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Three men pose for a photo in a rain-soaked parking lot during an unidentified Doman Industries ribbon-cutting ceremony. The man in the centre is Herb Doman. The leftmost man might be Ted Doman. They are standing in front of Doman industries transport truck no. 788, its bed loaded with bales of lumber. Herb and the leftmost man each have a hand on the truck's door railing.
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Four men stand in a rain-soaked parking lot during an unidentified Doman Industries ribbon-cutting ceremony. Behind them, a fifth man sits in the driver's seat of Doman Industries forklift no. 314, which is currently loading lumber onto the bed of a transport truck. All of the men are looking toward the camera. A distant shoreline can be seen across a body of water in the background.
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Doman industries transport truck no. 24 sits parked at the side of a dirt road by a lakeshore. There are a few packing palettes on the truck bed. Rolling hills surrounding a lake can be seen in the background.
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Doman industries transport truck no. 24 sits parked parked in a lumber yard. The truck is loaded with bales of squared-off wooden planks. Tall piles of lumber can be seen behind the truck. The side of a building can be seen in the background.
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A driver sits in the passenger seat of a Doman industries transport truck parked in a parking lot. The bed of the truck is loaded with long wooden planks. More transport vehicles can be seen behind the truck. Trees can be seen in the background. A large brown stain on the photo obscures the bed of the truck.
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A Doman industries transport truck sits parked on the log deck of a sawmill. The truck is loaded with long wooden planks. Tall piles of lumber can be seen behind the truck. Mountains can be seen in the background.
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A Doman Industries transport truck emerges from the enclosed vehicle deck of the Kahloke ferry, driving up the boarding ramp and onto the gangplank. The truck is hauling long wooden planks. An onlooker, possibly Herb Doman, can be seen to the right of the truck, leaning on the railing of the gangplank. Another onlooker can be seen in the background, looking over the deck of the ferry. The SS Asbury Park was a high-speed coastal steamer built in 1903 in Philadelphia, U.S.A. It was later converted into an automobile ferry and bought by the Puget Sound Navigation Company. From 1953 to 1964 this company sailed it between Vancouver and Nanaimo under the name "Kahloke".
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Three Doman Industries transport trucks sit parked in a line along a dusty road beside a rocky cliff face. The lead truck is Doman Industries transport truck no. 23. The trucks are loaded with long bales of lumber. Forested mountains can be seen in the background.
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Doman Industries transport truck no. 141, a truck tractor with no semi-trailer, sits parked in front of a Canadian Kenworth building.
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A transport worker sits in the cab of Doman Industries transport truck no. 150. The truck is fitted with two semi-trailers, both loaded with large bundles of thin, wooden boards. There is a signboard attached to the truck's bumper advertising an exhibit at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. The truck is parked by the side of a road in a rural area, with forests and hills visible in the background. The BC Forest Discovery Centre was opened in 1965 as the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. It was later known for a time as the BC Forest Museum.