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ly 60 miles in length from the
Cameron Valley east of Port
Alberni to the Carmanah
Point on the West Coast of
Vancouver Island. There is
presently 650 miles of usable
logging roads in the area and
150 miles of abandoned roads.

The Company first started
logging Franklin River at

“LOGGERS”

Camp “A” in 1934, at which
time it was a railway camp.
Camp “B” was first opened in
November, 1935, in the Corri-
gan Creek area. In 1940 it
was moved to Parson Creek
and in 1946 it was moved to
Celeman Creek, its present
site. The whole area at that
time was a railway show.

OLD CAMP “A” Franklin River. The Division was com-

posed at one time of Camp

“A,” Camp “B” and Sarita

River. The Company eventually closed down Camp “A”
and Sarita River. The trucks shown in the picture are
waiting to move into the new Cameron Division under

contract to the Company.

The first logging trucks
moved in to the China Creek
area in 1945. The Company
opened its Sarita River Camp
in 1949 and in 1958 it was
merged with Franklin River.

The conversion from rail
logging to truck logging was
completed in 1957 and the
whole area is now logged by
truck and the logs are dump-
ed in; the Alberni Inlet.

CAMP “B” Franklin River Division looking down main
street from the marshalling area. This is the biggest log-
ging camp in the world having some 550 employees.

Following is the complete
text of the Memorandum of
Asreement:

This Memorandum of
Agreement between MacMil-
lan, Bloedel and Powell River
Industries (Alberni) Limited
and Local 1-85, International
Woodworkers of America

_ shall form and become Sup-

ement No. 4 to the “Frank-
lin River Division” Collective

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Oh ties e ce}
* July, 1964.

rties hereto agree as

1, THAT there will be two
working areas recognized, one
of which shall be designated
the Franklin River Division,
and the other designated as
the Cameron Division; The
Coleman, Spencer & Sarita
booming grounds will be
within Franklin River Divi=
sion work area. River Point
(previously Camp “A”) and
China Creek will be within
the Cameron Division work
area.

2. THAT the initial em-
ployee staff at Cameron (ap-

proximately 100) shall be

CLOSE-UP VIEW of steel spars shows the maze of steel cables these machines are
equipped with.

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REGIONAL 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT and Financial Secretary of Local 1-85 Maurice
Corbeil reads the proposed Memorandum of Agreement dealing with the new Cameron
Division work area to the meeting of the Franklin River Division crew February 14.
Group left, Gil Ingram, Local 1-85 Business Agent; Corbeil; Al Freeman, Camp Vice-
Chairman; Bill Hawkes, Camp Chairman; Curly Turner, Camp Secretary.

selected on a Department

seniority basis from those ap-

plying for a list of jobs to be

posted at the Franklin Divi-

sion, subject to the following

two conditions:

(a) To be eligible for applica-
tion for one of the initial
vacancies, the employee
must be presently em-
ployed in a job category
at Franklin identical to
the one at Cameron for
which application is
made;

‘b) If, in the reasonable
opinion of Management, a
postponement of trans-
fer of Franklin River
employees is necessary in
order to maintain produc-
tion standards in the
Franklin River Division,

. the transfer to Cameron

\. Division may be tempor-
‘arily delayed.
3. THAT the Cameron Di-

vision will be considered a

“town camp,” ie. no living

‘See “LOGGERS”—Page 6
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WITH COPIES of the Memorandum in their hands these
Franklin River members pay close attention to the
discussion,