Photograph depicts a loaded logging truck on corduroy log road near Peden Hill sawmill. The truck has three passengers--a man and two women--sitting on top of the loaded logs. The leftmost passenger is Mrs. Fred Tesluk; Fred Tesluk co-owned the Peden Hill mill with Cornel Neronovitch. Cornel Neronovitch stands at the right of the photograph, in front of the truck.
Photograph depicts the lumber yard at Peden Hill sawmill, likely after the fire that burnt down the first mill at that location.
Photograph depicts two men using a gin pole, winch and jammer to load raw logs onto a logging truck, likely near Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts two men felling a tree using a two-man crosscut saw in the Prince George area for processing at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts workers cutting timber with a lomen planer at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts a Fraser River backchannel with logs at Peden Hill sawmill. The jackladder to the sawmill is visible on the bottom right.
Photograph depicts a lomen planer in operation at Peden Hill Sawmill lumber yard. Other workers and stacks of timber are nearby.
Photograph depicts a log jack-ladder up to Nash Sawmill, co-owned by Cornel Neronovitch and Fred Tesluk. This sawmill was steam powered and burnt down in 1941. The sawmill was located on a back-channel of the Fraser River.
Man driving a two horse cart in front of beehive burner, cart is full of bark presumably sawed off the logs.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Mill Burner".
Six men visible on hillside and wood plank roadway, working together to roll cut logs down the hill and load them onto the truck.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso read: “logs up to 32 feet in length.”
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a switchback, wood plank logging road.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Truck Logging / Giscome BC.”
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a wood plank logging road. Another road under construction is also visible through forest in background.
Overview of the Giscome sawmill behind road. Lumber yard is visible in foreground while mill stands in background.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Giscome Mill / lumber yard in foreground".
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a wood plank logging road. Another road under construction is also visible through forest in background.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Logging - Giscome B.C. Plank truck road - also road under construction showing sills & cribbing."
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Daily Capacity 100,000 f.b.m. sawmill in foreground planer mill and lumber yard in background.”
An “Indiana” flatbed logging truck releases logs from its load onto a makeshift log slide at the edge of a road.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "unloading logs".
Photograph of a team of horses pulling a large load of logs. Several men are posed around the sleigh. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Eagle Lake Spruce Mills, Giscome, B.C." Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "4/ This is them after loading. You will observes that this four horse team has two loads, each sleigh has 14 ft banks[??] and is loaded with about 5 thousand feet of logs. In one camp they have a cattepillar[sic] tractor that takes as high as eight sleighs from the bush to the loading [??]. Will try and get you a picture for you. Elizabeth has has very poor health since last March. May have to change residences befor[sic] long very poor doctor here."
Photograph depicts a bulldozer convoy pulling empty flats through a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts an access road leading through a forested environment.
Photograph depicts a flooded rocky terrain with a forest landscape in the background. Annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Flattened to grade by Bulldozer, ready for shovel to dig. Sec. #2. Ground still very wet. Frost just out."
Photograph depicts a large cut ditch in the forested landscape. Shovel visible in distance. Annotation on recto states: "Portoin(?) of sec. #1"
Photograph depicts a bulldozer operating in a large ditch constructed within a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts two unidentified men working on the side of a rocky cut in a wooded landscape. Handrwitten annotation on recto of photograph: "compressor on rock cut sec. #4"
Large mechanized shovel working on a logged hillside. Annotation on recto of photograph states: "Shovel on sec. #3 working up grade towards sec. #2"
Photograph depicts a wooden flume being constructed along a hillside through a forest landscape. Handrwitten annotation on recto of photograph: "Flume over pile trestle, sec. #1, 8ft. wide"
Photograph depicts a wooden pile trestle that leads through a wooded landscape. Annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Pile tressle upper end. Sec.#1. Bents 12" centers - 3 only 12" piled driven to refusal; caps 10" x 12" "
Photograph depicts a man leaning over in front of a tall wooden pile driver in a forest environment. Annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Pile driver sec.#1. This is a gravel point"
Photograph depicts two men on a 'Maple Leaf' Chevrolet truck's running board in an active logging area near Peden Hill sawmill. The truck is hauling raw logs. The man at the right of photograph is Cornel Neronovitch.
Photograph depicts Cornel Neronovitch standing by a 'Maple Leaf' Chevrolet truck near the Peden Hill sawmill. Raw logs are stacked and chained on the truck.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
H.C. Kinghorn worked briefly for the B.C. Forest Service and was in charge of the YMFTP crew at Aleza Lake in 1936.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Prior to 1936, there was no electrical power at Aleza Lake.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Item is a photograph of a copy print that has been reproduced as a slide, resulting in low photographic quality. Location of original photograph unknown.
Item is a photograph of a copy print that has been reproduced as a slide, resulting in low photographic quality. Location of original photograph unknown.
"Ken McCannel, a forester in the Surveys Division was in charge of the YMFTP for the entire province. He dropped in at Aleza Lake on an inspection trip at the same time as Malcolm Knapp. Professor Knapp of the forestry department of UBC went from camp to camp giving lectures on forestry to the YMFTP crews. They posed for this picture. Sills were being whip-sawn for foundations on the older buildings." -- from the notes of Ralph Schmidt in accompanying file
Item is a photograph of a copy print that has been reproduced as a slide, resulting in low photographic quality. Location of original photograph unknown.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.