Sawmills

Lumber graders Buta Manhas and Gurdial Parmar are hard at work at Mayo Lumber in Nanaimo, B.C. Wearing work gloves, hard hats, and safety earmuffs, the two men examine boards coming down[?] a long, flat track. From File "Mayo Lumber and Mayo Forest Products".

Six South Asian lumber mill workers eat lunch in the breakroom of Ladysmith Forest Products. One of them is only barely visible, with everything but his hand obscured by another worker. They sit around a table covered with lunchboxes and thermoses. Behind them, four other workers can be seen at a similar table, turning to better face the camera. There are coats hanging on the wall in the background. From File "Ladysmith Forest Products".

CIPA Lumber Co. dropsorter Boota Rai, wearing a hardhat and work gloves, turns away from his workstation in the sawmill to pose for a photo. Before him is a long, flat track covered in sawdust and various squared boards. Loose boards and tangled electrical cables can be seen at his feet. From File "CIPA Sawmill, Nanaimo". CIPA Lumber Co. Ltd. is a subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation. The role of a dropsorter at a Lumber Mill is to determine where each piece of lumber has to go based on the lumber thickness, width, length, species, quality, and other factors.

CIPA Lumber Co. lumber grader Darshan Athwal poses for a photo in front of various boards and milling equipment at CIPA's Nanaimo sawmill. Behind him, a plywood board is scrawled with scribbles, signatures, tally marks, and a drawing of a bird. From File "CIPA Sawmill, Nanaimo". CIPA Lumber Co. Ltd. is a subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation.

CIPA Lumber Co. sawyer Sarwan Sujan turns away from his workstation at CIPA's Nanaimo Sawmill to pose for a photo. Before him is a console with a large radial scale and several switches, knobs and buttons. Behind the console, mill machinery is visible through a glass pane. From File "CIPA Sawmill, Nanaimo". CIPA Lumber Co. Ltd. is a subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation.

Sixty-one lumber mill workers from the Night Shift at Industrial Timber Mills Ltd. pose for a photograph at the log deck of a Youbou, B.C. sawmill. They are arranged in three rows, with the first row being seated on a pile of lumber, the second row standing behind them, and the third row further behind standing on milling equipment and taller piles of lumber. On the lefthand side of the image, one man is partially obstructed by a beam, and only his legs are visible.

Thirteen South Asian lumber mill workers from the No. 1 Planer Day shift at Industrial Timber Mills Ltd. stand in two rows in a Youbou, B.C. lumber mill. The men in the front row are seated on a long sawhorse while the men in the back row stand. The planer is a machine that smooths and cuts logs of rough lumber to desired thicknesses and dimensions.

Creator: Gold, Wilmer

Group photo 66 lumber mill workers from the British Columbia Forest Products community in Youbou, B.C. The workers are posed in 4 haphazard rows amidst the sawmill equipment and piles of lumber at a log deck[?].

Creator: Gold, Wilmer

Photo of a bunkhouse and cookhouse for the South Asian labourers at Industrial Timber Mills Ltd, Youbou, B.C.

Creator: Gold, Wilmer

Group photo of 30 lumber mill workers from the Day Shift at Industrial Timber Mills Ltd, Youbou, B.C. The workers are posed in 3 rows amidst piles of wooden planks on the log deck[?].