The item is an industrial film. A young man who is skeptical about the future of the forest industry is taken to see various plants and operations. Illustrates the processes used and the diversity of wood products. Most of the film depicts MacMillan & Bloedel's Harmac plant and logging operations on Vancouver Island. There are also brief sequences aboard a ferry from Vancouver to the island.

Item consists of one photograph in a card mat of five men in an old growth forest. "C.T. Dunbar's Timber Limits on the Mamquam River, Howe Sound 40 miles from Vancouver, B.C. About 35 square miles. Edwards Bros. Photos." has been captioned on the bottom left of the photograph.

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): George Ellerbeck - 1 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: George Ellerbeck discusses the history of the Stave Lake Cedar shingle mill, which became a division of Canadian Forest Products in 1943. He joined the mill as a shingle packer in 1939, and in 1974 was Assistant Supervisor and Personnel Supervisor. [No content summary is available for this interview.]

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0002 item 1 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): George Ellerbeck - 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The George Ellerbeck interview continues for the first half of track 1.

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0002 item 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Stan Douglas - 1 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 (item 2) & TRACK 2: Stan Douglas discusses the history of the Stave Lake Cedar shingle mill from about 1934 to 1967. [No content summary is available for this interview.]

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Stan Douglas - 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Continuation of the Stan Douglas interview.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-] SUMMARY: A series of four [?] oral history interviews with John Gerald Prentice, who has served Canadian Forest Products Limited since 1944 as vice-president, president, and chairman of the board. From 1938 to; 1944, Prentice was president of Pacific Veneer Limited in New Westminster. [No content summary is available for these interviews.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-] SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Robert B. Bentley, who discusses the history of Canadian Forest Products and other forest products companies in B.C. [No content summary is available for this interview.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-] SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Harold P. Carpenter and Syd A. Barton. They discuss the history of the Huntting-Merritt Shingle mill, which became a division of Canadian Forest Products in 1948. Barton; joined Huntting-Merritt as a shingle packer in 1927, and worked as a foreman and later in sales, retiring around 1970. Harold Carpenter joined the company as assistant sales manager and became Sales Manager in 1934. [No content summary is available for this interview.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11-07 SUMMARY: Jim McCrindle discusses his work at Eburne Sawmills since 1934, including jobs in rail shipping and as a local salesman. Mr. McCrindle's father was also employed at Eburne Sawmills, 1927-1939. [No content summary is available for this interview.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-] SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Les Roblin and Ted Marrington, who discuss the history of Eburne Sawmills from about 1937 onwards. It later became a division of Canadian Forest Products. Roblin was ass;istant mill manager at Eburne, and Marrington was production superintendent. [No content summary is available for this interview.]

SUMMARY: A documentary sound program about the history of logging and logging railroads in the Nimpkish River Valley of Vancouver Island. Based on Derek Reimer's 1974 interview with George Lutz and Jack Vetleson.

This series consist of Forest Branch statements of royalty and timber royalty correspondence files, 1914-1918. Records are arranged by Forest District.

This series contains operational records of the Prince George Forest District relating to forest administration, 1919-1981. Records are arranged according to the Forest Service filing system. These records include annual reports, ranger meeting summaries, records regarding timber exports, forest protection, forest reserves, the Peace River hydroelectric projects, the Mica Dam flood basin, land use, timber cruising, silviculture, aerial photography, rights-of-way, timber sales, timber licenses, Public Sustained Yield Units, tree farm licences, and forest wood lot licenses. Also contains construction and maintenance reports pertaining to ranger stations, lookouts, forest roads and trails, boathouses, telephone lines and other Forest Service facilities. Records consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, licenses, permits, plans, etc.

The ministries responsible for the Forest Districts, and the years that they were responsible, are:

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands (1908-1945)
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Forests (1945-1962)
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands, Forests and Water Resources (1962-1975)
British Columbia. Dept. of Forests (1975-1976)
British Columbia. Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)

This series contains a table of average log prices, 1937-1938, and a historical review of provincial timber royalties, 1914-1937.

The item is a reel of documentary film showing corporate and government research in forestry, project development and improvement of production processes. Includes scenes at the Federal Forest Research Laboratory in Victoria and the Forest Products Laboratory in Vancouver.

The item is a reel of industrial film showing the transportation of logs from the forest to the mill. The main part of the film follows a load of logs down the coast from Masset Inlet on Haida Gwaii aboard the self-dumping log barge "Haida Carrier", towed by the tug "Haida Chieftain". Also includes footage of logging trucks and the manufacture and shipping of forest products.

The item is a reel of industrial film showing the world-wide marketing activities of a large forest products company, including communications networks, product research, market research and advertising. Also includes scenes of the Vancouver Stock Exchange and of product shipment.

The item is a reel of documentary film in which the products and the ecological benefits of the forest are explained.

The item is a reel of educational film about modern logging operations on the BC coast, and the value of timber to the province's economy.

