The item is an atlas of forest cover maps created by British Columbia Forest Products Limited in 1954 for the Maquinna Forest Management licence, near Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island. The atlas contains several index, development and protection maps and 19 more detailed forest cover maps with associated summaries of forest types.
Stock shots. Shows slash burning in progress on flat area and on hillside; men igniting the slash; aerial and general views during and after the burn; night shots. Also shows helicopter with monsoon bucket, and logging truck passing through the burn area. There is also footage of B.C. Forest Products operations in the Caycuse area, including: plantations near Bear Creek and Caycuse; forester inspecting browse damage; views of logged area(s), fire guards, slash and regeneration; falling snags; sequences showing planting in burned and unburned terrain; Autum colours in the (Cowichan?) Valley.
News item. The Pulp and Paper Workers of Canada (PPWC), Local 2, pickets the B.C. Forest Products mill on Gorge Road, forcing management to close the mill. IWA members are upset, as the Henry Hutchins report on the forest industry is to be released in three days. IWA members want to return to work if the terms of the report are satisfactory. Even so, the PPWC pickets will be honoured by IWA members, and this means no unemployment insurance.
News item. Footage shows logged-off areas beyond Sooke (?), logging truck being loaded by hydraulic loader; loaded truck on way to the mill; shots of sawmill (B.C. Forest Products, Sooke?); faller bringing down a tree.
CALL NUMBER: T0273:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The career of a logging engineer, 1929-1970 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1974-04-05 SUMMARY: Born Vancouver, 1905. Graduated UBC in engineering, 1929. Worked in various Vancouver Island logging camps in the 1930s. Camp conditions and union organizers. Logging methods at Caycuse in the 1930s. Logging equipment. Moved to Youbou, 1944. Changes after the BCFP takeover, 1946. Other companies bought in 1946 by BCFP. Construction in the San Juan Valley. Anecdote about logger "Jesse James".
CALL NUMBER: T0273:0002 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1974-04-30 SUMMARY: This tape contains description and discussion of a 1928 photo showing track of logging railway, cold deck, steam donkey, etc.
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Logging camp cook PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1967 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1974-05-01 SUMMARY: Born in Sweden, 1902. Came to Canada, 1920. Worked as a dishwasher and finally cook at various camps on Vancouver Island. Joined BC Forest Products, 1946. Travelling cook: Pitt Lake, Renfrew, Caycuse, Britain River and Crofton. Type of food prepared. Camp life. Problems such as forest fires and floods. Retired 1967.
CALL NUMBER: T0275:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Superintendent, Youbou Sawmill, Lake Cowichan, Retired 1959 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-05-21 SUMMARY: Born at New Westminster in 1896; worked at Barnet Lumber Company; Rat Portage Lumber Company; Capilano Timber Company; came to Industrial Timber Mills in Youbou, in 1932 as superintendent; description of changes in the industry; Youbou as a community; sawmill operations taken over by BC Forest Products; expansion, etc.; retired in 1959.
CALL NUMBER: T0275:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Superintendent, Youbou Sawmill, Lake Cowichan, Retired 1959 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-05-21 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.]
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Accountant at Youbou, B.C. 1946-1954 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-05-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in England in 1910; moved to Burma as an accountant, 1937; moved to Youbou in 1946; ethnic groups in Youbou; life in Youbou circa 1946 to 1954; community life in Youbou; accounting practices and management changes; worked for BC Forest Products at Youbou from 1946 to 1954; Victoria, 1954 to 1961; and Vancouver, 1961 to 1973. [TRACK 2: blank.]
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Retired as Superintendent, Victoria Saw Mill, 1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-06-04 SUMMARY: Started in a bank as a teller; because of health, went to Barnet Lumber Company's mill in 1926, until it closed during the Depression; conditions during the Depression; no job for two years; obtained job at Industrial Timber Mills in Youbou grading lumber; then the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau; assistant to the superintendent in Youbou; superintendent at Victoria in 1950.
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Cameron Lumber Company - BCFP Mill, Victoria, 1923-1969 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-06-03 SUMMARY: Born in Sheffield, England, in 1903; went to Brandon, Manitoba in 1912; went to school and took a commercial course; became a stenographer; moved to Victoria in 1920; started with Cameron Lumber Company on 16 April 1923 as a stenographer to sales manager A.W. Millar; learned lumber business; reminiscences of lumber business in the 1920s and 1930s; mill burned in 1931; conditions in the mill; changes encountered with the new company BC Forest Products, in 1946; manager of the Victoria mill from 1949 to 1969; retired in 1969.
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Master mechanic in the forest industry RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-06-05 SUMMARY: Born in England in 1902; came to Victoria in 1911; started work for Cameron Lumber Company in 1927; worked as a machinist and engineer; worked in logging camps in the Nitinat area in 1922; description of logging camps; machinery at the Cameron mill in Victoria; employees; types of machinery used and technological changes; retired as a master machinist in 1967.
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Logging Superintendent, BCFP RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1974-06-13 SUMMARY: Born in 1912, in Midale, Saskatchewan; schooling in Weyburn; Ed and his brother came to Cowichan Lake in 1934; jobs splitting wood for a steam donkey; join back rigging crew; worked at various woods jobs at Camp 6, Caycuse, BC; early union efforts at Caycuse; later woods foreman at Caycuse and logging superintendent at Cowichan; due to retire in 1975.
CALL NUMBER: T0596:0001 PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1950 RECORDED: Royston (B.C.), 1974-08-19 & 20 SUMMARY: Graduated UBC Forest Engineering, 1935-1942. Joined BC Forest Service. Cruised timber and surveyed in the interior. Assistant district forester, Prince George.
