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Moving lumber at Beecher Lake Lumber Co. operations

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.

Members of the Joyce family on Quadra Island

From right: Joe, Cecil, Herbert, Arthur, Sam and Alfred Joyce at their logging show on Quadra Island.

Steam donkey and spar tree used by Bendickson Logging

A 10 x 12 Washington yarder (steam donkey) set up with spar tree and ready for yarding logs.

Loading a log at Bloedel Stewart & Welch Camp 4

Reforestation at Knox Bay on Thurlow Island

Tree planters making stakes for the base lines. This area had previously been logged by P.B. Anderson.

Oscar Soderman's Lumber float camp

View of Soderman's logging camp when it was located at the entrance to Havannah Channel on Johnstone Strait.

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

Elk River Timber Co. log dump

Unloading at truck at Elk River Timber booming grounds at the mouth of the Campbell River.

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Log debarking machine at the wood mill operations at Elk Falls.

Wood and English Camp 9

Rail cars loaded down with timber at Wood and English at Nimpkish operations.

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

Elk River Timber Co. booming grounds

Photograph appeared in the June 16, 1976 issue of the C.R. Upper Islander newspaper with following caption: Sluicing the logs involves grading them as well. Peeler logs for plywood one way, pulp logs the other.

Oyster River shingle mill

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8 on Echo Lake

View of the married quarters at ERT Camp 8 (this was located where cross roads were later built).

Children from the Elk Bay logging camp

Left to right: Bev Parker, Mervin Stewart, Ron Hughes, Allan Burman, Gordon Stewart, Mel Parker, and Alphild Burman.

Coal Creek Logging camp at Granite Bay

Coal Creek Logging Ltd. was owned and operated by Les and Agnes Bestwick. In 1944 they moved their truck logging operations to Granite Bay and logged in that area until 1955/56. They sold their logging operation to the Baikie Brothers of Campbell River.

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. near Campbell River

Married quarters at Camp 5, Brewster Lake

Log sort at MacMillan Bloedel operations

School class photo at Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 5

Mrs. Helen's class: Wendy Martin, Heather McDonald, Kernovitch, Bowden, Kernovitch, Judy Dixon, David McDonald, Kathy Webber, Brian Dixon, Me Math, Higginsin, Phylis Warner, Susan Detweiler, Ken Kennedy, Dale Johns, and Mrs. Helen.

A truck loaded with big timber

Linda Workman standing on the exhaust pipe of a loaded logging truck.

Tom Hargreaves, former Elk Falls Mill manager

Tom Hargreaves, in centre, presents golf trophies to Grady White (right), and Bud Lovell (left).

International Timber Co. Camp 4 near Campbell River

Notice the bunkhouses on the rail cars - the camp was being organized at this point. Man in foreground was a high rigger. The foreman's building is on the left. At this time families lived one half of the bunk houses.

A forestry tree-planting crew at Quinsam Flats

This tree planting crew (pictured here in the Sayward Forest area) was one of the many B.C. Forest Service crews that worked in the Campbell River area after the Sayward Fire of 1938.

A forestry raft

The Columbia Coast Mission motor vessel the Rendezvous towed this raft loaded with high power pumps in to Quadra Island during the forest fire.

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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Moving lumber at Beecher Lake Lumber Co. operations

Members of the Joyce family on Quadra Island

Steam donkey and spar tree used by Bendickson Logging

Loading a log at Bloedel Stewart & Welch Camp 4

Reforestation at Knox Bay on Thurlow Island

Oscar Soderman's Lumber float camp

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

Elk River Timber Co. log dump

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Wood and English Camp 9

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

Elk River Timber Co. booming grounds

Oyster River shingle mill

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8 on Echo Lake

Children from the Elk Bay logging camp

Coal Creek Logging camp at Granite Bay

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. near Campbell River

Married quarters at Camp 5, Brewster Lake

Log sort at MacMillan Bloedel operations

School class photo at Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 5

A truck loaded with big timber

Tom Hargreaves, former Elk Falls Mill manager

International Timber Co. Camp 4 near Campbell River

A forestry tree-planting crew at Quinsam Flats

A forestry raft

Logger Sports

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