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Stock shots. Shows location crew surveying for road; clearing trees and preparing road area with caterpillar tractor, scraper and other heavy equipment; installing culverts; use of dredger and stone crusher; surfacing road with gravel. Also camp scenes, including cookhouse. Appears to be in the vicinity of Stone Creek and Willow River, in the Cariboo southeast of Prince George.

The series consists of surveying observations made by Royal Engineers of the districts of New Westminster and Queensborough. The series includes notebooks of observation by Parish and a notebook identified with P.J. Leech, Royal Engineers, Fort Langley.

Industrial film. The preliminary survey for the Alcan industrial project at Kitimat, including surveys of the Nechako Basin, Kenney Dam and Kemano power plant sites and Kitimat itself.

Out-takes. Career opportunities in the oil industry of western Canada. Shows steps involved in surveying, sounding, scientific testing, site determination, oil well drilling and refining. The film was mainly shot in Alberta, but there are some BC scenes.

The sub-series consists of glass plate photographic negatives created by a topographical surveying party headed by A.J. Campbell, B.C.L.S. in 1925, working on behalf of the Surveys Branch of the Department of Lands.

Industrial video

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: Earle Birney reads an excerpt from his autobiography, describing his youthful experiences as an axeman for a survey crew in Waterton Lakes Park in the summer of 1921.;

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], 1974-02-13 SUMMARY: History of Pine Pass. Andrews' journey through Pine Pass in 1924. Story of John Bennett's ill-fated journey through Pine Pass in 1930. Origin of the name Bennett Creek.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Col. G.S. Andrews talks of his early education, experiences as a teacher, and survey work in BC PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1933 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1980-11-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: G.S. Andrews talks of his early schooling in Vancouver and problems encountered in obtaining admission to UBC. Teaching certificate obtained from Normal School. Early teaching experiences at Big Bar Creek. Description of travels to Kelly Lake and the establishment of the school at Kelly Lake. Teaching methods and memories of Kelly Lake school. TRACK 2: Andrews talks of his continuing education after four years of teaching. Toronto university and first year forestry. Reasons for entering forestry. Surveying as an undergraduate. Permanent employment in B.C. Forestry department. Recounts the first time he used aerial photography. Survey methods before the advent of aerial photography. Report on Flathead forest. Tranquille and Naskonlith forest and use of aerial photos. Use of aerial photgraphy in the Shuswap forest. Bush River. The period prior to travelling to England to continue his education.

CALL NUMBER: T1444:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mining and ranching RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-03-23 SUMMARY: Oral history interview with Mabel Kinvig. TRACK 1: Description of her father, James Wiggins. Arrival in Horsefly, 1906. Horsefly hydraulic mine, J. Wiggins, caretaker, buildings, Bill Thompson, miner, visitors. TRACK 2: Pioneer ranch at Miocene (B.C.). Building up the ranch. John Wawn. Government surveys. Indian crews. CALL NUMBER: T1444:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Miocene, B.C., and Pioneer Ranch RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-04-21 SUMMARY: Early development of Miocene, B.C. People who stopped at Pioneer ranch. CALL NUMBER: T1444:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-04-28 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.] CALL NUMBER: T1444:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Home life in the Cariboo RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-05-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Early home life in the Cariboo: food, canning, fruit, vegetables. CALL NUMBER: T1444:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The life of her father, James Wiggins RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-05-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The life of her father, James Wiggins: Vancouver, Cariboo, government packer in the North, telegraph linesman in the North. TRACK 2: The life of James Wiggins, continued: Newspaper articles about breaks in telegraph service.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ranching near Tatla Lake since the 1920s RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Leonard Butler, who migrated from Spokane to Tatla Lake in the 1920s. Surveying with Frank Swannell. Ranching on the Homathko River. Clearing land and trapping.;

CALL NUMBER: T1482:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): George Vancouver Copley : pioneer, surveyor, explorer and civil servant PERIOD COVERED: 1880-1920 RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1975-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: George Copley tells story of his father who emigrated from Germany, and settled at Cobble Hill about 1876. Copley born 1880. Early life in Cobble Hill. Injured in a sawmill in Nanaimo. Lengthy series of operations to save his arm. A variety of jobs in Victoria. Meets Frank Swannell, famous surveyor. TRACK 2: Description of Frank Swannell. Surveying in British Columbia before 1920: Finlay; River, Liard River, Parsnip River, Cariboo, Pemberton Valley. Worked for B.C. Forest Service starting about 1914. Transportation in the central interior: stage coach and steamship. Steamship ride up the Nechako River. Horse and gas stages on the Cariboo Road. Arrival of stage at Soda Creek.

