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Fonds consists of broad-ranging records pertaining to the management and operations of the Western Plywood Company Limited and the Weldwood-Westply Limited group of regional and national companies, subsidiaries, divisions and branches in Canada and the United States. Records in this fonds are from the British Columbia Head Office of Weldwood-Westply and include material to do with management and operations of various plants, particularly the Kent Avenue plywood plant in Vancouver, where the head office was located, and the Cariboo Plywood plant in Quesnel. The fonds includes records of the following companies, subsidiaries, divisions and branches: Alwest Wholesale, Canadian Collieries Resources Limited, Cariboo Pulp and Plywood (Quesnel), Empire Lumber Company, Hay & Company Limited and Hubbell Lumber Company (both Ontario), Flavelle Cedar Limited, J.R. Murray Timber Limited, Kent Avenue plant (Vancouver), Keeley Lumber Company, Kirk Coal Company, Mount Baker Veneer Company, Tepson's Wholesale (Ontario), Timberland Plywood, United States Plywood, Weldwood of Canada and others. The fonds consists of eight series: Series 1. Executive papers, 1934-1970, predominant 1960-1969. Sub-series: President's files, Vice-President's files, Secretary files. Series 2. Correspondence, 1956-1963, predominant 1960-1962. Sub-series: General Correspondence 1960-1961, General Correspondence 1961-1962. Series 3. Financial records, 1910-1973, predominant 1945-1966. Sub-series: Financial files, annual reports and statements; General accounting correspondence; Tax files; Ledgers and account books. Series 4. Head Office general files, 1946-1969. Sub-series: Topical files, Forest Industry Summaries. Series 5. Labour and personnel files, 1951-1988. Sub-series: Set 1, Set 2. Series 6. Old files, 1907-1967. Sub-series: Companies, Log and timber sale files. Series 7. Cariboo Plywood plant, 1950-1982. Sub-series: Quesnel timber files, General files, Correspondence and reports, Financial files. Series 8. Timberland Sawmill, 1946-1982. Sub-series: Timberland Sawmill technical drawings, Reference drawings, Sawmill and machinery files. Original series, series/sub-series titles, and arrangements have been retained. Arrangements are alphabetical, chronological or numerical.

The London and Canadian Fire Insurance Company (LCFIC) was incorporated by statute in British Columbia in 1890 as a general fire insurance business. Most of the original investors were shareholders or officials of the British Columbia Land and Investment Agency. The head office of LCFIC was located in Victoria with agencies in various British Columbia centres such as Vancouver, Nanaimo and Vernon. Because of its limited resources the company entered into a number of reinsurance treaties mainly with English and Scottish insurance companies. The LCFIC became inactive in 1898, was wound up in 1905 and liquidated in 1906. Most policies were replaced by Phoenix Assurance Company policies between 1898 and about 1900. Fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, insurance policies, registers and records of reinsurance treaties. For related records see MS-2880, British Columbia Land and Investment Agency fonds, series 23, 25-26, 84-91.

A metal seal embosser for the London and Canadian Fire Insurance Company was transferred to the BC Archives from the City of Victoria Archives in 2021. This is housed in container number 002340-2784.

CALL NUMBER: T3876:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1970] SUMMARY: Notes from cassette label: "Hope Patenaude, telegraph operator, photographer, interviewed [by] Reg Beck . . . about 1970".;

CALL NUMBER: T3876:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-?] SUMMARY: Notes from cassette label: "Hope talks about early days in Quesnel. This side -- talk with Hope Patenaude -- Johnie Bowles -- pranks re hotel laundry lights in Occidental Hotel".;

CALL NUMBER: T3876:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-09-06 SUMMARY: Notes from cassette label: "A: Stories by Hope told by B. [Branwen?] Patenaude. B: Talks with Hope Patenaude, Sept. 6/1973".;

