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Philip (Pete) Jackson Collection, Equipment, Page 12

Philip (Pete) Jackson is the son of a prominent Sunshine Coast logging company owner Lawrence (Al) S. Jackson and his wife Charlotte. Pete was born in 1931 and brought up in Wilson Creek. He worked for the family company Burns and Jackson, later Jackson Brothers, at Wilson Creek and in various logging camps around the Sunshine Coast, up Jervis and Toba Inlets, Vancouver Island and the Central Coast of BC.

L.S. Jackson under the name "Al" wrote articles titled "A Logger's Tales" for the local newspaper in the early 1950s.

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pj.3.54

date unknown -- one in a series showing barge dumping its load of logs near Port Mellon. Photographs taken from inside the wheelhouse on the barge.

Photographer unknown. Photo courtesy Pete Jackson.


pj.3.55

date unknown -- one in a series showing barge dumping its load of logs near Port Mellon. Photographs taken from inside the wheelhouse on the barge. Tail end boat keeps barge in place while barge is being dumped.

Photographer unknown. Photo courtesy Pete Jackson.


pj.3.56

1980s -- inside the wheelhouse of the tail end boat used to keep log barge in place while it is dumping

Photographer unknown. Photo courtesy Pete Jackson.


pj.3.57

1957 -- slack line machine used with skyline carriage.

Photographer unknown. Photo courtesy Pete Jackson.


pj.3.58

1957 -- small bulldozer in foreground with slack line machine used with skyline carriage in background.

Photographer unknown. Photo courtesy Pete Jackson.


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