The item is a training film. The importance of proper logging plans is demonstrated through the example of "Charlie Hyball," a careless boss whose unplanned operation damages logs, devalues standing trees and decreases efficiency, thereby reducing his profits and increasing the risk of damage to the remaining forest. These results are contrasted with the economic benefits of a well-planned operation.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: Interview with a horse logger. A modern horse logger, Don Poirier, talks about his work and lifestyle.;

Promotional film. Comprises a shortened version of the high-rigger sequence from SPARTREE. Filmed at Caycuse, B.C.

SUMMARY: Part of radio program featuring interviews on location by Bob Harlow, with Ralph Laker (?), an old logger; Ron Linstrom (?) and Godwin Winedale (?), young loggers; and Clarence Minton (?), camp cook, about: arrival in Canada, camp life then and today; cutting lumber; trimming trees; killing bears; cooking duties. Followed by description of a logging mill by an unidentified announcer, with interviews of Ray Turner (?), foreman, and W.C. Phillips, district forester, about cutting logs; government timber policies; preserving northern spruce stands in Prince George area; industry, forestry, description of process. Included are sounds of sawing logs. Recorded by Lloyd Harrop. (NOTE: The BC Archives copy may not include all of the above material.)

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. J.W. Inglis, born 1897, talks about life in the Lumby area, 1892 to 1914. He describes his father's background; coming to the Okanagan Valley, including the trail they took and their first impressions; Creighton Valley; impressions of the Lumby area after 1897; the people in Lumby; the French Canadian settlers; other people in the area; logging; the Richland Land Boom from 1910 to 1912; Cherry Creek gold rush and the development of Lumby. TRACK 2: Mr. Inglis continues with more on mining; the Monashee Pass area around 1900; people; school days; growing up in Lumby; his father's dairy farm; social life; the effects of World War I; Indians; encounters with various animals; the Lumby Hotel; a bank robbery in 1913; blacksmiths; hockey in Lumby, including the "Flying Frenchmen"; and French songs.

CALL NUMBER: T1244:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kathleen Hughan remembers early Aiyansh on the Nass River PERIOD COVERED: 1880s-1917 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Kathleen "Kay" Hughan (nee Priestley) was born at Port Simpson around 1900. Her father, Arthur F. Priestley was a homesteader, teacher and storeowner at Aiyansh; her mother, Melita M. McCullagh, was born at Aiyansh in 1885. Kay Hughan speaks about homesteading, the promise of a boom (1900's), and river travel along the Nass. Her maternal grandmother, Mary Webster, and grandfather, Rev. James B. McCullagh, came out to Old Aiyansh (1880's). She recalls Rev. McCullagh, his garden, his interests, mission work, the flood of 1917 and the move of the village of Aiyansh to Gitlakdamiks, and t;he mission house fire of 1910. She recalls her paternal grandparents -- Joshua Priestley, the family pre-emption, the house fire and the Priestley family move to Victoria. She talks about freight for ;her father's store, travel on the Nass, Mill Bay, Kincolith, hospitals, Dr. MacDonald, the Collison family, childhood memories of old Aiyansh, mail and visitors.TRACK 2: Kay Hughan recalls details of her father's store: the postal service, the social centre of Aiyansh, supplies for the settlers, stock, outfitting survey parties, the "Grease Trail", trails, wholesalers, floods, Indian-white rela;tions and the store credit system. She speaks about the land boom of 1910-1912, homesteaders, the impact of World War I, bogus land promotions -- Rattenbury Land Company (1909-1910), settlers, the flo;od of 1917, Grease Harbour, settlement patterns, the first school, Tseax, more about settlement patterns, Al Ferris, employment, taxation and roads.

