CALL NUMBER: T1864:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): William McMahon : Canfor Vice-President and general manager (part 1) PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1955 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-10-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: McMahon's personal background. Worked at Anyox, 1917. Came to B.C. to stay in 1921. Work for the Capilano Lumber Company. Discussion of the Japanese timber market. The Capilano Timber Company mill. TRACK 2: Work in mills in the 1930s. Eburne Mills. The Pick-Prentice-Bentley group. The expansion of Canadian Forest Products in the early 1940s. Corporate history of the development of Canadian Forest Products.

CALL NUMBER: T1864:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): William McMillan : Canfor Vice-President and general manager (part 2) PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1955 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-10-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continuation of the story of the development of Canadian Forest Products. Discussion of plywood technology. More CFP corporate history. Changes in working conditions for survey crews. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Interview with William Byers RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1961-08-11 SUMMARY: In an interview with C.D. Orchard, William Byers discusses his life in the forest industry: his background - Scotland, England, Canada; first job at a logging camp -- time keeper at a camp in northern; Ontario; life at early logging camps -- weather conditions, diet, living conditions; his duties as time keepers; anecdote about ruining his moccasins; events at beginning and end of camp; hauling logs; two spare teams; moving logs across lakes -- 'Alligator' barges. Came out to B.C. in fall of 1905: went to Nelson to pile lumber at a sawmill, but did not last long there. Next he went to town of Phoenix and drove a team for a livery barn. Working in a mine as a mucker. Mining experiences in B.C. and Montana. Mining accident, develops rheumatism. Squamish camp -- bull teams. Became shift boss at Britannia Mine, then foreman, then superintendent. Some prospecting in Barkerville. Stopped working in mines in 1912 after major strike. Joined Rocky Mountain Rangers for WW I. Went to UBC in 1919 for a course in forestry -- became a ranger (in Sechelt, Comox, Port Alice, Victoria). Moved to Vancouver in 1928 as Supervisor of Scaling until he retired in 1947. Describes scalers. Opinion on unions. Anecdotes about his job as Supervisor of Scaling. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Wilfred "Fred" Hanbury : a lumbering family in Manitoba and British Columbia PERIOD COVERED: 1902-1935 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1958-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Description of father's logging camp in Manitoba, 1890s. Camp conditions. Sawmilling methods. Father moves into B.C. lumber industry after 1902. Had mills in Vancouver and East Kootenays. Marketing lumber through 'lineyards'. Buying timber in B.C., early twentieth century. Fred Hanbury bought timber near Kamloops, 1919. Vancouver lumber merchant, 1920-30. Elected to House of Commons, 1930. TRACK 2: Sets up mill at Monte Lake, 1929. Forest industry people in the Shuswap area. Old-timers in the interior lumber industry. (End of interview)

