Fonds 173 Gaston Mencke fonds

55 photographs

Date: 1947-1955 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of a copy of Gaston Mencke’s short memoir of his time at the McCrae Lumber Company and Park Brothers Lumber Camp from 1947 to 1955. The text is illustrated with photographs and includes a description of the Park Brothers mill site 45 years after he was employed there.

Physical description: 1 cm textual records

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Date: 1947-1948 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of 18 photographs of the McCrae Lumber Company at Faust, Alberta, showing the mill site, equipment, activities, and people involved in the operations.

Physical description: 18 photographs

Note]:

Used in scrapbook in main museum “Recollections of My Days in the Bush Camps.”

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Conditions governing use:

Accessioned as 1997.3 for a museum forestry display in 1997, but no provision for copyright.

Publication status:

Published

McCrae Lumber Company operated a camp at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

McCrae Lumber Company operated a camp at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Gaston Mencke’s first job at the McCrae Lumber Company was cleaning the slabs and edgings.

McCrae Lumber Company operated a camp at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Top-burning the slab pile at McCrae Lumber Company at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Clearing the sawdust at the McCrae Lumber Camp at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

McCrae Lumber Company operated a camp at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Cleaning the base of the conveyor at the McCrae Lumber Camp at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Eugene Plant bringing in a load of logs to the McCrae Lumber Company at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Eugene Plant bringing in a load of logs to the McCrae Lumber Company at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Eugene Plante and brother Lorenzo ready to unload logs at the McCrae Lumber Camp at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Pete Fortin and assistant rolling logs on rollway at McCrae Lumber Camp at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Laurier Hachey sawing and Pete Fortin rolling the logs at the McCrae Lumber Camp at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Marcel Brunin on lumber pivot and Armand Mailhot piling the lumber at the McCrae Lumber Camp at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Raoul Doucet’s white truck, average load 5500 to 6000 board feet at the McCrae Lumber Camp at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Truck driver Donald Duchesne with Raoul Doucet’s truck at the McCrae Lumber Camp at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Mr. Larose, bull cook at the McCrae Lumber Camp at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Mr. Larose, bull cook, bucking wood at the McCrae Lumber Camp at Assineau, near Faust, Alberta.

Date: 1949-1955 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of 25 photographs of the Park Brothers Sawmill and operations at Whitemud Creek. Subjects include the mill site and buildings, equipment and roads, activities, and lumber mill employees.

Physical description: 25 photographs

Note:

Used in scrapbook in main museum “Recollections of My Days in the Bush Camps.”

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Conditions governing use:

Accessioned as 1997.3 for a museum forestry display in 1997, but no provision for copyright.

Publication status:

Published

Gaston Mencke at the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Marten Purchon, from Watino, in Park Bros. logging truck at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Marten Purchon, from Watino, in Park Bros. logging truck at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Cat pulling logs (full length trees) up the jammer at the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Yard site at Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Romuald St. Amand in front of the Boiler Shed at Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Cookshack at the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

St. Amand in the doorway of the Fallers’ bunk house at the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Fueling up the power plant at the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Gaston Mencke sitting on the logs on the landing at Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Suicide Saw used to cut trees into logs at the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Romuald St. Amand beside the “suicide saw” at the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Elevation Conveyor used to bring logs to carriage and head-saw in the sawmill at the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Trim saws cut planks into even lengths at the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Conveying chain bringing lumber to loading ramp at the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Slab and edging conveyor dumped the scraps in the fire pit at the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Log bank at the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

“Suicide” hill on the route to Watino from the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

“Suicide” hill on the route to Watino from the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Coyote Hill about six miles north of the Park Bros. Sawmill on the route to Watino.

Lamb Bros. Lumber Haulers from Spirit River at the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Dan Dumont of Falher at Watino, ready to dump a load of lumber from the Park Bros. Sawmill at Whitemud Creek north of DeBolt.

Dan Dumont unloading a load of lumber at Watino. Notice the small pile of planks behind the rear wheels that help the truck brake faster.

Date: 1998 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of 12 photographs of modern logging machinery at Weyerhauser operations south of Grande Prairie, mainly the “Lemmit” owned by Bob Boulet and his sons from Grande Prairie.

Physical description: 12 photographs

Note:

Used in scrapbook in main museum “Recollections of My Days in the Bush Camps.”

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

“Lemmit” Limb and Top Cutter at Weyerhaeuser Operations south of Grande Prairie.

“Lemmit” picking the trees from the piles at Weyerhaeuser Operations south of Grande Prairie.

“Lemmit” sucking the trees through the rollers to cut the limbs at Weyerhaeuser Operations south of Grande Prairie.

“Lemmit” sucking the trees through the rollers to cut the limbs at Weyerhaeuser Operations south of Grande Prairie.

“Lemmit” lopping the tops off at Weyerhaeuser Operations south of Grande Prairie. This machine can take two trees at a time if they are small.

“Lemmit” lopping the tops off at Weyerhaeuser Operations south of Grande Prairie. This machine can take two trees at a time if they are small.

Bob Boulet of Grande Prairie, owner (with his sons) of the “Lemmit” at Weyerhaeuser Operations south of Grande Prairie.

Finished piles of trees after being topped and limbed ready to be hauled from the Weyerhaeuser Operations south of Grande Prairie.

Loading the trucks with a fork-lift at Weyerhaeuser Operations south of Grande Prairie.

Loading the trucks with a fork-lift at Weyerhaeuser Operations south of Grande Prairie.

Elk on the way to the bush at Weyerhaeuser Operations south of Grande Prairie.

Elk on the way to the bush at Weyerhaeuser Operations south of Grande Prairie.