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CALL NUMBER: T1867:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Charles S. Cowan : the B.C. Forest Branch and its Chief Forester, 1914-1937 PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1937 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-12-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Joined B.C. Forest Branch, 1914. Was Forest Assistant in Vancouver District. Anecdote about trespassers. George McKay, first District Forester in Vancouver District. W.J. Van Dusen, the next District Forester in Vancouver. Anecdote about meeting H.R. MacMillan by coincidence in London. Had worked for Canadian Commission of Conservation prior to 1914. Early impressions of H.R. MacMillan. Reconnaissance surveys of timbered land for the Commission of Conservation and the Forest Branch. Anecdotes about woods work. Anecdotes about Martin A. Grainger. TRACK 2: More anecdotes about Grainger as Chief Forester, 1916-20. Administration in the early Forest Branch. Setting the stumpage and royalty levels. More comments on Grainger. Grainger quits Forest Branch to represent timber owners. Peter Z. Caverhill, Chief Forester, 1920-37. CALL NUMBER: T1867:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Charles S. Cowan : the B.C. Forest Branch, CFP (Nimpkish) and Weyerhauser, 1920s PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-12-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Peter Z. Caverhill, Chief Forester from 1920 to 1937 [1935]. Cowan was District Forester in Vancouver until 1926. Problems of fire control and slash control. Fire prevention. Development of fire fighting equipment. TRACK 2: More on fire fighting equipment. Left Forest Branch in 1926 and went to work for Canadian Forest Products at Beaver Cove. Problems with establishing pulp and saw mills at Beaver Cove. How the directors of International Harvester became the owners of the Nimpkish Valley timber. Cowan plans a logging development for Cyrus McCormack in the Nimpkish Valley. Went to Washington to work for Weyerhauser in 1927. Forest fire protection in Washington State. New fire fighting equipment. CALL NUMBER: T1867:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Charles S. Cowan : forest fire protection PERIOD COVERED: 1927-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-12-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Cowan talks about the development of new fire fighting equipment in Washington State. Changes in loggers attitudes towards fire. Developing fire protection practices. Orchard comments that B.C. generally follows developments in the U.S.A. More on fire fighting. TRACK 2: Anecdotes about the Canadian Armed forces. Stories about M.A. Grainger. Logging practices and changes. Logging and loading system. Application of tractors and early moving equipment to logging. Early logging trucks. CALL NUMBER: T1867:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Charles S. Cowan : logging methods PERIOD COVERED: 1880-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-12-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Evolution of logging methods, equipment and technology. (End of interview)

This series contains a transcript of a hearing before the Minister of Lands and Forests regarding the application of Canadian Forest Products for a tree farm licence in the Nimpkish River region.

CALL NUMBER: T1866:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Robert E. Allen : the West Kootenays in the 1890s PERIOD COVERED: 1877-1896 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-10-24 & 25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in Nevada in 1877. To Spokane in 1880. Father a homesteader in Washington and later in the mining industry in Idaho. Family to the Slocan region in 1892. Trip from Kellogg, Idaho, to Nakusp, New Denver, Three Forks and Sandon. Hauling ore by pack trains. Jobs in the Sandon-New Denver area. Camp conditions. Helped father with mail contract, 1893. TRACK 2: Traveling in the West Kootenay region: Rossland, Nelson and the Slocan Valley. Adventures on a trip from Nelson to Three Forks via Kaslo. Allen has mail contract from Nakusp to the Slocan mines, 1893. Became packer for the mines. Allen in the transportation business in Sandon and Slocan City. CALL NUMBER: T1866:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Robert E. Allen : the B.C. Forest Branch, 1912-1917 PERIOD COVERED: 1896-1917 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-10-24 & 25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Sold out in Slocan City in 1906. Married in 1897. Story of his marriage and honeymoon. Lived in Slocan City, 1896-1910. Became a bush foreman, 1906. Sawmills in the West Kootenays. Flood on Arrow Lakes in 1907. Woods and packing jobs. Became road foreman in 1908 at Slocan City and Burton. Incident when Allen fired Sid Leary who was later Minister of Public Works for not working hard enough on road construction. TRACK 2: Political patronage in Public Works road crews. Allen got a job as a fire warden through the influence of William Hunter a Conservative back-bencher, 1911. Becomes divisional fire warden at Revelstoke in 1912. Traveling around his division. R.E. Benedict and John Lafon brought in from U.S. Forest Service to organize new B.C. Forest Branch, 1912. Allen becomes District Forester in Hazelton, 1913. Becomes head of amalgamated Prince Rupert Forest District, 1917. Staff in the Hazelton Forest District. CALL NUMBER: T1866:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Robert E. Allen : District Forester and mill operator, 1913-1926 PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1926 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-10-24 & 25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The Hazelton Forest District, 1913-17. Forest Rangers. Repetition of some earlier material about the Slocan mines. Becomes District Forester in Prince Rupert in 1917. Stories about M.A. Grainger, the second Chief Forester. Anecdote about Grainger's flat feet and his moccasins. Mrs. Grainger. Quit Forest Branch to go into sawmill business, 1919. TRACK 2: Anecdotes about Forest Branch personnel. In sawmill business, 1919-26. Hanall mill described. Working conditions in Hanall. Buys into a mill at Vanarsdol in 1925. Sawmills along the CNR line. The production of railway ties. CALL NUMBER: T1866:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Robert E. Allen : the B.C. Forest Branch, 1913-1945 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1945 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-10-24 & 25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Tie production along the Skeena section of the CNR. Rejoined B.C. Forest Branch in 1926 as District Forester at Prince Rupert. Allen investigated after the change of government in 1928 but not fired. Allen non-political while employed by B.C.F.S. District Forester in Prince Rupert, 1926-30. Procedures for timber sales. Became District Forester at Kamloops, 1930-32. Became District Forester in Nelson, 1932. Squabbles over Forest Branch vehicles. TRACK 2: Allen was District Forester in Nelson, 1932-45. Retired in 1945. Staff of the Nelson Forest District. Staff. Fire a major problem in Nelson District. Dispute over who would be District Forester in Kamloops, 1940. Auction bidding for timber. Forest fires in the Nelson District. Expresses satisfaction with his Forest Branch career. Salaries for District Foresters. (End of interview)

