RECORDED: [location unknown], [1960?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Logan recounts his parents' early life in Esquimalt; the family moved to New Westminster in 1909. Mr. Logan started with the BC Electric at age thirteen; he describes his first job; financial background of BCE; his first trip to Chilliwack; weekender special trains to Sumas; World War I; job advancement; post-war; his employment in various positions; train dispatching; train master; and the superintendent for rail operations. He discusses the railway's effect on the Fraser Valley's economic development; the station buildings; the route; mills and logging shipments; freight; population of the valley; milk-trains; pride of the employees; and the M.B. King Lumber Co. at Newton. TRACK 2: Mr. Logan discusses transcontinental freight rates; international trade; freight traffic; financial arrangements with the CPR; BC Electric services; the train route and stations from New Westminster to Chilliwack; local traffic; farm freight; truck traffic; World War II; the end of passenger service in 1950; bus traffic; Pacific Stages; trainmen; "bloomer days"; and traffic growth.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jim Brandon : Lardeau Valley 1912-1940 PERIOD COVERED: 1912-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-02-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jim Brandon's father was a CPR station agent at Lardeau. Lumber mill at Gerrard 1908-1920. Describes Lardeau after the turn of the century. Operation of Kootenay and Arrowhead Railway. Had pet bear. Father raised Airedale dogs. Hand-hewing railway ties in Gold Hill. CPR rail service cut back in the 1920s. Moved to Gerrard. Red McLeod. Maitland Harrison. TRACK 2: Emma Rear ran Miners Hotel at Gold Hill. Pole cutting in the Lardeau. Packing to the Teddy Glacier Mine. Mining old mine tailings in the 1930s. Moved to the coast and entered construction business. Description of Lardeau railway station. Marble quarry at Marblehead. Found old trestles and railway grade in the middle of the valley near Marblehead. Childhood in Gerrard. A.G. Johnson ran general store in Poplar Creek.

CALL NUMBER: T1019:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Comments on alleged political blacklist RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-02-02 SUMMARY: Comments by Environment Minister James Nielsen on an alleged "political blacklist" in his ministry, 2 February 1977. CALL NUMBER: T1019:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jim Nielsen on pipeline dangers and Greenbelt Act changes RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-03-01 & 25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Environment Minister Jim Nielsen expresses concern about the environmental problems of oil pipelines in British Columbia, 1 March 1977. TRACK 2: Nielsen discusses proposed changes to the Greenbelt Act, 25 March 1977. CALL NUMBER: T1019:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jim Nielsen on Houston sawmill and milfoil weed in Okanagan Lake RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Environment Minister Jim Nielsen comments on the decision by the Land Commission to allow the construction of a sawmill at Houston, 1977. TRACK 2: Nielsen comments on the report of the committee investigating the Eurasian milfoil weed problem in Okanagan Lake, 4 April 1977. CALL NUMBER: T1019:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jim Nielsen on Skagit Valley, Okanagan Lake weeds, and oil spills RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-05-30 & 1977-06-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Environment Minister Jim Nielsen says that the resolution of the Skagit Valley controversy may be years away, 30 May 1977. TRACK 2: Nielsen outlines plans for 2,4-D control of Eurasian milfoil weeds in the Okanagan Lakes. Also, Nielsen says he doesn't like the idea of Cherry Point (Washington) as a major oil shipping terminal, 6 June 1977.

CALL NUMBER: T1875:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. J.M. Gibson : the B.C. Forest Branch, 1920-1927 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1927 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1960-10-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. J.M. Gibson joined the B.C. Forest Branch, 1920. Gibson works for the Nelson Forest District. Rangers in the Nelson District. Getting around the Nelson District. Problems of fighting forest fires. Preliminary cruising in the West Kootenay region. Moved to East Kootenay region, 1921. Rangers in the East Kootenay area. Timber cruising. TRACK 2: Sawmilling operations in the East Kootenays, 1921. Cruising in the extreme southeast. Building timber flumes. Tenure of various timber lands in the East Kootenay area. Gibson becomes District Forester in Prince George, 1923. Rangers and mills in the central Interior region, 1925. CALL NUMBER: T1875:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. J.M. Gibson : the B.C. Forest Branch, 1920-1929 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1929 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1960-10-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continuation of a discussion of the sawmills in the central Interior region, 1925. Comments on union organization in the Cranbrook area. More on sawmills in the central Interior area, especially east of Prince George. Detailed discussion of the Winton interests in the sawmill at Giscome. More on the mills east of Prince George. Problems of a District Forester: forest fires and collecting stumpage and royalty. Small water-powered sawmill operating at Fort St. James, 1924. TRACK 2: Story of Sir John Pitca, a knighted Estonian who settled near Fort St. James. Gibson becomes Assistant Forester in charge of forest protection, 1927-29. Returned to New Brunswick to teach at UNB in 1929. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace: a sawmill worker compares mills, describes 1950s PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jose Raposo (loader operator at a sawmill) from San Miguel, Azores. Description of town, of first job. Logging and sawmilling on Azores in 1940s-50s. Immigration, "herding" of people. Life on farm. Working for C.N.R.; job description, coming to Terrace. No other Portuguese at Weber's sawmill. Greenchain work. Friend Lowe [or Louie?] TRACK 2: Living at Lip's farm, John Lips. Learning English. Pohle's sawmill; changes in sawmilling methods and machinery. Use of trimming in Azores. Calling relatives; ties with homeland fade. Terrace in 1956. Visiting Kitimat by train. Recruiting workers, friendly treatment of immigrants.

