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Stock shots. Shots of a helicopter picking up and dropping off blocks of cedar.

Stock shots. Collecting spruce cones from tree tops with a helicopter. Shows process of preparing helicopter and equipment; collecting cones; landing at dump and unloading; safety measures; aerial views of harvesting area.

Stock shots. Shows use of a helicopter equipped with a hopper to spread fertilizer pellets.

CALL NUMBER: T3944:0023 track 1 item 02 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-11-30 SUMMARY: Hjalmar Bergren discusses logging in B.C. and the struggle for a union in the forest industry on Vancouver Island.;

CALL NUMBER: T3944:0023 track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Logging in B.C. : Hjalmar Bergren RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-11-30 SUMMARY: Interview with Hjalmar Bergren.;

SUMMARY: Talk by H.R. MacMillan about the lumber industry in British Columbia.;

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This series consists of interest tables and computation of interest periods. These records were possibly used to compute interest charges on licence to cut fees or percentages for royalty dues and ground rents.

This series consists of the interim report, final report and indexed notes of evidence of the Dominion Crown Timber Commission (British Columbia). Records were created by Commissioner Archer Martin to the Minister of the Interior.

SUMMARY: Part of radio program featuring interviews on location by Bob Harlow, with Ralph Laker (?), an old logger; Ron Linstrom (?) and Godwin Winedale (?), young loggers; and Clarence Minton (?), camp cook, about: arrival in Canada, camp life then and today; cutting lumber; trimming trees; killing bears; cooking duties. Followed by description of a logging mill by an unidentified announcer, with interviews of Ray Turner (?), foreman, and W.C. Phillips, district forester, about cutting logs; government timber policies; preserving northern spruce stands in Prince George area; industry, forestry, description of process. Included are sounds of sawing logs. Recorded by Lloyd Harrop. (NOTE: The BC Archives copy may not include all of the above material.)

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RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-12 SUMMARY: [No content summaries or documentation available for this interview.];

CALL NUMBER: T1875:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. J.M. Gibson : the B.C. Forest Branch, 1920-1927 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1927 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1960-10-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. J.M. Gibson joined the B.C. Forest Branch, 1920. Gibson works for the Nelson Forest District. Rangers in the Nelson District. Getting around the Nelson District. Problems of fighting forest fires. Preliminary cruising in the West Kootenay region. Moved to East Kootenay region, 1921. Rangers in the East Kootenay area. Timber cruising. TRACK 2: Sawmilling operations in the East Kootenays, 1921. Cruising in the extreme southeast. Building timber flumes. Tenure of various timber lands in the East Kootenay area. Gibson becomes District Forester in Prince George, 1923. Rangers and mills in the central Interior region, 1925. CALL NUMBER: T1875:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. J.M. Gibson : the B.C. Forest Branch, 1920-1929 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1929 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1960-10-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continuation of a discussion of the sawmills in the central Interior region, 1925. Comments on union organization in the Cranbrook area. More on sawmills in the central Interior area, especially east of Prince George. Detailed discussion of the Winton interests in the sawmill at Giscome. More on the mills east of Prince George. Problems of a District Forester: forest fires and collecting stumpage and royalty. Small water-powered sawmill operating at Fort St. James, 1924. TRACK 2: Story of Sir John Pitca, a knighted Estonian who settled near Fort St. James. Gibson becomes Assistant Forester in charge of forest protection, 1927-29. Returned to New Brunswick to teach at UNB in 1929. (End of interview)

RECORDED: Canal Flats (B.C.), 1982-06-09 SUMMARY: Joe was born and educated in the States. He came to Canada and worked as a cowboy until he took a job with the federal Parks department, working as a hunting and fishing guide until 1927. During the 1930s, he took whatever work was available. Later he became a forest ranger, quit that, and went ranching on the Kootenay River.

Correspondence, notes and other papers on forest pathology, timber cruising, and the supervision of licenced scalers. Personal correspondence relating to the Forest Service and poetry and song sheets from annual forest ranger meetings.

RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Canton was born and schooled in Ontario. During the Depression, he rode the rails, and then got a job in the forest industry. He arrived in Vancouver in 1938 and worked for a short time, but returned to Ontario and worked in mining until the war, when he spent four years in the service. After the war, he gained employment with the BC Forest Service.

CALL NUMBER: T4135:0007 PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1920 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Maternal grandparents' immigration to Regina from England; father involved in Riel Rebellion; anecdote about Big Bear; paternal grandparents; father's history; father had fruit farm in Saskatchewan; met Maxwell Annabelle from Moose Jaw; Annabelle knew about 800 acres available, where Kinnaird is now; the Killoughs arrived in 1913; built house; hand logged by Joe Deschamps; brother goes overseas; labour scarce; Killoughs couldn't make mortgage and lost the farm; pre-empted on upper bench in 1918; farm later subdivided for smelter workers; Killough's stump ranch; logging on upper bench; Kinnaird school opens on push of the Dumont family; Killoughs walked to the Castlegar school until 1918; logging operation about Kinnaird; poles and posts. TRACK 2: Saulstrom, Anderson, Merry logging operation; stulls and logging for Rossland Mines; farmers from Milestone, Saskatchewan buy operation; Milestone Lumber Company and Road; steam mills; Joe Deschamps; planer; Kinnaird school attendance; homemade school bus; first bus driver; anecdote about arrival in Castlegar; logs shipped by rail to Gennelle sawmill; ownership of Gennelle mill; anecdote about Gennelle sawmill; wheat grown in Gennelle; cradle scythe; Doukhobor labour; strawberry and apple planted; layout of ranch; water needed for irrigation; early Castlegar; first post office and store owned by farmer; CPR station; section houses and crews; social status of station agent; Castlegar Hotel built out of boarding houses abandoned after bridge construction. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0008 PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1940 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Early Castlegar buildings and residents: "Alex the Indian", Collingwood Bing; McCauleys lived by the river; Castlegar school and children; Jim Laurie, station operator; Watts in West Robson; footpath added to rail bridge over the Columbia; Waldie's sawmill; families able to attend school; Pratt family played music in Farmers' Hall; other mill and section foremen families; Alex the Indian, a trapper, stayed at Killough's; found wikiup in 1924-25; Alex died shortly after; relief camp at China Creek, 1932; roadwork allowed Castlegar to grow; road before the Depression; Castlegar Community Hall; volunteer labour; "Stunt Night" at the community hall; songs, plays, boxing, dance after; relief camp workers brought to hall. TRACK 2: In 1929, built a telephone line to the top of Old Glory; worked as an assistant forest ranger part time; Westley fire; foreman on fire; hired by West Kootenay Power and Light; "deconstruction" of 1898 20-kilovolt line; construction of 60-kilovolt line; Blueberry Creek pre-emption; logging during the winter; 1961 gallbladder operation; married school teacher in 1935; forest Service didn't hire assistant rangers back in 1932; bought truck and built the wooden school but all assistant rangers and half of rangers laid off in 1932; forest development projects (relief), 1936 to 1939; assistant rangers hired to run camps; Seymour River camp 1936; Cowichan River Camp 1937; 100-man camps; setting up camps; pay scheme for workers; assistant rangers would go back to rangering every spring; provincial parks division came out of forest development projects. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0009 PERIOD COVERED: 1916-1975 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nurseries and reforestation started by forest development projects; Depression life on homestead; salmon stocks ended with the Grand Coulee Dam; anecdote about last salmon; whites never fished salmon; Westley; Page and Hill mill in Westley; Birchbank Lumber Company; East Indians in the Kootenays; anecdote about East Indians; Chinese labour and cooks; Chinese gardens; Waterloo; mines and boom; boat crossing; first water ferry; last ferry operator; size and operation of ferry; iron bridge; travel to Nelson; Thrums Road put in; residents in Waterloo; reflections on history; Tom Bloomer; CPR engineer; Bloomer and Hurst buy Castlegar land; Bloomers move to Nelson; Fred Horko. TRACK 2: 1926 Waldie's Robson camp; United Church minister [Rev. George R.B.] Kinney at relief camp who [shot or showed] home movies at camp; Kinney first to climb Mount Robson; anecdote about the death of a organizer in the forest development project; union activists suppressed; inspector of scalers for forestry; operators hired scalers; checkability; spent last years at work developing a scaling system; piece sampling explained; weight scaling explained; government takes over scaling; history of Forest Service; Sloan Royal Commission; university research flip-flops; suppressed forest growth; selective logging.