Stock shots

The file consists of miscellaneous film footage and out-takes shot by the B.C. Forest Branch or the B.C. Forest Service, as well as the Forest Service film productions "The Great Fire" (1938) and "Timber is a crop" (made between 1939 and 1945). Subjects depicted include: alpine scenery; ceremonies at Peace Arch Park; construction of logging and forest access roads; Davis rafts; donkey engines; fire lookouts; fish hatcheries; Forest Service vessels; Forest Branch/Forest Service activities and personnel; forest fire fighting; Green Timbers Nursery; heavy equipment in use; horse logging; Junior Forest Wardens summer camp; land clearing; log booms; logging (including high-riggers and falling, bucking, yarding, skidding and loading of logs); logging camps; logging railways; logging trucks; New Westminster May Day celebrations (194-); portable sawmills; provincial parks; railway tie making; recreational camping; reforestation; silviculture; skiing on Mt. Seymour; slash burning; tree planting; and wildlife.

Industrial film. The cultivation and harvesting of pulpwood, and the manufacture of paper at the world's largest newsprint plant. Includes new developments such as the self-dumping log barge and high-speed chipper.

Industrial video. Value added wood products.

The item is a promotional video from 1985 which contains a general survey of the B.C. forest industry. Minister of Forests Tom Waterland appears. Assembled for use as stock shots for the B.C. government production "On the fire line" (1986).

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Henry Hansen in 1974.
T0299:0001 track 1: Mr. Hansen describes: early life in logging, 1929-1936; working for Brown and Kirkland Logging Company, 1942-1944; logging in the Nimpkish Valley, 1942-1962. Daily life in a logging camp. Changing worker-management relations, 1936-1946. Change from hand-falling to power-falling.
T0299:0001 track 2: Mr. Hansen describes: the hiring of fallers during the 1940s; early camp life at Nimpkish, 1942; organization of the workforce at Nimpkish, 1942-44; decline of morale at B & K logging camp during 1943-44; changing worker-management relations, unions and strikes.

T0299:0002 track 1: Mr. Hansen describes: hand-logging, fallers, falling crews and falling; accidents in logging, 1930-70; changes from hand-falling to power saw-falling, 1936-50; wage rates of fallers, 1935-50; duties of the production supervisor.
T0299:0002 track 2: Mr. Hansen discusses: changes in the manpower force at Englewood Division, 1950-70; changing types of work in logging, 1930-70; changing timber volumes, 1940-70; changing production costs, 1940-70; skyline and cold deck logging techniques, 1940-62; logging with caterpillar tractors; the building of Nimpkish, Woss and Vernon camps, 1943-53; travel in the Englewood Division, 1940-60; recreation in the camps; Vernon Lake fire, early 1950s.

T0299:0003 track 1: Consequences of the Vernon Lake fire on the logging operation at Englewood. Organization of Nimpkish Valley logging operation, 1940s. Railway logging techniques, 1940s. Sorting logs and the water transportation of logs. Advent of truck-railway logging operation at Englewood, 1962-63. (End of interview)

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Horace Hinton in 1975.
T0500:0001 track 1: Mr. Hinton discusses early logging experience: move to Nimpkish Valley from Washington State, 1919; description of English Logging Company Camp #1; railroad personnel; aspects of railway logging; problems of isolation; logging camp life; life in Englewood, ca. 1926.
T0500:0001 track 2: Mr. Hinton comments on Shay and Climax engines; Japanese mill workers at Englewood; life in the logging camps during the 1930s; railway logging in Nimpkish Valley, 1930-70; railway maintenance and accidents, 1930-70.

T0500:0002 track 1: Mr. Hinton discusses Japanese mill workers at Englewood, 1920-40; Chinese mill workers at Nimpkish Lake; floating camps (description and conditions); repairing logging equipment particularly steam locomotives. T0500:0002 track 2: Mr. Hinton discusses repairing locomotives (cont'd); working hours of locomotive engineers, 1920-40; the change from steam to diesel locomotives, 1951-52; registration of locomotives at Nimpkish; farms in the Nimpkish River area, 1920s; recreation and holidays from the camp, 1920s; travel on the union steamship line along the B.C. coast, 1930-40; description of company personnel, Frank Coleman and Russell Mills.

T0500:0003 track 1: Mr. Hinton discusses company personnel (cont'd); Eli Tibiff, 1920s; mechanical training of Hinton, 1930s; description of William "Bill" McMahon.

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Roy Hodgan.
T0508:0001 track 1: Mr. Hodgan describes early life and first logging camp experiences: born in Michigan; arrived in B.C. in 1900. Reminiscences of Nakusp and Nelson, 1901-1910. Early logging methods and working at interior logging camps: Nakusp, Nelson, Cascade, Chase, 1910-1914.
T0508:0001 track 2: The use of flumes and chutes in B.C. logging, 1910s. Logging experiences in Idaho and B.C., 1914-1926. Training as a bookkeeper, 1926-1927. Working at various mills along the B.C. coast and Vancouver Island, 1927-1933.

T0508:0002 track 1: Mr. Hodgan describes work at various coast and interior logging camps, 1933-1938. Description of Bloedel, Stewart & Welch Camp B at Franklin Lake, 1938-1940. Anecdote and description of J.H. Bloedel. Working during the Depression, 1929-1940. Move to Englewood, 1942. Anecdote about Christmas break at Nimpkish Camp, 1943. Nimpkish camp description.
T0508:0002 track 2: Description of Nimpkish camp (cont'd). Camp social activities at Nimpkish. Differences between coast and interior logging techniques.

