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Dot Logging Co. at Knight Inlet

Dot Logging Co. (owned by Clarence and Doug Boardman) steam donkey in operation at Lull Bay in Knight Inlet. This steam donkey (a 10 X12) was restored by the Museum at Campbell River and is now on display out front.

Alberni Pacific's #2 - engine now preserved at Port Alberni

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.

Grapple Crane at Elk Falls Mill

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

Byles and Groves Logging crew

Martin Fossum and Jack Challenger in Vancouver

The Union Steamship Camosun

Union Steamship Camosun tied up at the dock at P.B. Anderson's logging camp at Knox Bay, Thurlow Island. This camp was established in 1917.

Heeled in yellow pine and sitka spruce seedlings

Preparation for planting at Knox Bay on Thurlow Island. 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.

Loggers on boom at Call Inlet

Elk River Timber Co. logging truck No. 10

Woss camp logger sports

Steve Batistini competing in the Obstacle Pole Bucking Competition - he was the winner of this event.

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.

Elk River Timber Camp 8 at Echo Lake

View of the remaining camp buildings, offices and wharehouses etc. Photograph taken at the intersection of the camp and the Gold River Highway.

Beecher Lake Lumber sawmill operations

Byles and Groves logging

A logging truck on a wooden fore-an aft road at Port Neville.

Wharf at B.C. Forest Service Station

View of wharf at Thurston Bay at the B.C. Forest Service Station. The Forest Service boat B.C. Forester is tied up at the wharf.

Locomotive on logging railroad trestle

Loggers on loading boom at Elk Bay

Loggers, loading boom and steam donkey - part of the Elk Bay Timber Co. operations.

Labour Day Logger Sports event at Campbell River

The 2-man power saw.

Bendickson Logging high rigger trims a spar

Byles and Groves logging crew Port Neville

Shingle mill near Green Point Rapids

Shingle mill of A.P. Allison and Co. (Vancouver) opposite Green Point Rapids as the Kalmor II aunch passes the mill.

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Role of paper manufactured at the Elk Falls Mill being loaded on a freighter.

Elk River Timber Co. locomotive near Campbell River

Elk River Timber Co.'s 5 spot locomotive, a Porter 2-8-2. The 5 spot was used on their mainline and was bought in 1928 for the International Timber Co. Andy Teck of Campbell River was a long-time engineer on her. The bell and name plate are currently part of the Museum at Campbell River'...

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

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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