A Typical British Columbia Logging Operation : [incomplete] (1929)
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This film is a heritage item from Library and Archives Canada and is only available in English.

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.

Source: Library and Archives Canada. Australia : National Film & Sound Archive fonds, 1989-0320. IDC: 134883.

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