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Stock shots. Planting crew in Campbell River area: tent camp, bundled seedlings, planting shots. Probably shows replanting in the Sayward forest in the wake of the 1938 Sayward fire.

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Stock shots. Includes footage of scalers at work, marking tree trunks with paint gun, fallers cutting tree, caterpillar tractor hauling logs with winch and cable, crane loading logs onto truck, horse hauling log, bucking and limbing, etc.

This series consists of Timber Inspector reports to Minister of Lands and Chief Forester, March 1911 to December 1912.

This series contains various financial documents originating from the Forest Branch trust account. Types of records in this series includes a cash book and accounts ledger in one volume. This volume contains a list of cheques issued on the Forest Branch trust deposit account between 1920 and 1924 and is arranged chronologically. Information captured in these records includes the amount and name of payee. The series also includes a list of debit slips issued on the Forest Branch trust account between 1920 and 1927.

Maps show forest reserves and timber licenses. Dates are either stamped or written on the sheets. Maps are white prints unless otherwise noted.

This series contains subject indexes to the "O Series" of correspondence, ca.1918-1972 and two file directories, 1979-1981 and 1983. Box 1 contains a photocopy of an alphabetical card index to the "O series" of correspondence. Box 2 contains a file directory (updated to 1972) for "O Series" correspondence files arranged as general files, working plans, engineering, farm woodlot applications, public sustained yield units, tree farms and tree farm licences and a Forest Service file directory, 1979-1981 and a Ministry of Forests file directory, 1983. Indexes to forestry correspondence, 1918-1983

The item is a camp-fire permit issued by the Forest Branch at Ganges for the period July 4 - August 31, 1927.

This series consists of the operational records of the Forest Surveys and Inventory Division. Records include procedures, operations, policy, and field manuals relating to forest management, forest protection, forest surveys and inventory, grazing and range administration, engineering, and accounting, 1942-1981; Civil Service Commission descriptions for positions in the B.C. Forest Service, 1950-1970; and letters of instruction and circular letters to Forest Officers, and miscellaneous correspondence, 1943-1977. There is also a report of forest inventory work from 1955 with maps.

CALL NUMBER: T0546:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Manager for Canfor, Englewood Division - coastal logging PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1974 RECORDED: Beaver Cove (B.C.), 1974-07-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hennigar discusses his first involvement in the forest industry: Gyppo logging near Powell River, 1935-37. Joins B.C. Forest Service, 1937-39. Work as a ranger-assistant: inspections, maintenance. Return to Gyppo logging, 1939. Cat logging, 1939-41. Move to Englewood, 1942. The sawmill at Englewood. History of company ownership in the Nimpkish Valley. Rebuilding the railway from Englewood to camp L. Description of the area logged by Wood and English. Canfor operations in the Nimpkish Valley, 1942. Evaluation of cat logging and environmental impact. TRACK 2: Attitudes toward environmental factors in logging, 1940-60. Description of various supervisory jobs held, 1944-74. Woods foreman, 1947-53. Camp superintendent's duties 1953-64. Resident manager, 1964-74. Description of an average camp in the Nimpkish, 1940s. Loggers' attitudes toward their jobs, 1940s. Changes in safety practices, 1940-74. Introduction of compulsory safety equipment, 1948-74. Concerns for worker safety. Safety rallies, 1950s. CALL NUMBER: T0546:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Manager for Canfor, Englewood Division - coastal logging PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1974 RECORDED: Beaver Cove (B.C.), 1974-07-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dealing with industrial accidents and safety. Description of Russell Mills. Description of Bill McMahan. Duties of production superintendents, 1954-64. Membership in the IWA, 1942-47. Changes in the IWA, 1940-47. Expiration of logging contracts. Changes in worker attitudes, hiring, suspensions, firings. Problems of wildcat strikes and negotiating contracts. Problems of railway logging. Ecological concerns in log industry and government policy. TRACK 2: Attitudes of management toward environmental concerns. Sustained yield logging. Multiple land use in the forests. Major changes at Englewood division, 1964-74. Dry-land sorting procedure. Change in types of individuals employed as loggers, 1940-74. Changes in forest industry methods and equipment, 1940-74. (End of interview)

Transcript of a public meeting regarding the Timber Royalty Act of 1914, held at the Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C., 3 September 1924, between John Oliver, Premier, T.D. Pattullo, Minister of Lands, A.M. Manson, Minister of Labour and representatives of the lumber industry.

