
Mack Laing working in their nut orchard *

Baybrook, Life’s Best Adventure – from Laing manuscript

Mack and Ethel Laing with salmon, 1935 *

Baybrook Nut Orchard sign

Laing making salmon spoons, August 1934 *

Laing with gun, 1929 *

Ethel Hart Laing *

Laing with spring salmon, Comox 1929 *

Denise Lawson Baybrook transparency installation 3

Baybrook, Denise Lawson transparency installation 2, 2014

Denise Lawson’s Baybrook transparency art installation 1

Denise Lawson flag installation at Baybrook 2014

Baybrook demolition end day 1

Excavator sunrise., Baybrook sunset

Baybrook demolition end day 2

End of day 2 Baybrook demolition

Very tight fit of excavator crossingn Baybrook bridge

Excavator ready at Baybrook

Demolition of original Baybrook house begins

Demolition of Baybrook 2 pm August 6,2015

Chimney of Baybrook during demolition, showing damage from Courtenay earthquake in 1947

Baybrook demolition underway August 6, 2015

Baybrook 6am Aug 6, 2015, demolition day

Memorial bench below former house site

Baybrook house and barn, 2015

‘Beautification’ of Baybrook house site October 2015

Baybrook porch August 2015 -photo by Sharon Niscak

Baybrook back, hortly before demolition August 2015

Baybrook August 6 2015

Baybrook March 2015

Baybrook, 2013

Baybrook when Town of Comox purchased property, 2011

Stump clearing Baybrook 1938

Comox winter Dec, 1922

Homesite shoreline 1922

Aladdin Stanhope Kit house plan – bought by Laing to build Baybrook

Baybrook July 2015

Comox estuary in winter 1922

Comox winter at Baybrook homesite,,1922

Bob Castle Cartoon August 2015 after demolition of Baybrook. Comox Valley Record

Laing in Shakesides

Long boat hook/paddle made by Mack Laing

Laing digging hole to dymamite stump as he clears his land for a house.

Laing in living room at Shakesides. Note deer head.

Homesite bank before clearing Oct. 1922

Big Jack McKenzie stump wrangling Mar. 1938

Laing taking photos of his homesite, with campsite in background, 1922

Laing cutting tree (right branch), during land clearing 1922

Comox winter camp Dec. 1922

Homesite camp 1922

Homesite camp looking onto Comox estuary 1922

Digging foundation for home ‘with assistant’ 1922

Logs harvested at homesite 1922

Laing’s (left) First lesson on how to fall tree Oct.1922

Digging basement of Baybrook, May 1923

Laing ‘carpentering’ home May 1923

Oregon grape, fawn lily April 1926

Baybrook after sale in 1949

Winter at Baybrook 1954

Baybrook with extension built by buyer

Beginning road to Baybrook, January 1929

More stump clearing by McKenzie, March 1938

Ethel Laing watching clearing of land for orchard, February 1943

Laing (foreground) doing more clearing 1938

Laing Clearing for barn site, May 1942

Comox estuary April 1926

Ethel Laing examining hazelnut tree

Sawing old wood, February 1942

Breaking up a log

Laing in hazelnut orchard in bloom in winter

Homesite blasting and clearing in progress

Homesite October 1922

Baybrook from back

House under construction 1922

Laing in homesite camp

A large explosion at homesite. 1922

Laing cutting large log

Laing with 3 parts of large stump after blasting on homesite. 1922

Laing ad stump after the explosion

Laing probing, March 1938

Laing doing stump removal on homesite, 1922

Ethel and last clearing 1943

Hazelnut orchard in winter

River stumps February 1943

Baybrook homestead 2010

Bridge and road to Baybrook, 1929

Baybrook road in winter

The road home, 1924

Slash pile on homesite

Demolition of original Baybrook home, August 2015

Mack and Ethel Laing wedding photo, 1927

Laing examining nut tree branch, Baybrook *

Ethel Laing and giant cauliflower. Baybrook 1934 *

Dynamite box from clearing land for Baybrook house

Laing in living room of Baybrook, 1923

Baybrook homesite lot diagram