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B.C. Tree Fruits Okanagan district (B.C.)
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Canadians at work : Valley of the blossoms

SUMMARY: Radio program with Bill Herbert and John Sherman (?), announcers, with Syd Hubble ?), chief dispatcher for British Columbia Tree Fruits Organization; part of farm radio broadcast from CKOV by Harry Mitchell (?), announcer; A.K. Lloyd (?), President and General Manager of British Columbia Tree Fruits Organization, including sounds from machines producing apple juice; Paul Wallbruchk (?), General Manager of British Columbia Food Processors Plant; George D. Fitzgerald (?), fruit farmer, about: British Columbia, Okanagan Valley, fruit farming, cooperatives, marketing, fruit products, irrigation.

Royal Commission on the Tree-Fruit Industry of British Columbia

  • GR-1292
  • Series
  • 1950-1959

This series contains records relating to the Royal Commission on the Tree-Fruit Industry of British Columbia.

The Royal Commission on the Tree-Fruit Industry of British Columbia was established by Order in Council 3181 on 21 December 1956 pursuant to section 3 of the Public Inquiries Act with Earle Douglas MacPhee appointed as sole commissioner. The Commission was to inquire into the problems of production, packing, storage, processing and marketing of the products of the tree-fruit industry of the Province, and in particular into what constitutes an economic unit of production; the economics of packing, storage, and processing facilities, procedures, and techniques employed in the Province; and the factors involved in the marketing of tree-fruit products.

The Commission established offices in Penticton and conducted public and closed hearings and meetings between January 1957 and August 1958. A three-volume report was submitted in October 1958.

The series consists of hearing and meeting transcripts, exhibits, research surveys, studies and reports, correspondence, administrative files and a final report. Missing are a number of the formally registered exhibits however correspondence and geographically arranged files appear to contain copies of similar briefs or information. Receipts indicate that some exhibits containing business records were returned to submitters.

British Columbia. Royal Commission on the Tree-Fruit Industry of British Columbia