The fonds consists of records generated by Gerald Smedley Andrews in Victoria and other parts of British Columbia and Canada, and overseas, in pursuit of his personal, wartime, professional and volunteer activities from about 1903 to 2005.These ac...
This series consists of special use permit files relating to forest lands. The Forest Branch, and its successor agencies, approved these permits to give municipalities, companies and individuals the authority to use Crown forest land for a variety...
British Columbia. Ministry of Forests, Mines and Lands
The series consists of Forest Service personnel photographic prints and negatives created by the British Columbia Forest Service between 1913 and 1982. The photographs are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the employee. The photo print...
The series consists of photographic negatives, prints, and transparencies created by the Ministry of Forests and its predecessors including the Forest Service and Forest Branch. Series documents forest service personnel and activities relating to ...
This series contains miscellaneous papers of Project 87. This project was established in 1981 to do research in preparation for the 75th anniversary of the Forest Service in 1987 and to facilitate transfer of archival records to the Provincial Ar...
This series contains subject indexes to the "O Series" of correspondence, ca.1918-1972 and two file directories, 1979-1981 and 1983. Box 1 contains a photocopy of an alphabetical card index to the "O series" of correspondence....
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 in...
This series consists of the operational records of the Forest Surveys and Inventory Division. Records include procedures, operations, policy, and field manuals relating to forest management, forest protection, forest surveys and inventory, grazing...
Transcript of a public meeting regarding the Timber Royalty Act of 1914, held at the Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C., 3 September 1924, between John Oliver, Premier, T.D. Pattullo, Minister of Lands, A.M. Manson, Minister of Labour and repres...
The series consists of indexes to correspondence files relating to the administration of Crown lands and natural resources. The records were created in 1980 from a computer print-out of various departmental indexes and includes references to files...
This series contains miscellaneous records relating to scaling, including correspondence of the Assistant Supervisor of Scaling, receipts and a ledger for scalers' license fees and lists of licensed scalers.
The series consists of scale and royalty invoices created by the Forest Branch and its successor the Forest Service between 1912 and 1975. Depending upon the district, these records are either duplicate or triplicate copies. For some districts, in...
This series contains a transcript of a hearing before the Minister of Lands and Forests regarding the application of Canadian Forest Products for a tree farm licence in the Nimpkish River region.
The series consists of invoices for building rentals, timber mark hammer purchases, and other items for forest districts handled by the central records office of the Forest Branch and later the Forest Service in Victoria. Records are arranged by f...
The series consists of 32 volumes of log books of Forest Service launches, created by the Forest Branch between 1922 and 1945 and the Forest Service between 1945 and 1952.
This series contains speeches to community groups by the Chief Forester. The records include an address given to the Fish and Game Protective Association in Duncan, B.C. on May 17, 1938 and the Nanaimo and District Fish and Game Protective Associ...
This series contains a report on post-war export markets for Canadian lumber compiled by L.R. Andrews, Secretary-Manager, Lumber Trade Extension Committee, of the British Columbia Lumber and Shingle Manufacturers Association.
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 Rep...
This series consists of accounts ledger of the Nanaimo Ranger Station, for car running costs, launch running costs, tire distribution and telephone accounts. The book also contains an office diary for 1939 and an undated inventory of equipment on...
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 ...
This series contains miscellaneous bibliographies. The records include 'Fruiting habits of forest fires; a selected bibliography, prepared by E.H. Garman, 1939' and a partial list of references from selective timber management, with spec...
This series contains the records of the Forest Surveys Division. Records include cruise and survey reports, instructions for surveys and machine tabulation of records as well as a typescript report on the work of the Division.
This series contains a typescript (carbon copy) of The Young Men's Forestry Training Plan: A Statement of its Progress to Date and its Possibilities September 1, 1935. It is illustrated with pasted-in photographs.
This series contains descriptive reports of forest experiment stations. This incudes mimeographed booklets describing purpose and development of Cowichan Lake Experiment Station, Aleza Lake Experiment Station, and Green Timbers Forestry Station. ...