Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2021.071.045 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Alberni Pacific Lumber (APL) baseball team. Fifteen of the seventeen men are wearing sweaters with the APL diamond logo. Written on the back: "APL Camp. I. Beaver CK RD. / 1930's - 40s" |
Image File Name |
1930s-40s - APL Sports team - Alberni Valley - 2021071045 - jpg72 - 001 |
Year Range from |
1930 |
Year Range to |
1940 |
Place |
Alberni Valley |
Provenance |
Jim Shillito's father-in-law, Percy Nelson, worked at an APL camp as a hand faller. Alberni Pacific Lumber Company later became the Alberni Pacific Division of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Jim Shillito worked forty-six years in the forest industry in total. Thirty-eight of those years he worked for Bloedel, Stewart & Welch (later MacMillan Bloedel). He started out as a "whistle punk" when he was just thirteen. |
Search Terms |
Alberni Pacific Lumber Alberni Valley People logging camp Baseball Team Sports Diamond Logo APL Beaver Creek |
Collection |
Documentary, Vancouver Island |
People |
Shilito |
Subjects |
People Camp |