Amateur film. Tofino school, students, schoolyard, teacher. Pan of Tofino, including St. Columba's Anglican church. Fish boats and floats in Tofino. Community picnic at Long Beach with various races, clam bake on beach, horseshoes, high- jump, more races and other sports. Pan of Tofino. Close-up of St. Columba's church and rhododendrons. Interior of church. Pan of Kildonan, BC Packers building, unloading "Princess Maquinna" at dock. Captain of "Princess Maquinna" at wheel. Cable station at Bamfield; views of Bamfield, its dock. Altar set up in Bamfield hall for a wedding. Wedding service. United Church boat "Melvin Swartout"; boat "Messenger III". More views of Bamfield, and lifeboat station and boat. Views of Barkley Sound.

The sub-series consist of oral history interviews dealing with the history of the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, primarily the pre-WWI era in the Bamfield and Barkley Sounds areas. Despite Orchard's title for the sub-series, there is no coverage of Metchosin, Port Renfrew or Sooke.

The series consists of tree farm forest development plans and forest management plans and created for tree farm licences (TFLs). The records were created by the Port Alberni Forest District, and its successor the South Island Forest District, between 1971 and 2005. Many of the records relate to the forestry management in the Barkley Sound, Clayoquot Sound, Walbran and Fairy Creek areas. Including forest that was the focus of protests and acts of civil disobedience in the 1990s, known as the Clayoquot protests or War of the Woods.

TFLs are a type of timber tenure which grants a virtually exclusive right to harvest timber and manage forests in a specified area. They are issued for a term of 25 years, but can be replaced every 5-10 years.

These files document the management of TFL 20, TFL 21, TFL 22, TFL 25, TFL 44, TFL 46, TFL 47, TFL 54 and TFL 57. Over the years, TFL boundaries and rights holders may have changed. For example, in 1984, TFL 20 and 21 were combined to form TFL 44, and TFL 44 was later divided to create TFL 57 in 1999.

TFL holders are required to submit a management plan every five years to the Chief Forester (RSBC 1996, c. 157, s. 35, and BC Reg. 23/2013). The Forest Act requires that the plan must:

1. Be prepared by a professional forester;
2. Include inventories of forest, recreation, fisheries, wildlife, range and cultural heritage resources in the area;
3. Be consistent with the tree farm licence, legislation and regulations;
4. Propose objectives regarding the management and utilization of timber resources, the protection and conservation of non-timber values, forest fire prevention and suppression, forest health, silviculture, and road construction and deactivation;
5. Include proposals for meeting proposed management objectives;
6. List measures to identify and consult with persons using the licence area for purposes other than timber production;
7. Include a timber supply analysis that analyzes the short term and long term availability of timber for harvesting;
8. Include an operational supply projection for the licence area, in support of the timber supply analysis that indicates the availability of timber.

These records include draft and final management or development plans; revisions or amendments to existing plans; correspondence between the ministry and licence holders, as well as correspondence with ministry staff; records related to public review of the development plans; consultation and correspondence with First Nations; reasons for why a plan or amendment was or was not approved; advertisements in newspapers and the Gazette; and maps and map overlays. The series also includes some records related to the construction, maintenance and deactivation of forest service roads in the TFLs.

The records have been classified as 19710-20 and 19710-30 in the Forestry Operational Classification System (ORCS).

The ministries responsible for these records, and the years that they were responsible, are:
Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)
Ministry of Forests and Lands (1986-1988)
Ministry of Forests (1988-2005)

The item is a video copy of a travelogue. Depicts some highlights to be seen during a steamship cruise along the west coast of Vancouver Island, from Barkley Sound to Quatsino Sound. Footage includes: a tourist information office; mountain and shoreline scenery; First Nations man carving a dugout canoe from a cedar log at "Ahooset" [i.e, Ahousat]; Friendly Cove lighthouse; Tulpana [i.e., Tlupana?] Canyon; exploring the shores of Nootka Island [?] by small boat; the "quaint Indian village" of Friendly Cove; totem pole honouring Captain Cook; Women making and selling baskets at Quatsino; Port Alice; a nearby whaling station [probably Coal Harbour]; seal colony on Salander Rock [i.e., Solander Island]; injured eagle, and hunters posing with dead eagles.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. "The Broken Group" is a sound documentary by Ann Pollock. Remote and uninhabited, the Broken Islands in Barkley Sound, off the West Coast of Vancouver Island, evoke memories of other times. Those involved in this program included Jo Thomas, Brian Whyte, David Hancock, Margaret Reynolds, Bob and Florrie Peel, Rob Tape, Peter Webster, Imbert Orchard, the [staff of the] Bamfield Marine Station, and CBC technicians Jose da Silva, Lars Eastholm, Bob Spence and Michael Nuss.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. "The Broken Group" is a sound documentary by Ann Pollock. Remote and uninhabited, the Broken Islands in Barkley Sound, off the West Coast of Vancouver Island, evoke memories of other times.

Amateur film. May Day: parade (mostly children); May Queen, etc. Gardens, beach, house at Parksville. The vessel "Uchuck I" travels from port (Ucluelet?) to places on Barkley Sound; people on board, scenery, etc.; Port Albion Cannery; return trip; Port Alberni Chamber of Commerce trip. Okanagan visit: Kelowna; city streets; 45th Regatta [i.e., 1951] - Ogopogo float; parks, people, fruit. Royal Visit to Parksville; motorcade with Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip [1951]. Small parade. Waterfalls. Port Alberni fishing derby, held by the Tyee Club: fishing; men displaying their catches; weighing in the fish, etc.

Journal, September 1, 1881 - April 30, 1895, kept by Harry Guillod, who was appointed as the first Indian Agent, West Coast Agency, in 1881. The journal is in a bound volume which also contains copies of correspondence outward, February 1894 - August 1895. The collection includes loose copies of correspondence outward and three monthly reports, 1892-1897, and three letters inward, 1891-1898. Guillod was based in Alberni from 1881 to 1884, in Ucluelet from 1884 to 1889, and in Alberni until his retirement in 1903, and death in 1906.

The series consists of 76 predominantly studio portraits of Indigenous people in what is now known as British Columbia, taken between ca. 1862 to 1890. The majority of the photographs were taken by Hannah Maynard, however some are attributed to Frederick Dally and Carlo Gentile (perhaps others). Photographs were produced and marketed as commercial products popular during the 1860s and 1870s, such as 'cartes de visites', and, to a lesser extent, as personal portraits in the late 1880s. Maynard's studio produced conventional portraits as well as composite photographs which combined portraits with field photography landscapes. Indigenous communities and individual's names have been identified at the item level when known.