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Loaded logging truck at Byles and Groves operations

Log dump at Beaver Creek, Loughbourogh Inlet

Creasy Bay

B. A. Johnson and Harold Gardiner in a small boat, with two 42-inch grayfish. The launch 'Kalmor II' in back, with a view over Creasy Bay looking to the west.

Using a cross cut saw

Gordon Flowerdew is the man on the left.

Loading logs at Campbell River

Steam donkey and crew likely at International Timber co. operations near Campbell River.

Wharf at Lamb Lumber co. operations Menzie's Bay

Logger Sports event at Port Alberni

Vice President of I.W.A. Local 185 Walter Yates (right) presents Laurence McIvor (left) with the Dayton Shoe challenge trophy in Port Alberni.

Merrill Ring Wilson Ltd. camp at Big Tree Creek

A cold decker donkey engine with a brand new sled. It has just been loaded onto a bull car and is just about ready to be taken out into the woods, where it will pull itself through the felled and bucked trees to the spar tree for use. This was used at Merrill Ring Wilson Ltd. operations near their...

Aftermath of 1925 Quadra Island forest fire

View of burned out area that had previously be logged.

Baikie Bros. Logging at Upper Campell Lake

Norm Hanson operating the heel boom loader at Baikie Bros. Logging operations near Upper Campbell Lake.

A typical stand of fir

Elevation 150 - A fir which from a point on the trunk 30 feet from the stump is showing 150 feet without limbs or other visible defects. Diameter at butt end 40 inches, at top where it was broken by lodging against another tree, 22 inches, a typical Fir of Surveyed Timber Limit 45120.

Jack Parrish's sawmill at Stuart Island

Stan Larson (left) and Jack Parrish (right) at the sawmill at Woodside Bay.

World champion tree climber Ernie Alexander

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8 at Echo Lake

Railroad bed at Echo Lake going into Camp 8.

Locomotive speeder at camp in Ramsey Arm

Reforestation at Knox Bay on Thurlow Island

A group of tree planters working near Knox Bay. This area had previously been logged by P.B. Anderson.

First crew of loggers at Port Neville

Steam donkey and spar tree used by Bendickson Logging

A 10 x 12 Washington yarder (steam donkey) set up with spar tree and ready for yarding logs.

Rock Bay

William Carmichael.

International Timber Co. camp near Campbell River

Logging crew with part of a donkey on a rail car.

Loading a White logging truck

Early White logging truck on a fore-an-aft road being loaded with a hayrack boom. Likely taken in the Port Neville area and part of the Byles and Groves Logging Co.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

The loading set up.

Campbell River Logger Sports

Cross cut saw competition at logger sports event in Campbell River. Event was held on Labour Day weekend and sponsored by the Kinsmen's Club.

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch's 6 spot locomotive in Menzie's Bay

Locomotive #6 was a 2662 saddle tank side rod.

Unloading a truck at MacMillan Blodedel operations

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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