The series contains records relating to the Peace River and Mackenzie River basins, from correspondence file 0309728. It consists of a preliminary report on the Peace River basin flood of 1972 by the Inland Waters Branch of Environment Canada and records of meetings of the Mackenzie Basin Intergovernmental Liaison Committee.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands, Forests and Water Resources
Correspondence relating to compensation for privately owned lots on Bird Cage Walk required for the Parliament Buildings. From Lands and Work files 4155/1892, 4457/1892 and 41/1893.
This series contains miscellaneous correspondence relating to safes and locks at the Parliament Buildings. It includes a letter to F.M. Rattenbury from M.W. Waitt regarding vault door combinations.
This series contains one volume of an accounts ledger, receipts and payments. It also includes a ledger of expenditures for road construction, surveys and explorations, salaries, supplies, etc.
This series contains minutes from the Executive Council meetings. Records of interest in this series include minutes "relative to the Indian troubles on the Skeena River," from 1888.; dispatches, reports, and correspondence concerning the relocation of Songhees Indian reserve, 1893-1896. The series also includes a copy of the Report on British Columbia for Royal Colonial Institute (for use in British elementary schools), 1884.
This series contains an appeal book and judgements of the British Columbia Supreme Court in the case of James S. Emerson, timber dealer v. Robert T. Skinner, Provincial Timber Inspector, regarding the seizure of three booms of cedar under the Timber Manufacturing Act, 1906.
This series contains reports by the Assistant Timber Inspector at Nelson on timber cut and royalties payable by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Doukhobor Society.
This series contains files relating to courses taken by interned Japanese students from 1942 to 1946 (Boxes 1-2), and to English language courses for displaced persons taken between 1949 and 1951 (Boxes 3-4).
British Columbia. High School Correspondence Branch
The series consists of a photocopied file list of "O" series (O files) correspondence files, showing disposition of files. It was created by the Surveys and Land Records Branch in 1982 from a computer print-out.
It includes references indicating the following:(1) files still active with the Survey and Land Records Branch (2) files microfilmed (3) files in the Provincial Archives (4) files sent to a Regional Office of the Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing (5) Ministry of Forests files, partially renumbered to Forests filing system (6) Water Management Branch administration files and water rights applications (7) Parks Branch files renumbered to Parks Branch filing system (8) old Coal and Natural Gas files.
This series contains files from the Public Information and Education Division. The records consist of correspondence of the Minister of Lands, Forests and Water Resources on controversial matters including: multiple use in the Nitinat Triangle (1972) and Fry Creek (1972-1973) areas, and the Eden Fire (1973-1975). This series also contains the report of the Committee for Ranger District Organization (1976) which was appointed as a result of the Eden Fire controversy.
British Columbia. Forest Service. Public Information and Education Division
This series contains reports presented to the Forestry Committee of the Legislative Assembly by the Chief Forester. The 1936 Report was further amplified by a presentation by the Forester in charge of the Forest Surveys Division, and the 1940 Report was presented by the Assistant Chief Forester due to the absence of the Chief Forester on war-related business.
This series contains a cartographic manual with a standard legend compiled by the Forest Service Map Coordinating Committee with the cooperation of the Divisions and Forest Districts.
This series contains operational records consisting of volume tables, a copy of the Forest Classification Manual (1956) and instructions for accuracy control in forest surveys.
British Columbia. Forest Service. Forest Surveys and Inventory Division
This series contains the report of the commissioner in the matter of a tree-farm licence and in the matter of Empire Mills Ltd. It was written by Judge C.W. Morrow, Commissioner.
This series contains working records consisting of: File 1. Land Use and Land Alienation, Forestry vs. Ranching in the Interior of British Columbia, a xerographic copy of a paper presented to a hearing on land use at Quesnel on November 15, 1968; File 2. Memoranda on range management training 1978; File 3. Agenda for the 1978 Range Managers' meeting.
This series contains a carbon-copy of "The Problem of Slash Disposal in the Western White Pine Stands of North Idaho, 1921", a report to the U.S. Forest Service, District One, Missoula, Montana, by Forest Examiners J.A. Larsen and W.C. Lowdermilk.
British Columbia. Nelson Forest District (1913-1978)
This series contains a report by Irene Mounce of the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, Central Experimental Farm, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa on the "Forest Mycology of British Columbia, May-October 1938". The paper contains a report on the work of the Cowichan Lake Experiment Station and a discussion of the desirability of, as well as possible sites for, the establishment of a forest pathology laboratory in British Columbia.
This series contains two operational files from the Vancouver Forest District. The first file, coded MTS X4, is a Timber Management file from 1912-1917. The contents refer to Timber Sale X4 to Young and Scott of Point Grey, B.C. covering lands within the municipality of Point Grey, bounded, in part, by Sixteenth Avenue and the Musqueam Indian Reserve. The second file, which is uncoded, concerns the transfer of records to Victoria from the Supervisor of Scaler's office.
This series contains a copy of a manual of instructions for log scaling in the Interior of British Columbia, issued under the authority of the Chief Forester and list of Licenced Scalers as of December 31, 1961.
This series contains volume tables for coastal forest districts. Volume tables were used to determine areas of merchantable timber for possible issuance of timber sales.
This series contains the "Report to the Royal Commission on Forests and Forestry: The Background to Stand Treatment Policies in the Northern Interior." The report is illustrated with pasted-in photographs.
British Columbia. Royal Commission on Forest Resources (1955-57)
This series contains copies of Hydro-electric progress reports in Canada, issued by Canada, Dept. of Northern Affairs and National Resources, Water Resources Division and its predecessor agencies. This mimeographed progress report highlights projects under development in British Columbia and the other provinces.