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The series contains records relating to the Peace River and Mackenzie River basins, from correspondence file 0309728. It consists of a preliminary report on the Peace River basin flood of 1972 by the Inland Waters Branch of Environment Canada and records of meetings of the Mackenzie Basin Intergovernmental Liaison Committee.

Engineering reports on the power potential of the Liard and Peace River watersheds prepared by British Columbia Engineering Co. and Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. for the Wenner-Gren British Columbia Development Co. and the British Thomson-Houston Co. Includes maps showing potential dam sites and explanatory notes by Ray Williston.

The series consists of cutting permits for forest licences and timber sale harvesting licences. The records were created by both the Chetwynd Field Office and the Dawson Creek Forest District. These offices were part of the Prince George Forest Region. Each office maintained their own files and, in most cases, both files have been retained.

The ministry created multiple files for administering the permit process. These include a central file as well as individual files for each cut block. Since this series also contains files from two offices, there are often duplicate central and block files for each permit. Both are numbered identically but they are differentiated by the acronyms CFO for the Chetwynd office and DDC for the Dawson Creek office.

All files contain a variety of correspondence, reports, maps, and forms. The central file is split into two parts. The first part contains a copy of the cutting permit, final harvesting reports, permit extension documentation, and stumpage fees. The second part contains preliminary inspections by Forest Service staff, appraisal analysis documentation and correspondence.

The ministries responsible for creating these records, and the years that they were responsible, are:

British Columbia. Ministry of Forests (1988-1992)
British Columbia. Ministry of Forests and Lands (1986-1988)
British Columbia. Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)
British Columbia. Dept. of Forests (1975-1976)
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands, Forests and Water Resources (1971-1975)

The records were classified as 19500-45 in the Forest Operational Classification System (ORCS).

The series consists of a photograph album created around 1875, possibly as a presentation album for Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie, containing 77 black and white photographs taken by Charles Horetzky between 1871 and 1875.

The photographs were taken during the Canadian Pacific Railway Survey and include images of the Homathko River area, Jasper House, North Saskatchewan, Peace River, Gardner Canal, Dean Canal, Bella Bella, Lake Huron and Mississaugua River. Many photographs are numbered and all have a caption.

Letters inward, 1934-1977, mainly concerning Cassiar district, the South Nahanni, Liard and Finlay rivers, and the Alberta foothills; copies of pages of Guy Lawrence, "40 years on the Yukon Telegraph" annotated by T.F. Harper Reed. Microfilm (neg.) 1934-1977 35 mm [A00953(1)] Photocopies ca. 1960 1 cm Raymond Murray Patterson was born in Country Durham, England, on May 13, 1898. He was educated at Rossall School, and in 1917 went directly from school into the British army. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, was captured in the spring of 1918, and spent the remainder of the war in a Prisoner of War camp in Silesia. After the war, he attended Oxford University and then joined the Bank of England. In 1924, Mr. Patterson came to Canada. After working briefly on a dairy farm in the Fraser Valley, he homesteaded in the Battle River area of the Peace River District of Alberta. In the summer of 1927, he made the first of the northern journeys which formed the subject of much of his later writings. Travelling by way of Fort Simpson, he spent the summer on the South Nahanni River, returning south by way of a difficult journey via the Fort Nelson River and Fort St. John. He returned to the South Nahanni in the spring of 1928 and remained there with his partner, Gordon Matthews, until the spring of 1929. Mr. Patterson returned to England to be married in 1929. Until 1946, he and his wife and family lived in Alberta, first sheep ranching in the Bow River Valley, and then running the Buffalo Head Ranch in the Highwood River Valley in the Alberta foothills. The Pattersons moved to Vancouver Island in 1946, living first near Sidney and later in Victoria, from 1962 on. In the late 1940s, Mr. Patterson made two more northern trips, again, largely by canoe. With his experiences on the South Nahanni, they formed the basis for three of his books. In 1948, he travelled from Wrangell up the Stikine River to Telegraph Creek and then down the Dease to Lower Post. In 1949, he went from Prince George via the Crooked River to Finlay Forks and then up the Finlay River. In the 1940s, Patterson began to publish articles in magazines such as The Beaver and Blackwoods on his experiences as a homesteader and his northern travels. In 1954, The Dangerous River, the first of his five books, was published. It was based on his experiences on the South Nahanni River, 1927-1929. The Dangerous River was followed by The Buffalo Head, 1961, which was partly about his early life in England and on his Alberta homestead, but mainly about his life in the Alberta foothills. Far Pastures, published in 1963, consisted of articles previously published in magazines with additional chapters on homesteading and later travels in the north. In Trail to the Interior, 1966 and Finlay's River, 1968, Patterson used his journeys on the Stikine and Dease in 1948 and on the Finlay in 1949 as a framework to write about the history of those rivers. In addition to his own books, Patterson wrote the introduction to the Hudson's Bay Record Society's edition of the Journals of Samuel Black, published in 1955. Raymond Murray Patterson died in Victoria in 1984. Records include: letters inward, 1934-1977, mainly concerning Cassiar district, the South Nahanni, Liard and Finlay Rivers, and the Alberta foothills; and copies of pages of Guy Lawrence, 40 years on the Yukon Telegraph annotated by T.F. Harper Reed. Related records include MS-2762, Visual Records accession 198908-001, and Maps accession M89-038 Photocopy Guy Lawrence's 40 years on the Yukon Telegraph annotated by T.F. Harper Reed. Source: MS Finding Aids Finding aid.

