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The subseries consists of blueprints, drawings, maps and plans, some of which predate the company founding in 1946. The items are in the form of approximately 150 rolls (many rolls contain multiple sheets) and 11 flattened plans and maps.

The records have been divided into two categories: (1) maps and plans regarding logging and logging areas; (2) drawings and blueprints of structures and equipment. The maps and plans (approximately 70 rolls) relate to logging and logging areas, surveys, timber cruises, timber leases, timber sales, booming grounds and reforestation. The drawings and blueprints (approximately 80 rolls) relate to equipment, mills and other structures; for example, mill equipment, the gang mill, bard mill, shingle mill, boilers, chipper, chipscreen, conveyor feed, powerhouse, kilns planers, Crofton wharf, Chemainus Chip Dump and log dumps.
In addition, there are blueprints and drawings related to structures at the Honeymoon Bay townsite and Gordon River; these include, for example, the community halls, doctor’s office, office building, store, coffee shop, warehouse, linen house, office, and one-room school, etc.

Cartographic materials and architectural and technical drawings are also located in series CM/ES4. Cruise maps and timber estimates are also located in series MS-3137.

File contains diazo copy of Legal Surveys Division map 5T303 showing subdivided property in the community of Cowichan Bay. An invoice for the print is filed in the Accompanying materials file (CM/C2676 sh. 11).

The series consists of 11 subseries; these include 10 groups of mainly textual material relating to the activities of company departments. One subseries, MS-1333.K, consists of blueprints, drawings, maps and plans.

Departmental records are as follows. Records of the office of the manager include subject files of the manager, consisting of (but not limited to) authorization for expenditures, budgets, annual reports, and records of director’s meetings. Records of the accounting department include work sheets, sales summaries, purchase journals, cash books, and records of local sales. The sales and production department records include records relating to shingle production and lumber sales. The boom department records include log summaries, and authorizations for expenditure. Forestry/Engineering includes engineering field books, accident records, falling and bucket production records, logging and mill costs, and red cedar shingle monthly returns. Powerhouse records include the chief engineer’s log books. Electrical records include inspection permits and power plant information. Mill superintendent records include records of the fire department. Logging division records include accident record books, assessment returns for industrial roads and bridges, cruise records, leases, road costs, timber licenses and survey plans. Personnel department records are related to accident prevention, the safety committee, forest industrial relations, training, and wages and salaries.

Sub-series MS-1333.K, Blueprints, drawings, maps and plans, are in two main groups: (1) maps and plans regarding land, logging areas, timber holdings and logging, and (2) drawings and blueprints of structures and equipment; these include drawings of mill equipment and of structures related to the communities at Honeymoon Bay and Gordon River. Some of the blueprints, drawings, maps and plans predate the company founding in 1946.

The fonds consists of company business records which relate to the full range of its activities in logging, lumber and shingle production, and marketing of its products. Most of the records concern the plant at Honeymoon Bay, the logging camp at Gordon River, and the facilities and residences built for employees at those locations.

The fonds includes records of predecessor companies (records created prior to the founding of Western Forest Industries Ltd. in 1946). It also consists of records of the companies that had majority ownership of Western Forest Industries Ltd., including Alaska Pine and Cellulose Ltd. and Rayonier Canada (B.C.) Limited, (and the owner of the latter, after 1968, ITT Rayonier Incorporated).

The fonds consists of general office files, in four different series, dating primarily from ca. 1949 to 1981. These records were created by the following departments and offices: the manager, accounting, sales and production co-ordinator, boom department, powerhouse, forestry/engineering, electrical, logging division, mill superintendent, and personnel.

The fonds also consists of technical and architectural drawings, blueprints, maps and plans; these are in two different series: CM/ES4 and MS-1333.K. Most of the maps and plans relate to land, timber holdings, and logging and forestry issues. The technical drawings and blueprints relate to mills and mill equipment, and to buildings and facilities for the worker communities at Honeymoon Bay and Gordon River. Some of the maps, plans and drawings were created by predecessor companies prior to 1946.

The fonds also consists of ca. 900 photographs (colour and black & white), including prints, slides, and negatives. (Many of the latter are undeveloped). The images include the Honeymoon Bay plant, townsite and environs, workers, equipment and logging locations.

The fonds consists of the following series:
CM/ES4 - Western Forest Industries Ltd. plans and maps series [multimedia]
MS-1333 - Western Forest Industries Ltd. records
MS-2182 - Office files
MS-2187 - Sales and production coordinator office files
MS-3137 - Administrative office files

The following items are not attached to a series:
AAAA1582 Cowichan Valley logging and milling, which consists of unedited film footage of logging and sawmilling operations, ca. 1963;
G-03160 Western Forest Industries mill at Honeymoon Bay (1 photograph); and,
G-03161 Lake Cowichan, Climax locomotive No. 10 (1 photograph).

The series consists of company records relating to a wide range of functions and activities concerning logging, mill production, and marketing of products. They also relate to the residential communities and employee facilities built at Honeymoon Bay and Gordon River logging camp, Vancouver Island, BC.

The textual records and a small number of maps include: annual general meeting and board of directors meeting records (agendas, minutes, and manager’s reports); camp committee meeting minutes; safety and accident prevention committee activities; an organization chart and staff directories; visits and tours information, including company histories; property and insurance appraisals; assessments for the Honeymoon Bay plant and Gordon River camp; mill and machinery inventories; townsite house and property lease information; cruise maps and timber estimates; newspaper clippings and press releases; information retained as library or reference material; company-union agreements; cost summaries and costs data; invoice books; employee earnings record books; mill sales ledgers; journals, notebooks, log books, supervisor’s record book, and weekly time book. Records related to personnel matters include seniority lists, salary information, change in status forms, and job descriptions.

