Store front of Campbell River Laundry

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Campbell River Fire Department personnel and equipment

Campbell River's first fire hall Located at 10th Avenue and the Island Highway. Fire Chief Oscar Thulin second from left with wife Agnes beside him.
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A hiking party going to the Falls, Campbell River

Anna Thulin, the photographer on their trip (name unknown), Mr. Keating (barber), Mr. Walter Spencer (telegraph agent), Elin Thulin, Miss Ethel Barwise (Hetty, the schoolteacher), and Mr. Mason (the gauge tender) near Mr. Mason's log cabin.
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The L & H Block Campbell River

L & H Block located at 900 block of Highway 19A through downtown Campbell River. At this time offices of Dr. Richard Murphy and Hancock on second floor, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Post Office at street level.
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View of the lobby at Forbes Landing Lodge, Campbell River

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Horace Smith and unidentified man with salmon

Horace Smith on left.
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View of the interior of the John Hart Generating Station

View of the turbines inside BC Hydro's John Hart Generating Station, Campbell River.
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Bee Hive Café staff celebrating annual Pow Wow days

Skip MacDonald (kneeling), owner/operator of the Bee Hive Café with his staff dressed up in readiness for the annual Pow Wow days celebration. This event was coordinated by the Campbell River business community of the day.
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Campbell River Mayor Tom Barnett with family

From left: Paul, Ruth, Tom and Nancy Barnett on the evening that Tom Barnett won the election to become mayor of Campbell River. December, 1976.
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July 1st Parade, Campbell River

Campbell River Brownies' and Cubs' floats in the July 1st Parade, Campbell River. 1958.
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Campbell River RCMP detachment

RCMP officers on the front steps of Campbell River's offices. From left: George Kent, Len Gray, and John Sonnenberg.
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A fire department farewell to Oscar Thulin

The Campbell River Fire Department says farewell to retiring Oscar Thulin and his wife Agnus. Left to right: Carl Thulin Sr., Carl Thulin Jr., Len Rossiter, Bill McIntosh, Agnus Thulin, Robbie Robertson, Oscar Thulin, Reeve Jack Lee, and Doug Robinson. Nov. 3, 1965
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Postcard of Elk Falls in Winter

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The First Snowball Queen

Campbell River Elementary Junior Senior High School, 1953.
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July 1st parade, Campbell River

Rexall Drugs' entry in the July 1st parade.
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Campbell River Students

Back row, L to R: Teacher Mr Ferguson, Lenard Lindsey, Campbell Crawford, Kenneth MacLean, Gordon Peterson, John Harambourne, Albert Peterson, Eina Saarikka, Weldon Dawson, Alfred Vanstone, Charlie Rogers, Lyall Higgins, Weldon MacLena; front Elmer Higgins, Jane Smith, Inez Benson, Maud Anderson,...
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Happy Fishermen

Mayor Kenneth 'Skip' McDonald, steelhead fisherman Gerry Steel, and H & F manager Jerry Hatcher.
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Queen Margaret's field hockey team

Elizabeth’s half sister Reubina Ferry attended Queen Margaret’s Private School in Duncan. Prior to 1950 children from the Campbell River Indian Reserve were not permitted to attend the local public school. A Day School on the Tyee Spit provided Grades 1 to 8, but parents who wanted a high school...
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Flooding in Campbellton

First Community Hall and Campbellton flooded (prior to dam being built).
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Construction of Community Hall

Constructing the Community Hall in downtown Campbell River. The hall took a number of years to build but was opened in 1954.
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July 1st parade, Campbell River

Campbell River Recreation Assocation's float in the July 1st parade.
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Winter scene at the corner of St. Ann's and Alder St., Campbell River

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Painter's Lodge boats lined up on the Spit

View of the wooden Painter boats and some of their guides lined up at the Tyee Spit. In the background are some of the homes in the North Campbell River area. Ned painter built these wooden clinker-built style boats specifically for fishing in the Campbell River area.
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Office at BC Hydro's John Hart Power house site

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Art Carey with his catch of a rare Daily Triple

Art Carey of Walla Walla, Washington and his catch - a rare "Daily Triple", three registered Tyee taken in one day weighing 33 lb, 37 lb, and 38 lb respectively. All three fish were landed on August 9, 1963.
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