Lewis Larson, an unknown man, and Julius Sampson trout fishing in Patterson Creek on a Sunday off. Note the remains of a skid road bridge across the creek above their heads - this was a skid road built by Patterson Logging about 10 years earlier.
Moving the 11x14 Empire No. 242 High Lead Yarder on a raft in Booker Lagoon off Broughton Island. It was towed to a new location on the opposite side of the lagoon.
View of ERT Camp 9. See page 146 of Robert Turner's "Logging by Rail" for a plan of this camp. The locomotives in this photograph are sitting on the "Loco Spur" identified in Turner's drawing. The area where this camp was located is now underwater as a result of...
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.
View of ERT Camp 9 looking south. The large building centre-left is the
cookhouse. The large building in the centre with the two peaked vents is the
bath house. You can see the railroad wye curving off to the right in the
distance.
Heel boom and a 'cheese block' load. Timber was so big that they didn't need high stakes - three or four logs were loaded with 'cheese blocks' (pyramid shaped blocks) holding the logs in place.
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.
In the early years a camp was more than just a place for the men to work and sleep, but also a home for their children and families. Larger camps had family housing, schools for the children, and other such amenities.
Logging in the area has not only included Vancouver Island itself, but also some of the smaller islands adjacent to it; including Cortes Island, Read Island, Sonora Island, West Redonda Island (Teakerne Arm), and others.
A variety of companies have logged in the Menzie's Bay area (just north of the city of Campbell River) over the years, including Lamb Lumber Co., Bloedel Stewart & Welch, MacMillan Bloedel, and Campbell River Timber Co.
Dozens of pictures were taken for the 'Lumber World Review' magazine during a June, 1917 timber cruise along coastal BC by Clark and Lyford Ltd., the first forest engineering firm in British Columbia.