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Elk River Timber Co. locomotive

The 5 spot in the yard at Camp 8.

Gold River Sawmill

Left to right: Tahsis Co. guide, Arnold Cameron, John Jackson, guide, Jack Lee, Carl Thulin, Ian Pate, and Ron Bartlett.

Elk River Timber Co.'s 5 spot locomotive on it's last trip

Canadian Forest Products speeders

Speeders ar lined up in front of cookhouse at Woss camp.

Elk River Timber Co. operations near Campbell River

Locomotive and steam donkey.

Elk Falls Mill paper machine #2

At the winder threading the sheet on the core.

Woss Logger Sports Days

Tree climbing competition at logger sports event.

Preparing seedlings Campbell River Nursery

Boom at Camp 2 - Broughton Island

Panorama of the standing boom of Clark and Lyford, Ltd., in the southwest arm of Booker Lagoon, Broughton Island, with Camp 2 on floats in the background. Also note the swing donkey and 108-foot gin pole, with launch 'Kalmor II' at right.

Elk River Timber Co. camp crew members

Installing the head box at No. 2 paper machine, Elk Falls Mill

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8

The gate entrance to Camp 8.

Baikie Bros. Logging at Upper Campell Lake

Don Parkin at Upper Campbell Lake before the water level was raised for the hydro development project.

Logging crew on the "Crew Bus"

The crew bus, or "crummy", for Byles & Groves Logging Co., at their Port Neville operations.

A loaded train car

Gordon Flowerdew poses with a loaded train car and some cougar hounds. This log (on railcar) is part of the record '8 load tree', which is mentioned in the book, "Glory Days of Logging." The tree was from Davey River close to Schoen Lake, was loaded by Paddy Smith using a deisel...

Wilson and Brady logging

Sunnyside Farm, Quadra Island.

An Elk River Timber Co. camp

This may be a view of ERT Camp 9 near Campbell Lake.

Comox Logging skidder crew Oyster Bay area

The Comox Logging and Railway Company skidder crew working at Oyster River camp during the First World War.

Aerial View of Elk Falls Mill

View of the Elk Falls Mill in 1966 the first year that the mill operated four paper machines.

Harvey Longue, Mike Mulligan, and checker

Campbell River Logger Sports event

Dr. Richard Murphy referees a tug-of-war game at the Campbell River Logger Sports. Bill Baikie in front of tug-of-war team.

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. near Campbell River

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.

Hyacinthe Bay, Quadra Island

Loggers pose with a big fir.

Whistle punk with a jerkwire near Port Neville

Piggybacking' a logging truck at Elk River Timber co.

After unloading a logging truck, the trailer section would sometimes be 'piggybacked' on the truck for the trip back into the woods. This picture taken at Elk River Timber Co.'s log dump in the mouth of the Campbell River.

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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