CALL NUMBER: T1244:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kathleen and Peter Hughan remember the Nass Valley - Aiyansh and Tseax regions PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1958 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Kathleen Hughan remembers floods along the Nass River, the flood of 1917, moving the Old Aiyansh mission to Gitlakdamiks, mosquitoes, housing, settlement patterns and subsistence farming in the 1930's. Peter Hughan came from Scotland via England (1923) to the Prince George region. He discusses his reasons for emigration, experiences trapping, work at Prince Rupert (1924) and Terrace, his woodsman skills, locating land in the Nass Valley, his Tseax River property, the Vedder property, place names, settling and clearing land, purchasing the Charlie Gordon farm, river and trail travel and the telegraph trail to Stewart. TRACK 2: Peter Hughan speaks about pioneer life, his market garden, trapping, building a new house (1928), clearing, "wild rice" -- chocolate lily, changes in settle;ment, the Columbia Cellulose road opening up the area (1950's), development, logging, proposed hydro dams and the difficulty of land acquisition. He recalls pioneers including Al Ferris and the Joe Phillips family and soil and climate conditions.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Interview with Mr. Minakawa about early years in Canada PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: Mr. Minakawa talks about his background in Japan. His job with the Great Northern Railroad. Oikawa (Lion's Island). His logging experiences during the war. A job as a barber.;

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This series consists of timber tenures from the Kootenay Lake Forest District from 1976-1992. Some early records may have been created by the Nelson, Creston and Kaslo Forest Ranger.

Forest tenures in this series include non-replaceable timber sale licence cutting permits. Records regard the application, issuance, maintenance, administration, monitoring and cancellation of these tenures pursuant to the Forest Act.

Record types include legal documents such as permits and licences, correspondence, appraisals, stumpage rates and maps.

Records in this series are covered under ORCS numbers 19620-25 and 19620-45 in the Ministry of Forests records schedule (number 881261).

The ministries responsible for the creation of these records, and the years that they were responsible, are:

British Columbia. Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)
British Columbia. Ministry of Forests and Lands (1986-1988)
British Columbia. Ministry of Forests (1988-2005)

CALL NUMBER: T1802:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Lindsay Carter : Slocan Valley, 1918-1945 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Carter discusses his childhood: born in Kimberley, B.C. in 1906; moved to Silverton in 1918 with family; effects of influenza epidemic of 1918 on town of Silverton; father worked in mines; silicosis and other lung problems with mining; Mr. Carter's father affected by silicosis, 1943; poor attitude on the part of companies and Workmen's Compensation Board; anecdote about silicosis; family moved to Summit Lake logging camp, 1920. Details about camp life: housing; school; description of logging operations -- pole cutting, railroad, chutes; description of log chute, logging camp, bunkhouse, cookhouse. Forest fire of July, 1925; reports of major early fire, ca. 1870. Most loggers were Scandinavians. Location of other sawmills in Slocan Valley. TRACK 2: Moved to Sandon, 1922. Train and boat schedules, ca. 1925. Railroad accident near Sandon. CPR operated boats on Slocan Lake. Description of S.S. "Slocan", S.S. "Sandon", S.S. "Roseberry". Transportation into Sandon. Stores in Sandon. Trip down Slocan Lake in winter of 1929. Carter ended formal education after grade 8. Mining and mines near Sandon in 1920s and 1930s. Depression in Sandon: Carter on relief during Depression. Origin of miners: eastern Canada, Norway, Italy, Finland and others. Anti-Orientalism in Sandon. Japanese lived in Sandon during WW II. Bunkhouse conditions and anecdotes; cookhouse work and anecdotes.

CALL NUMBER: T1802:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Slocan Mines, 1920s and 1930s RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Carter's work history, 1920s: description of a concentrator and its operation especially the Noble Five concentrator, Cody, B.C; the jobs in a concentrator plant; shifts and hours of work; a major breakdown described, 1930; more on hours of work. TRACK 2: More on Carter's work history: attitudes towards work in a concentrator mill; unpleasant and unhealthy environment in concentrator mill and mines; more on work attitudes; long hours and lack of holidays; social life of miners -- drinking, prostitutes, pool halls, movies, fraternal orders, clubs; Carter a member of Orange Lodge in Sandon; operation of Orange Lodge; role of churches in Sandon; differences between miners and merchants; local government in Sandon; 1929 murder [of miner Sigvald Myklebost] described.

