“Logging With Oxen” by artist Harold Lyon, painted in 1983.

Around 1898, oxen were the main form of power in logging.
Large well equipped outfits used twenty to twenty four oxens.
These were divided into two teams: one pulling the logs from
the bush to the road, while the other and stronger team was
employed in skidding the logs to the water. Crude roads were
made and small logs were embedded at 8-foot intervals so that
the logs being pulled could slide while being drew to the sea to
be transported.

Best viewed in original size