Campbell River Lodge is designed in the style of early Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) trading posts and was constructed in the 1940s by Alvin Parkin, a member of the pioneering Parkin family from the Comox Valley. Both the main building and four of the lodge’s cabins are constructed from logs sourced from trees in the Iron River area, which were killed in the 1938 Sayward Fire. A total of 1,400 large logs and 2,100 smaller poles were cut, notched, fitted, and numbered before being transported to the construction site. Remarkably, once the logs were assembled, a crew of just 10 men completed the entire building in only seven days.
