Category Archives: logging

Logger Sports – Campbell River Salmon Festival

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Katherine

A bit of time well spent in Campbell River at the Logger Sports competition. [fbalbum url=”https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.262323570558028.1073742021.123247217798998&type=3″ size=”187″] Images also in a standalone album…

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Rosewell Creek Provincial Park tree stumps

Posted on August 10, 2014 by Katherine

The tree stumps at Rosewell Creek Provincial Park are a reminder of the logging heritage of Vancouver Island, and the power of nature to reclaim  and renew if we leave it alone. You can clearly see the notches that loggers … Continue reading →

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The big machine

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Katherine

I had seen this big logging machine on the way into Northwest Bay and was going to stop but was excited about heading to Rhododendron Lake and decided to stop on the way back into Nanoose. That’s not my usual … Continue reading →

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Bloedel, Stewart & Welch No. 4

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Katherine

Bloedel, Stewart & Welch No. 4  was built in 1925 for Bloedel, Stewart, & Welch Limited, the forest company that would become MacMillan-Bloedel Ltd. The locomotive is a 2-8-2T “Mikado” sidetank locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1925 … Continue reading →

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Fanny Bay – log boom

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Katherine

A log boom at Fanny Bay on Baynes Sound, near Denman Island

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Bloedel Stewart & Welch No. 1

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Katherine

Bloedel, Stewart & Welch was formed in 1911 by US lumberman Julius Bloedel and railway contractors John Stewart and Patrick Welch. BS&W’s first logging operation was at Myrtle Point, near Powell River, for which the Shay was purchased new from … Continue reading →

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Comox Lake

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Katherine

  Comox Lake with the Comox Glacier in the background. Besides being the reservoir for the Courtenay and Comox water supply, Comox Lake is also the water supply for the BC Hydro Puntledge Generation Station. The lake was at one … Continue reading →

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