CALL NUMBER: T0596:0002 PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1950 RECORDED: Royston (B.C.), 1974-08-19 & 20 SUMMARY: Cruised timber and did surveying for BC Forest Service. Joined BC Forest Products in 1946. Description of early efforts in forest practices.;
CALL NUMBER: T0596:0003 PERIOD COVERED: 1946-1972 RECORDED: Royston (B.C.), 1974-08-19 & 20 SUMMARY: Description of early efforts in forest practices. Timber acquisition. Tree Farm License #22. Mackenzie development, etc.
CALL NUMBER: T0597:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Comptroller and Secretary of British Columbia Forest Products Ltd. (part1) PERIOD COVERED: 1939-1958 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in England, 1903. In lumber business in England until he came to Canada in 1939. Wartime control of the forest industry. Met E.P. Taylor during World War II. The dramatic formation of BC Forest Products, 1946. Details about the formation of BCFP. Problems of the company, 1946-1953. Involvement of H.R. MacMillan in the early years of BCFP. Management arrangements between H.R. MacMillan Export Company and BCFP. TRACK 2: More on early management problems. Wallace McCutcheon as a director of the company. Timber supply problems. The background to the "Sommers scandal" over the granting of Tree Farm License #22.
CALL NUMBER: T0597:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Comptroller and Secretary of British Columbia Forest Products Ltd. (part2) PERIOD COVERED: 1946-1954 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Modernization required at many mills in the late 1940s. Financial situation of BCFP in the late 1940s. The original board of directors. Transition for senior executives after the BCFP takeover in 1946. [TRACK 2: blank; end of interview.]
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Head filer, Youbou; Superintendent, Vancouver Mill Division, BCFP PERIOD COVERED: 1923-1967 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: Born in Minnesota, 1902. Came to Canada with parents. Father was mill manager in Vancouver. Worked in various mills as a filer in the 1920s. To Youbou, 1923, as head filer. Description of Youbou and the mill, etc. Superintendent, Vancouver mill, 1952-1960. Spruce milling. Mill fire of 1960. Superintendent at Youbou, 1961-1967. Retired, 1967.
RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1974 SUMMARY: Born in Manitoba in 1905; grew up on the lower mainland; married Victor Ramsay in 1931; life in the Halfmoon Bay logging camp; lived in other logging camps during the 1930s; traveling the coast on Union steamships; Narrow Inlet camp described; camp social life; problems of education in an isolated camp; husband worked for Niemi Logging Company; takeover of Niemi Lumber by BC Forest Products in 1946; moving a float camp described; forest fire at Britain River described; education and teachers at Britain River; medical problems; Oscar Niemi; labour relations; more on camp life; liquor problems in camp; race and ethnic relations; social life.
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1974-09-09 SUMMARY: Born at Ladysmith; first job in the woods as a surveyor's helper, 1929; Shawnigan Lake Lumber Co.; prospecting for gold in the Peace River/Parsnip River area in 1933; went to Caycuse in 1934; setting chokers; life at camp 6; became a rigger in 1935; description of rigging operation; camp foreman in 1946; change in 1950s to high-lead operations; changes in methods.
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-09-10 SUMMARY: Born in Norway in 1908; came to Canada in 1927; worked at Great Central Lake for Bloedel, Stewart and Welch; logging camp life; conditions during the Depression; union organisation during the 1930s; strike of 1934; worked for several companies on Vancouver Island; accidents in the woods; started with BCFP in 1946; worked in several coastal camps as foreman and later superintendent; in several BCFP camps on Vancouver Island and the lower coast; problems faced by a logging superintendent in the 1940s and 1950s; changes in logging methods.
RECORDED: [location unknown], [1974?] SUMMARY: Hylda Robertson was an office clerk for Hammond Cedar Co. from 1924 until 1961, when she retired as statistics clerk. (See "First Growth: The Story of BC Forest Products Ltd.", p. 188.)
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hammond Cedar Company, 1921-1946 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-09-16 SUMMARY: Started work at Hammond Cedar Mill in 1921; operation of the Hammond Cedar Mill on the Fraser River; modifications to the mill in the 1920s; the Hammond Cedar baseball team; problems for the mill in the early 1930s; Hope was a councilman starting in 1929; problems of relief and unemployment; more on the mill's economic problems during the Depression; changes in the mill during the Second World War; wages; takeover by BCFP in 1946.
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Locomotive engineer for BCFP (tape 1) RECORDED: Mill Bay (B.C.), 1974-09-25 SUMMARY: Worked at various logging camps in the 1930s and 1940s on Vancouver Island; came to camp 6 in 1937; learned to fire locomotives; description of camp; union and social activities; moved to Port Renfrew; hauled logging trains out of Harris and Bear Creeks; switched over to driving trucks until 1973.
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Manager, Log and Chip Supply, BC Forest Products RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-04-15 & 25? SUMMARY: Starting in the 1930s in a shingle mill; joining BCFP in 1946 as one of the first head office employees; log supply difficulties; trading logs between companies; transporting logs to mills; development of log barge; chip delivery to pulp mills; Sommers case; log market.
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marketing Pulp from BCFP Mills Around the World RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1975-03-18 SUMMARY: Engineer; joined BCFP in 1963 to sell newsprint from mill at Crofton; world markets, changes in selling techniques, sales agencies; fluctuation of markets in newsprint; selling pulp from Crofton.