CALL NUMBER: T3876:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-?] SUMMARY: Notes from cassette label: "A: Bill Broughton, Leonard Butler, Roddy Moffat, Jess Higdon, Jim Williams. B: Jim Williams, Hope Patenaude, Mrs. Kathleen Telford, Dick Roddis".;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Homesteading near Quesnel RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Bertha Tingley, who homesteaded with her husband on the present site of Quesnel. She talks about clearing land, building a shack, and the hardships involved.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Jess Higdon. He talks about ranching near Quesnel, the Fraser River ferries, and the big changes in the Cariboo region.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Steamships on the Fraser, ca. 1914 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Jim Williams, who came to Quesnel to help build the steamship "BX". Earlier career in shipbuilding. Building the "BX". Ship's carpenter. "Bushed" passengers. The "BX" was dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A Cariboo pioneer, 1895-1974 RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), [1968?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Came to Cariboo 1895 (age 8), from eastern Canada. Train travel, 1895. Education in Pavilion, 150 Mile House and Victoria. Joined telegraph service, 1902. Worked as a telegrapher in Horsefly ;and Quesnel. Quesnel described. Riverboats on the Fraser River. Transportation in the Cariboo. Returned to 150 Mile House in 1913. Then to Blackwater River. Early days at Williams Lake, ca. 1900. Anecdotes. [TRACK 2: blank; end of interview]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Cariboo recollections RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1974 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview with Reg Beck, Spencer Hope Patenaude discusses early Williams Lake, Horsefly, 150 Mile, and 153 Mile House. Bullion Mine described. Telegraph lines in the Cariboo. Anecdotes about telegraphy and the life of a telegraph operator. 150 Mile House pioneers. Chinese in 150 Mile House. Ox teams and freighting on the Cariboo Road. Grist mills and grain growing. Sawmilling. TRACK 2: Description of the engines and workings of the Miocene mine. Anecdotes about maintaining the telegraph lines. [End of interview]

SUMMARY: Interview with D.H. Allison, Chairman of town commissioners of Quesnel, by John Barnes, about: British Columbia, Quesnel, its history.;

SUMMARY: Parts of proceedings of Fiddlers' Ball at Quesnel, with speeches by W.J. Asselstine, Minister of Mines of British Columbia, R.W. Bruhn, Member of the Legislative Assembly for Salmon Arm, and unidentified chairman of proceedings, about: war, World War II, Canadian war effort, National War Loan, including playing of musical numbers, "Home on the Range", "Highland Fling", "Strauss Waltzes", "Square Dance", "Jig", "Springhouse Waltz", "Barn-Dance" and other unidentified numbers.

RECORDED: Vaseux Lake (B.C.), 1982-05-30 SUMMARY: Mr. Webster was born in Montana and schooled in the States. He worked at a ranch at the age of nine and began collecting Indian artefacts. He farmed in Montana as well as working in the timber industry. He later moved to Quesnel and became a cattleman.

The item consists of film footage from 1967. It shows people disembarking from a DC-3 at Quesnel Airport; cars leaving airport and on highway; signs for "Vigor Explorations Ltd." and "Hannandor Gold Ltd."; crossing log bridge; dredge bucket and sluicing operation; examining gold; panning for gold.

The item consists of two reels (one main reel and one duplicate reel) of unedited negative footage of Premier W.A.C. Bennett on an election tour of B.C. during the provincial election campaign, September 1963. Bennett is shown making speeches, riding PGE trains, shaking hands and generally "campaigning" in North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Vancouver, Quesnel, Williams Lake, Dawson Creek, Peace River dam site, Fort St. John, Prince George and Nanaimo. Highlights include Bennett setting off a large explosion at the dam site and touring the mills and roads.