This series contain carbon copy of accounts detailing expenditures to November 30, 1917 and miscellaneous correspondence regarding the forest protection fund and legal interpretations of the Forest Act.

This series includes carbon copies of Orders-in-Council related to forest management and protection.

This series contains an outline of the work of the Research Division with reports on general reforestation investigations, studies of forest yield, work done at the Aleza Lake and Cowichan Lake Experiment Stations, as well as reports on the Experimental Forest Nursery and Green Timbers Forestry Station.

This series contains a report on post-war export markets for Canadian lumber compiled by L.R. Andrews, Secretary-Manager, Lumber Trade Extension Committee, of the British Columbia Lumber and Shingle Manufacturers Association.

Footage. Opening of Capilano Park. Cultus Lake Park, near Chilliwack. Gulf and islands [from John Dean Park?]. Road building scenes; equipment in use. Elk Falls and Elk River; building bridge there. Cordwood on railroad track speeder. Tent camp.

Footage. Abandoned mill or smelter at Kootenay Bay on east side of Kootenay Lake. Loading car with emergency fire fighting pack. Car delivers man to woods to fight a fire. Ranger Station. Scenery [Kootenay Lake?]. Man sets up portable radio. Shots of E.C. Manning, K.C. McCannel, and A. Wells Gray. Transporting poles by railroad car and skidding them with a horse.

Footage. 1. Alternative Service Workers at Green Timbers are shown washing up after a fire, in shack camp, assembling for a meal, and collecting their pay. 2. Sequence on small and portable mills: mill burner; hog fuel; waste; portable mill at work; slab pile; caterpillar tractor and logs; power saw with log carriage.

Footage. Portable sawmill. Falling and bucking a tree. Horses yarding to mill. Cat yarding logs to mill. Loading truck. Unloading truck at water. Decks of logs. Roy Eden.

Footage. Snow, mountains (Seymour watershed); crew clearing ski runs and loading cordwood. Sawmill on coast. Men working on bush road and protection access road. Converting old railway grade to access road. Crew camp. Clearing land (or road right-of-way) with fire. Clearing a building trail. UBC demonstration forest. Elk Falls Park.

Footage. End of log with rings counted (more than 200 years old). Using horses to load logs onto truck. Pocket boom on lake. Horse skidding logs. Falling and bucking. Camp buildings. Skid way made of spruce logs. Dumping truckload of logs with hand peaveys. Sawmill. High-rigger climbs and tops tree. Yarding from cold deck. Crew building a Davis raft. Steam donkey building raft and loading logs onto a hulk. Cat and arch moving gas donkey. Yarding with a skyline. Steam donkey yarding logs to railway siding.

Footage. Heeling in bundled seedlings. Beacon Hill Park, Victoria: people feeling waterfowl at Goodacre Lake. A lookout station, and view from the top. Annual celebration at Peace Arch Park; shots of Premier Pattullo and Fred McGregor. Falls and rapids. Planting crew in Campbell River area: tent camp, bundled seedlings, planting shots. Tom Wells with seedlings at Green Timbers. Interior B.C. scenery.

Footage. Mountains. Lookout. Two men falling a Douglas fir with axes, springboards, and crosscut saw. Steam donkey and spar tree. Log boom. Steamboat towing lumber. Second growth. Green Timbers Nursery: seed beds, transplant beds. Planting. Fire. Bucked timber. Snag and fire. Slash burning. Falling snags. Snagged land. New growth. Jack ladder at mill. Loading lumber on boat.

Footage. Forest Service launch at sea. The launch "Check Scaler" at Thurston Bay on Sonora Island. Road and bridge. Train cars loaded with poles. Horses and bob-sleighs [Fernie?]. Piling hand hewn ties with a picaroon. Horse yarding logs in snow. Fire fighting emergency kit. Crew painting steamer. Scalers boarding the launch "A.L. Bryant". Sternwheeler at sea [entering First Narrows?].

Footage. Logged land with several spar trees. After the slash burn. Cat and arch hauling logs. Truckload of logs on road. Falling interior yellow pine with crosscut saw. Loading logs. Logged land. Logs in water [Okanagan Lake?]. Team of horses yarding logs in forest. Dumping truckload of logs. Marking trees for cutting.

Thie series consists of an extensive collection of stock shots, depicting a wide range of B.C. Forest Service and Ministry of Forests activities and related subjects. Compiled from footage shot for a variety of purposes, the material was retained for potential use as stock footage in BC Forest Service and Ministry of Forests film productions and TV spots. Some footage was also loaned out for TV news use.