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Loading a log at Bloedel Stewart & Welch Camp 4

Drilling boom sticks

John Perkins with an electric auger used for drilling boom stick on his shoulder. He is working at the Elk River Timber Co. booming grounds at Campbell River.

Haig Timber Co. operations near Campbell River

Loading a rail car. Haig Timber Co. didn't have a locomotive, so they used the International Timber Co.'s rail line instead.

Hastings Logging Co. operations at Heydon Lake

Fallers Joe Casey (left) and Art Bellarby (right) falling a tree with a cross cut saw.

Hasting co. camp near Rock Bay

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.

Bloedel, Stewart & Welch Co. locomotive near Campbell River

Locomotive is a Pacific Coast Shay and is likely Bloedel, Stewart & Welch Co. #11 used in the Menzie's Bay area.

Spar tree accident at Bendickson Logging

An accident with a spar tree - the top of this spar tree has been broken off, and the righ rigger has climbed up over the mess to put up a pass line to allow re-rigging of the spar.

Wood chip burner at Beecher Lake Lumber Co.

Constructing the wood chip burner at Beecher Lake Lumber Co., which was owned and operated by the Baikie family of Campbell River, and was located in the Campbell River estuary area. The Beecher Lake Lumber Co. milled the wood that was logged by Baikie Bros. Logging.

Paper leaving the Elk Falls Mill

Paper rolls being loaded onto a ship for transport; the ship is the 'Trolleggen Oslo'.

Installing the head box at No. 2 paper machine, Elk Falls Mill

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Camp at Woss

The camp kitchen and the cook.

Elk Falls Mill First Aid training

Early logging trucks at Palmer Bay

Elk River Timber Co. Camp 8 near Echo Lake

Bloedel, Stewart and Welch operations

Martin Fossum, camp foreman, trying out the new Burnett two-man chainsaw.

Elk River Timber at Gooseneck Lake

Loading at Gooseneck Lake. Dan McKenzie at left and Tom Laurie at right. Trucks brought loads to Gooseneck Lake and dumped them there for loading onto railcars.

Elk Falls Mill operations Campbell River

Loading a lumber barge at Duncan Bay. Booming grounds at Duncan Bay are visible in the background.

Log birling at Woss camp loggers sports event

Crew at Dick Parker's camp Trevenon Bay

Francis and Amy Barrow (on right) with loggers working for Dick Parker's camp at Trevenon Bay.

Hasting Co. Camp D on Trout Lake

View of Hasting Co. float camp on Trout Lake. The foreman of this camp was John Morgan. Trout Lake is now known as Amor Lake.

Fighting the Sayward Forest Fire

Hastings Co. booming grounds at Rock Bay

Pioneer Timber Co. in Port McNeill

View of the logging camp buildings at Pioneer Timber Co. at their operations at Port McNeill.

Beecher Lake Lumber sawmill 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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