Amateur film footage. This reel includes the following items:

24. At Browning Lake cabin.
25. Sports Day June 1932 St. Clare.
26. Beach hotel after fire; log boom; rough day on Howe Sound -- December 1933.
27. Wedding at Britannia, August 1933.
28. California?, April 1935.
29. July 1 1936 at townsite.
30. Browning children & others at play, etc., [192-].
31. Father Flanagan's boys' home and other New York locations, [ca. 1940].
32. West coast forest.
33. Beach May 24 1940.
34. PGE Quesnel Cariboo mines 1933. A trip to the Cariboo via the steamboat "Lady Alexandra" and the PGE railway. Quesnel, Barkerville, 70 Mile House. The Cariboo Quartz and Island Mountain Mines (?). Fraser Canyon views.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Peter Mannering collection RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1979-08-03 SUMMARY: Barbara Tremaine discusses early theatre in Vancouver and Victoria: began acting in England; came to B.C. with her husband and children; performing in Victoria at the Crystal Gardens Theatre in early 1930s; directing a play for the Sun Ray Club; doing radio at CKWX; starting the Victory Players in Vancouver in 1941; Sam Payne; Tremaine Garstang; travelling tours of plays; Jane Darwell anecdote; getting into BBC radio; working with a few Ontario theatre companies; Cambie Theatre company -- short-lived; worked with Vancouver Playhouse company in '60s and '70s.

The file contains a black photograph album with 280 b&w photographs taken or acquired by Frank Boucher between 1924 and 1946. The albums contains photographs of holidays in Prince Rupert and Quesnel, 1944-1946; Victoria scenes including parades and fairs, and celebrations during V.E. and V.J. day; photographs from Africa in 1924, and May Day parades.

Letter of introduction signed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies and testimonial letters from H.K. Bloomfield, T.W. Nicholls, E.B. Wyngard, C. FitzRoy and J. Singleton, 1859; diary, 1864-1865.

Personal papers; subject files consisting of newspaper clippings, notes of interviews, drafts of articles, correspondence, and photographs relating to LeBourdais' interest in the history of the Cariboo district. Louis LeBourdais was born in Clinton in 1888 and died in Quesnel in 1947. He was the son of Adalbert LeBourdais, telegrapher and postmaster at Clinton and Eleanore LeBourdais. Louis LeBourdais also became a telegraph operator. He worked in Kootenay and Okanagan districts for the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Dominion Government Telegraph Service, before settling in Quesnel, apparently in the early years of World War I, as telegrapher for the Dominion Government Telegraph Service. In 1937 he became an insurance agent for the Confederation Life Association. He was elected to the provincial Legislature in 1937 as the liberal member for Cariboo district, and was re-elected in 1941 and 1945. LeBourdais was keenly interested in the history of the Cariboo district and the Central Interior in general. He wrote and sold articles on the past history of the region and on current economic trends to a number of magazines and newspapers, and was a correspondent for the Vancouver Daily Province. His topics included gold mining and the "back to the land" movement. The records were accumulated primarily in connection with LeBourdais' historical interests. Records include: papers and newspaper clippings of general interest, and subject files arranged alphabetically. The subject files consist of newspaper clippings, handwritten and typewritten drafts of articles, notes of interviews, correspondence and photographs. The bulk of the records date from the 1930s and are concerned with old timers, mining, particularly the resurgence of gold quartz mining, and the "back to the land" movement. Some subject files contain photographs. Printed material transferred to the North West Library Collection is identified in the finding aid. Approximately 450 black and white photographs, 75 black and white negatives, and nine glass negatives of various subjects, and approximately two hundred lantern slides of the Cariboo-Barkerville area were transferred to Visual Records accession, 198501-11. Mining maps of the Central Interior of British Columbia have been transferred to map registration numbers: 12916-12928. A list of maps is available at the end of the attached finding aid. Related records in MS-0361.

Harry Moffat was a Cariboo pioneer and farmer at Alexandria, B.C. He died in 1947. The records diaries and farm account books of Harry Henry Moffat, Cariboo pioneer, and his descendants (12 volumes).

Account book listing goods received and shipped.

The series consists of a day book kept by Robert Middleton, a blacksmith at Quesnel.