The Anderson Steam Donkey was installed Sep 28.
Anderson Steam Donkey at Lindsay Park
Steam Donkey #1619 is now on display
More photos and information is located here: http://qathet.prfhs.org/steam-donkey-1619-display/
The fairlead and pulley are part of the Anderson Display.
“Bear Creek” photo near Powell River?
Andrew Martin scanned this lantern slide photo, marked “Edward Bros., Bear Creek”, along with a Sliammon photo (shown below the “continue reading”) and wondered if there is a closer “Bear Creek” to Powell River than the ones north of Comox, near Port Alberni, northeast of Port Renfrew, or north of Sprout Lake. Does anyone recognize which “Bear Creek” logging show this photo of a Baldwin locomotive might have come from?
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Dave Florence presented “qathet Region Forest History, an overview” at the qathet Museum and Archives’ Spring 2022 Speakers Series on Thursday, March 10, 2022, at 6:30 pm.
It consisted of a heavily illustrated set of 118 slides, and took about 70 minutes followed by a question and answer session.
A Youtube zoom recording of the session is here (1 hour 23 minutes)
A .pdf version of the slides is here.
A few of the slides follow below.
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