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  1. 2020.067.001a-f - Print, Photographic

    Two black and white photographs and four negatives, although only the photos were scanned. Photographs are of a high lead yarder.

    Record Type: Photo

    1947 - High lead yarder and Willamette skidder - Copper Canyon - 2020067001a-f - jpg72 - 001
  2. 2020.067.004 - Print, Photographic

    Photographs depicts salvage logging at Copper Canyon involving a yarder. Part of a larger group of photographs but only three were scanned to be representative of the group. Salvage logging is the process of logging trees in forests that have been damaged by natural disturbances (such as wildfire).

    Record Type: Photo

    1945-46 - Salvage Logging - Copper Canyon - 2020067004 - jpg72 - 001-003
  3. 2020.067.005a-c - Print, Photographic

    3 black and white photographs that depict "rigup goat".

    Record Type: Photo

    1946 - Rigup Goat - Copper Canyon - 2020067005a-c - jpg72 - 001
  4. 2020.067.006a-b - Print, Photographic

    Two photographs of a stump and sign. The stump if from a Douglas-fir that was felled to create the world's tallest flagpole. .a) is a close up of the stump and sign. The sign says: "Age 371 years. Height 272 FT Pole Length 225 FT Butt Top Pole Vol. 110[??]" Would have said 11000 FBM. .b) is the same stump and sign, but there is obvious wreckage and a man stands on top the stump. Written on the back: "stump & sign of Kew Tree, Copper C...

    Record Type: Photo

    1963 - Stump and Sign of Kew Tree - Copper Canyon - 2020067006a-b - jpg72 - 001
  5. 2020.067.007 - Print, Photographic

    Photograph of two men making an undercut into a tree with an electric chainsaw.

    Record Type: Photo

    1948 - Two Men and Chainsaw - Copper Canyon - 2020067007 - jpg72 - 001
  6. 2020.067.008a-b - Print, Photographic

    Two photographs of the Copper Canyon Camp 1 in Chemainus. Depicts various bunkhouses. This is likely a logging camp for Victoria Lumber Company Limited shortly before its closure.

    Record Type: Photo

    1945 - Logging Camp - Copper Canyon - 2020067008a-b - jpg72 - 001
  7. 2020.067.011 - Print, Photographic

    Laying of a railroad track. Three men with spike mauls driving in railroad spikes the track. These men were would have been referred to as "section hands".

    Record Type: Photo

    1950 - Laying of Railroad Tracks - Copper Canyon - 2020067011 - jpg72 - 001
  8. 2020.067.012a-b - Print, Photographic

    Two photographs that depict a steam donkey.

    Record Type: Photo

    1950 - Steam Donkey - Copper Canyon - 2020067012a-b - jpg72 - 001
  9. 2020.067.013 - Print, Photographic

    Photograph of a crew speeder on railway tracks.

    Record Type: Photo

    1950 - Speeder - Copper Canyon - 2020067013 - jpg72 - 001
  10. 2020.067.014 - Print, Photographic

    A railway roundhouse at Chemainus. A roundhouse is a building used by railways to service and store locomotives. Includes print and negative.

    Record Type: Photo

    unk - Roundhouse - Chemainus - 2020067014 - jpg72 - 001
  11. 2020.067.015 - Print, Photographic

    Photograph of a shovel doing road construction.

    Record Type: Photo

    1947 - Road Construction - Copper Canyon - 2020067015 - jpg72 - 001
  12. 2020.067.016 - Print, Photographic

    Photograph of construction of the Watson Creek trestle.

    Record Type: Photo

    1947 - Watson Creek Trestle - Watson Creek - 2020067016 - jpg72 - 001
  13. 2020.067.017 - Print, Photographic

    Photograph partially depicting one end of a yarder and a cold deck. Also photographed is a person, a chokerman, holding onto the claw of the yarder.

    Record Type: Photo

    1950 - Steam Crane - Copper Canyon - 2020067017 - jpg72 - 001
  14. 2020.067.018a-f - Print, Photographic

    Six photographs depicting a waste survey. Various fallen logs being inspected.

    Record Type: Photo

    1948 - Waste Survey - Chemainus - 2020067018a-f - jpg72 - 001
  15. 2020.067.019a-c - Print, Photographic

    Three photographs that depict a steam donkey and logs being loaded onto a flatcar.

    Record Type: Photo

    unk - Loading on Railroad - Copper Canyon - 2020067019a-c - jpg72 - 001
  16. 2020.067.021a-c - Print, Photographic

    Photographs depict a dropline carriage (also known as chokers) hauling several logs on a cable. The cables would have been attached to a yarder.

    Record Type: Photo

    unk - Dropline Carriage - unk - 2020067021a-c - jpg72 - 001
  17. 2020.067.022a-c - Print, Photographic

    Three photographs depicting a cold deck. One photograph also has a steam donkey in it with "1945" written on the back.

    Record Type: Photo

    1945 - Cold Pile - unk - 2020067022a-c - jpg72 - 001
  18. 2020.067.023a-c - Print, Photographic

    Three photographs that depict logs being loaded onto a flatcar.

    Record Type: Photo

    unk  - Duplex loading - unk - 2020067023a-c - jpg72 - 001
  19. 2020.067.024 - Print, Photographic

    Photograph depicting a Supreme Logs C-5 Tree Farmer & Co. Fire trailer. Slash burning at Coon Bay, Galiano Island. "Powell River Co. LTD. No. 2" painted on the trailer.

    Record Type: Photo

    1964 - Fire equipment - Galiano Island - 2020067024 - jpg72 - 001
  20. 2021.001.004 - Print, Photographic

    Quarterly meeting of the Federated Auxiliary District Council in 1944. The meeting was held in Vancouver. Names listed on the back, which was also scanned.

    Record Type: Photo

    1944 - Ladies Auxiliary of the IWA - Vancouver - 2021001004 - jpg72 - 001-002

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