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Byles and Groves crew at Port Neville

Campbell River Logger Sports

Men's log rolling competition at logger sports event in Campbell River. Jack Baikie in the water and Bill Baikie of Courtenay still on the log. This event was held annual at Lane Field and sponsored by the Kinsmen's club.

Hastings Co. booming grounds at Rock Bay

Logging crew at Woss Camp

Gordon Flowerdew is the seventh man from the left.

Sayward Logger Sports

George Strobl of Kelsey Bay demonstrates the axe throw at Sayward Loggers Sports.

A stand of big fir trees

Logging camp crew

Logging camp and crew at an unknown location but is presumably one that Mel Parker worked at. See also photograph no. 18962 as, based on the rounded roof lines of the camp buildings may be the same camp.

Bendickson Logging operations

A spar tree with a burn pile around its base, and a donkey engine to the right.

Elk Falls Mill first aid team

Bendickson Logging operation at Patrick Point in Jervis Inlet

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

Aerial view of Canadian Forest Products Ltd. logging camp at Woss.

Loggers at Elk River Timber Co. camp

Sparky Hughes, Ray Manning, Tom Larnie, Willie Granlund, and three others on steps of bunkhouse at ERT camp, possibly at Camp 8 at Echo Lake.

Logging in Bute Inlet

Logging at the Schnarr place in Bute Inlet - Einar Johnson did the logging.

Ellingsen's camp

Ellingson's logging camp at the mouth of the river in Phillip's Arm.

Campbell River's first sawmill

The booming grounds near the Wilfert Lumber Co. sawmill.

Jack Parrish's sawmill at Stuart Island

Jack Parrish set up this sawmill when he first moved to Woodside Bay on Stuart Island, and then used some of the lumber to build his house and sold the rest.

Wood and English operations at Nimpkish

Roderick Haig-Brown's shack at Wood and English's camp 10.

Reforestation at Knox Bay on Thurlow Island

Tree planters ready to start planting at Knox Bay. Each planter is carrying a pack containing approximately 600 seedlings and weighing about 40 pounds. This area had previously been logged by P.B. Anderson.

Whistle punk with a jerkwire near Port Neville

Tom Hargreaves, former Elk Falls Mill manager

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

Woss Lake Loggers' Day

Brian Herlihy, the winner of the axe chopping event, holding the Cypress Equipment Trophy.

Douglas fir seedlings heeled in at Knox Bay

Saplings were rested in troughs in the dirt to allow their roots exposure to soil and water before they were ready to be taken out in the field and planted.

Cedar, balsam, and hemlock timber

Trees from left to right in picture: 92-inch cedar; 72-inch cedar; 22-inch balsam; 78-inch cedar; 60-inch cedar.

Elk River Timber Co. booming grounds

Drilling boom sticks.

Elk River Timber Co. crew members

Bob English and one unidentified man standing a hilltop likely near ERT's operations along the Campbell Lake area.

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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