CALL NUMBER: T0061:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kantaro Kadota : head millwright and superintendant of Japanese workers PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1972 RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1972-04-10 SUMMARY: Kantaro Kadota talks about his family background in Japan. His boyhood in Hokkaido. He became a Christian. His desire to learn modern sawmills led him to come to Canada early in the twentieth century. Got a job working for the pulp and sawmill in Swanson Bay, then Englewood. He was a superintendant of Japanese workers. CALL NUMBER: T0061:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kantaro Kadota : head millwright and superintendant of Japanese workers RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1972 SUMMARY: [No documentation on T0061:0002.] CALL NUMBER: T0061:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kantaro Kadota : head millwright and shipbuilder PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1910 RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1972-05-11 SUMMARY: Kantaro Kadota left Japan in 1905 for Canada to learn about sawmills. In Vancouver he worked for various sawmills. He studied English at the church at night for a year and eight months. After that he got a job with Whalen Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd. of Swanson Bay. He became the head millwright there in 1908. CALL NUMBER: T0061:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kantaro Kadota : Japanese-Canadian head millwright and shipbuilder PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1958 RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1972-05-11 SUMMARY: Kantaro Kadota was concerned about the quality of life for Japanese workers. He attempted to reform them by doing away with drinking and gambling. He cleared the professional gamblers out of his mills. During the Second World War he worked in a shipyard. He went back to Japan with an exchange boat in 1943. He stayed there until 1958 when he returned to Canada as a landed immigrant.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): L.S. Hope : the B.C. Forest Branch, 1920-1923 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1923 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-01-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Came to work for the B.C. Forest Branch from the University of Toronto, 1920. Timber cruising in the Ocean Falls area. The Victoria office of the Forest Branch. Timber cruising conditions in Prince George area, winter of 1921. Idea of a pulp mill in Prince George. TRACK 2: More on the pulp wood cruise in the Prince George area. Married in the summer of 1921. Became Assistant District Forester in Nelson Forest District, 1922. The rangers in the Nelson District. Hope's work as Assistant District Forester. Sawmills in the Nelson District. The cutting of poles, posts and ties. Match block manufacturing in Nelson. Fire fighting equipment in the Nelson District. (End of interview)

RECORDED: Christina Lake (B.C.), 1982-06-01 SUMMARY: Mr. Sander was born and schooled in Christina Lake. He talks about the difficulty in transportation at that time; there were no roads, and travel on the lake could only be done while the lake was frozen or in the summer. He later started a sawmill, and at the time of interview, his grandsons were running it.

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.

Industrial film. The processing of logs at a sawmill, featuring barking and chipping equipment built by Sumner.

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)

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.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marjorie Storm : women's rights and the IWA RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1979-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Storm was and is a member of the IWA, and has been involved in organizing for women's rights in both the IWA and the BCFL. In this interview, she compares work in organized and unorganized wood plants; sexual harassment on the job; women in union positions; seniority; weight limits; the BC Human Rights Code; child care; women's caucuses; and racism in the wood industry. Mrs. Storm left her first job at Fraser Mills because of sexual harassment. She moved to Pacific Veneer when women were represented both in the workforce, as stewards, and on plant committees. Mrs. Storm was asked to be a steward and represent the 350 women in the plant in 1953. She was elected to the plant committee and served as recording secretary, because of her work representing all workers as a steward. There was a long-term fight for equality for women; the plants kept separate seniority lists for women and men, and women were only allowed entrance into a limited number of jobs, within the sub-department where they worked. TRACK 2: In 1966, the IWA established equal pay for equal work in convention. As well, a struggle occurred against a thirty-pound weight limit for women. During the 1946 strike, women were very active, taking on graveyard picket duty. Women were very militant, often jumping the gun on strike deadlines and starting wildcats. One equal work struggle occurred when women were refused the right to relieve workers on the spreader, which was a higher paying job, and the foreman had refused the senior woman worker. Women stood around the spreader and closed it down to establish the right to relieve on breaks. Women played important roles on safety and plant committees.

Stock shots. Infected and infested trees. Mill scenes, with burner, loader and lumber carrier. Crew inspecting and marking infected trees, and using pheremone traps. Faller cutting trees. Road building with a caterpillar tractor. Logging scenes, including front-end loader, skidder, caterpillar tractor with tree shears. Small sawmill, making ties, etc. Red (infected) trees and Seeley Lake Provincial Park, south of Hazelton. Fish and Wildlife men board Forest Service helicopter and take off. Aerial views of logged or infected areas, logging operation in progress, and infested areas near Kitwanga and New Hazelton. Ranger and zone forester reviewing aerial photos and map of infested areas, Close-up shots of beetle emerging from tree.