Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1993.025.007 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Logs being collected by a series of overhead cables. On the right is a modified crane (cherry picker) mounted on a flatcar. The cherry picker would reel the logs into place and special tongs were used to place the logs on a flatcar. A "V" with a diamond shaped background is visible on the machine's side, indicating it belonged to Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company. |
Image File Name |
1930s - Modified Crane - Chemainus - 1993025007 - jpg72 - 001 |
Date (y/m/d) |
1930/ / |
Place |
Chemainus |
Provenance |
The Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Company (VL&M) was incorporated in 1889 by J.A. Humbird, a US lumberman and protégé of Frederick Weyerhaeuser. He purchased 100,000 acres (400 sq km) from the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway for $5 an acre, and a small sawmill in Chemainus. In 1893 VL&M built a new mill, which burnt in 1923 and was subsequently rebuilt in 1925. VL&M went into voluntarily receivership in 1944 and was purchased by the HR MacMillan Export Co. in 1949. The photographs in this accession are from the Estate of Jens Mogens Wiedswang and depict his career in the logging industry. Jens Mogens Wiedswang (1897 - 1993) was a Norwegian high rigger who began logging in BC in 1920. |
Search Terms |
Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Company steam donkey cherry picker Flatcar Chemainus logging people VL&M |
Collection |
Heavy Equipment |
People |
Wiedswang |
Subjects |
Railway Vehicles People People associated with manual labor Heavy Equipment Yarding & Loading |