CALL NUMBER: T1482:0002 - 0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): George Vancouver Copley : pioneer, surveyor, explorer and civil servant RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1975-06 & 07 SUMMARY: [No content documentation is available for these five tapes, which were recorded on June 17, 18 & 20 and July 2, 1975.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Experiences of a B.C. land surveyor PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Anecdotes about surveying parties with Frank Swannell in the northern interior of British Columbia. Wilderness living and survival techniques. [TRACK 2: blank.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Douglas B. Taylor : early life, 1895-1914 PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1914 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1956 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background. Arrived in Vancouver, 1902. Born in Refrew, Ontario, 1895. Family from Scotland. Description of boat trip to Alaska, 1902. Trip from Skagway to Atlin. Taylor became a surveyor. Memories of Victoria from 1904: the causeway, James Bay, Fairfield. Mills in Victoria. Kelowna in 1910. Conditions in survey camps. Working as a surveyor for Green Brothers. Description of trip from Victoria to Hazelton. Town site surveys of South Hazelton, Smithers, Fort George. Comments on the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. TRACK 2: Surveying and cruising Timber Licenses, 1913-14. Frank Green, A.H. Green and Fred Burden, surveyors. Surveying methods. World War I broke out while Taylor surveying in the Interior. Taylor joined armed forces in fall of 1914. Had been enrolled in forestry at the University of Washington. Taylor's reasons for entering forestry. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T1858:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Allen H. De Wolf : logger and engineer (part 1) PERIOD COVERED: 1887-1935 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1958-01-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in 1887 in Minnesota. Started timber cruising with his father about 1900. Old cruising methods. Becomes B.C. Land Surveyor in 1913. Worked as logging superintendent near Yahk, 1918-19. Building flumes. Became mill superintendent at Merritt. Building and operating a logging railroad in Nicola area. TRACK 2: More anecdotes about logging railroads. Saw demonstration of early crawler tractors, 1920. Economic conditions in the sawmill business. Business slump of 1920s. Economic problems of the town of Merritt.; CALL NUMBER: T1858:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Allen H. De Wolf : logger and engineer (part 2) PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1958 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1958-01-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Financial problems of the forest industry and the town of Merritt, 1930s. Comments on the costs of transporting logs by various methods. De Wolf becomes an engineering contractor. Anecdote about raising money during the Depression. De Wolf's involvement in the eastern forest industry. More on business and finance. Worked for A.S. Nicholson. De Wolf's early experiences in the woods in Minnesota after 1900. Woods working conditions. Logging camp conditions. TRACK 2: Anecdotes about the forest industry in the East Kootenays, ca. 1910. Union activities, especially IWW in the East Kootenays, 1920s. Mills in the East Kootenays, 1910.

CALL NUMBER: T1864:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): William McMahon : Canfor Vice-President and general manager (part 1) PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1955 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-10-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: McMahon's personal background. Worked at Anyox, 1917. Came to B.C. to stay in 1921. Work for the Capilano Lumber Company. Discussion of the Japanese timber market. The Capilano Timber Company mill. TRACK 2: Work in mills in the 1930s. Eburne Mills. The Pick-Prentice-Bentley group. The expansion of Canadian Forest Products in the early 1940s. Corporate history of the development of Canadian Forest Products.

CALL NUMBER: T1864:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): William McMillan : Canfor Vice-President and general manager (part 2) PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1955 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-10-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continuation of the story of the development of Canadian Forest Products. Discussion of plywood technology. More CFP corporate history. Changes in working conditions for survey crews. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ray Sandy : a life of adventure in the North - a magistrate at Fort St. John, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1960 RECORDED: Charlie Lake (B.C.), 1975-11-29 SUMMARY: Emigration from England, 1910. Education. Stewart, B.C., in 1924. Surveying and prospecting. Joining the Provincial Police (Rolla-South Peace River), in 1932. Opening a restaurant and pharmacy in Fort St. John, 1937. Police duties. Indian-white relations. Alaska Highway construction. Magistrate at Fort St. John. Prospecting for gold in the Arctic.

CALL NUMBER: T2554:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The engineering career of Stanley Howard Frame : the Grand Trunk Pacific, 1903-1913 PERIOD COVERED: 1903-1914 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Stanley Howard Frame reads from his memoirs, "The Engineering Career of Stanley Howard Frame." The survey of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. TRACK 2: Survey continued. Engineering on railway construction. Original survey of Prince Rupert townsite, 1906-1907.

