856 Felling large timber - North Arm Fraser River near Vancouver, B.C. - George Oliver's contract
- AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-243
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- [ca. 1890]
Photograph shows a crew of nine loggers and a dog posing on a fallen tree.
856 Felling large timber - North Arm Fraser River near Vancouver, B.C. - George Oliver's contract
Photograph shows a crew of nine loggers and a dog posing on a fallen tree.
B. C. Spruce Mills, Lumberton, B. C. Four fourups hauling supplies to camps
Photograph shows four sleighs being pulled through the snow by teams of four horses.
B. C. Spruce Mills, Lumberton, B. C. [ man operating hill brake]
B. C. Spruce Mills, Lumberton, B. C. Tractor hauling two big loads.
[Cable attached to fallen log in wooded area]
Original accompanying envelope was labelled "B.C. Mills Timber and Trading Co. Operation, Rock Bay, Vancouver, Island, K.Y."
C.P.R. operators at York, B.C.
Photograph shows three posing on train engine, to which six cars of logs are attached.
[Donkey engine, horse, and logging crew]
[Donkey engine, horse, and logging crew]
Photograph shows workers posing with engine and horse in a cleared area.
Eagle Lake Sawmills, Giscome, B.C. Dumping the loads at mill
Photograph shows men standing by logs rolling down a ramp and into the water.
Eagle Lake Sawmills, Giscome, B.C. Three man sawmill in the woods
Notes on the back of photograph read: "Cutting planks for roads. One man skidding shorst logs in with horse, one man running the saw, and one man ruling the planks."
Eagle Lake Sawmills, Giscome, B.C. [tractor pulling logs]
Eagle Lake Sawmills, Giscome, B.C. [truck with logs on plank road]
Flume emptying into water full of logs
Photograph shows a body of water full of split logs, a flume, and smoke in the distance.
[Four men posing with logs on Great Northern Railway car]
[Group of men with railway engine pulling logs]
Original accompanying envelope was labelled "B.C. Mills Timber and Trading Co. Operation, Rock Bay, Vancouver, Island, K.Y."
Loading logs on trucks, that run on plank roads, Upper Fraser Mills
Photograph shows men posing on logs loaded onto truck. Photograph also shows a crane holding one log suspended.
Loading operation in the woods - Canal Flats
Photograph shows men using a crane to load logs onto flatbed railway cars.
[Logger posing on top of felled tree]
Photograph shows a logger standing on a log, with several other loggers in the background.
[Loggers among trees in thick forest]
A note on the back of the photograph speculates that the location of the site is Rock Bay.
[Loggers posing with partially cut tree]
Photograph shows crew members posing by logs in the forest.
[Logging crew posing with large tree]
Photograph shows three loggers posing with a partially cut tree. One logger in lying inside the cut.
Photograph shows crew members sitting on a fallen log, and one crew member posing with two horses.
Photograph shows a log moving down the flume.
The lettering on the photograph also states "Chuppers, Royal City, B.C."
Photograph shows logging crew posing on train loaded with logs.
Photograph shows loggers and horses and engines in a cleared area next to railway tracks.
[Men posing with Great Northern Railway engine and flatbed cars with logs]
Photograph also shows a sparsely wooded area in the background.
[Men standing beside railway engine pulling logs]
Original accompanying envelope was labelled "B.C. Mills Timber and Trading Co. Operation, Rock Bay, Vancouver, Island, K.Y."
Photograph shows two men standing on a log next to various logging machinery.
[People posing with railway engine pulling logs]
Photograph shows men posing in front of engine and on logs, and women and child inside the engine. Photograph also shows surrounding trees and stumps.
[Railroad engine, crew, and logs]
Rock Bay from the boom of logs
A note on the back of the photograph mounting reads: "A slight fall of snow, showing booming grounds, landing, store, hotel, hospital, residences in the distance."
A note on the back of the photograph reads: "Granville and Hastings, ca. 1868."
[Sultan Railway and Timber Company train with logs and crew]
[Three loggers posing with fallen tree]
Photograph shows a yard full of logs, and two men attaching logs to a platform behind a train.
Train load of logs from Rock Bay camps
Photograph shows a train with logs on snow covered tracks.
[Two loggers among trees in the forest]
A note on the back of the photograph speculates that the location of the site is Rock Bay.
Upper Fraser Mills. Loading logs on truck and small skidding tractor bringing in logs
Photograph shows men posing next to truck loaded with logs, and next to tractor pulling logs.
Upper Fraser Mills. Skidding logs out of an awkward place with a small tractor.
Photograph shows three men attaching a cable to a log, and one man in the tractor.
Upper Fraser Mills. Trucking on plank roads
Photograph shows two men posing outside truck loaded with logs on a plank road.