The series includes company publications created by Western Forest Industries, Alaska Pine and Cellulose Limited, Rayonier Canada (B.C.) Ltd., ITT Rayonier Inc., Doman Industries Limited, British Columbia Forest Products Limited, Western Forest Products Ltd., Hillcrest Lumber Co. Ltd., and Seaboard Lumber Sales Co. & Seaboard Shipping Company.

Some of the records may have been created and maintained by departments, including accounting and personnel. Many appear to have been maintained in the manager’s office, as a large proportion of the records bear the name of Donald F. Hammond, who started with the company in the 1940s and became manager and corporate Vice-President. As no creator classification system was discernible, and file titles were often not used, many artificial files needed to be created by the archivist, based upon subject matter.
The series also consists of ca. 900 photographs (colour and black & white), including prints, slides, and negatives. (Many of the latter are undeveloped). The images include scenes of the Honeymoon Bay plant and workers, environs of the plant, machines and equipment, logging locations and old growth timber, and photographs of residences in the Honeymoon Bay townsite accompanied by property appraisals.

The series includes a weekly time book which appears to give employee names, days worked, amount paid out, and method of payment. It is dated from 1909 to 1916, which is much earlier than the creation of Western Forest Industries Limited, and also earlier than WFI’s predecessor companies. The book is without company or location information, and therefore of unknown provenance.

The series consists of plans and maps showing W.F.I.'s land and timber holdings in the Cowichan Lake and Gordon River areas of southern Vancouver Island, as well as the company's facilities for the extraction and manufacture of forest products and the townsites W.F.I. developed for its employees. The plans and maps were originally stored in rolls, most of which had a brief annotation of the contents on the outside. Neither the plans and maps nor the textual records can document an original filing system. Some maps, especially timber cruises, have numbers on the outside, but their meaning is unknown. Items in rolls have generally been kept together with the exception of miscellaneous assemblages (probably superseded or obsolete drawings), which were separated by subject content (the principal exception to this latter procedure is the file: Obsolete : prior to 1948 file, CM/E172 sh.368- 450, which was maintained intact). Artificial subseries and files were established on the basis of major company interests, activities and structures and are described in attached file list. Media include pencil on paper, ink on paper, ink on tracing linen, autopositive, ozalid and diazo prints on paper and linen, blueprints and photocopies.

Subseries consists of technical drawings and maps showing a logging camp (Gordon River), a sawmill (Honeymoon Bay) and other W.F.I. facilities devoted to the extraction of timber and the manufacture of wood products. This subseries is arranged into further subseries principally by location. Other related drawings of equipment can be found in the textual records: MS-1333, box 71 (various files).

Sub-series consists of maps and plans of the Honeymoon Bay sawmill site and townsite, buildings, machinery, power supply and community facilities. This subseries is arranged in several artificial files according to area of the mill or to the non-mill part of the site.

File contains plans of the buildings and equipment in the gang mill and band mill, including log haul, debarker, gang saws, edgers, resaw units, slashers, trimmers, planers, linebars, sorting chain, carriage, swede, chippers, dip tank and electrical plans. Twelve leaves of text are in two files in the Accompanying materials file (CM/E172 sh. 83- 136 and sh. 215).

File contains plans of lots and railway lines in and around the village of Lake Cowichan.

Subseries consists of maps documenting W.F.I.'s land and timber holdings: cadastral maps, forest cover maps, surveys, timber cruises, logging maps and road and railway maps. Many maps are handcoloured. Other related maps can be found in the textual records: Add. MSS. 1333, boxes 76, 78, 83- 84 (various files).

File contains maps showing lot boundaries (mostly of W.F.I. properties), roads, logging railways, forest cover and the Honeymoon Bay Tree Farm.

File contains drawings of the power house, boilers, turbine, fuel handling and storage equipment and wiring plans. Bill of materials is filed in the Accompanying materials file (CM/E172 sh. 276- 293).

File contains primarily map sheets from British Columbia Government map series showing Crown grants and forest cover over large areas of Southern Vancouver Island. Maps originally issued by the British Columbia Dept. of Lands and Forests, Surveys and Mapping Branch, Forest Service and Resource Analysis Branch. One map issued by Forestal Forest and Engineering International Limited.

File contains drawings of structures destroyed in a fire of July 3, 1948. Drawings with dates after the fire are of a watchman's hut and his inspection circuit. The original roll has been divided in two for storage.

File contains plans of dry kilns prepared by the Moore Dry Kiln Company of Canada for Lake Logging Co. and W.F.I.

File contains one ozalid print of a map of the Ladysmith area showing lot boundaries, watercourses, roads and railways.

File contains power supply and distribution diagrams, plan of proposed power line at W.F.I. and miscellaneous wiring diagrams. Transmittal document is filed in the Accompanying materials file (CM/E172 sh. 327- 332).

File contains maps of W.F.I. properties along the upper Cowichan River, especially Block 403, showing timber cruises, logging and roads.

File contains miscellaneous drawings of the shingle mill building and equipment, including parts of the dry kiln and the dust collection system.

File contains road maps, surveys, logging and reforestation maps of W.F.I.'s Meade Creek Operation.

File contains drawings of log splitters, sawmill crane, speeder wheel, dipper stick, water tank for a fire truck, lumber strapping system, grinder table, conveyors etc.