A link to old forestry camp setup and travel was posted on wintertrekking:
For a winter outfit the canoes would be exchanged for two or three good toboggans [for a three-man crew]
, also a wall tent (about 10 by 10 with 3 ½ foot walls. A camp stove of 15 to 17 lbs weight, a good pair of snow shoes for each man, and 3 pairs of blankets. The camp stove is a very important article and various options are held as to the best description for the purpose. There are folding stoves of many different makes, with telescope pipes, etc. Some have ovens and others are without them, each kind having its admirers. For my part I use a solid made stove with straight 4 in[ch] pipes with one elbow so that my pipes lead out through the tent front, and an oven which is hung on the side of the stove when in use, with the open side next to the stove. The pipes pack up inside the stove. This I find is so air-tight that it holds the fire longer without having to be replenished so often, never smokes, and can be set more quickly. The pipes need cleaning less often, and its weight is less than that of a folding stove. The advantage gained in bulk when a stove is folded counts for very little. This solid made stove can be set up and a fire built in it while a man is taking the kinks out of a folder to get it hooked together, and it is generally a cold-finger job at best. Carry your pipe with an elbow through the end of the tent and no sparks will ever put ventilators through the roof, and a spark arrester or screen is unnecessary. The winter tent in front of an open fire is now nearly a thing of the past with bush rangers. During the coldest and most stormy night that may come you are comfortable and enjoy your pipe sitting in a tent with a stove. One undresses down to shirt sleeves, pants and socks, and by the light of a wax candle can pass the time until bedtime with cards, smoking and story telling. At such a time the open tent and outside fire is not in it. Cutting the wood for an open fire in winter is a work of very great labor, as compared with the few sticks needed for a stove. A pound or two of good candles should always be taken on a winter trip.
Wood, water and feathers (balsam boughs) are the main essentials required for a good camp. Look overhead to see if any standing timber or limbs are in danger of falling on your head, and avoid such a location. If in winter, select a nice sheltered spot where the wind wont cut a sweep at you. If the snow is deep, first have all hands on their snow shoes tramping a spot large enough for the tent and door yard, until the snow will almost carry without your snow shoes on, then spread some fair-sized balsam boughs over the snow, and proceed to pitch the tent. It is usually the best plan to peg down the four corners first, then run the ridge pole through and raise it up, bringing [?]it to the proper height with the crotches on the outside of the tent. Then peg down the sides
. Use no legs to the stove but drive four ground stakes through the snow until they reach ground and are firm; on these stakes place the stove. Dont be alarmed about these wooden stove legs catching on fire, they seldom or ever do. [There follows a section on how to build a balsam bed, which for obvious reasons I do not include] "
http://www.network54.com/Forum/352882/thread/1421246051/last-1421707750/Old-time+reading
. At least for the cold month!