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Industrial Townships Commission : reports, correspondence

  • GR-3386
  • Series
  • 1986-1997

The series consists of reports and correspondence from 1986 to 1997. These records were created and acquired by John G. Callan, Commissioner of the Industrial Townships Commission between 1989 and 1997. The records mainly consist of reports, illustrated with colour photographs, written for the Minister of Municipal Affairs. The reports give detailed information about the annual inspection trips of the three member Industrial Townships Commission to the Kemano townsite, which was run by the Aluminum Company of Canada, Limited (Alcan).

British Columbia. Board of Commissioners (Industrial Townships)

Webster! : 1987-02-11

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts the show with Federal NDP Leader Ed Broadbent. They discuss the implosion of the Conservatives; patronage; the Wolfe affair; tax reform; unemployment; cod fishing; the Bissonette case. Then a story about the proposed Site C dam; in the studio Jack speaks with Adrienne Peacock of the Peace Valley Environmental Association and Calvin Sandborn of the Westcoast Environmental Law Association. They discuss conservation of energy; modernization of businesses; poor estimates of future power use; job creation.

Government Information Service public information film and videos

  • GR-3435
  • Series
  • 1980-1986

The series consists of film and videos of government documentaries, television advertisements, and other promotional material from the period of 1980 to 1986. The Ministry of Government Services' Government Information Services (GIS) was the centralized government agency for producing audio-video programs for all ministries and JEM Productions was contracted by the GIS to shoot and edit various programs.

This series represents provincial government functions and events representing various regions of British Columbia, including the lower mainland, Peace River and Okanagan regions.

The records consist of 10 videos and 1 film comprising current government initiatives and accomplishments; coal mining and dam developments; BC Place and BC Transit development; a 1986 premier's address; and development of the Coquihalla highway.

  1. Premier's Report 1986. (1" video reel.)
  2. Partners in enterprise - television ads. (3/4" U-matic videocassette.)
  3. Coquihalla in 20 months through the mountains. (1" video reel.)
  4. BC Pavilion. (1" video reel.)
  5. Take a giant step. (1" video reel. 4 min. promotions in English, French and Japanese.)
  6. BC Reports - various programs. (1" video reel.) - NE coal - Best of bad times - Education - the challenge/opportunity - A forest for all seasons
  7. BC Reports - various programs. (1" video reel.) - #5 The right kind of help - #8 Health care - the first priority - #10 The planning pays off - #13 Transit & transition - Bill Bennett speech
  8. BC Reports - various programs. (1" video reel.) - #1 Food for thought - #316 BC open for business - #12 Reality of restraint
  9. Partners in enterprise - promotion. (1" video reel.)
  10. Stop the hearings start the dam. [AKA Fort St. John Site C rally] (3/4" U-matic videocassette.)
  11. Light rapid transit for Greater Vancouver. (16 mm film reel)

British Columbia. Government Information Services

Ministry of Environment photos

  • GR-4211
  • Series
  • 1970-1986

This series consists of photographs created by the Ministry of Environment and its predecessors. The photos date from 1970-1986.They depict a variety of subject matter including: personnel headshots, including the Minister of Environment and other executives; events such as the signing of agreements, tours, opening ceremonies, award ceremonies and conferences; dams and other projects related to the environment; and documenting the work of Ministry staff, such as air monitoring.

The records were transferred with no original order. Photos were grouped together or in individually labelled envelopes. The archivist has arranged the majority of the images in chronological order, while maintaining the contents of each original envelope together. The items have been rehoused in new archival envelopes, but all information from the old envelopes has been transcribed onto them.

The majority of the personnel photos have been combined into a few envelopes where photos are arranged alphabetically by the name of the subject.

Some photo envelopes include associated textual material. The majority of the photos have titles, dates or other information recorded on their backs.

British Columbia. Ministry of Environment (1979-1986)

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority films

  • GR-3354
  • Series
  • 1945-1984

The fonds consists of industrial, engineering, and public relations films created for or by British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority and its predecessors (the British Columbia Electric Company and the British Columbia Power Commission) from 1945 to about 1984. This material includes 164 unique film items in 16 mm film, each containing one or more printing elements such as prints, sound tracks, negative reels, selected out-takes and unedited footage. In some cases, there are no edited prints, only miscellaneous reels of footage.

