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Donkey explosion at Gunflint Lake
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1927]
Scope and Content
Photograph of the scene of the steam donkey explosion on Gunflint Lake. One man was killed; a piece of the donkey went through the air and landed on the other side of the lake. (Item #2007.001.697 is a duplicate.)
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
13
Item Number
2007.001.234
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1927]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 12 x 7 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the scene of the steam donkey explosion on Gunflint Lake. One man was killed; a piece of the donkey went through the air and landed on the other side of the lake. (Item #2007.001.697 is a duplicate.)
Storage Location
Photograph Box 4
Subject Access
Logging
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Steam donkey, Hernando Island
Part Of
Florence McKay fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[1922 or 1923]
Scope and Content
Donkey logging at Haywire Point, Hernando Island. This picture shows the steam donkey in its shed with Wilfred Manson at the controls.
Part Of
Florence McKay fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2004.001
Item Number
2004.001.033
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[1922 or 1923]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 13 x 10 cm
Scope and Content
Donkey logging at Haywire Point, Hernando Island. This picture shows the steam donkey in its shed with Wilfred Manson at the controls.
Storage Location
Photograph box 3
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Hernando Island
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Old steam donkey (ID)
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1970s] (reproduction 2004)
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Wilfred, Nicol and Jack Manson and Ervin McKay, donkey logging on Hernando Island
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1920s]
Scope and Content
Donkey logging at Haywire Point, Hernando Island. Wilfred Manson, with cousins Nicol Manson and Jack Manson and brother-in-law Ervin McKay, standing in front of a steam donkey.Photograph of four men standing beside a steam donkey. Other copies of this photograph are 2004.001.031; Campbell River Museum #13642, and on p.32 of May Ellingsen Historic Photograph Collection, Album 5, p. 32 (fonds 2004.002).
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
13
Item Number
2007.001.123
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1920s]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 12 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
Donkey logging at Haywire Point, Hernando Island. Wilfred Manson, with cousins Nicol Manson and Jack Manson and brother-in-law Ervin McKay, standing in front of a steam donkey.Photograph of four men standing beside a steam donkey. Other copies of this photograph are 2004.001.031; Campbell River Museum #13642, and on p.32 of May Ellingsen Historic Photograph Collection, Album 5, p. 32 (fonds 2004.002).
Storage Location
Photograph Box 4
Subject Access
Logging
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Wilfred, Nicol and Jack Manson and Ervin McKay donkey logging on Hernando Island
Part Of
Florence McKay fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1920]
Scope and Content
Donkey logging at Haywire Point, Hernando Island.
Wilfred Manson, with cousins Nicol Manson and Jack Manson and brother-in-law Ervin McKay, standing in front of a steam donkey. Photograph has a diagonal crease. Other copies of this photograph are 2007.001.123; Campbell River Museum #13642, and and on p.32 of May Ellingsen Historic Photograph Collection, Album 5, p. 32 (fonds 2004.002).
Part Of
Florence McKay fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2004.001
Item Number
2004.001.031
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1920]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 10 x 13 cm
Scope and Content
Donkey logging at Haywire Point, Hernando Island.
Wilfred Manson, with cousins Nicol Manson and Jack Manson and brother-in-law Ervin McKay, standing in front of a steam donkey. Photograph has a diagonal crease. Other copies of this photograph are 2007.001.123; Campbell River Museum #13642, and and on p.32 of May Ellingsen Historic Photograph Collection, Album 5, p. 32 (fonds 2004.002).
Storage Location
Photograph box 3
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Hernando Island
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Log being loaded onto a logging truck using a donkey winch and spar tree (ID)
Part Of
Maclean family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[195-]
Scope and Content
Verso says "Cortez Island logging." (This series of photos also in the Mary and Otto Weiler fonds. Possible duplicate: 2003.002.504)
Part Of
Maclean family fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.023
Item Number
2019.023.021
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[195-]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w ; 15 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
Verso says "Cortez Island logging." (This series of photos also in the Mary and Otto Weiler fonds. Possible duplicate: 2003.002.504)
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Kerr, Janice Maclean
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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Log being loaded onto a logging truck using a donkey winch and spar tree (ID)
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[195?]
Scope and Content
(Possible duplicate: 2019.023.021)
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Steam tug towing a log boom
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Ervie McKay and Henry Tiber, standing by the rails of the logging railroad taking logs into Gunflint Lake
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
13
Item Number
2007.001.566
Accession Number
2018.002
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[1929?]