CALL NUMBER: T1802:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Great Depression of the 1930s RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Sandon continues the story about the 1929 [Myklebost] murder. Describes Johnny Harris: businessman, character of Sandon. Anecdotes about Johnny Harris. White family described. Silversmith Mine. Sandon prospectors described. Grub stake arrangements. Prospecting. Permanence of Sandon. TRACK 2: Demise of the Sandon Hospital in the 1930s. Questionable practices of the B.C. Security Commission during WW II. The Depression in Sandon and Carter's experiences on relief. "On the tramp" in southeastern B.C.

CALL NUMBER: T1802:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mining in the West Kootenays and the Great Depression of the 1930s RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The Great Depression of the 1930s and its effect on Sandon, B.C. The sluggish economic recovery of Sandon during and after WW II. Description of poor working conditions underground. Sandon's hotels. Prostitutes in Sandon. Anecdote about "Big Al" Holmquist. Problems with alcohol among miners. Economic problems of living in Sandon. [TRACK 2: blank; end of interview.]

Stock shots. Shows a dry land log sorting operation of B.C. Forest Products, using a Kenworth log sorter.

Stock shots. Includes footage of: log boom; loading logs onto truck; horse logging; sawmill and lumber yard scenes; high-rigger topping a tree; pulp mill; skidding logs with a caterpillar tractor; logging damage at Myra Creek [in Strathcona Park?]; sequence illustrating poor logging techniques.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973 SUMMARY: A manpower consultant talks about the availability of logging jobs; an IWA official talks about misleading advertising, uneven distribution of bad conditions and open jobs; turnover in the camps; unemployment in certain jobs; horizontal and vertical mobility, skills and geo-social aspects; logger preferences; pay; camp conditions, and need for the luxury communities at logging camps; preparing for the future by making logging jobs more attractive.

Newsreel footage. Shots of crew hand-falling large fir trees; bucking and yarding of logs; loading them onto rail cars; dumping logs into mill pond; boom man at work.

RECORDED: Sechelt (B.C.), 1982-03 SUMMARY: Mr. Hanson came to Canada from Sweden in 1929. He had a variety of jobs, including dairy farming, working in a sawmill, logging and fishing.

The item is a reel of documentary film. "'[In] this educational film, replete with scenic beauties, is depicted, in graphic manner, the lumbering operations, from the felling of the giant trees to the export shipping of the finished product.'" View up a tall Douglas fir. At the base two men are examining the trunk. Two notches are cut and springboards placed in them. The two men test the springboards, then make an undercut with saw and axe, both men chopping. The men test the direction of the falling tree by putting the head of the axe into the notched undercut and sighting down the handle. They begin to saw through from the other side with a Swedish fiddle. The tree falls, five men stand on the stump. View of the end of the tree, shot of the length of the tree. Two buckers arrive and begin to saw the tree into manageable lengths. [Long shot] high rigger at the top of a spar after topping. A log is lifted off the ground by a steel cable. Good view of a donkey engine working. Log moving down skid-way. Head-on shot of log plunging into a pond with spectacular spray. Logs are formed into Davis rafts in the bay. [Long shot] large boom of logs. Logs piled at the mill, a donkey working, sheds, etc. Good shot of a heap of logs with red ensign on a boat in the [foreground]. Logs being loaded onto a BC Electric flatcar. Train moves out on way to mill, passing a little station, etc. [Long shot] Hastings Saw Mill with rafts and booms of logs spread out before it. Log being drawn up endless chain into the saws. Shot of booms. Good shots of log on carriage being squared by saw with operator in [foreground]. Men receiving lumber on green chain. Scene in the lumber yard where lumber is being sorted, graded and piled. Big timbers being pushed down a ramp into a pile. Long timbers on a speeder on the [railroad] tracks in the mill. Long timbers being loaded onto a chute where they slide down onto a pile of lumber." (Colin Browne)

