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The series consists of records created by the B.C. Electric Railway Company between 1894 and 1917. The series includes correspondence and newspaper clippings with the City of Victoria concerning the operation of jitneys, disposition of the Company's assets, and labour problems; correspondence with the provincial government re land purchases in Prince Rupert by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway; operating statements of the Company 1914-1916; evidence given by Victoria City before Dr. Adam Shortt, Commissioner into the affairs of the B.C. Electric Railway and newspaper clipping books.

CALL NUMBER: T1861:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Charles O. Marston : the early B.C. forest branch, 1913-1916 PERIOD COVERED: 1891-1919 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1958-12-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Family background in New England from 1638. Marston born 1891. The Biltmore School of Forestry, North Carolina. Details about the Biltmore school. Dr. Carl A. Schenck as the head of the school. Marston moves to Oregon, 1912. Began work for CPR Lands Department in East Kootenays. Joined B.C. Forest Branch in 1913. Timber cruising. TRACK 2: Traveling by B.C. Forest Service boat on the coast. Victoria office of the Forest Branch. Field work for the Forest Branch, 1914. Clo-oose land speculation. Forest Branch work, 1913-16. Anti-American sentiment causes Marston to leave Forest Branch. Worked for CPR in East Kootenays, 1916-17. Worked for H.R. MacMillan. Worked on aeronautical spruce supply in later years of World War I. CALL NUMBER: T1861:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Charles O. Marston : a forester in B.C., 1913-1925 PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1925 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1958-12-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Aeroplane spruce supply during World War I. Worked for Canadian Puget Sound Lumber and Timber Co. after World War I, 1919-25. Was an officer of the One Big Union, 1919. Was a logger at Alice Arm. Logging accidents and deaths. OBU organization on northern Vancouver Island. Improvements in working conditions. Traveling the coast on the Union Steamship Co. Mrs. Marston: Worked as an assistant to her husband during WW I; description of native peoples' way of life on west coast of Vancouver Island. TRACK 2: Potlatches briefly described. Crabs and what meat consumed. (End of interview)

The file consists of a building inspector's permit, contractors' invoices, building suppliers' receipts, and plumber's estimates pertaining to construction of frame house at 932 Heywood Avenue, accumulated by the contractor R. M. McDonald.

CALL NUMBER: T0455:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. George Smarge describes working in logging camps at Powell River and work as a forest ranger in 1912. Then; he discusses his sailing career, including his arrival in Vancouver in 1903. TRACK 2: Mr. Smarge continues with more on his sailing career, including details about a shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef. Then he offers details on his arrival at Royal Roads in Victoria in 190;9; his arrival in Vancouver in 1903; his time working in hand logging near Indian River; work as a pile driving engineer; the development of Powell River and Lund; and a discussion of the Thulin brothers, Fred and Charles.

CALL NUMBER: T0455:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Smarge continues with more on the Thulin brothers, Oscar and Fred; his work as a forest ranger; the Canadian Puget Sound Logging Company; how Smarge Bay was named; pre-empting land at Cranberry Lake and at Wildwood; working in the pulp mill at Powell River; and a detailed description of the pulp mill process. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The series consists primarily of textual records of the companies which previously owned and operated the assets purchased by Western Forest Product Ltd. in 1980.

Record types include: correspondence; maps; scrapbooks; accounts and shareholder ledgers and accounts books; cash books; company bylaws; crown grants; financial statements; general ledgers; indenture records; letters patent records; logging estimates; management licenses; memorandum and articles of association; minute books including minutes of directors and shareholders meetings; annual meeting records; annual reports to shareholders; notices of incorporation; pulp leases; pulp licenses; share certificates and receipts; registers and ledgers regarding shareholders; stock books; stock registers; cruise and timber reports, estimates and licenses. The files include a small number of photographs which are integrated with the textual records.

The series is made up of two accessions. The records of accession MS-1996 are predominantly those of Whalen Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd. dating from 1917 to 1923, and include records of Whalen’s predecessor companies. The series consists of records of the following companies (including but not limited to): British Columbia Sulphite Fibre Company Ltd., Colonial Lumber and Paper Mills Ltd., Empire Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd., Canadian Puget Sound Lumber and Timber Company, and Trans-Pacific Lumber Company Ltd.

Accession MS-1996, on its arrival at the archives, included approximately 600 photographs. At that time, the photos were separated from the textual records; these photographs can now be found in the series MS-3216 -- “Predecessor companies photographic records.”

The records of accession 89-1392 predominantly represent the activities of the Alaska Pine Company Limited and its wholly-owned subsidiaries: Jones Lake Logging Co. Ltd (incorporated June 17, 1942); Alaska Pine Trading Limited (incorporated March 4, 1946); and Great West Lumber Co. Ltd. The accession also includes records of Universal Lumber & Box Company Limited and its wholly-owned subsidiaries: Alaska Pine Sales Ltd. (incorporated February 28, 1946); Empire Machinery Limited (incorporated March 1, 1947); Alaska Pine Purchasing Limited (incorporated January 24, 1947).

Accession 89-1392 also includes records of: Alaska Pine Lumber Toronto Ltd. (incorporated September 9, 1949); Island Logging Company, Limited; Island Wharf & Dock Co. Ltd. (incorporated October 29, 1951); Emory Creek Logging Co. Ltd. (incorporated October 17, 1942); L & M Machinery Co. Ltd. (incorporated December 28, 1949); Marine Transport Limited (incorporated February 27, 1946); Northern Universal Lumber Company; Pioneer Timber Company (incorporated October 3, 1933); Quatsino Logging Ltd. (incorporated June 30, 1960); Southern Enterprises Ltd. (incorporated June 18, 1949); Totem Shingles (1951) Ltd. (incorporated August 1, 1951); Vancouver Island Towing Company Limited (incorporated May 31, 1911); Vancouver Milling and Grain Co. Limited; Shelly Logging Ltd.; Canadian Puget Sound Lumber and Timber Co. Note that this list is not exhaustive.

Note that PR-0109, Vancouver Milling and Grain Company fonds, was donated to BC Archives by Western Forest Products Ltd. and may be of interest as it compliments these records.

The series includes files on the corporate history of British Columbia Pulp and Paper Company Ltd., Whalen Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd. and predecessor companies; it also includes a company history of Rayonier Canada Limited.

The records of accession 89-1392 have been maintained in the order in which they arrived at BC Archives, according to a provided box list.

Original file titles were retained when available.