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The Alberta Lumber Company, located in Vancouver's False Creek area, was founded in the 1890s by Christopher McRae and incorporated in 1903. Records of the company span the period 1904-1969 and include correspondence files (outgoing 1904-1909, incoming 1926-1950), accounting and financial records, log registers, safety files, first aid and accident reports, lumber sales records for Broadway Lumber Company and Fraser Lumber Company Personal files include: specifications for McRae family residences, Christopher McRae's bankbooks and some speeches and addresses which may have been made during McRae's term as a Liberal MLA (Vancouver City) 1924-1928.

This series contains general correspondence between the Deputy Minister and Agents-General for British Columbia in London. The series includes a confidential report from the Fire Marshall on a fire that occurred at Government House in 1957. There is also general correspondence with the B.C. Commissioner for Trade and Tourism, San Francisco (1962-1974) and general inquiries to the Hon. the Premier (1953-1969). Letters includes notes and petitions from Vancouver City Archivist (Major Matthews) to HM the Queen, praying that the Westminster Regiment be allowed to bear the suffix "Royal." There are also three photographs of BC House in London, England, taken in 1951.

Manuscripts of articles and poems, newspaper clippings of articles, letters to the editor, and poetry. Many of the articles are on BC history and political figures. Morton was a legislative reporter and later secretary to Premier Oliver and MacLean.

Presented by Mr. Morton.

SUMMARY: Gary Marcuse reports an the annual general meeting of TEAM (The Electors Action Movement), a civic party that was "devastated" in the last Vancouver election. Speakers include departing president George Taylor, new president Martin Zlotnick, and May Brown.

SUMMARY: Topics discussed are: remand centre; floating homes; public delegations; transportation of the handicapped, Speakers; Mike Harcourt, alderman on remand centre; Stanley Burke, spokesman for floating home community; Mrs. Clyne on floating home community; Harry Rankin, alderman, on handicapped transportation; Warnett Kennedy, alderman, on public delegations.

SUMMARY: Topics covered are: Sunday closings; library hours; Gypsy moth spraying. Speakers are: Doug Little, George Puil, Anne Diano, speaker for Vancouver Public Library Staff Association; Doug Little, Warnett Kennedy; George Puil; Harry Rankin; Jack Volrich; and Mr. Fleischman, senior assistant deputy minister, Agriculture Canada.

SUMMARY: A documentary sound program about Dr. J. Lyle Telford, radio populist and CCF politician, including excerpts from Telford's radio addresses and interviews with Harold Winch and others. The program was produced by Emmanuel Ronse.