CALL NUMBER: T2554:0002 PERIOD COVERED: 1906-1914 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Stanley Howard Frame reads from his memoirs, "The Engineering Career of Stanley Howard Frame" (continued). The end of the Prince Rupert survey. Social life on Residency #22, Touchwood Hills, Saskatchewan. Residency #51, Wabamun Lake, Alberta. The Edmonton-Calgary branch of Grand Trunk Pacific construction. TRACK 2: Residency #3 near New Norway and south of Camrose. Outlet from main line to Calgary, 1911-1913.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1971-03-25 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Howard D. Dawson : Lardeau Valley 1920-1931 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1931 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-02-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Howard D. Dawson established a surveying practice in Kaslo in 1920. Carried out surveys in the Lardeau-Duncan valleys as well as Kootenay Lake and Arrow Lakes regions. Made first surveys of Lardeau Valley for provincial government maps. Describes techniques for map-making. Worked as a mines surveyor from 1911-1920. Mining activity in Kaslo area during the 1920s. Carried out underground surveys. Describes Tom Coleman, cook and packer from Argenta. Describes general topography. Healy's Landing. Accident on way up the Duncan River. TRACK 2: Boating accident on way up the Duncan River. Burns feet. Land slides threatened mineral surveyors in alpine regions. Scaling difficult peak to make triangulation. Slocan. Worked in Sandon area.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1978?] SUMMARY: Interview with mountain climber and surveyor Les Churchill. He came to BC from Manitoba for the Columbia River Treaty survey in 1952. He also demonstrates his concertina playing. The interview was recorded for use in Marcuse's radio documentary "Rock and Ice", which aired on CBC Radio's "Between Ourselves".

RECORDED: Dunster (B.C.), 1983-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Father guided hunters out of McBride area, circa 1919. Jack Renshaw was another outfitter. Change of guide regulations, late 1920s. Hunting with riverboats along upper Fraser River. Outdoor Life advertising. Original high trail east of McBride. Beaver (Holmes ) River. Boat hunting cheaper. Used Renshaw's horses. Accounts as a riverboat man on topographic surveys in Northern Rockies, circa 1929. Surveyors. Panned gold during Depression. Horse work for army training schemes during WWII. Some wrangling out of Mt. Robson. Dome Creek guides, Bob Wiley and Slim Fry. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1984-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Came to Canada from Norway in 1927. Trapped and guided out of Valemount from 1929 to 1936. Trap line with Ollie Lebeck, Wood River/Athabasca Pass. Historic Athabasca Trail. Oswald Svendsen. Fortress Lake, 1930. Darryl Zanuck hunting trip on Canoe and Columbia Rivers in 1932 or 1933. Ed Garrett, river guide. Hunters' death. Hunters' names. Guides Art Allen, Chuck Chesser, Oliver Travers, and Ted Abrams, cooks, Eric Swanson. Berg Lake dude rides. Hargreaves brothers. Stan Carr and Mount Robson area. TRACK 2: Topographic surveys, Kinbasket Lake/Canoe River 1936. Frank Swannell. Survey work on Vancouver Island and in the Rockies in 1939. Canadian Army. Relocation to Valemount. Hunting by boat in Canoe River area. Road along Canoe River. Trapping and guiding logistics. Al Huble. Curly Phillip's river boat. Canoe River hot springs.

RECORDED: Wilmer (B.C.), 1983-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Accounts of hunting grizzly. Snowbound escape from Ice River area via Wolverine Pass. Walter Nixon (father) started packing ore in Parson area, 1907. Was game warden during WWI, political appointment. Gordon Nixon took out survey parties. David started in 1932. Outfit called 2N, was family operation and was sold after WWII. Hunting on Simpson River for moose and grizzly, got three record heads. TRACK 2: Seven point elk. Upper Simpson River had "tame" elk. Built original trail in Simpson Valley. Sir George Simpson's copper tea kettle found. Nixon built a number of other trails. Bill Harrison, Roy McDonald were guides. Some dude trips for CPR resort at Windermere. Packing for Alpine Club camps. Lake of Hanging Glacier. Photo in ice cave. Survey work was good money, climbing parties less so. Packing for surveys on Big Bend Highway. Brother was among those drowned on Kinbasket Lake then. Bugaboos. Nixons helped Conrad Kain. Wintered horses on Police Meadows at Edgewater. Walter Nixon died in 1952.

RECORDED: Fort St. John (B.C.), 1983-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Guiding in Northern Rockies started in 1920s. First guided for Stan Clark around 1932 on a 42-day hunt. Jim Ross was initial outfitter. Only wealthy American were clients. Gradually worked into outfitting. Guiding supplemented trapping revenue. Details of Curly Phillips' northern canoe trips; Rutledge managed sheep hunting portion. Harry Phillips. Northern Rockies hunting/outfitting expanded after WWII with resultant changes; shorter hunts, float planes, airstrips, poorer quality outfits. Background and rationale for inception of guiding territories in northern Rockies, 1961. TRACK 2: Guides association organized. Other politics of later guiding. Territory covered Prophet River. Indian trails and camps. Description of Tom Wilde. Topographic survey on Wapiti/Narraway Rivers, 1942. Surveys could kill camp meat. Hazard of river fords and fires. General discussion.