Series pertains to administration, planning and financial management of the Savona Timber operations under Savona Timber Company in British Columbia, 1952 to 1969, and Evans Products, post-1969. Records are in three sub-series: financial records, 1952-1977; month-end results reports, 1973-1978; and, general files, 1955-1985. The series is the first of four series in the Savona Timber fonds. Arrangement is chronological within each sub-series.

Financial records consist of financial reports, tax files, agreements, log purchase and sales records, contractor files, stumpage and scaling reports, debt records and planning files. Month-end results reports pertain to lumber, veneer and plywood production. General files consist of reports, correspondence, agreements and leases, fire crew files and human resource records. Agreements directly related to individual timber sales or harvesting licences are in series 2, 3, and 4 of the fonds.

Stock shots. Air-to-air footage of A-26 and Avenger airtankers making drops on the Burto, Coop, Mana, PGE Mile 144.0, Savona, Omen, PGE 138-139, Back, and Coil Fires.

The item is a typescript copy of "British Columbia in 1910-1911, a memoir." It contains the reminiscences of Dorothy D'Arcy Goldrick of coming to Ashcroft with her parents, living there and in Savona.

The series consists of Crown timber sales agreements, 1948-1976. Files consist of timber sale documentation accompanied by maps and drawings and contractor information. The series also includes some files pertaining to licences, cutting permits, quotas and applications. The series is arranged by timber sale number (TSX number), the arrangement system used by both Savona Timber Company and the British Columbia Forest Service. The series is the second of four series in the Savona Timber Company fonds.

The Crown timber sales licence had its origin in the British Columbia Forest Act of 1912. It was overseen by the British Columbia Forest Service and was the primary means by which the government sold cutting rights to small operators operating in Public Sustained Yield Units (PSYU). Adding to the complexity of timber dispensation was the "quota" system, which strongly influenced the ability of a company to secure a timber sale by giving an informal preferred bidding status to established operators. This status served to guarantee a yearly supply of timber. Companies that "held quota" kept this privilege even when bought out, a situation that encouraged the amalgamation of timber companies operating in PSYUs.

CALL NUMBER: T0420:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1970-05 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Mrs. Dorothy Goldrick describes emigrating from Scotland to Ashcroft in 1910; the Colonist train; Winnipeg around 1910; Ashcroft in 1910, buildings, the Chinese people, cowboys, covered wagons, BX Express, the anti-English feeling; other English families; Hallowe'en pranks; and Kamloops.

CALL NUMBER: T0420:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1970-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Goldrick continues with a description of the stage coach journey to Ashcroft; local native people; more about the Colonist train; a description of Savona, BC; a Hudson's Bay post across Kamloops Lake; anecdotes about life at Savona; impressions of Canada before emigration; life in Golden from 1911 to 1917; snow; forest fires; and Vernon around 1917. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Walhachin RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1975-07-14 SUMMARY: Ruth Chambers interviews Miss Edith Ivatt and her brother Frank, who lived at Walhachin in the years when it was still a recognized settlement. They discuss the joys and difficulties of life there, and possible reasons for the settlement's failure.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of Walhachin RECORDED: Walhachin (B.C.), 1975-07-21 SUMMARY: Ruth Chambers interviews Mrs. Nancy Barton, whose recollections of Walhachin reveal the types of settlers; the recreation; the departure of the local men for World War I service; the desolation of those who returned [from the war] and found the irrigation flumes in disrepair and no water for irrigation. Also: how the Marquis of Anglesey tried to interest the BC government in paying for flume repairs, etc. (At that time, Richard McBride had been replaced as Premier by John Oliver.) When they received no help, the settlement was finished.

Series consists of files pertaining to Private Timber Sales agreements arranged by file codes assigned by Savona Timber Company and Evans Products Company Limited. These agreements were between private landowners and the company logging the land and were much simpler to manage in terms of regulatory oversight and land stewardship obligations. File titles include landowner name or geographic location, or both. Some files include drawings or photographs.

This collection contains both British Columbia Provincial Police Veteran's Association (BCPPVA) records and British Columbia Provincial Police (BCPP) records which were collected by the BCPPVA. The BCPPVA records consist of minutes (1978-1985) bulletins and correspondence (1964-1983); membership lists; correspondence re BCPP exhibits at museums; a scrapbook, 1905-1988 compiled by the BCPPVA on microfilm reel A01724(3); and "Off Patrol", the magazine of the BCPPVA, 1980-1984. BCPP records include General Orders; C.I.B. special circulars; seniority lists; nominal rolls; police pocket diaries, including those kept by Constable Tom Scales on Highway Patrol in the Fraser Canyon, Fraser Valley and New Westminster areas; Air Raid Precaution training lectures and pamphlets; and the daily diary of the Savona Detachment.

Photographs have been transferred to Visual Records as accession 199009-004. The map has been registered with the map collection as registration number 24332A.

This series consists of a record book of cases heard at Savona's Ferry, Oct. 1884 - June 1885 and charge book from Ashcroft Gaol, Nov. 1884 - Sept. 1901.