The file contains a photocopy of a journal kept by Axel Bentzon (in Danish with English summary by author), and an I.O.O.F. certificate. Bentzon worked in the Pacific Northwest from 1910-1915, as a labourer, driver, carpenter, etc.

Stock shots. Extensive and detailed footage showing a forest crew with chain saws thinning and spacing a stand of young trees. Illustrates chain saw use and maintenance, safety measures, various other procedures, etc. Possibly shot for use in a training film.

Stock shots. Spacing crew using shears to cut young trees.

This series contains operational records from the District Forester's office and Ranger Districts 3 (Barriere), 4 (Kamloops) and 22 (Kamloops North) including material relating to grazing, timber management, tree farm licences, fires and forest protection. The files are organized according to the system set out in "Operational Manual with Instructions to Forest Officers", Victoria, 1942. For additional information see: GR-0944, Box 1.

This series includes records related to forest tenures in the Kamloops Forest Region from 1987-1998. The series currently includes records from the Kamloops Forest District, Penticton Forest District and Vernon Forest District within the larger Kamloops Forest Region.

Types of forest tenure records in this series include non-replaceable timber sale licences (TSLs), including licences issued under the Small Business Forest Enterprise (SBFEP) program and BC Timber Sales Program.

Records regard the issuance, evaluation, administration, monitoring, planning, replacement, cancellation and extension of forest tenures under the Forest Act.

Records include correspondence; licences; logging plans; log hauling and harvesting contracts; preharvest silviculture prescriptions, reviews and amendments; harvest inspection reports and appraisals; stumpage calculations; records related to right of ways and Forest Service Road permits; reports; maps; and photos.

The series also includes legal documents for cutting permits for replaceable forest licences and tree farm licence (TFL) 35. These files may include some of the records described above, but primarily contain records related to silviculture prescriptions and surveys.

The records have been classified as 19500-45 and 19620-25 in the Forestry Operational Classification System (ORCS).

The ministries responsible for these records, and the years that they were responsible, are:
Ministry of Forests (1988-2005)

This series contains operational records of the Kamloops Forest Region and its predecessor, the Kamloops Forest District from 1951-1983. The Kamloops Forest Region has included a variety of different Ranger Districts or smaller Forest Districts over time. The records in this series relate to several, including the Chase, Barriere, Clearwater and Kamloops Ranger Districts. Note that the names and boundaries of districts and regions varied over the years.

The records are arranged according to the original filing number used at the Kamloops office. Records relate to grazing range management, timber management, and other administrative records of the office. This includes grazing permits; timber sale and harvesting licences; tree farm licences; firewood permits; road permits; plantations; reforestation; scaling and royalty records; and annual work charts.

This series also includes the accounts of the Kamloops Forest District, a subdivision of the Kamloops Forest Region, successor to Ranger Districts 3 (Barriere), 4 (Kamloops), 16 (Ashcroft) and 22 (Kamloops North) of the former Kamloops Forest District, and a guide to the Kamloops Regional 0 series.

The ministries responsible for Forest and Range Districts, and the years that they were responsible, are:
Department of Lands and Forests (1945-1962)
Department of Lands, Forests and Water Resources (1962-1975)
Department of Forests (1975-1976)
Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)

Stock shots. Shows a three-man crew planting seedlings on a hillside.