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Oscar Johnson's float logging camp

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1955]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a row of float houses anchored near the shore of an inlet (probably Seymour Inlet). There is a logging slash just behind it.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1090
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1955]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 9 x 6.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a row of float houses anchored near the shore of an inlet (probably Seymour Inlet). There is a logging slash just behind it.
Subject Access
Logging
Columbia Coast Mission
Geographic Access
Seymour Inlet
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Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a view in Seymour Inlet.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1102
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a view in Seymour Inlet.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Geographic Access
Seymour Inlet
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"Wright's camp, Seymour"

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a long building on a float, with a boat and a smaller float in front of it, Seymour Inlet.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1117
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a long building on a float, with a boat and a smaller float in front of it, Seymour Inlet.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Geographic Access
Seymour Inlet
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Men moving logs in the water at a float logging camp

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a floating logging camp, with buildings and equipment on floats. Men with peevee poles are moving logs in the water.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1043
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 18 x 12.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a floating logging camp, with buildings and equipment on floats. Men with peevee poles are moving logs in the water.
Subject Access
Logging
Columbia Coast Mission
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The "Rendezvous" approaching a float camp

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph has a caption by Gilean Douglas: "Rendezvous Patrol. The good ship noses into a floating logging camp, where patients are waiting to be taken to the medical, dental clinic held at Whaletown in the mission house."
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1134
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w, 8.5 x 6 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph has a caption by Gilean Douglas: "Rendezvous Patrol. The good ship noses into a floating logging camp, where patients are waiting to be taken to the medical, dental clinic held at Whaletown in the mission house."
Subject Access
Logging
Columbia Coast Mission
Health care
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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The Moore logging float camp in Moore Bay, MacKenzie Sound

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a row of buildings on floats. From Left there is a building under construction; a roofed-over area for storing a boat; a white floathouse with container gardens in front;several more houses and a float with a large fuel drum.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1126
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: colour; 18.5 x 13 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a row of buildings on floats. From Left there is a building under construction; a roofed-over area for storing a boat; a white floathouse with container gardens in front;several more houses and a float with a large fuel drum.
Subject Access
Logging
Columbia Coast Mission
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The "Columbia" tied up to a floating camp

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph titled "The second "Columbia" tied up to a floating logging camp in the beautiful Knight Inlet country. When it's rough enough you can be seasick right in your own livig-room." Note: This photograph appears to be the source of the painting on the cover of "God's Little Ships" by Michael Hadley (Harbour Publishing, 1995). It was probably printed in "The Log".
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1022
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 13 x 10.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph titled "The second "Columbia" tied up to a floating logging camp in the beautiful Knight Inlet country. When it's rough enough you can be seasick right in your own livig-room." Note: This photograph appears to be the source of the painting on the cover of "God's Little Ships" by Michael Hadley (Harbour Publishing, 1995). It was probably printed in "The Log".
Subject Access
Logging
Columbia Coast Mission
Geographic Access
Knight Inlet
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Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of the view going up Seymour Inlet, with a ship's cable in the foreground.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1104
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the view going up Seymour Inlet, with a ship's cable in the foreground.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Geographic Access
Seymour Inlet
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Main part of Seymour Inlet

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a view of the main channel of Seymour Inlet, looking up Second Narrows.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1094
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a view of the main channel of Seymour Inlet, looking up Second Narrows.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Geographic Access
Seymour Inlet
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Entrance to Allison Sound in Seymour Inlet

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of the entrance to Allison Sound taken from inside island looking out to Belize Inlet.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1091
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 9 x 6.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the entrance to Allison Sound taken from inside island looking out to Belize Inlet.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Geographic Access
Seymour Inlet
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Entrance to Allison Sound in Seymour Inlet

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of the entrance to Allison Sound, taken outside the island and looking into Allison.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1092
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 9 x 6.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the entrance to Allison Sound, taken outside the island and looking into Allison.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Geographic Access
Seymour Inlet
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Jake Hansen's unfinished floathouse, Seymour Inlet

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a floathouse under construction, with piles of lumber on the float.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1116
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a floathouse under construction, with piles of lumber on the float.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Geographic Access
Seymour Inlet
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"A typical coastal logging camp of British Columbia. Everything on floats."

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of two men on floats made of logs chained together, with the buildings, tanks and other paraphernalia of a logging camp on the floats. Location is Seymour Inlet.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1032
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 18 x 12.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of two men on floats made of logs chained together, with the buildings, tanks and other paraphernalia of a logging camp on the floats. Location is Seymour Inlet.
Subject Access
Logging
Columbia Coast Mission
Geographic Access
Seymour Inlet
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Motor skiff at the mouth of a stream running into Seymour Inlet

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a man in a motor skiff at the mouth of a stream running into Seymour Inlet.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1113
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a man in a motor skiff at the mouth of a stream running into Seymour Inlet.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Geographic Access
Seymour Inlet
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Jake Hansen, his wife Mary and daughter Minetta on the deck of their float house

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a family standing on the deck of their float. Captioned by Douglas: "This is a new float house still unfinished, but one window box is already in place and planted. Boxes for float house flowers are made before the first nail goes into a new house."
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1044
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 18 x 12.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a family standing on the deck of their float. Captioned by Douglas: "This is a new float house still unfinished, but one window box is already in place and planted. Boxes for float house flowers are made before the first nail goes into a new house."
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
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Float camp being towed past Channel Rock

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Scope and Content
Photograph of a float camp with buildings being towed past the channel marker in front of Channel Rock.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0291
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Physical Description
1 photograph print: colour; 11.5 x 7.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a float camp with buildings being towed past the channel marker in front of Channel Rock.
Subject Access
Logging
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Fanning's or Lynnforest camp

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a float house, part of a logging camp, probably Seymour Inlet.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1098
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 9 x 6.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a float house, part of a logging camp, probably Seymour Inlet.
Subject Access
Logging
Columbia Coast Mission
Geographic Access
Seymour Inlet
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Doug Boardman logging equipment at Dot Camp, Knight Inlet

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Captioned: "Doug Boardman and some of the big cats, cherry pickers and other logging equipment which had to be rafted in to the Dot."
One of a series of photographs taken at Clarence and Doug Boardman's Dot Logging Co. camp in Knight Inlet.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1040
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
2 photograph prints: b&w; 21.5 x 16.5 cm & 25 x 20 cm
Scope and Content
Captioned: "Doug Boardman and some of the big cats, cherry pickers and other logging equipment which had to be rafted in to the Dot."
One of a series of photographs taken at Clarence and Doug Boardman's Dot Logging Co. camp in Knight Inlet.
Storage Location
Oversize photograph box
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Knight Inlet
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Logging camp on floats under tow

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[194-]
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.467
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[194-]
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 9 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Small float camp under tow (probably Bill Emery's buildings)

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[196-]
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.413
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[196-]
Physical Description
1 colour slide, 5 x 5 cm
Storage Location
Slide box 2
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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