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Industrial film. A didactic film that uses statistics, static illustrations, and forest footage to promote the idea of sustained-yield forestry.

Stock shots. Caterpillar tractors using ball and chain apparatus to knock down trees and clear land.

Stock shots. Caterpillar tractors using cables to pull down trees (snags?); cats piling slash; crew igniting slash piles with driptorches. Also general views of burned-over area.

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Stock shots. Shows tree planting crew at work on a burned-over hillside overlooking Brewster Lake.

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 forest district and then by invoice number. Invoices numbers are assigned chronologically. The records include: Kamloops (number 1 to 400, 1921-1931); Victoria (number 1 to 4400, 1914-1951); Vernon (number 1 to 155, 1921-1925); Cranbrook (number 1 to 39, 1921-1926); Nelson (number 1 to 2399, 1921-1951); Prince George (number 1 to 1300, 1921-1926); Prince Rupert (number 1 to 2800, 1918-1951), Williams Lake (number 1 to 81, 1920-1932) and Vancouver (numbers 1001 to 2000 and 4001 to 16442, 1929-1952).

Stock shots. Shows a three-man crew planting seedlings on a hillside.

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The fonds consists of three photograph albums created by Donald Lawrence McMullan between 1928 and 1946. The photographs document his work on forest survey teams for both the provincial and federal governments, as well as surveys conducted by logging and railroad companies.

The first two albums contain photographs from several survey jobs, arranged chronologically. They are divided into sections with an introductory page and a cartographic drawing showing where the particular survey took place. The photographs are usually dated with captions and are as follows:
Album 1 (1928-1933)
Amiskwi and Beaverfoot survey, 1928, Forest Service, Dept. of the Interior, Canada
P.G.E. resources survey, 1929, Forest Resources Branch, British Columbia
Preliminary survey of a proposed logging railroad, 1930, Bloedel, Stewart & Welch Ltd. logging company
Elk Forest survey, 1930, British Columbia Forest Service
North Kamloops Survey, 1931, British Columbia Survey Branch
Railway belt survey, 1932, British Columbia Forest Service
Railroad logging operation, 1933, Industrial Timber Mills Ltd.
Album 2 (1934-1939):
Surveys for logging railroads, 1934-1935, UBO Industrial Timber Mills Ltd.
Kettle Forest Survey, 1935, British Columbia Forest Service
E&N Survey, 1936-1937
Harrison Survey, 1939

The third album, created between 1940 and 1946, contains photographs from McMullan's later career and show general forestry activities on Vancouver Island, mainland British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska. Captions and dates are inconsistently applied.

The fonds also includes a copy of McMullan's thesis entitled "The Work of the Surveys Division: British Columbia Forest Service" written in 1932 during McMullan's studies at the University of British Columbia. This thesis is illustrated with five b&w prints and an annotated map. Also included in the fonds is a notice of permanent appointment to the British Columbia civil service dated March 25, 1937 with attached salary schedule and a letter to McMullan dated January 20, 1938 regarding a new classification grading system for Foresters.

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Item consists of an instructional video on forest maintenance and management.

Training film. Lists the correct clothing and equipment needed for comfort and safety when working out of doors; describes hazards often encountered in the woods.

Papers relating to forestry, the Forest Service, Boulton's antiquarian interest and his private museum collection. Includes reports done for the School of Forestry of the University of New Brunswick (1943), a report on forest protection (1962), minutes of the 1969 meeting of the Association of BC Foresters, a poem on the BC Forest Service entitled "Progress...", records of timber sales, a 1931 memorandum of the Chief Forester on the issuance of pencils, and a book in Chinese.

This series contains circular letters from District Forester to field staff pertaining to forest protection, forest management, etc. It includes some circular letters from the Chief Forester to District Foresters.

This series contains miscellaneous records comprising visitors books, logs, manuals and circularized reports which were part of the BCFS Museum collection prior to January 1981. It includes visitors' books for mountain lookouts, 1938-1962; Forest Surveys Division manuals, 1954-1955; safety and training manuals; papers of the Inter-divisional Work Committee or Forest Inventory Projects, 1955-1959; synoptic reports of the Royal Commission on Forest Resources, 1955-1957; miscellaneous minutes on silviculture, reforestation and range management.

This series contains memoranda and papers presented at the 1946 District Foresters' Meeting.

Correspondence, notes and other papers on forest pathology, timber cruising, and the supervision of licenced scalers. Personal correspondence relating to the Forest Service and poetry and song sheets from annual forest ranger meetings.

Stock shots. Shows Douglas fir, Lodgepole pine, Larch, etc., in flower and/or bud stage, and views of tree plantations. May include Saturna Island footage.

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Stock shots. Aerial footage of the forest nursery at Campbell River and of the Duncan Bay Pulp Mill. Ground-level footage of the Quinsam Seed Orchard and of operations at the Campbell River Nursery.

Stock shots. Sequences showing crews painting road markings and falling snags on hillside. Also include footage of data computing, radio communication, parachute drop, Ranger School, construction of Okanagan Lake Park, planting at Duncan Forest Nursery, and a helicopter transporting a load of lumber to the location of a fire lookout station.

Stock shots. Sequence of crew travelling by truck and climbing trees to collect cones; process shown in detail. Cones being unloaded at the extractor at Duncan Forest Nursery. Crew from Pacific Logging picking up bullet stock for planting.

Stock shots. At Duncan Forest Nursery, cartons of nursery stock are removed from cold storage and loaded onto a truck.

Stock shots. Show the process of extracting seeds from cones at the Duncan Forest Nursery.

Stock shots. Detailed footage showing process of pollen injection, Lodgepole pine cones arriving at seed extraction plant, and nutrient and soil tests with hemlock seedlings at the research greenhouse.

Stock shots. Shows mechanical seeder and earth-spreading machine seeding beds with Douglas fir at Koksilah Nursery, and women weeding the seed beds at Duncan Nursery.

Stock shots. Shows use of seedling transplanting machine at Koksilah Nursery; care of Douglas fir bullet stock in the styroblock nursery at Duncan; use of insect bags and pollen bags at the Mesachie Experimental orchards.

Stock shots. Spraying for weed control at Koksilah Forest Nursery. Thinning seedlings in Duncan plug nursery. Researcher in Lodgepole pine beds at Mesachie lake Research Station. Detailed footage showing seed testing at the laboratory in Duncan.

Stock shots. Extensive footage showing details of various experiments carried out on seedlings and trees in the laboratory and greenhouse at the North Road forest nursery. Also footage of the seed laboratory, and of workers loading seeds into styroblocks, at the Duncan nursery.