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)

CALL NUMBER: SD0207:0001 SUMMARY: Afternoon presentation to C.D. Orchard by Minister [?].;

CALL NUMBER: SD0207:0002 - 0005 SUMMARY: Evening gathering: Speeches by Asst. Chief Forester Finlay MacKinnon; Hon. Ray Williston; [Deputy?] Minister of Agriculture Bill McGillavray; Charley Cowan (an old-timer); and C.D. Orchard. Plus enter;tainment and singing of "Auld Lang Syne.";

The file consists of two letters written by Charles J. Haddon, District Forester, Vancouver, to L.E. Cook, Parks Branch, Department of Parks and Recreation. The letters describe forest surveys carried out by Haddon as a ranger in the North Thompson, 1913-1915, and give information about pioneer residents and forest staff in the area. There are references to photographs in the Government Information Services Collection.

Television commercials. A selection of television public awareness spots dealing with forest fire prevention in British Columbia. Most of the spots emphasize the role of human carelessness as a major cause of forest fires, and highlight their impact in terms of financial loss, destruction of wildlife, and damage to recreational values. One spot ("Green Gold") ties in with the 1958 B.C. Centennial; another features UBC president Dr. N.AM. MacKenzie.

Footage. Early gasoline-powered reciprocating cross-cut saw, cutting firewood chunks; splitting the chunks; chunking wood with belt-driven circular saw; view of fire-killed snag area (Cowichan Valley?); stacked fire wood.

Footage. Trestle at shoreline. Big spruce stump. Bucking hemlock. Loading logs on railway cars. Logging truck on turntable, and being loaded by steam donkey. Empty truck on turntable. Skidding logs to shore. Loading lumber. Steam donkey. Big timber. Yarding with cat and arch. High-rigger clearing braches. Logs in water. Falling a big Douglas fir.

Footage. Includes footage of: man with shovel and inspecting and improving fire line in slash; slash and green timber; slash fire at night; completed slash burn; slash and snags.

Footage. Cattle on road and in field. Shoreline of lake, showing timber and burned areas. River boat on fast river and rapids. Landing boat and making campfire. Green Timbers Nursery. Caring for seed beds. Superintendent Tom Wells. Transplant beds. Lifting seedlings. Heeled-in seedling. Packing seedlings. Parade.

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. 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.

Footage. A mixture of interior and coast footage, including shots of an open-air sawmill; creosote treatment of poles and posts; lake and mountain scenery; young timber; coastal scenery, timber and logged area; falling and bucking timber; spar trees; slash; A-frames; floating logging camp; tractor skidder.

Footage. Shows two men fishing from a rowboat on a lake.

Footage. Includes shots of: two CPR steamers passing on coast; Kootenay National Park; Radium Hot Springs; Yoho Falls; mountain scenery; skiing; Elk River Falls; high rigger topping tree and descending; Forest Service campground; Forest Service boat on Fraser River at Princess Louisa Inlet.

Footage. Includes shots of: skiing; moving logs by truck and by horse; tool cache at Aleza Lake Ranger Station; railway speeder; Diamond Head ski lodge in Garibaldi Park [?]; skyline yarding; steam donkey loading logs; unloading a trainload of logs into the sea with a "jill-poke"; two men falling tree with axes and a crosscut saw.

Footage. Film proceeds from Alberta boundary at Crowsnest Pass, through Fernie, south to Waldo, then north, west and south through Cranbrook to Yahk. Includes footage of B.C. Spruce Mills Ltd. at Lumberton, Crowsnest Station, Fernie Highway, Elk River Valley, Waldo, Wardner, logged-over area in Kootenay Valley, Bull River. Shots of abandoned and ruined mills appear throughout.

Footage. The launch "B.C. Forester"; logging camp; fishing boat; Skidegate Narrows [?]; timber cruiser crew in small boat; bringing in big log with cat and arch; floating logging camp; big sample lift from ancient log; amphibious plane (CF-AZN) gassing up at float and taxiing.

Footage. Footage of Green Timbers Nursery and planting, including: cutting and collecting cones; weighing seeds; planting seeds in seed bed; lifting seedlings for root pruning and transplant; lifting and packing seedlings; heeling-in; planting crew.

Footage. Jack ladder at mill. Dumping pulp billets into flume. Logs in flat rafts and Davis rafts. Treating poles with preservative. Cleaning, trimming and loading poles. Cat and arch yarding logs to water. Steam donkey. Selective logging for poles. Empty truck on "fore and aft" logging road. Views of logged land.

Footage. Logging and logging camp footage. Two men falling tree with crosscut saw; horse yarding; loading truck; waterfall; logging camp and crew; Campbell River Ranger Station; high rigger climbing and topping tree.

Footage. "Cletrac" demonstration with caterpillar tractors and Isaacson bulldozers; small cat and plow building trail or fire line; bulldozer building road in slash; yarding out obstructions with a winch.

Footage. Clearing land and burning stumps [at Green Timbers?]. Crew blowing stumps. Stacking and burning debris. Caterpillar tractor and winch. Cowichan Lake experimental station. Crew working on trail. Bush road. Camp scenes. Crew working on road. Elk River Falls. Frame of building. Falls, bridge, and trails [at Little Qualicum Park?].