RECORDED: Mackenzie (B.C.), 1974-12-06 SUMMARY: Mr. Allan Sheppard, the first mayor of Mackenzie, BC, discusses the development of the town, including his recollections of its birth and early years as an "instant town" in the 1960s.
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-09-10 SUMMARY: Born in Norway in 1908; came to Canada in 1927; worked at Great Central Lake for Bloedel, Stewart and Welch; logging camp life; conditions during the Depression; union organisation during the 1930s; strike of 1934; worked for several companies on Vancouver Island; accidents in the woods; started with BCFP in 1946; worked in several coastal camps as foreman and later superintendent; in several BCFP camps on Vancouver Island and the lower coast; problems faced by a logging superintendent in the 1940s and 1950s; changes in logging methods.
British Columbia Forest Products Limited collection
The collection consists of interviews with employees and management about the history of British Columbia Forest Products.
Baptie, Susan Mary, 1944-
CALL NUMBER: T0596:0001 PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1950 RECORDED: Royston (B.C.), 1974-08-19 & 20 SUMMARY: Graduated UBC Forest Engineering, 1935-1942. Joined BC Forest Service. Cruised timber and surveyed in the interior. Assistant district forester, Prince George.
CALL NUMBER: T0596:0002 PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1950 RECORDED: Royston (B.C.), 1974-08-19 & 20 SUMMARY: Cruised timber and did surveying for BC Forest Service. Joined BC Forest Products in 1946. Description of early efforts in forest practices.;
CALL NUMBER: T0596:0003 PERIOD COVERED: 1946-1972 RECORDED: Royston (B.C.), 1974-08-19 & 20 SUMMARY: Description of early efforts in forest practices. Timber acquisition. Tree Farm License #22. Mackenzie development, etc.
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Chemical engineer and Vice-President, BCFP, 1955-1972 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1974-11-29 SUMMARY: Joined BCFP in November 1955; had been with MacMillan at Harmac; working with H.S. Simons Ltd on pulp mill design; new equipment used; first pulp 1957; bleached pulp 1958; expansion of pulp mill with newsprint machine; additions to pulp mill; sales of pulp through Mead; newsprint; Wright Co.; Crofton Pulp and Paper Co.
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mackenzie story RECORDED: Mackenzie (B.C.), 1974-12-13 SUMMARY: Donald M. Saunders, who was appointed general manager at Mackenzie, discusses the founding and construction of the Mackenzie pulp mill and sawmill.
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Logging Superintendent, BCFP RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1974-06-13 SUMMARY: Born in 1912, in Midale, Saskatchewan; schooling in Weyburn; Ed and his brother came to Cowichan Lake in 1934; jobs splitting wood for a steam donkey; join back rigging crew; worked at various woods jobs at Camp 6, Caycuse, BC; early union efforts at Caycuse; later woods foreman at Caycuse and logging superintendent at Cowichan; due to retire in 1975.
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-08-27 SUMMARY: Interview documenting the growth and development of BC Forest Products Limited.
RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1974 SUMMARY: Born in Manitoba in 1905; grew up on the lower mainland; married Victor Ramsay in 1931; life in the Halfmoon Bay logging camp; lived in other logging camps during the 1930s; traveling the coast on Union steamships; Narrow Inlet camp described; camp social life; problems of education in an isolated camp; husband worked for Niemi Logging Company; takeover of Niemi Lumber by BC Forest Products in 1946; moving a float camp described; forest fire at Britain River described; education and teachers at Britain River; medical problems; Oscar Niemi; labour relations; more on camp life; liquor problems in camp; race and ethnic relations; social life.
Frank "Blondie" Wice interview
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Head sawyer, Hammond Mill, BCFP RECORDED: Maple Ridge (B.C.), 1975-02-26 SUMMARY: First job in 1944 at the Hammond Cedar Co.; returned to Hammond in 1947; learning how to saw; changes in equipment; methods of operation; descriptions of job and types of decisions made on logs; quality of logs; production in the mill.
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Master mechanic in the forest industry RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-06-05 SUMMARY: Born in England in 1902; came to Victoria in 1911; started work for Cameron Lumber Company in 1927; worked as a machinist and engineer; worked in logging camps in the Nitinat area in 1922; description of logging camps; machinery at the Cameron mill in Victoria; employees; types of machinery used and technological changes; retired as a master machinist in 1967.