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P.B. Anderson's logging camp

Steam donkey and engineer at Knox Bay on Thurlow Island.

Comox Logging Co. crew on loaded railroad car

International Timber Co. crew with camp cook

Top row: Yeoger (time keeper) and David Jeremiahson (part owner with John Anderson, not pictured). Second row: Dutch Huland, an unknown man, and Gus Miller. International Timber Co. started this outfit, then sold it to Jeremiahson and Anderson, and then later took it back.

Log loading at Elk River Timber Co.

A-frame used to load logs onto the rail cars, likely at their logging operations on Campbell Lake.

Byles and Groves crew at Port Neville

Load of logs from MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.

Photograph appeared in the Nov. 6, 1968 issue of the C.R. Courier newspaper with the following caption: Logs heading for Osaka, Japan as part of British Columbia Pavilion at 1970 Exposition. Logs were taller than an eight story building. They were cut by MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Copper Canyon...

MacMillan Bloedel Camp 5 at Menzie's Bay

Merrill, Ring and Wilson operations at Duncan Bay

A steam powered wood splitter.

Elk River Timber Co. loggers on break

Pioneer Timber Co. logging truck

Leon Proteau sitting on a truck fender by the Port McNeill log dump.

Brown and Kirkland operations at Elk Bay

Crew and family members at the Brown and Kirkland Elk Bay camp. Hemmi and Lempi Kilpelainen, Ada Mykannen, her son George, and David Mykannen.

The school house at Elk River Timber Camp 8

The schoolhouse at ERT Camp 8 by Echo Lake. The teacher was Frank Gutfriend (from Kelowna) and there were approximately 20 students up to Grade 8. The school teacher's house can be seen in the background.

Elk River Timber booming grounds

Boom boat (likely the Quinsam II) with ERT booming crew.

Postcard titled: Steam Logging, Heriot Bay

Elk River Timber co. faller, Oscar Hillgren

Oscar Hillgren was an Elk River Timber Co. hand faller and saw filer, who was also well known for his innovative carvings and sculptures.

Campbell River Logger Sports

Log bucking event at Logger's Sports competition.

Powell River Logging Co.

Train trestle at Kingcome Inlet.

Elk River Timber Co. 5 spot locomotive

The 5 spot at ERT Camp 8 near Echo Lake - note that the locomotive is still marked 'International Timber'.

Rock Bay Hospital

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Sawmill operations at Elk Falls Mill.

Dick Hopkins logging in the Port Neville area

B.C. Forest Service Crew

B.C. Forest Service fire fighting crew preparing to fight the Sayward Fire. This photograph is likely taken at Forbes Landing.

Aerial view of Vernon Camp

Canadian Forest Products Locomotive 112 in the Nimpkish Valley

Loggers taking a break at Port Neville

Bill Crake (left), Clifford Parker (resting in front), and Dick Hopkins (on the stump).

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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