From the logging camps (3)

It is just too hard to leave Port Renfrew, so we will not tell of life in Corner Brook, NL, or the BC environs of Victoria, Port Alberni, Great Central Lake, or Nanaimo just yet.  Lake Cowichan, Chemainus and the Malahat shall equally wait.  

By this time of his life, Grandad James Dickson, who was subject of “Double Genealogy: The Adoption Witness” was tending to issues of safety in mines across BC. He and Nana now lived in the big city of Victoria. So did Granddad and Granny Hemmingsen. City folk, we heard, repaired to places rural to get away from it all. Maybe not the middle of the woods. We though, got away from it all, by visiting grandparents in the city.  Big brother John and I either rolled logs all the way down the Strait to Victoria, or were seasick aboard the Maquinna. Are we there yet?

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INTRODUCTION OF LOGGING TRUCKS AT HEMMINGSEN-CAMERON

“From the Logging Camps” is sourced from a scrapbook Pop put together.¹ Here are two pictures from the book, previously shown; the first, logging train tracks in front of our home.

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The second is Mum and her kids in front of a logging truck. The “post it” below is from Page 2A and lays under this picture of the truck to explain how it emerged in the middle of the forest, where no road led. While trucks were to replace track I believe the track remained in front of the house, for the duration of our stay.

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 If you would like to see pictures of skidders/loaders or a 90-ton shay locomotive, then stay tuned. Trestles too, and maybe a tree, or just a cone.

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COPYRIGHT and NOTES AND SOURCES

1. ^{John Oliver Hemmingsen (1913-2008) authored this scrapbook. All postings and pictures are from his family collection. Posthumously published at this blog under its copyright, below.}
   
2. ^{Note: John Dickson Hemmingsen and his wife Cherie, are authors of two inspirational books:     “2000 Days in China” ISBN # 978-1-60264-538-7 and “Gifted Life: a Healing Odyssey” www.giftedlife.org  The latter is a free online booklet.}