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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."

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".

Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Daily Capacity 100,000 f.b.m. sawmill in foreground planer mill and lumber yard in background.”

Overhead photograph of Giscome with the Eagle Lake Sawmill's beehive burner clearly visible in left foreground. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “Part of our community. school * ”

Photographic overview of the Eagle Lake Sawmill. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “The mill.”

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".

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".

Fully loaded logging truck driving along a wood plank logging road. Another road under construction is also visible through forest in background.

Fully loaded logging truck driving along a switchback, wood plank logging road.

Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Truck Logging / Giscome BC.”

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.”

File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Ray Williston.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Lea Gobbi and Kate Anderson. Includes two original recorded audio cassettes and two copies.

File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with John and Bernice Trick.

File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Horst Sander. Also includes photocopies of Horst Sander's personal records, such as a tree farm license.

File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Carl Strom.

File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Andre Laquerre.

Image depicts a food stand at the mill site at Giscome, B.C. Map coordinates 54°04'19.7"N 122°22'04.7"W

Image depicts the mill site at Giscome, B.C. Map coordinates 54°04'19.7"N 122°22'04.7"W

Image depicts the mill site at Giscome, B.C. A sign in the foreground reads "Maynard's Industrial Auctioneers." Map coordinates 54°04'19.7"N 122°22'04.7"W

Image depicts the mill site at Giscome, B.C. Map coordinates 54°04'19.7"N 122°22'04.7"W

Image depicts the mill site at Giscome, B.C. Map coordinates 54°04'19.7"N 122°22'04.7"W

Image depicts the mill site at Giscome and its beehive burner. Map coordinates 54°04'19.7"N 122°22'04.7"W

Image depicts several houses and the Giscome saw mill in Giscome, B.C. in the background. Map coordinates 54°04'20.9"N 122°21'53.1"W

Image depicts the Giscome mill site in Giscome, B.C. The bunkhouse is the large building with many windows. A train and railroad tracks are in the foreground. Map coordinates 54°04'17.6"N 122°22'06.1"W

Image depicts the remains of a street of houses in Giscome, B.C. The quarry is slightly visible in the background. Map coordinates 54°04'20.9"N 122°21'53.1"W

Image depicts the site of Giscome's first quarry, with Eaglet Lake located in the foreground.

Image depicts the site of Giscome's first quarry, with a train passing by and Eaglet Lake located in the foreground.

Overview of sawmill situated in valley. Finished lumber visible in distance.

Overview of Giscome, BC showing built and natural landscape.

Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Bunkhouse & Dining Room / Giscome BC".