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A Typical British Columbia Logging Operation

Accession number: 
1929.0019
Production Years: 
1929

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Library and Archives Canada:
"Actuality footage with elaborately decorated intertitles of a trip by Mr. W.S. Robinson and party visiting the Thomsen and Clark Timber Company camps. Intertitles read: Mr. W.S. Robinson and party visit Thomsen and Clark Timber Company's Camps; Photography - Vancouver Motion Pictures, Ltd.- Vancouver, B.C.; Vancouver - The centre of the lumber industry of British Columbia; Leaving Vancouver; Arriving at Nanaimo; Mr. E.B. Clark joins the party at Qualicum Beach Hotel; Deep Bay - Where the logs are made into booms for transportation to Vancouver; Riding a flat-car for a trip to the Tyee Sky-line machine; Tyee Sky-line machine; We resume our trip on a gasoline speeder, a rough ride - but through wonderful scenery; Falling; Bucking the logs; Topping and rigging a spar tree; Adjusting the clicker; Mr. W.S. Robinson gets first-hand information from the operator; Loading at lake; Scenes of the main camp at Horn Lake; Living quarters, dining hall, etc.; Trainload of logs enroute to tidewater, Deep Bay; Towing on inside waters - a safe and inexpensive means of transportation."