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...
Moving the shack to a new location. This photograph was likely taken when Roderick Haig-Brown, along with Ed and Buster Lansdowne spent the summer beachcombing logs from the Nimpkish Lake. The logs that they collected had escaped when being floated to the railhead. Either Ed or Buster can be...
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.
Loading lumber at the Joe Zanatta's sawmill which was located behind the Quinsam Hotel in Campbell River. Mill was operated by his company Quinsam Trucking and in this photo is one of his Hayes Diesel trucks.
A group of school children in front of the new school at Granite Bay . At this time many of the children from the nearby Coal Creek Logging Ltd. camp attended this school.
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.