Most of the BC Electric and BC Hydro films are the work of Vancouver producer Lew M. Parry. The fonds also includes a number of non-Hydro films produced by Parry, as well as a selection of prints and film material relevant to BC which had been circulated through (or stored at) Hydro's film library.

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority

Water power

The item is an answer print of an educational film, from around 1984 . The film examines the history and application of hydro-electric power. Earlier methods of harnessing the energy of moving water are summarized, as is the development of electrical power generation. Different types of dams, and the components of a hydro generating plant, are explained, using examples from around B.C. Power transmission systems, environmental considerations, and project financing are also discussed briefly.

Nels Bystrom interview

CALL NUMBER: T4135:0010 PERIOD COVERED: 1911-1929 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information; father's first trip to Canada; father returns to Sweden during First World War; borrowed money to return to Canada in 1925; logging in Nelson; mother and brothers come to Canada; four days on immigrant train; father borrows money from the CPR to bring him over; route to Canada; immigrant trains; anecdote about trip; life in Sweden; logging in Sweden; anecdote about work; pay in Sweden; unions; workers; paper; union raiding; working for father on Silver King Mountain; driving horses; cut cedar poles and white pine for Mathes; prices and wages in 1928; anecdote; about supplying mine; anecdote about operation of mine; anecdote about supplying mine; anecdote about Eagan's eyeglasses; crew at mine; location and name; camp at Cahill Lake; anecdote about working log deck; anecdote about brutal foreman; camp conditions; wages and costs; flume to Slocan Lake; flume construction; ice chute for log; anecdote about brother's logging accident and hospitalization; compensation; brother loses leg; brother's life after accident; brother's life and family; father and Bystrom, piling lumber at Six Mile Lake, quit over pay dispute; Cotton Logging Company job above Boswell; tools for fallers; piecework cutting cedar poles; peeling poles; camp at Boswell, hot water, sinks. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0011 PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1935 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Camp at Boswell; hot water tanks; camp quality; anecdote about cork boots; work hours; anecdote about hard worker; recreation in camps; stock crash of 1929; logging camps close; anecdote about trying for job outside of Castlegar; room and board; logging in Princeton; riding freight train to Vancouver; unemployment in Vancouver; hobos on train; freight train to Castlegar; CPR police; walking from Castlegar to Nelson; working in mine; packing equipment in; miners' candlestick; anecdote about packing steel out; father on relief; mother cutting wood; farm produce; homemade pipe boring machine; making pipes. TRACK 2: Wrapping pipe with wire; economics of pipe sales; homemade sawmill; Kootenay Landing; Proctor railroad; anecdote about poor wages; hand drilling for blasting; anecdote about diarrhea in camp; anecdote about driving to Hidden Creek; lived in trapper's cabin; anecdote about boss tricking them into working; work at China creek relief camp; work conditions at camp; anecdote about man being kicked out of camp and him leaving; people in camp; Willow Point relief work; prospectors classes and grubsteak relief program; groceries for a month; three weeks prospecting in Slocan area; came back for groceries; CMS called him to go to work --started June 27, 1934 in lead refinery; work hours; lead explosion; conditions in refinery; open transfer (fired) from refinery; labour gang; anecdote about Joe Fillapelli. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0012 PERIOD COVERED: 1934-1972 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Anecdote about Joe Fillapelli; "barring down" the lead furnaces; anecdote about "safety first man"; construction with molten slag; lead contract; leaded work conditions; scrap yard; cutting shears; operation; meets wife; sick and crippled people in scrap yard; anecdote about quitting scrap yard; worked storage plant in Warfield until his retirement in 1972; 1942 work on Brilliant dam; work conditions on dam; anecdote about unloading cement; bicycling to work; contract system in storage plant; became shop steward; Castlegar board member; union split; reasons for not joining steel; Al King president; elected to convention in Olympia, Washington, barred from crossing into the U.S.; steelworkers and barring. TRACK 2: Stopped at border; Bert Herridge; anecdote about Herridge getting his border crossing privileges back; member of CCF; quit CCF because it was the political arm of the United Steelworkers Union; Murphy in Communist Party; met lots of Communist Party members; good men; approached to join the CP by Art Erins and Garfield Belenger; reminiscences about Belenger; anecdote about Harvey Murphy; benevolent society and six weeks of Murphy tries for better sick pay; vesting rights to pensions; 1940, moves to Castlegar; fresh air; terms and prices for lots; credit for lumber; built 14 x 20 shack; West owned water system; old lumber for new house; anecdote about pouring foundation; constructs an apartment building; layout of apartment building; sold apartments after he retired; present house bought as a kit from Vancouver; construction of house; contents of kit; agent helped assemble house; framed by nightfall; cost of kit. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0013 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Food co-op; Sam Muirhead's idea; war rationed items were kept for storekeeper's friends; sold shares at 50 dollars each; bought three lots in Castlegar; lots cleared and building put up on volunteer basis; Cominco employees had two transportation societies; had garage by theatre; food co-op hired Walter Markin as first manager; later co-op in Vancouver recommended Jack Kirby for Manager; Kirby anti-union; first president was Muirhead; second was Bystrom; last president was Dalziel; co-op folded, Kirby fired, co-op liquidated; co-op expansion plans rejected; first co-op operated from his back porch; operations from porch; Transportation Society builds new building; operation of Transportation Society; NDP membership; anecdote about rejoining CCF-NDP; rejoined after merger with Steel; Columbo Lodge Hall meeting of Mine/Mill members where Murphy explained merger.

