co. operations

Wood chip burner at Beecher Lake Lumber Co.

The wood chip burner at Beecher Lake Lumber Co., 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. Logging.

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.

Paper machines at Elk Falls Mill

Unloading area at Oyster Bay logging operations

Dumping by Tyler Line with donkey supplied power.

Reforestation camp 31

A reforestation camp in the Salmon River area (across high level bridge). White building in the background was the office. Clarence Woss, (Voss?), Sam McTurk, ??, Ralph Shadell, and Harry Ferguson.

Self-propelled, self-dumping log barge

Elk Falls Mill No.1 locomotive

This image was taken just prior to the official retirement of the No. 1 locomotive, after which it was sent to the National Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa.

Baikie Bros. Logging at Upper Campell Lake

Bucyrus Erie 30-B heel boom loader being used at the Baikie Brothers operations at Upper Campbell Lake. Logging truck is a Pacific.

Loaded logging truck near Woss camp

Canadian Forest Products truck with load of TV tower poles going to TV mountain.

Grapple Crane at Elk Falls Mill

The grapple crane lifts log bundles from the mill's booming grounds onto the woodmill log deck.

Preparing to climb a spar tree

David Aitken preparing to climb the spar tree.

Reforestation at Knox Bay on Thurlow Island

Tree planters baseline crew with flagged stakes in preparation for tree planting. This area had previously been logged by P.B. Anderson.

Elk River Timber at Gooseneck Lake

Loading at Gooseneck Lake. Dan McKenzie at left and Tom Laurie at right. Trucks brought loads to Gooseneck Lake and dumped them there for loading onto railcars.

Steam crane operated by Harvey Jorgensen

Parker family float house

Elk River Timber Co. logging truck

Ray Melissa with the #14 ERT logging truck on the weigh scale.

Logging locomotive on trestle

Climax locomotive on the trestle bridge on Valdez (Quadra) Island.

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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