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, etc. of R.M. Patterson, noted British Columbia wilderness traveller and author. The collection includes diaries of his travels on the South Nahanni, Dease, and Finlay Rivers, correspondence with northerners and people interested in the north, "fan" mail, and correspondence with publishers. It also includes letters written by Patterson about his life homesteading in the Alberta Peace River district, photocopies of correspondence and documents re his army service in the First World War, and air photos of the Nahanni River. Maps transferred to the Map Collection; microfilm copies of photo albums in Visual Records accession 198909-1. Some of the correspondence was borrowed from Mr. Patterson in 1978 and microfilmed in MS- 0957. Raymond Murray Patterson was born in County Durham, England, on May 13, 1898. He was educated at Rossall School, and in 1917 went directly from school into the British army. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, was captured in the spring of 1918, and spent the remainder of the war in a Prisoner-of-War camp in Silesia. After the war, he attended Oxford University and then joined the Bank of England as a cadet. In 1924, Mr. Patterson came to Canada. After working briefly on a dairy farm in the Fraser Valley, he homesteaded in the Battle River area of the Peace River District of Alberta. In the summer of 1927, he made the first of the northern journeys which formed the subject of much of his later writings. Travelling by way of Fort Simpson, he spent the summer on the South Nahanni River, returning south by way of a difficult journey via the Fort Nelson River and Fort St. John. He returned to the South Nahanni in the spring of 1928 and remained there with his partner, Gordon Matthews, until the spring of 1929. Mr. Patterson returned to England to be married in 1929. Until 1946, he and his wife and family lived in Alberta, first sheep ranching in the Bow River Valley, and then running the Buffalo Head Ranch in the Highwood River Valley in the Alberta foothills. The Pattersons moved to Vancouver Island in 1946, living first near Sidney and after 1962, in Victoria. R.M. Patterson died in Victoria in 1984. In the late 1940s, Mr. Patterson made two more northern trips, again largely by canoe. In 1948, he travelled from Wrangell up the Stikine River to Telegraph Creek and then down the Dease to Lower Post. In 1949, he went from Prince George via the Crooked River to Finlay Forks and then up the Finlay River. Along with his experiences on the South Nahanni, these trips formed the basis for three of his books. In the 1940s, R.M. Patterson began to publish articles in magazines such as The Beaver and Blackwoods based on his experiences as homesteader and his northern travels. In 1954, The Dangerous River, the first of his five books, was published. It was based on his experiences on the South Nahanni River, 1927-1929. This was followed by The Buffalo Head, 1961, which was partly about his early life in England but mainly about his life in the Alberta foothills. Far Pastures, published in 1963, consisted of articles previously published in magazines with additional chapters on homesteading and later travels in the north. In Trail to the Interior, 1966, and Finlay's River, 1968, R.M. Patterson used his journeys on the Stikine and Dease in 1948 and on the Finlay in 1949 as a framework to write about the history of those rivers. In addition to his own books, R.M. Patterson wrote the introduction to the Hudson's Bay Record Society's edition of the Journals of Samuel Black, published in 1955. The records consist largely of correspondence, diaries, and notebooks. They also include book reviews by R.M. Patterson, correspondence and accounts with publishers and book dealers, some accounts re orders made for the Buffalo Head Ranch, and copies of selected documents and correspondence relating to Patterson's army service. The correspondence is divided into four series: correspondence inward, general correspondence inward, fan mail, and correspondence outward. Series 1, correspondence inward, consists of letters from frequent correspondents, filed by the writer's name. Many of these people are mentioned in Patterson's books. The letters from Gordon Matthews are almost all written from Aklavik and describe life there, and the visit of the Governor General, Lord Tweedsmuir, in 1937. Series 2, general correspondence inward, consists of chronologically arranged letters from people who only wrote one or two letters. The letters in this series cover a variety of subjects. They tend to emphasize wilderness canoe travel, the history of the South Nahanni and Finlay Rivers, and hunting and fishing. Many are from readers and friends writing to Patterson for advice about canoes, camping equipment and travel routes, or to reminisce about early days in the North. Series 3, fan mail, consists of letters of appreciation from readers, thank-you notes, and letters of congratulations on the publication of his various books. Series 4, correspondence outward, consists primarily of letters written from the 1920s to the 1940s to his mother, Lady Scott, and to his boyhood friend, Edwin "George" Fenwick. Selected military papers were photocopied and returned to the donor. Photograph albums were microfilmed and returned. Microfilm copies are in Visual Records accession 198908-1. Forty-seven photographs ca. 1937-1983 which include views of the Ross River, Nahanni River, Peace River, Hamilton Inlet, Buffalo Head, and Europe were also transferred to accession 198908-1. Maps were transferred to the Maps, accession 89-038. Included is a map of Flat River (Too Naga) N.W.T., made by Patterson in August to September 1928, and an accompanying booklet, The Flat River Country: North West Territories of Canada (London: R.M. Patterson, 1933). A second copy of this booklet has been transferred to the BC Archives Library. Ninety of the letters in this collection were borrowed for microfilming in 1978 and are described as MS-0957 [A00953(1)]. The originals are interfiled in Series 1 correspondence inward of MS-2762. His papers were presented to the Archives by his wife, Marigold, in 1989. Source: MS Finding Aids Presented by Mrs. R.M. Patterson, Victoria, 1989. Finding aid.

This series contains tuilities regulation files and staff reports of the Public Utilities Commission (1929-1972) pertaining to the regulation of private and municipal gas, water, and electric utilities pursuant to the Public Utilities Act. Includes petroleum regulation subject files of the B.C. Energy Commission, Westcoast Transmission Company's rate hearings and pipeline applications (1977-1979), Kitimat pipeline application (1976), records relating to natural gas pipeline applications (1959-1968) and to water power development projects on the Columbia and Peace Rivers (1953-1963), and records of the Puntledge River inquiry (1962).