Webster! : 1982-09-07

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack opens his first show of the season with a review of labour strife in the province. Bill Hamilton, President, Employers' Council of British Columbia, who is a member of a nine person committee set up by Prime Minister Trudeau speaks about “six and five guidelines”, a federal public restraint policy. He speaks with Jim Kinnaird, BC Federation of Labour, and Jack Munro of the IWA about the BCGEU and the possibility of a general strike. Richard McAlary, Chief Economist, BC Central Credit Union, speaks about the state of the province’s finances. To end the show, Jack shows a clip of a report from the new hydroelectric dam being built near Revelstoke.

Webster! : 1982-09-13

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack Webster, reports on construction of the Revelstoke Dam from the site, and speaks to many of the workers there. Back in the studio, Jack gives an update on negotiations between the province and the BCGEU.

Webster! : 1982-09-17

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Video tracking issues throughout. Tahseen Basheer, Ambassador to Canada from the Arab Republic of Egypt, discusses unrest in Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, the Gaza strip, and Egypt’s position. Jack and Jonathon Baker, Vancouver mayoral candidate, discuss waste and overstaffing at Vancouver City Hall. Jack adds to his earlier report about the Revelstoke dam, and speaks with Revelstoke mayor, Tony Coffin.

Edwin Quirk interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Edwin Quirk : Lardeau Valley, 1962-1965 PERIOD COVERED: 1962-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Edwin Quirk discusses the Columbia River Treaty origins, 1944. Storage sites considered. Function of Duncan Dam. Duncan Dam adds generating capacity on lower Kootenay River. Appointed construction manager for Duncan Dam. Unusual design and construction techniques. Use of bentonite. International interest in dam. Hydro-electric generating capacity may be added later. Reservoir flooded one year ahead of schedule, netting B.C. an additional year's revenue. TRACK 2: Mannix Construction was major contractor. Lardeau Valley Community Hall constructed. Spawning channel built. Met local people. Surface waters of Duncan Lake warmed.

ELUC Administrative records and subject files

  • GR-1002
  • Series
  • 1972-1980

This series contains administrative and subject files relating to natural resource development and environmental policies. Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, briefs, etc. The records were created by the Environment and Land Use Committee Secretariat, the administrative and support staff assigned to the Committee. The records were created from 1972-1980 and relate to all aspects of business conducted by the Committee, including land use decisions across the province.

British Columbia. Environment and Land Use Committee. Secretariat

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