SUMMARY: "Vancouver City Digest" was a "talking magazine" series produced in Vancouver in 1977. It featured stories about Vancouver city and B.C. provincial politics and public affairs; information about upcoming public events and public services; reviews of consumer products; etc. It included readings from recent newspaper editorials and columns and magazine articles; interviews; and special features. It appears that episodes were about 90 minutes long. They were also broadcast on Vancouver Co-Op Radio on Sunday afternoons. The BC Archives holds five or six programs.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: One hour show. Edgar Kaiser, former president and CEO of the Bank of BC, talks about mistakes that led to its failure and the Hongkong Bank of Canada’s (HSBC) subsequent rescue. Vancouver mayor Gordon Campbell talks about the city's offshore banking, housing, and city worker salaries. Tony Belcourt, Vice-President of Seneca Communications, talks about Seneca, their new Canadian television network that will focus on native communities.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack reports on Vancouver “mega homes” and talks to Vancouver alderman Carole Taylor about the issue. Jack talks to Doug Runchey from Health and Welfare Canada about the update to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). Jack discusses the new “no smoking” bylaw and the issue of second-hand smoke with Geoff Rolands of the Burrard Health Unit.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Iona Campagnolo is filling in for Jack while he is on holidays. Iona and Vancouver Mayor Gordon Campbell discuss his performance in office thus far, including the recent failure of Vancouver’s water mains. Ted Rutledge reports on child abuse. In the studio, Iona speaks with Mary Harder, Child Abuse Prevention Co-ordinator, and pediatrician Dr. Sydney Segal.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs Harvie Andre explains why it seems that American multi-national pharmaceutical companies own a larger share of the Canadian prescription drug market. Bob Power, Vice-President of Finance at Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), explains why the price of auto insurance is rising. Vancouver mayoral candidates Kentish Steele, Robert Burgar, and Frank Baker, explain why they are the best candidate.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack’s show today is about the race for Vancouver mayor. Jack speaks with Harry Rankin of COPE, and Gordon Campbell of the NPA. They discuss housing; illegal suites; contracting out; fair wage policies; the ward system; shopping. Jack speaks with Mike Dumler, President of CUPE BC, about strikes and lockouts of civic employees in municipalities in the Interior.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Carole Taylor, Non-Partisan Association (NPA), City of Vancouver Independent candidate for Vancouver alderman; Robin Lecky; Art Phillips; property endowment fund; Harry Rankin; prostitution barricades; Capital Plan for Vancouver; Vancouver Zoo; food bank; Sylvia Russell; Expo 86 pilings in False Creek. Newsmakers Match. Karen Owens, nutritional biochemist from California; smoking; smoking in the workplace; second-hand smoke and lung cancer; free-radicals; tryptophan for insomnia; racket ball; ventilation; UCLA; UC Davis; vitamin E; pollution; Pritikin Diet. Aboriginal land claims; Kootenay West Indian Bands; Sophie Pierre, chief of St. Mary's Band Cranbrook, Kootenay Nation; Kootenay area land claim; economic conditions; unemployment; quality of life; Charter of Rights and the Indian Act; lack of freedom; cultural survival; language; recognition; reserve lands; five bands; housing; Kootenay Indian area council; forestry dispute language. Jack Munro, President, International Woodworkers Association-Canada; Justice Hutcheon Report; Crown forest; contracting out; strike; election.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Program starts in progress. Jack speaks with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. They discuss west coast shipyards; unemployment; countervailing duties; Mr. Mulroney’s popularity; John Bosley, the Speaker of the House; Dalton Camp’s appointment; Sinclair Stevens and conflicts of interest; Margaret Thatcher and apartheid; Tamil refugees. Jack speaks with NPA aldermanic candidate Gim Huey, and his success on the ballot.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts with Jim Fulton, NDP MP for Skeena, who was thrown out of the House of Commons for calling Erik Nielsen a liar. They discuss logging Lyell Island; tree farm licences; mismanagement of the forests; full park status for South Moresby; first nations land claims; reforestation. Then, a report on the lack of public or social housing in Vancouver. Jack speaks with Vancouver Alderman Libby Davies and Jim O’Dea, a consultant for the Downtown Eastside Residents Association (DERA) and former member of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). At the end of the segment, Jack Kempf, Minister of Housing, joins the conversation. To close, journalist Ian Gill discusses the Centre for Investigative Journalism and the threat of rescinding invitations to South African journalists.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack speaks with aldermen Harry Rankin, George Puil, Gordon Campbell; they are all expected to run for mayor of Vancouver and discuss their possible platforms. Jack speaks with Dr. Roger Tonkin, Director of the Youth Clinic at Children’s Hospital. They talk about troubled youth and how BC young people compare against the rest of the country; the use of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana; violence.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack speaks to Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt about Mr. Harcourt’s plans for the future; possible tax increases; the COPE sweep of the local elections; immigration; Expo ’86; the Super Host Program; Vancouver transit. Dr. Hilary Wass, AIDS Care Team, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, discusses: AIDS in Vancouver; the delineation of various forms of the virus; transmission of the virus; treatment. To close the show, Mark Schneider’s report on “Accommodation Only”; a company encouraging people using their own homes for bed and breakfasts for Expo and the lack of insurance coverage available.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are listed in the subject area, below.

