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Logan family
1945
Clo-oose, West Coast Vancouver island, British Columbia, Canada

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Turning a raft of logs around by the Nitinat Lake cannery
1940
Nitinat Lake, West Coast Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

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A Davis raft
1940
Nitinat Lake, West Coast Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

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Bill Logan crossing the Klanawa river by boswain's chair
Date not available
Klanawa River west coast Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

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Crossing the Klanawa river
Date not available
Klanawa River west coast Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

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Darling river falls
Date not available
Darling River Falls, west coast Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

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Cliff
1940
West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

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The Varsity
1937
South West Vancouver Island, Canada

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A 44 lb salmon
1937
Nitinat Bar, West Coast Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

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Bill and Margaret Logan's house
1946
Bamfield, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

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Mr. Johnny Vanden, Bamfield resident
2005
Bamfield, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

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Russian bill
1943
West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

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We seemed to know about it, everybody knew about it. And uh, and uh, the crew got off, and uh, and so people thought well, they've abandoned the ship, might as well go out and loot the darned thing. See what they could get out of it. But you know, later on they salvaged the electric motors from the winches, and John Logvinoff did this, but the crew just walked in from the sea. They hit right alongside the bluffs, it was the Darling River it was, all sandstone, and uh, at low tide the tide goes right out there, they just put a ladder on, a Jacob's ladder, and walked ashore and camped on the beach, yeah, all thirty of them about, some women, and uh and the next day they walked into Bamfield. The navy boat took them to Port. They couldn't talk English, good heavens, they were Russians. Yeah and so Randall Christney said "Lets go out and see what we can find." It's such a long walk. And so we walked all the way out there, and camped. It was wartime, too, see and you weren't allowed to have lights on the beach or anything else. (Sound of laughter). So we made a fire anyway. And my god, it was in March when we were there, and by god the next day the tide was out when we went aboard, and the ship was on an angle, you know. And every time a wave hit she'd jump, no, she'd go like that. I stayed on deck, but these other guys went down below to see what they could find. (Laughter) Well, my gosh, they found a few things, but I didn't get much out of it. What did I get? � that mirror that's in the house there. And out of the staterooms, coat hangers, but uh. "So how many of you went out there?"
There was three of us I think, yeah. Randall Christney and Pallister's partner, and Pallister was going to come too. He started out you know, and he got to Hotel de Shell (al little creek by the trail where locals kept shells to drink from) that's not even as far as the bridge. And he says "Are we nearly there?" He says, "I can't go no more" He said "I gotta go back." He was packing old blankets and all kinds of stuff. Oh boy. But then you know, from Ostrom's, it's a walk of twelve miles. You see, that ship was about 2 miles below Pachena Point and so we had to walk all the way out there. And John Logvinoff got the contract to salvage the electric motors from the winches. I don't know how he wangled it, but he had time off from the station you see. And he had a little scow, and he got in his boat and towed that scow ...he didn't pick good weather. And how he got these motors, great big motors they were, onto the scow, what he did, and he started towing it, not making much speed, and he got by Cape Beale, a patrol boat, a Fisheries boat said, "You want a tow?" He was hardly moving ahead against the tide, and so they started towing and they towed too fast, and the whole scow tipped over and all the motors went into the chuck, and the scow turned upside down. All that work for nothing he did. And he was at it for about a month. (Laughter) For gosh sakes! Yeah.
It took him that long to get them off the boat?"
That's right.
"And on to his barge"
Some said it was a put-on job. I don't know the true story of it.
"And did this boat have guns on it?"
No it didn't. And it was running light, to Seattle I believe, for some reason, they were going to load up something there. And, uh, an old time ship. She was only 5,000 tonnes, you know. And it was quite an experience.
I didn't like to get down below in that darned ship you know, yeah. It had a tilt, and every time a wave hits, it would go like that. Well, I stayed on deck while them guys went down below and did a rummaging you see, and they got a few things, Randall got some paint. Randall Christney or somebody got the mirror and they gave it to me, and so when we got there the whole bridge, the whole bow section had broken right off, and the whole bow section was about thirty feet away from the bridge. Yeah, and we went at real low tide you see. You could see where she. it was all sandstone there you know. And where she hit, it just broke chunks of sandstone off this ledge�yeah, it must have ripped the whole bottom out of it.
"How long did the boat stay there before it went out to sea"?
Quite a while.
"So the people that walked ashore, did they just walk the trail back to Bamfield?" Then they camped on the beach, and then they walked in. And then I think it was Armetieres or one of them took them to Port.??? When we went there the best was gone. "John is that the boat where the money came from?"
Yeah, that's right. I don't know if you've ever seen any of that money.
"Yeah, I have one around."
But you know that money was worthless. I found that, near a stump. Someone, one of the passengers, or one of the crew hid it there, but I don't know if I still have any of that money yet or not. I had , oh it was a stack of bills. There must have been about fifty of them you know, in a stack. (Laughter). I know, quite a few people, Mrs. McKay wanted one I remember, Alex's mother, a souvenir she wanted. She said, "I've never seen Russian money before".
"Well I had one and obviously it must have come from the same stack. It had a picture of a Russian flyer on it."
Yeah, that was it. Well, Mickey and a few others went out in the Forerunner you know, to see what they could get. Well, they landed all right. I don't know how they landed alongside this ship; it was quite flat it must have been. So they got quite a bit of stuff, and when they came in here old Fry (the customs officer) seized anything that came in the harbour. He said, "No. You're not allowed to have any of that stuff." Well he thought too that Cape Flattery was Cape Flattery Lighthouse, but and for some reason he mistook Carmanah Lighthouse. I don't know how he could have even seen it really. But some stories kind of conflict with others you know.

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Russian bill
1943
West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada