Forest fires--British Columbia--Prevention and control

The item is a video cassette containing twenty-two television spot ads promoting forest fire prevention, created by the Canadian Forestry Association.

Cat Building Fire Guard Elk Fire # 7

NA-13287
Item
1951

Part of Forest Service photographs

Cat Operating At Bloedel Fire

NA-07024
Item
1938

Part of Forest Service photographs

Cat Operating At Bloedel Fire

NA-07023
Item
1938

Part of Forest Service photographs

Cat Working On Fire Elk Fire # 7

NA-13530
Item
1951

Part of Forest Service photographs

Cat Working On Fire Guard

NA-34515
Item
1978

Part of Forest Service photographs

Cat Working On Fire Guard

NA-34516
Item
1978

Part of Forest Service photographs

Cat Working On Fire Horton Lake Fire

NA-13534
Item
1951

Part of Forest Service photographs

Cats Moving Up Fire Guard Bond Fire

NA-23982
Item
1968

Part of Forest Service photographs

Cats Moving Up Fire Guard Bond Fire

NA-23981
Item
1968

Part of Forest Service photographs

CBC news : forest fire stock shots

V1988:05/008
Item
[198-]

Part of Office of the Premier films and videotapes

The item is video copy of news footage of aerial stockshots and fire retardant stations. Contains unedited aerial footage of fire. Meeting re efforts concentrated on fire near Kootenay River. Workers, helicopters, areial views. Dropping fire retardent. Prescribed burning with drip torch. More aerial views of burned areas. Water bombers -- loaded, boarded, filled with water and retardant, delivering loads, etc.

CBC news : The journal : [Rapattack]

V1988:05/009.02
Item
1985

Part of Office of the Premier films and videotapes

The item is a video copy of a CBC public affairs new clip of an introduction to use of rapattack crews in fighting forest fires. Includes selection, training and activities of crew members.

Charles R. Mills interview

AAAB2054
Item
1960-10-25 [date recorded]

Part of Chauncey Donald Orchard fonds

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Charles R. Mills : the B.C. Forest Branch, 1915-1917 PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1917 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1960-10-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Worked on forestry data collection in the Dominion Railway Belt in B.C., 1913-14. Graduated in forestry from University of Toronto and joined B.C. Forest Branch, 1915. The Forest Branch office in Tete Jaune Cache, 1915. The story of starvation flats. More on the Forest Branch facilities in Tete Jaune. Mills was District Forester in Kamloops, 1917. Forest rangers in the Kamloops forest district. The work of the district forester. Forest fire protection. Fire fighting pumps. Left B.C. Forest Branch in 1917. The history of Tete Jaune. TRACK 2: Forest surveys in the Dominion Railway Belt;, 1910-14. Some personnel of the Dominion Forest Service, 1910-14. Members of Mills graduating class, 1915. Dean B.E. Fernow and the staff of the University of Toronto Faculty of Forestry. Mills current (1960) manager of the Ontario Forest Industries Association. Conditions in logging camps, 1912. (End of interview)

CHEK-TV news : forest fire stock shots

V1988:05/011
Item
[198-]

Part of Office of the Premier films and videotapes

The item is a video copy of CTV news footage. Shows stock footage of forest fires and forest fire fighting on Vancouver Island. Includes footage of: airtankers dropping fire retardent; burned-over areas; small towns at risk; testing of fire equipment; number of fires burning in the province; impact of lightning strikes; financial impact of forest fires in the province; rapattack crews in action; etc.

CHEK-TV news : Newshour Vancouver Island, July 17, 1984 : excerpt

V1988:05/012
Item
1984

Part of Office of the Premier films and videotapes

The item is a video copy of a news item. More than 40 forest fires are burning. All those on Vancouver Island are under control. Two lives lost in fire in the Pasayten River valley near Princeton; fire is so large that its smoke can be seen from Victoria.

CKVU news : Canal Flats, B.C., April 22, 1986

V1988:05/013
Item
1986

Part of Office of the Premier films and videotapes

The item is a video copy of a CKVU news item. Shows forest fire in Canal Flats area. Residents interviewed. Immediate action not taken?

Clearing A Fire Break By Hand

NA-22323
Item
1964

Part of Forest Service photographs

Cn Firefighters Establishing Fire Guard

NA-25757
Item
1970

Part of Forest Service photographs

Committee records

GR-1263
Series
1969-1975

This series contains the working records of a committee established to draft revisions to the sections of the Forest Act relating to the protection of forests from fire.

British Columbia. Forest Protection Division

Cookhouse Straw Fire