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Unedited footage. Shows "instant" resource towns in British Columbia, their industrial facilities, and the amenities available to workers and their families, including housing, shopping centres, schools, company stores, etc. Includes footage of the open-pit mine at Phoenix; the town of Mackenzie, north of Prince George; the mill town of Woodfibre, including its ferry service; and the forestry town of Gold River on Vancouver Island.

The fonds consists of a typescript of McRae's M.B.A. thesis, as well as photographs and film footage documenting some of the company towns he visited as part of his research.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ben Fellows discusses his life and experiences in logging and other fields. Logging work and logging camps at Duncan, Cowichan, and Elk River. Ran a pack train at Upper Campbell Lake. Work on the Prairies, including coal mining in Saskatchewan. Travelling to B.C. Local characters. TRACK 2: Gold River. Changes in logging equipment and machinery. Logging camp conditions. Breaking horses. His philosophy.

Stock shots. 1. Air West float plane with damage (a hole). 2. Totem carving. 3. Loading totem pole onto plane. 4. Premier Bill Bennett. 5. Hugh Curtis at sod-turning ceremony. 6. Creek, farm, etc. 7. CNR tanker cars and caboose. 8. Art class. 9. Tank farms on Victoria harbour. 10. B&W stills -- historical photos of the harbour. 11. Duke Point Industrial Park. 12. Construction. 13. Public meeting. 14. B&W aerial photos of Duke Point. 15. Mount Douglas Cross Road and surrounding streets. 16. Development model. 17. Ucluelet harbour. 18. Long Beach. 19. Campbell River. 20. Fish boats. 21. Port Alberni. 22. Construction. 23. Gold River.

The item is a reel of film out-takes from ca. 1971. Well-shot footage of a logger sports events at Gold River, possibly marking the B.C. centennial in 1971. Includes footage of speed chopping, pole climbing, pole sawing, log rolling, bucking, and axe-throwing, as well as shots of the crowd and of children cooling off in the log-rolling pond. This footage was selected from the out-takes of the BC government travelogue "Island Eden."

Documentary. The importance of roads to a timber management program; the plotting and construction of road networks for forestry projects in the Gold River and Peace River pondage areas. The historical method of log transportation by waterway is also shown.

Stock shots. Shows tree felling, land clearing, and construction of road(s), probably in the vicinity of Gold River and/or Elk River. Much footage of construction equipment, including bulldozers, scrapers, drills, cranes, etc.

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), [date unknown] SUMMARY: R.W. Rush, the project engineer for townsites for the Tahsis Company, discusses the development of the Gold River townsite, considerations in locating the town and determining the mix of housing provided, and the company's role in the town's future.

Note: as of 2012, there is no audio recording available. There is only a summary available.

SUMMARY: Christopher Woodward of the Dept. of Municipal Affairs discusses "instant towns" in British Columbia, including how they are created by resource companies, community planning, the provision of utilities and services such as cemeteries, financing, restrictions, etc.

Note: As of 2012, there is no audio recording available for this item. There is only a transcript and summary available.