Note: All images marked with * are in the collection of the Comox Archives and Museum, Comox, British Columbia.
Mack Laing working in their nut orchard *Baybrook, Life’s Best Adventure – from Laing manuscriptMack and Ethel Laing with salmon, 1935 *Baybrook Nut Orchard signLaing making salmon spoons, August 1934 *Laing with spring salmon, Comox 1929 *Laing with gun, 1929 *Ethel Hart Laing *Baybrook Nut Orchard signDenise Lawson Baybrook transparency installation 3Baybrook, Denise Lawson transparency installation 2, 2014Denise Lawson’s Baybrook transparency art installation 1Denise Lawson flag installation at Baybrook 2014Baybrook demolition end day 1Excavator sunrise., Baybrook sunsetBaybrook demolition end day 2End of day 2 Baybrook demolitionVery tight fit of excavator crossingn Baybrook bridgeExcavator ready at BaybrookDemolition of original Baybrook house beginsDemolition of Baybrook 2 pm August 6,2015Chimney of Baybrook during demolition, showing damage from Courtenay earthquake in 1947Baybrook demolition underway August 6, 2015Baybrook 6am Aug 6, 2015, demolition dayMemorial bench below former house siteBaybrook house and barn, 2015‘Beautification’ of Baybrook house site October 2015Baybrook porch August 2015 -photo by Sharon NiscakBaybrook back, hortly before demolition August 2015Baybrook August 6 2015Baybrook March 2015Baybrook, 2013Baybrook when Town of Comox purchased property, 2011Baybrook homestead 2010Comox winter Dec, 1922Stump clearing Baybrook 1938Slash pile on homesiteThe road home, 1924Baybrook road in winterBridge and road to Baybrook, 1929River stumps February 1943Hazelnut orchard in winterEthel and last clearing 1943Laing doing stump removal on homesite, 1922Laing probing, March 1938Laing ad stump after the explosionLaing with 3 parts of large stump after blasting on homesite. 1922Laing cutting large logLaing in homesite campA large explosion at homesite. 1922House under construction 1922Baybrook from backHomesite blasting and clearing in progressHomesite October 1922Laing in hazelnut orchard in bloom in winterBreaking up a logEthel Laing examining hazelnut treeSawing old wood, February 1942Comox estuary April 1926Laing Clearing for barn site, May 1942Laing (foreground) doing more clearing 1938Ethel Laing watching clearing of land for orchard, February 1943More stump clearing by McKenzie, March 1938Beginning road to Baybrook, January 1929Baybrook with extension built by buyerWinter at Baybrook 1954Baybrook after sale in 1949Oregon grape, fawn lily April 1926Laing ‘carpentering’ home May 1923Digging basement of Baybrook, May 1923Laing’s (left) First lesson on how to fall tree Oct.1922Logs harvested at homesite 1922Digging foundation for home ‘with assistant’ 1922Homesite camp looking onto Comox estuary 1922Homesite camp 1922Comox winter camp Dec. 1922Laing cutting tree (right branch), during land clearing 1922Laing taking photos of his homesite, with campsite in background, 1922Big Jack McKenzie stump wrangling Mar. 1938Homesite bank before clearing Oct. 1922Homesite shoreline 1922Aladdin Stanhope Kit house plan – bought by Laing to build Baybrook
