Roy Ostling
Bill Proctor's waterfront acreage, Echo Bay, Gilford Island, BC
One of the true characters of Echo Bay, BC is Bill Proctor, a 78-year-old man who has spent his whole life fishing, trapping, handlogging, and salvage logging in the Broughton Archipelago. He was raised on a floathome in an isolated inlet by his Scottish mother Jae and still salvages about 1200 metres of logs a year. He bucks off the root end, attaches dogs or threaded steel rods into the log and hauls in his boat to a collection area. Bill owns 90 acres on Gilford Island and has handbuilt a crafted log home, a huge boathouse and several other buildings including a replica handloggers cabin, crafted from a single cedar log and a museum to house his collection of artefacts salvaged from about a 15 km circumference of the area. He has one of the most extensive collections of Kwakuitl implements in BC as well as a collection of 1300 bottles, one a wine bottle that dates from 1846.
Bill Proctor's waterfront acreage, Echo Bay, Gilford Island, BC
One of the true characters of Echo Bay, BC is Bill Proctor, a 78-year-old man who has spent his whole life fishing, trapping, handlogging, and salvage logging in the Broughton Archipelago. He was raised on a floathome in an isolated inlet by his Scottish mother Jae and still salvages about 1200 metres of logs a year. He bucks off the root end, attaches dogs or threaded steel rods into the log and hauls in his boat to a collection area. Bill owns 90 acres on Gilford Island and has handbuilt a crafted log home, a huge boathouse and several other buildings including a replica handloggers cabin, crafted from a single cedar log and a museum to house his collection of artefacts salvaged from about a 15 km circumference of the area. He has one of the most extensive collections of Kwakuitl implements in BC as well as a collection of 1300 bottles, one a wine bottle that dates from 1846.