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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 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 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.

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.