Sub-series 1.9: Miscellaneous photographs

Image of lumberyard with wood station and unidentified man in the foreground]

Image of unidentified mother and her three children in front of a wood fence and wood building]

Image of a lumberyard where unidentified loggers load lumber onto train cars.

Image of two unidentified men standing on a locomotive attached to a railroad car with lumber for freight.

Image of broken railroad car in a scrap field near a wooden structure.

Image of locomotive from Mayo Lumber Co. Ltd. number 4 at lumber yard.

Image of a Kapoor Lumber Co. crew sitting on a log near one of the first logging engines used in the region.

Image of two unidentified men standing outside of the Mayo Store in Paldi. The building is covered in advertisements for various products.

Image of an unidentified group of men, women and children on the front steps of the Duncan Branch of the Mayo Lumber Co. office and store.

Image of houses, large piles of gravel and dirt and a diesel donkey.

Image of houses, large piles of gravel and dirt and a diesel donkey.

Image of an unidentified woman holding a bouquet of flowers and an unidentified man in a turban and suit.

Image of the post office with an unidentified man on the front steps. Next door is the new Mayo Lumber Co. store.

Image of an unidentified man lifting barbells in front of a crowd of people.

Image of the Duncan branch of the Mayo Lumber Co. office and store.

Image of four unidentified children standing near a lumber yard.

Image of two men carrying lumber as part of a weight living competition in front of a crowd of people during a Jor Malla festival. The wrestler Nanjo Singh is on the right.

Group portrait of school children and teacher in 1954. Students holding a sign 'Mayo 1954' more

Group portrait of school children and teacher in 1955. Students holding a sign 'Mayo 1955' more

Group portrait of school children and teacher in 1956. Students holding a sign 'Mayo 1956' more

Group portrait of school children and teacher in 1957. Students holding a sign 'Mayo 1957' more

Image of Cossy Asada operating a steam donkey on the right. The loader on the left loads logs onto railroad cars and then yarder on the right pulls logs up to the road. The winch pulls the cars by cable to the loading area for transfer to railway cars.

Image of an unidentified child standing on a stationary train locomotive in the forest]

Image of Mayo Singh's "speeder" car. more

Image of Sundher Singh, Amor Kour and their three children. The family stands in front of a car on a dirt driveway.

Image of unidentified group of children sitting on steps outside of a wood building.

Image of a large locomotive detached from train cars on railroad tracks.

Image of two unidentified people standing on railroad tracks infront of lumber yard.

Image of row of wood buildings in a lumber camp. Photograph labelled 'Mayo Siding / Duncan, B.C.' more

Image of lumber camp with two buildings in front of a forest, near a wooding station. Photographed labelled 'Mayo Lumber Co. Duncan B.C.' more

Image of the first Mayo Lumber Co. sawmill, which opened on March 9, 1918.

Image of two unidentified young girls standing on a wooden walkway infront of stacks of lumber and wooden building.

Image of a man transporting piles of lumber on a large vehicle near the railroad tracks. Photo labelled 'Dad'. more

Image of a railroad track running along rows of wooden buildings.

Image of building with large smokestack near cutover lands.

Image of locomotive with chimney smoking stopped at wood building

Portrait of Mayo Singh.

Image of a group of nine Japanese Canadian men at a road camp after being forcibly removed from their homes by the Canadian government.

Image of three men standing infront of locomotive train loaded with lumber on back train cars.

This document is an open invitation to the Paldi reunion in 1998. Contents include date. place, cost, what to bring and how to RSVP for the event.

Group portrait of nineteen women and their children.

Image of Lum Buck Chew with his arm around his grandson at his home. Lum worked for the Mayo Lumber Co. and his family was one of only four Chinese Canadian families in Paldi.

Image of (from left to right) Clarence Martin, Toemon Urabe, and Basant Singh with the train being brought to the B.C. Forest Museum (now the BC Forest Discovery Centre).

Image of the Mayo family and others exiting a house.

Image a group of women and children in front of a row of garages opposite the Mayo family home. Jindo Mayo is standing in the center with her mother, Bishan Kour, two to the left of her.

Image of an unidentified man jumping while another man and a child on a tricycle looks on.

Image of Kishen Singh Parhar standing in a river along with other unidentified swimmers.

Image of the Mayo family in front of Hill 60. Bishan Kaur is holding a child.

Image of an unidentified family standing in front of a house during the winter. The teenage boy on the left is holding their dog on his shoulder.

Image of a self-propelled steam crane laying rail for more track.

Image of a group of sixteen men sitting on part of a diesel donkey engine. A dog sits to the right of the man on the farthest left. These lumber workers were likely working for one of Mayo Singh's lumber companies. more

Image of the Mayo Lumber Co. mill

Image of the Mayo Lumber Co. mill after it was rebuilt. The original mill burnt down in 1919.

Image of Sherri Mayo posing in front of a fireplace.

Image of a park with a playground off of Haliburton St. This park was the site of the annual Mayo Lumber Co. picnic.

Image of a house across the street from the park on Haliburton St. where the annual Mayo Lumber Co. picnic was held. Mayo Singh arranged with the homeowner for use of their bathrooms during picnic.

Image of an exhibit model at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. The display case has a model of a Sikh lumber worker and didactics on wood in the Pacific North west.

Image of an exhibit model at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. The display case has a model of a Sikh lumber worker and didactics on wood in the Pacific North west.

Advertisement for the Mayo Brothers Timber Company (later known as the Mayo Lumber Co.) that was placed in the Cowichan Leader newspaper.

Drawing on tracing paper of figures and names. This is believed to be a tracing of photograph to identify subjects.