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Glen Patterson.
T0509:0001 track 1: Mr. Patterson discusses his move to Nimpkish Valley as a fire warden, 1947; first sustained yield plan for the Nimpkish Valley, 1947-48; fire protection practices in the Nimpkish Valley; company attitudes toward forest conservation, 1940s; forest service view of company practices, 1940s. Changes in Nimpkish Valley forestry practices, 1947-56. Forestry reform brought about by the Sloan Commission Report, 1953-55. Progressive forestry practices of CFP in the Nimpkish Valley, 1947-56.
T0509:0001 track 2: Mr. Patterson discusses fire protection practices in the Nimpkish Valley, 1947-52; development of volume and yield tables for the Nimpkish Valley; tree farm license granted in the Nimpkish Valley, 1960; responsibilities of B.C. Forest Service and logging companies in forest management; public attitudes toward forest management; the work of forestry institutions at the provincial and national level; life in the Nimpkish Valley and description of Woss Camp, 1948-56.

T0509:0002 track 1: Mr. Patterson discusses women's lives in Woss camp, 1947-56 and the social divisions in camp life. (End of interview).

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0076 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: Addresses Social Credit convention RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-11-04 [or 5?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Premier Bill Bennett addresses the 1977 Social Credit provincial convention. He says that the purpose of Social Credit was not just to defeat the NDP, but to provide a better life for the people of the province. Outlines accomplishments of the Social Credit government: aid to seniors, universal pharmacare, extended health care, hospital construction, education reform, recreational facilities, juvenile law reform, anti-drug program, ombudsman, quarterly financial reports, auditor general, crown corporations, Reporting Act, better relations with municipalities, better relations with the government of Canada. Talks about federal/provincial ferries agreement, DREE agreement, ARDA agreement, BCR agreement; pledges not to abandon BCR; praises cabinet ministers and Social Credit MLAs; says Social Credit government is a team effort; says the government has an economic plan for BC; mining policy. TRACK 2: Forestry policy; new investment in the forest industry; says BC and Alberta are bright spots in Canada; one of the best records of new job creation in Canada; best record of man days lost due to strikes and lockouts in recent history in BC; discusses positive economic impact of the Alcan pipeline; demands national economic plan, cuts in government spending; calls for national unity. November 4 [or 5?], 1977.

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0077 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: "Ask the Cabinet" question and answer session at Social Credit convention RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-11-03 or 04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: An "Ask the Cabinet" question-and-answer session at the 1977 Social Credit convention, moderated by Premier Bill Bennett. Questions regarding child custody hearings; seat belt legislation; enforcement of labour legislation; ferry workers; property tax rates versus mill rates; [interruption as a pie is thrown in Bill Vander Zalm's face]; recreation grants, Vancouver Finlandia club; plans to make the BC economy more productive; pollution in Okanagan Lake; seat belt legislation; comments of Judge L. Bewley regarding women; decentralization of the court system. TRACK 2: Questions regarding government accountability to the convention; decrease in number in non-residential hunters; release of agricultural land from government to farmer and land leasing; Vancouver-Kitimat ferry service; Indian land claims, including Nishga claims; new campsites; why the Lord's Day Act is not enforced; auto insurance rates; balanced budgeting; impaired driving; education priorities; universities; advertising in English textbooks; monorail rapid transit. November 3 or 4, 1977. [Continues on T1707:0077.]

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0078 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: "Ask the Cabinet" question and answer session at Social Credit convention (cont'd) RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-11-03 or 04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Continues from T1707:0077, track 2.] Questions regarding corporation capital tax; penalties against impaired drivers for causing death in accidents; culpability of union members for damage or injury due to job action; money for university education; core curriculum; difficulties in getting a small company going. November 3 or 4, 1977. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The series consists of general office files from 1955 to 1982 created by Western Forest Industries at their Honeymoon Bay office between 1955 and 1982.

The series consists of the general office files of the office of sales and production coordinator of Western Forest Industries, 1953 to 1981. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject.

The collection consists of oral history interviews on the development of British Columbia's forest industry, covering the period from the late 1880s to the late 1950s through the first-person reminiscences of 44 individuals. The interviewess were lumbermen, loggers, and government officials associated with forestry. The recordings were made between 1955 and 1963 by Dr. C.D. Orchard, who served as British Columbia's Chief Forester from 1941 to 1958.

The original recordings were made on discs on an Edison Voicewriter dictation machine. The Voicewriter discs were copied to audio tape by the BC Archives in the 1970s.

The interviews are preserved in the form of audio tape copies and corresponding transcripts. Tape recordings exist for all of the interviews except the one with Thomas Roeser (T1888). Transcripts are available for all of the interviews except those with Eustace Smith (T1860) and Frank Kappel (T1889).

The collection also includes a 1958 CJVI Radio recording of Dr. Orchard speaking to the Victoria Men's Canadian Club about the British Commonwealth Forestry Conference.