The Port Clements Museum
45 Bayview Drive V0T 1R0 Port Clements, BC, Canada

Throwback Thursday! Two men rigging a spar tree at A.P. Allison's first camp in Skidegate Inlet. Photo taken sometime between 1926-27.

Throwback Thursday! Photo taken in July 1940. West end of Maud Island with the homestead of Mr and Mrs. Joe Renner in the background. Charlie Hartie, Oscar Hill and an unnamed man building Davis Rafts.

Throwback Thursday! A man standing on a large spruce stump fallen on Moresby Island, Haida Gwaii. Date Unknown.

This is a 1930's Northern Electric Wall Telephone. Found by Mr. Bell under an old school building in Queen Charlotte in the 1960's. Sure is a big difference from phones today!

Throwback Thursday! Taking it back all the way to the beginning. Port Clements in 1909, back when it was called Queenstown. Buildings labelled along the bottom of the picture.

This is an original Pepsi-Cola tray from the 1920's. Found by Ernie Chapman when he bought the Frank Pearce store in 1958. The store is now known as Bayview Market.

This is a vintage Kodak pocket automatic camera bought in 1901 by T.L Williams ( He was 21 at the time) when he came to the Charlotte’s in 1908, the camera came with him. The museum itself has a variety of different cameras through time to check out!

Throwback Thursday! As we head into storm season here’s a reminder of one of our nastier storms here on island. December 1st, 1967 the storm had driven the high tide up to the road tearing the freshly paved blacktop off of the road in Tlell.

This mystery piece of milled wood had a row of X’s in the form of a grain distortion running up the side of the tree. This here is a slab of the tree. We have no clue what or who caused this. Any ideas?

This first-aid kit was donated in 2007 by Joanie Fraser on behalf of Teal-Jones. Although donated in 2007 the kit is believed to date back to the days of Crown Zellerbach in Sandspit. The reasoning is the list pinned on the lid with the contents of the kit, some being dated for a more modern example of a first-aid kit.

Throwback Thursday! This is a picture of high rigger Kurt Gudlauski making his way down a massive 200 foot tree he had just topped, the photo was taken by Vincent Massey who was also examining Kurts equipment on July 17, 1956

This is a massive glass fishing float, found in the late 1930s by Katherine Rampmaer on a beach in tlell then later donated by her daughter Caroline Carlson. The Rampmaers were island pioneers with Katherine's husband, Fritz Rampmaer, arriving on the islands in 1909.

This snowy owl was found dead in Tlell by Fred Barr in the 1960s. The cause of snowy owls migrating down to BC is because they may have over hunted their natural prey or had an increase in competition with other predators leaving them with a scarce food source giving them no other choice than to travel to warmer climates.

Throwback Thursday! Photo taken at Juskatla Logging Camp on Haida Gwaii,sometime in between the early 1960’s to late 1970’s by Archie Stocker who also drove the truck. This truck was one of MacMillian Bloedel’s large off highway haulers with a 95 ton load of Sitka Spruce.

This is the second radio to ever be used in Port Clements. Bought in 1924 by Fred Chapman. The radio operated by using three different batteries and you listened to it using headphones. Donated in 1990 by Mr. Chapman himself.

Shown here is a video of the White Raven. The video is a segment from Studio BC News which played Archie Stockers video on the White Raven.

Throwback Thursday! This photo of a giant spruce log cut by Morgans Logging Company was taken at Thurston Bay. This log had 14,400 board feet worth of wood. Photo from Mrs. Elmer Palmer.

These are two life jackets from the Queen of the North. On March 22th, 2006 the ship sank in Wright Sound, 135km south of Prince Rupert due to the failure of a slight course correction caused the ferry to run aground and sink.

Cork boots are a logger's best friend. Almost anybody working with logs has worn a pair of corks. These boots are used for grip on logs and slippery/ rough terrain. The second picture shows a woman using a pike pole to knock mud off of her corks.

Throwback Thursday! This picture is of the old Lynch Mill while it was in operation. The Mill ran until the late 1920’s. You can still see the remains of the building beside the Rainbow Wharf here in town. The photo taken by Alice McCrea.