Life in the Woods

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006.39.79
Lakings Camp No. 6
Laking's Camp No. 6 The William Laking Lumber Company established a series of camps on their timber limits east of Drag Lake. This photo dates circa 1910. A camp typically consisted of sleeping quarters, a cookery, blacksmith shop, and stables. T... View Full Record
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987.50.31
Unidentified group of lumbermen posed outside 2 lumber camp shanties, believed to be somewhere in Haliburton County, late 19th Century. Both shanties are of round log construction w. straw roof coverings. Ground & roof tops are lightly covered in s... View Full Record
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F985.291
Log drive, Dover's Rapids, Drag River, Haliburton. Reputedly cedar poles in the log drive, the men are using pike poles & peaveys to apply leverage to clear the logs hung up on shore. Photo dated 1901. Sepia image. See also photo 968.49.14, 985.24... View Full Record
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985.75.2
Black and white photo 15 15/16 inches by 19 7/16 inches. Laking Lumber Co. (Haliburton, Ontario) alligator boat on Drag Lake, with men aboard, circa 1907. Copy of Photo 987.70.6 in H.H.M. collection. See Files 987.55 and 987.70. (Same image as 9... View Full Record
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F985.290
Archie Robertson (1870-1961) was from the Allsaw district of Minden Twp., where he farmed. As a young man, he made his way over to Dysart Twp. to work at lumbering in the Winter. He is shown here on top of a sleigh load of logs driving a team of ho... View Full Record
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F985.297
Lumber camp scene. Group of men posed beside log building (bunkhouse?); log building in background L. When a photographer brought his camera outfit into a lumber camp, all hands turned out for a group picture, from the cook & choreboys, to the fe... View Full Record
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005.45.122
Mud Lake Dam
Dams on the Lakes Since the first timber limits were let out in Haliburton in the 1860s, water control has been an important issue. The loggers wanted to raise the level of nearly every lake and spent huge sums making their improvements to the rive... View Full Record