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Sayward Logger Sports

Ron Sprout competing in the axe throw.

Boom tug at work near Elk Falls Mill

Logging with oxen

Loggers from Elk River Timber Co. camp

George Saarikka, Louie Buchanan, and ??? standing on the tracks.

Paper machines at Elk Falls Mill

International Timber Co. 4 spot locomotive near Campbell River

On left Tony Carmichael and Pete Malphante. Both were brakemen on the 4 spot which hauled loads from the International Timber camp to the beach.

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. This steam donkey (a 10 X12) was restored by the Museum at Campbell River and is now on display out front.

Wilson and Brady logging

Sunnyside Farm, Quadra Island.

Woss camp logger sports

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

International Timber Co. camp near Campbell River

The first Bull of the Woods Day, Campbell River

The obstacle pole final.

Gold River Loggers' Sports Day

Young Danny Herrling log birling during a practice session.

Campbell River's first sawmill

The booming grounds near the Wilfert Lumber Co. sawmill.

Logger Sports Day in Campbell River

A game of tug-o-war.

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Camp 5 at Brewster Lake

Using a Cat to move the houses into Camp 5.

Pioneer Timber Co. in Port McNeill

View of the logging camp buildings at Pioneer Timber Co. at their operations at Port McNeill. Note the wooden road this was a truck logging operation and the trucks drove on these wooden plank roads.

View of the Oyster Bay Logging Camp

View of camp taken when the tide is out, pilings from booming ground in foreground.

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.

Loggers on loading boom at Elk Bay

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

Nimpkish Timber Co. operations at Camp 9

Loading a rail car with logs.

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. sawmill

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 Falls Co. boy scout tree farm

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Mill worker getting ready to stack sheet on the calendar stack on the dry end of a paper machine.

View of logging camp from the water

Panorama of the log booms and the camp of the Booth Logging Company, of Vancouver, BC., at Menzies Bay, on Vancouver Island, near the south entrance of Seymour Narrows. View shows approximately 1,500,000 feet of Fir, Cedar and Hemlock logs in standing boom. The land on which this timber was cut is...

Beecher Lake Lumber Co. near 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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