The item is a documentary film. "'[In] this educational film, replete with scenic beauties, is depicted, in graphic manner, the lumbering operations, from the felling of the giant trees to the export shipping of the finished product.'" View up a tall Douglas fir. At the base two men are examining the trunk. Two notches are cut and springboards placed in them. The two men test the springboards, then make an undercut with saw and axe, both men chopping. The men test the direction of the falling tree by putting the head of the axe into the notched undercut and sighting down the handle. They begin to saw through from the other side with a Swedish fiddle. The tree falls, five men stand on the stump. View of the end of the tree, shot of the length of the tree. Two buckers arrive and begin to saw the tree into manageable lengths. [Long shot] high rigger at the top of a spar after topping. A log is lifted off the ground by a steel cable. Good view of a donkey engine working. Log moving down skid-way. Head-on shot of log plunging into a pond with spectacular spray. Logs are formed into Davis rafts in the bay. [Long shot] large boom of logs. Logs piled at the mill, a donkey working, sheds, etc. Good shot of a heap of logs with red ensign on a boat in the [foreground]. Logs being loaded onto a BC Electric flatcar. Train moves out on way to mill, passing a little station, etc. [Long shot] Hastings Saw Mill with rafts and booms of logs spread out before it. Log being drawn up endless chain into the saws. Shot of booms. Good shots of log on carriage being squared by saw with operator in [foreground]. Men receiving lumber on green chain. Scene in the lumber yard where lumber is being sorted, graded and piled. Big timbers being pushed down a ramp into a pile. Long timbers on a speeder on the [railroad] tracks in the mill. Long timbers being loaded onto a chute where they slide down onto a pile of lumber." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of documentary film. "'[In] this educational film, replete with scenic beauties, is depicted, in graphic manner, the lumbering operations, from the felling of the giant trees to the export shipping of the finished product.'" View up a tall Douglas fir. At the base two men are examining the trunk. Two notches are cut and springboards placed in them. The two men test the springboards, then make an undercut with saw and axe, both men chopping. The men test the direction of the falling tree by putting the head of the axe into the notched undercut and sighting down the handle. They begin to saw through from the other side with a Swedish fiddle. The tree falls, five men stand on the stump. View of the end of the tree, shot of the length of the tree. Two buckers arrive and begin to saw the tree into manageable lengths. [Long shot] high rigger at the top of a spar after topping. A log is lifted off the ground by a steel cable. Good view of a donkey engine working. Log moving down skid-way. Head-on shot of log plunging into a pond with spectacular spray. Logs are formed into Davis rafts in the bay. [Long shot] large boom of logs. Logs piled at the mill, a donkey working, sheds, etc. Good shot of a heap of logs with red ensign on a boat in the [foreground]. Logs being loaded onto a BC Electric flatcar. Train moves out on way to mill, passing a little station, etc. [Long shot] Hastings Saw Mill with rafts and booms of logs spread out before it. Log being drawn up endless chain into the saws. Shot of booms. Good shots of log on carriage being squared by saw with operator in [foreground]. Men receiving lumber on green chain. Scene in the lumber yard where lumber is being sorted, graded and piled. Big timbers being pushed down a ramp into a pile. Long timbers on a speeder on the [railroad] tracks in the mill. Long timbers being loaded onto a chute where they slide down onto a pile of lumber." (Colin Browne)

Unedited footage. MacMillan & Bloedel Limited's Franklin River camp, with good shots showing the operation of the logging railway (with steam locomotive), the "poki-gin" (a device for unloading logs from railcars), and a spartree and steam donkey.

