RECORDED: Princeton (B.C.), 1981-10 SUMMARY: Mr. Baker came from England and engaged in many occupations, finally becoming a forest ranger at Princeton.;

RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Canton was born and schooled in Ontario. During the Depression, he rode the rails, and then got a job in the forest industry. He arrived in Vancouver in 1938 and worked for a short time, but returned to Ontario and worked in mining until the war, when he spent four years in the service. After the war, he gained employment with the BC Forest Service.

RECORDED: Keremeos (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Cawston's father came to Ontario from northern England in 1831, and came to Osoyoos in 1874. Alfred was born in 1892. After his father tried a few business ventures that did not pan out, Alfred was sent back to Ontario for schooling. Alfred married in 1919 and ran a small fruit farm; in later years, he became a ranger for the BC Forest Service.

RECORDED: Clinton (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Robertson was one of the first forest rangers in BC. He was born in Clinton and spent most of his career there.;

RECORDED: Kamloops (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Gibbs worked as farm labour on the prairies until he moved to BC during the Depression. He had a small ranch at Forest Grove before joining the Forest Service. He was a ranger at Alexis Creek for many years.

RECORDED: Canal Flats (B.C.), 1982-06-09 SUMMARY: Joe was born and educated in the States. He came to Canada and worked as a cowboy until he took a job with the federal Parks department, working as a hunting and fishing guide until 1927. During the 1930s, he took whatever work was available. Later he became a forest ranger, quit that, and went ranching on the Kootenay River.

RECORDED: Sechelt (B.C.), 1982-03-17 SUMMARY: Mr. Chamberlain was born on the Sunshine Coast; he worked as a logger, and for most of his career was with the BC Forest Service.;

CALL NUMBER: T4135:0007 PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1920 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Maternal grandparents' immigration to Regina from England; father involved in Riel Rebellion; anecdote about Big Bear; paternal grandparents; father's history; father had fruit farm in Saskatchewan; met Maxwell Annabelle from Moose Jaw; Annabelle knew about 800 acres available, where Kinnaird is now; the Killoughs arrived in 1913; built house; hand logged by Joe Deschamps; brother goes overseas; labour scarce; Killoughs couldn't make mortgage and lost the farm; pre-empted on upper bench in 1918; farm later subdivided for smelter workers; Killough's stump ranch; logging on upper bench; Kinnaird school opens on push of the Dumont family; Killoughs walked to the Castlegar school until 1918; logging operation about Kinnaird; poles and posts. TRACK 2: Saulstrom, Anderson, Merry logging operation; stulls and logging for Rossland Mines; farmers from Milestone, Saskatchewan buy operation; Milestone Lumber Company and Road; steam mills; Joe Deschamps; planer; Kinnaird school attendance; homemade school bus; first bus driver; anecdote about arrival in Castlegar; logs shipped by rail to Gennelle sawmill; ownership of Gennelle mill; anecdote about Gennelle sawmill; wheat grown in Gennelle; cradle scythe; Doukhobor labour; strawberry and apple planted; layout of ranch; water needed for irrigation; early Castlegar; first post office and store owned by farmer; CPR station; section houses and crews; social status of station agent; Castlegar Hotel built out of boarding houses abandoned after bridge construction. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0008 PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1940 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Early Castlegar buildings and residents: "Alex the Indian", Collingwood Bing; McCauleys lived by the river; Castlegar school and children; Jim Laurie, station operator; Watts in West Robson; footpath added to rail bridge over the Columbia; Waldie's sawmill; families able to attend school; Pratt family played music in Farmers' Hall; other mill and section foremen families; Alex the Indian, a trapper, stayed at Killough's; found wikiup in 1924-25; Alex died shortly after; relief camp at China Creek, 1932; roadwork allowed Castlegar to grow; road before the Depression; Castlegar Community Hall; volunteer labour; "Stunt Night" at the community hall; songs, plays, boxing, dance after; relief camp workers brought to hall. TRACK 2: In 1929, built a telephone line to the top of Old Glory; worked as an assistant forest ranger part time; Westley fire; foreman on fire; hired by West Kootenay Power and Light; "deconstruction" of 1898 20-kilovolt line; construction of 60-kilovolt line; Blueberry Creek pre-emption; logging during the winter; 1961 gallbladder operation; married school teacher in 1935; forest Service didn't hire assistant rangers back in 1932; bought truck and built the wooden school but all assistant rangers and half of rangers laid off in 1932; forest development projects (relief), 1936 to 1939; assistant rangers hired to run camps; Seymour River camp 1936; Cowichan River Camp 1937; 100-man camps; setting up camps; pay scheme for workers; assistant rangers would go back to rangering every spring; provincial parks division came out of forest development projects. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0009 PERIOD COVERED: 1916-1975 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nurseries and reforestation started by forest development projects; Depression life on homestead; salmon stocks ended with the Grand Coulee Dam; anecdote about last salmon; whites never fished salmon; Westley; Page and Hill mill in Westley; Birchbank Lumber Company; East Indians in the Kootenays; anecdote about East Indians; Chinese labour and cooks; Chinese gardens; Waterloo; mines and boom; boat crossing; first water ferry; last ferry operator; size and operation of ferry; iron bridge; travel to Nelson; Thrums Road put in; residents in Waterloo; reflections on history; Tom Bloomer; CPR engineer; Bloomer and Hurst buy Castlegar land; Bloomers move to Nelson; Fred Horko. TRACK 2: 1926 Waldie's Robson camp; United Church minister [Rev. George R.B.] Kinney at relief camp who [shot or showed] home movies at camp; Kinney first to climb Mount Robson; anecdote about the death of a organizer in the forest development project; union activists suppressed; inspector of scalers for forestry; operators hired scalers; checkability; spent last years at work developing a scaling system; piece sampling explained; weight scaling explained; government takes over scaling; history of Forest Service; Sloan Royal Commission; university research flip-flops; suppressed forest growth; selective logging.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Kirk : ranger to trainer RECORDED: Kelowna (B.C.), 1983-06-17 SUMMARY: Interview with retired forest ranger Arthur Kirk about his experiences at forest ranger school, and his early and later experiences with forest fire control in B.C., particularly in regard to the use of aircraft.

The item is a video Interview. Jack Long and Gerry Wellburn discuss the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item is a video Interview. Don Adams discusses the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item is a video Interview. Jack Long discusses the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item is a video Interview. Hazel Ginnever discusses the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item is a video Interview. Jack Long discusses the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item is a video interview with Gerald S. Andrews. He discusses the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item is a video Interview. Eric Garmen discusses the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item is a video Interview. Albert McMinn discusses the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item is a video interview. Jack Carradice discusses the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item is a video Interview. Gerry Wellburn discusses the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item is a video Interview. Malcolm Knapp discusses the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item consist of a video interview with Lorne Swannell discusses the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item is a video Interview. Ted Young discusses the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item is a video Interview. John Cuthbert discusses the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item is a video interview. John Cuthbert discusses the history of the British Columbia Forest Service in an oral history interview recorded for use in the documentary "A Proud Past."

The item is a documentary about the history of the British Columbia Forest Service, produced for its 75th anniversary. Includes excerpts of interviews with twelve individuals.

The series consists of two oral history recordings and their associated transcripts. Both interviews were conducted by Jim Spring. The first interview (T4415:0001) is of Don Grant and Al Schutz; the second interview (T4415:0002) is with Al Schutz.