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Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8 at Echo Lake

The big gas speeder on the rail lines moving the ERT bunkhouse into Camp 8 from Camp 7.

Loaded logging truck

Elk River Timber Co. truck (ridged frame Kenworth - model 849RF) and timber.

Elk River Timber Co. locomotive beside fuel tanks

The ERT locomotive fuel tanks were located near their dumping grounds at the mouth of the Campbell River. The 5-spot locomotive on rail line beside the tanks.

Green Timbers Forestry Station in Surrey

A shipment of approximately 40,000 transplants packed and ready for shipment to Knox Bay.

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.

Dot Logging Co. at Knight Inlet

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

Camp 10 in the Elk Valley alongside logging railline

Louise and Barbara Thompson at Elk Bay

Dick and Wilena Thompson's daughters at the door of their floathouse that they lived in while logging near Elk Bay. Note that the gate is made from a fruit crate with "Elk Bay" written on it as the destination.

Lane Logging moving their float camp

The wash house at Bendickson Logging camp

Ron Hartill at Woss camp logger sports

Bendickson Logging operations at Jervis Inlet

Hand loggers hamming it up at Patrick Point in Jervis Inlet.

The steam donkey crew at Menzie's Bay

Logging crew at "Daddy Lamb's" outfit (Lamb Lumber Co.) in Menzie's Bay - Ernie Truman on stump and Otto Peterson on right.

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Elk River Timber Co. 5 Spot locomotive derailed

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 5 at Brewster Lake

The cookhouse in winter - note the triangular dinner bell. The triangle is now in the collections at the Museum at Campbell River.

Sayward Logger Sports

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

Cat logging near Dent Island

Percy Belson cat logging operations.

Elk Bay

Loggers on top of a log being lifting with tongs.

Bendickson Logging crew with families

Back row: Harry Perkins, ???, Harry Brett, Gilbert Gilbertson, ???, Carl Aurdhal, Fritchof Luke, Bill Edman, ???, and Gotfred Sundberg. Front row: Oscar Lind, Gus Halverson, Carl Carlson, Andrew Hall, Wells, a flunky, the cook, Charlie O'Brien, Buster Forberg, George Bendickson, "...

Drilling boom sticks

Tom and John Perkins on an Elk River Timber boom in the Campbell River estuary, using an electric auger to drill boom sticks.

Logger sports event at Gold River

Canadian champion of horizontal axe chopping.

Wood and English operations at Nimpkish

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

Elk Falls Mill paper making

A tour group is taken through the paper making process at the Elk Falls Mill at Duncan Bay. View of the controls for the No. 1 paper machine at the mill. Likely shortly after the mill opened.

Grapple Crane at Elk Falls Mill

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

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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