Out-takes. Television spot, mainly promoting the company's Sylvaply Plywood line. This roll of outs includes scenes of logging (Nanoose Bay), sawmill operations, manufacture and shipping of plywood, etc.

Television commercials. A representative collection of MacMillan Bloedel television commercials highlighting various aspects of the company's operations and corporate citizenship. Includes spots focusing on the company's activities in world trade markets; methods of transporting logs and products; the self-dumping log barge; log sorting with dozer boats; new methods of planting and reforestation; forest fire protection; pollution control; the Ash River Valley reforestation project, begun in 1942; the educational activities of wildlife filmmaker Tommy Tompkins, sponsored by MacMillan Bloedel; and a bird sanctuary near Port Alberni supported by the company. Each spots is 1-2 minutes long.

Docudrama. The role of BC Forest Service stand-treatment crews in the maintenance of sustained-yield forestry, as seen through the eyes of a new recruit. A variety of forest management techniques are discussed.

The item is a release print of an industrial film from ca. 1958. BC Power Commission employees do many jobs essential to the maintenance of electrical service. The film includes footage of snow survey work on central Vancouver Island, a logging crew clearing trees at the edge of a reservoir, work in progress on the water diversion tunnel at Ash River, transmission tower construction, a crew hanging warning markers on power lines, inspection of power lines via helicopter and Spillimacheen generating station. There are also scenes in Fort St. James and vicinity. The film is set within the framework of a simulated interview show on CHEK-TV. Director of administration Garth Griffith and public information officer Jim Bogyo talk with host Keith Cutler.

Industrial film. BC Power Commission employees do many jobs essential to the maintenance of electrical service. The film includes footage of snow survey work on central Vancouver Island; a logging crew clearing trees at the edge of a reservoir; work in progress on the water diversion tunnel at Ash River; transmission tower construction; a crew hanging warning markers on power lines; inspection of power lines via helicopter; and Spillimacheen generating station. Also scenes in Fort St. James and vicinity. The film is set within the framework of a simulated interview show on CHEK-TV. Director of administration Garth Griffith and public information officer Jim Bogyo talk with host Keith Cutler.

The item consists of miscellaneous footage made between ca. 1958 and 1967.

1. Avro aircraft lands and takes off. Interior shots, ca. 1958
2. Canadian industrial discovery. Unidentified industrial footage. Appears to be a pulp mill, colour.
3. MacMillan Bloedel Osaka. Depicts the felling and hauling in the large used in the BC Pavilion at Expo 1970 in Osaka, Japan.
4. Du Maurier International Skiing Competition, 1967
5. Vancouver Island tour by bus & ship. Unedited footage. Bus and ship tour of Vancouver Island. Shots of tour bus, the Malahat, Indian village (?) from ship.
6. Swim suits. Women modelling bathing suits, 1967.
7. Park Royal Shopping Centre construction. Shots of construction of Park Royal shopping centre, West Vancouver, BC. Shots of the architectural drawings.

The item consists of six film reels made from 1966 to 1973:

1. Answer print, aerial shots of Roberts Bank coal port; speakers' platform with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Premier W.A.C. Bennett; tour of facility by guests; shots of coal mining (Kaiser equipment).
2. Two duplicate prints, The item consists of film footage from 1973. It shows the freighter called "Snow Ball" unloading Japanese oranges in Vancouver.
3. Print, shots inside and outside Alcan's turbo-powered boat "Nechako"; its christening ceremony; departure with guests from Vancouver harbour.
4. Bennett bonds, people assembling in a large room; head table sits; Premier W.A.C. Bennett addresses the gathering; Bennett being interviewed about these bonds.
5. Bennett Mackenzie townsite, Premier W.A.C. Bennett campaigning in Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Prince George, and the "instant town" of Mackenzie, August 1966. One item shows him arriving in Prince George, boarding a train, aboard the train, and touring the Mackenzie mill and town.
6. Osaka trees, falling and hauling logs for the BC Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.