Physical Description
1 photograph print : b&w; 9 x 11 cm
1 photograph print : b&w; 11 x 16.5 cm
Storage Location
Photograph Box 4
Subject Access
Logging
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Tug towing log boom
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Scope and Content
Photograph of a tug boat towing a boom of logs out of the channel between Channel Rock and Lavender Islet.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0289
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 tug boat towing a boom of logs out of the channel between Channel Rock and Lavender Islet.
Subject Access
Logging
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Tug towing log boom
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Scope and Content
Photograph of a tug boat towing a log boom out of the channel beside Channel Rock.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0290
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 tug boat towing a log boom out of the channel beside Channel Rock.
Subject Access
Logging
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Float camp being towed past Channel Rock
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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Women sawing a log and splitting firewood
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950s]
Scope and Content
Photograph of six women with logging equipment, beside a house; behind them is water and another island. The women are standing beside a log; holding crosscut saws, a maul and an axe.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0648
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950s]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 9 x 6.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of six women with logging equipment, beside a house; behind them is water and another island. The women are standing beside a log; holding crosscut saws, a maul and an axe.
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Cortes Bay
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Fir forest
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950s]
Scope and Content
Photograph of forest with large fir trees. Photo was likely taken in Knight Inlet, as another print of the same photo was in an envelope with other photographs taken there.
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
1999.001.0732
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950s]
Physical Description
3 photograph prints: b&w ; 10 x 15 cm, 16 x 21 cm & 20 x 25 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of forest with large fir trees. Photo was likely taken in Knight Inlet, as another print of the same photo was in an envelope with other photographs taken there.
One of a series of photographs taken at Clarence and Doug Boardman's Dot Logging Co. camp in Knight Inlet.
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Knight Inlet
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Logging truck on the Whaletown wharf
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
Printed 1999 (originally created ca. 1950s)
Scope and Content
Photograph of a logging truck parked beside the freight shed on the Whaletown wharf, at the head of the ramp.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0823
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
Printed 1999 (originally created ca. 1950s)
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 14 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a logging truck parked beside the freight shed on the Whaletown wharf, at the head of the ramp.
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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"The cold grey dawn of a winter morning in Knight Inlet"
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a winter morning, Knight Inlet.
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
1999.001.1039
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
Photograph of a winter morning, Knight Inlet.
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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Doug Boardman logging equipment at Dot Camp, Knight Inlet
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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Two men loading first-growth fir logs onto a logging truck, Knight Inlet
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Captioned by Douglas: "Douglas fir coming out of Pacific coast forests."
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
1999.001.1045
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
2 photograph prints: b&w ; 18 x 12.5 cm & 21.5 x 16.5 cm
Scope and Content
Captioned by Douglas: "Douglas fir coming out of Pacific coast forests."
One of a series of photographs taken at Clarence and Doug Boardman's Dot Logging Co. camp in Knight Inlet.
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Knight Inlet
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Three loggers standing at the base of a huge first-growth cedar tree, Knight Inlet
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of three loggers from the Dot Logging camp in Knight Inlet, standing at the base of a giant first-growth cedar tree. Douglas has captioned it: "A giant red cedar of the Pacific Northwest which may have been a seedling when Columbus discovered America."
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
1999.001.1046
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
3 photograph prints: b&w ; 15 x 10 cm, 21.5 x 16.5 cm & 25 x 20 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of three loggers from the Dot Logging camp in Knight Inlet, standing at the base of a giant first-growth cedar tree. Douglas has captioned it: "A giant red cedar of the Pacific Northwest which may have been a seedling when Columbus discovered America."
One of a series of photographs taken at Clarence and Doug Boardman's Dot Logging Co. camp in Knight Inlet.
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Knight Inlet
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Three loggers standing at the base of a giant first-growth Douglas fir tree, Knight Inlet
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of three loggers from the Dot logging camp in Knight Inlet, standing at the base of a giant first-growth Douglas fir tree.
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
1999.001.1047
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
3 photograph prints: b&w ; 15 x 10 cm, 21.5 x 16.5 cm & 25 x 20 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of three loggers from the Dot logging camp in Knight Inlet, standing at the base of a giant first-growth Douglas fir tree.
One of a series of photographs taken at Clarence and Doug Boardman's Dot Logging Co. camp in Knight Inlet.
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Knight Inlet
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