See more historical images and stories like this in the museum’s 2020 book Stepping Into Wilderness published with Harbour Publishing.
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Many logging families spent summers at the beach. After a series of fires that had threatened and sometimes destroyed homes, the Comox Logging and Railway Company purchased property at Williams Beach and built a row of cabins for the use of employees’ families. Photo: CDM Brown Collection