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Presidential home: This log house in the Midhurst area, just north of Barrie, is the home of Chuck Peacock, president of Building With Logs Ltd
Presidential home: This log house in the Midhurst area, just north of Barrie, is the home of Chuck Peacock, president of Building With Logs Ltd

Presidential home: This log house in the Midhurst area, just north of Barrie, is the home of Chuck Peacock, president of Building With Logs Ltd

Date12/21/1981
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0131942F
Founder: Chuck Peacock founded log-building firm.
Founder: Chuck Peacock founded log-building firm.
12/21/1981
Creating with wood: Marvin Christi (above) uses modern chainsaws and old-time hand instruments to prepare the logs with which he builds houses. Each is unique: Orono artist Ron Barber (right) carves a different decoration for each Christie creation, in this case a painstakingly detailed eagle on a crooked beam that will project from the house over the front door.
Creating with wood: Marvin Christi (above) uses modern chainsaws and old-time hand instruments to prepare the logs with which he builds houses. Each is unique: Orono artist Ron Barber (right) carves a different decoration for each Christie creation, in this case a painstakingly detailed eagle on a crooked beam that will project from the house over the front door.
5/31/1983
Toadstool technology: Tak Chen, manager of Royal Mushroom Company in Mississauga, turns out 150 pounds of shiitake a day, thanks to 'logs' they're spawned on.
Toadstool technology: Tak Chen, manager of Royal Mushroom Company in Mississauga, turns out 150 pounds of shiitake a day, thanks to 'logs' they're spawned on.
1/6/1981
A Romp with Abeydale the dog or a snowmobile ride offers more pleasure to Ron Caisley than the bright lights of distant Toronto. Caisley and his wife Susie built a log cabin home 50 miles north west of the sprawling metropolis. With the help of friends, they tppled 40 pine trees for the buildings.
A Romp with Abeydale the dog or a snowmobile ride offers more pleasure to Ron Caisley than the bright lights of distant Toronto. Caisley and his wife Susie built a log cabin home 50 miles north west of the sprawling metropolis. With the help of friends, they tppled 40 pine trees for the buildings.
2/26/1973
The homes of the choco are merely wooden platforms with open sides, thatched roofs and notched logs for staircases, always erected by a river. Tourist(...)
The homes of the choco are merely wooden platforms with open sides, thatched roofs and notched logs for staircases, always erected by a river. Tourist(...)
3/7/1974
Logs are stacked neatly in rows throughout cutting areas and are later moved to the railway for shipment to war production centres. The inmates work o(...)
Logs are stacked neatly in rows throughout cutting areas and are later moved to the railway for shipment to war production centres. The inmates work o(...)
1/12/1943
Present from past: Sandy Thain stands outside the luxury home he created by dismantling two historic 19th century log homes and rebuilding them into a $375,000 luxury dwelling overlooking the Kleinburg golf course
Present from past: Sandy Thain stands outside the luxury home he created by dismantling two historic 19th century log homes and rebuilding them into a $375,000 luxury dwelling overlooking the Kleinburg golf course
8/24/1982
Carrying wood for his stove, 70-year-old John Lloyd walks in the yard in front of his log cabin home near Palgrave
Carrying wood for his stove, 70-year-old John Lloyd walks in the yard in front of his log cabin home near Palgrave
2/2/1971
Suise and Ron Caisley spent less than $1,500 to build and furnish their new log cabin home near Alliston
Suise and Ron Caisley spent less than $1,500 to build and furnish their new log cabin home near Alliston
2/23/1973
Log rollers: Bob Shafer, right, and Peter White dig in their picks and move logs off to the saw
Log rollers: Bob Shafer, right, and Peter White dig in their picks and move logs off to the saw
11/26/1981
Young man using roller skis on a path through woods.
Iain Sloan of North York logs hundreds of miles on his roller skis
10/4/1983
Frank Crane: The opera singer turned antique dealer was tired of the urban jungle so he retreated into the woods with his wife, Verena, and built himself a log cabin. And you can see the cabin Frank built! It's cathedral sized. Just the thing for housing such treasures as the Chinese tomb figure from the T'ang period (618 to 906 A.D.) which he is holding. These things are on trust, he says.
Frank Crane: The opera singer turned antique dealer was tired of the urban jungle so he retreated into the woods with his wife, Verena, and built himself a log cabin. And you can see the cabin Frank built! It's cathedral sized. Just the thing for housing such treasures as the Chinese tomb figure from the T'ang period (618 to 906 A.D.) which he is holding. These things are on trust, he says.
11/4/1983