McMillan, Tom
Rankin, Harry
Wiley, Charles

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Opens with Mike Harcourt, Vancouver's mayor, discussing the issues of juvenile prostitution in Vancouver, Bill C-49, and municipal affairs. Jack interviews Paul Grescoe and David Cruise, authors of “The Money Rustlers”, about self-made millionaires.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Today’s show is about refugees and crime, in particular, the murder of the Ming family in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Reporter Mark Schneider has a short piece on the “underground railroad” of Vietnamese refugees coming into Canada. Jack starts the show with Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt and his view that the murders were committed by Vietnamese gangsters. Jack speaks with Bruce Ngoc Tran, of the Association of Vietnamese Refugees. Mr. Tran states that Mr. Harcourt has no reason to suspect members of the Vietnamese community, and Mr. Harcourt is committing slander. Jack speaks with the Reverend Donovan Cook, of Seattle’s University Baptist Church, and Charles Groos, of the Inland Refugee Society; they discuss refugee Salvadorans and Guatemalans seeking sanctuary.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts the show with Alderman Harry Rankin to discuss a recent kidnap and murder of the Ming family in Vancouver’s Chinatown, the investigation, and the prevention of other crimes in the future. They also discuss refugees, immigration and screening. Jack and Professor Bill McKillop, forest economist of the University of California at Berkley, discuss threats to the BC forest industry by the United States; countervailing duties; tariffs; whole-log exports; reforestation and silviculture. Then a story about Cyprus, with Christopher Hitchens and Professor Pierre Oberling, of Hunter College, New York. They discuss the current political climate, and the “two faces” of Cyprus; the Greeks and the Turks.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: On today’s show, Jack speaks with Graham Bruce, Mayor of North Cowichan, and Don McMullen, Chairman of the Silviculture Advisory Committee, about the future of forestry on Vancouver Island. They have a business investment proposal to cultivate BC’s forests, protecting the forest and providing employment and investment opportunities. Newly-elected Alderman Gordon Campbell discusses Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt and Vancouver City Council. They discuss Mr. Campbell’s political aspirations; disagreements with Mr. Harcourt regarding the Vancouver Economic Advisory Committee; the change in the business tax; Vancouver City Council.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack speaks to the newly re-elected Vancouver Mayor, Mike Harcourt. Jack questions Mr. Harcourt about the by-election between Phillip Owen of the NPA and Bruce Yorke of the Harcourt/COPE coalition. Jack speaks with Bob Wenman, Parliamentary Secretary of Defence and Fraser Valley West MP, about military contracts with the Department of National Defence in the United States. Jack speaks with Harry Rankin, former treasurer and Bencher of the Law Society of BC, about his thoughts on the Clifford Olsen trust fund; $100,000 for bodies and evidence, put into the trust fund for Clifford Olsen’s wife, Joan. Mrs. Olsen and two lawyers, McNeney and Shantz, are now being held liable due to a debate about where the funds should have gone, and if they should have been offered in the first place. To end the show, Jack speaks with the manager of the BC Archives’ Emily Carr Gallery in Victoria, Kerry Mason Dodd, who has written a book about Carr called “Sunlight in the Shadows: The Landscape of Emily Carr”.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Segment 7 interrupted by tape change. Jack talks to Svend Robinson, NDP Justice critic, about the CIA targeting Canada in the 1970's for key economic information. Jack talks to Douglas Roche, the newly-appointed Disarmament Ambassador, and to Pauline Jewett, NDP External Affairs critic, about voting against the nuclear freeze. Jack talks to COPE’s Bruce Yorke and NDP Philip Owen about the municipal by-election in Vancouver.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack speaks with media critic and journalist Barry Zwicker regarding managed news and the end of the media’s honeymoon with the new Prime Minister, the possible conflict of interest in personal relationships between politicians and members of the media, Brian Mulroney's policies, and the media’s reaction to him. They discuss the Soviet Union, Canadian newspapers, Canadian television, and the Centre for Investigative Journalism. Richard Dunhill, Chairman of Dunhill, London, discusses pipes and accoutrements, and Jack admires several pieces Mr. Dunhill brought with him. Jack speaks with three Vancouver aldermanic candidates, Gordon Campbell, NPA, May Brown, TEAM, Bruce Yorke, COPE, and they discuss their various parties’ platforms.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are listed in the subject area, below.

Owen, Phillip
Smith, Robert
Swanson, Jean
Vickers, David
Yee, Bill

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts the show with a story about the Vancouver mayoral race. In the studio, Jack meets with the candidates, incumbent Mike Harcourt and Bill Vander Zalm. Jack introduces candidates Kentish Steele, Mel Rykman, and Elmer Bell, who was unable to join the broadcast. The topics raised: Light Rail Transit and how it’s going to be financed, city council, taxes, Expo, and cost cutting at Vancouver city hall. Kentish Steele and Mel Rykman discuss their own ideas about how best to run Vancouver.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Steve Wyatt reports from a helicopter over Pemberton, looking at the flood damage from the Pemberton River. Jack shows a film clip of Bill Vander Zalm from the previous week, wherein Bill accuses members of the Vancouver city council of being Communists. Jack then speaks with Alderman Harry Rankin (COPE), and Alderman Bruce Eriksen about Vander Zalm’s “red-baiting” and various peace initiatives undertaken by the council. Mr. Rankin calls Vander Zalm’s views “Christian fascism”. Jack speaks with Joe Mathias, Chief of the Squamish Band, and David Jacobs, Chairman, Squamish Band Council, about the band’s refusal to allow non-Indigenous fishing on a portion of the Capilano River. They also discuss the use of Ambleside Park, and land in Stanley Park.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts with a chat live from Robson Square Media Centre with Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt about Mr. Harcourt’s opposition to Henry Kissinger making an appearance in Vancouver. Jack addresses the lockout of 14,000 CPU and PPWC members. He welcomes Art Gruntman, Regional Vice President of the Canadian Pulp Union (CPU) and James Sloan, President of the Pulp Paper and Woodworkers of Canada (PPWC). They discuss the lockout, the negotiations and the stalemate. Jack contacts Don Saunders, President of FIR and the Pulp and Paper Industrial Relations Bureau, who had refused to appear on the show today with his opponents in the negotiations, Mr. Gruntman and Mr. Sloan. Jack then speaks with Dr. Irving Abella, author of “None is Too Many”, a book about the anti-Semitism of Mackenzie King’s government from 1939 to 1945. To end the show, Jack speaks with Arthur Jennings, MP for Fiji, who speaks about the United Nations owing $10 million to his country for policing in Lebanon and the Sinai.