Fonds consists of broad-ranging records pertaining to the management and operations of the Western Plywood Company Limited and the Weldwood-Westply Limited group of regional and national companies, subsidiaries, divisions and branches in Canada and the United States. Records in this fonds are from the British Columbia Head Office of Weldwood-Westply and include material to do with management and operations of various plants, particularly the Kent Avenue plywood plant in Vancouver, where the head office was located, and the Cariboo Plywood plant in Quesnel. The fonds includes records of the following companies, subsidiaries, divisions and branches: Alwest Wholesale, Canadian Collieries Resources Limited, Cariboo Pulp and Plywood (Quesnel), Empire Lumber Company, Hay & Company Limited and Hubbell Lumber Company (both Ontario), Flavelle Cedar Limited, J.R. Murray Timber Limited, Kent Avenue plant (Vancouver), Keeley Lumber Company, Kirk Coal Company, Mount Baker Veneer Company, Tepson's Wholesale (Ontario), Timberland Plywood, United States Plywood, Weldwood of Canada and others. The fonds consists of eight series: Series 1. Executive papers, 1934-1970, predominant 1960-1969. Sub-series: President's files, Vice-President's files, Secretary files. Series 2. Correspondence, 1956-1963, predominant 1960-1962. Sub-series: General Correspondence 1960-1961, General Correspondence 1961-1962. Series 3. Financial records, 1910-1973, predominant 1945-1966. Sub-series: Financial files, annual reports and statements; General accounting correspondence; Tax files; Ledgers and account books. Series 4. Head Office general files, 1946-1969. Sub-series: Topical files, Forest Industry Summaries. Series 5. Labour and personnel files, 1951-1988. Sub-series: Set 1, Set 2. Series 6. Old files, 1907-1967. Sub-series: Companies, Log and timber sale files. Series 7. Cariboo Plywood plant, 1950-1982. Sub-series: Quesnel timber files, General files, Correspondence and reports, Financial files. Series 8. Timberland Sawmill, 1946-1982. Sub-series: Timberland Sawmill technical drawings, Reference drawings, Sawmill and machinery files. Original series, series/sub-series titles, and arrangements have been retained. Arrangements are alphabetical, chronological or numerical.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack provides an update on the newly re-opened Lamford Cedar sawmill and how it became employee-owned. John Parks, Social Credit MLA and Chairman of the Special Committee to Choose an Ombudsman, explains the process for choosing an ombudsman for the provincial government. Jack explores problems with federal abortion law from the perspective of Concerned Citizens for Choice on Abortion members Dr. Robert Makaroff and Ann Thompson. Jack invites Dr. Elliot Abravanel, author of "The Body Type Diet", to explain his 'body type' theory for effective weight loss.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Prescott recalls his coming to Alberni by automobile in 1907 to take the position of Royal Bank manager; his first impressions of the community, and the reasons he decided to stay. He discusses the boom years in Alberni from 1907 to 1913; the start of the railway in 1911; logging; mills; subdivision; World War I; Port Alberni; first settlement in Alberni; Alberni Land Company; Captain Stamp; mills; Gilbert Sproat; and Anderson's Mill from 1860 to 1864. Mr. Prescott recounts his career in banking; his transfer to Vancouver at the age of nineteen; his impressions of Alberni; farming in the area; dairy farming; and pre-World War I. TRACK 2: Mr. Prescott continues his discussion about Alberni; residents; land clearing; vegetation; logging; Indian reserve; Bob Roberts; potlatches; working for the bank; first bank in Alberni and Port Alberni; his employment in timber transactions; early settlers and the community centre.

CALL NUMBER: T2399:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Early life in Canada and discrimination during the war PERIOD COVERED: 1906-1946 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Mr. & Mrs. Nimi talk about their marriage; sawmills; their drugstore business on Powell St.; and the internment camps.;

CALL NUMBER: T2399:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Japanese and Canadian culture PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Mr. & Mrs. Nimi discuss Japanese and Canadian culture. Japanese "mafia". Changes in discrimination. (End of interview);

Documentary. The importance of Canada's forests to the economy. Includes scenes of logging; log drives; huge trees felled by crosscut saw; sawmill and pulp mill operations and the various uses of forest products. Forest fire prevention and forest fire fighting techniques are shown, with shots of a huge forest fire in a mountainous area. No locales are specified, but the footage is clearly shot in BC. In the first sequence, dealing with a prosperous town which becomes a ghost town after a nearby forest fire, Barkerville is the ghost town location.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tom Elliott : Interior lumberman, 1904-1957 PERIOD COVERED: 1904-1957 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1957 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Tom Elliott to B.C. in 1904. Sawmills in the Central Interior. Log drives on the Thompson River system. Wages and working conditions. Elliott started his own logging camp in 1914. Moving logs by chutes and flumes. TRACK 2: Elliott's early work history. River and lake paddlewheelers. More on the Interior lumber industry.

The item is a reel of industrial film about Canada's west coast lumber industry -- its scope and size, modern methods and uses. Emphasizes the reforestation program.

Industrial film. The advance planning and site preparation that precedes actual logging in modern forest operations. Also includes scenes of cutting, spartree and booming operations, reforestation, maintenance, mill operations, etc.

The item is a reel of industrial film showing the advance planning and site preparation that precedes actual logging in modern forest operations. Also includes scenes of cutting, spartree and booming operations, reforestation, maintenance, mill operations, etc.

Newsreel footage. Shots of logger hand-falling large spruce trees; high-rigger climbing and topping a very large spruce; scaling; yarding; hauling logs by truck and dumping them into log pond; boom men and boom women working with pike poles; sawmill scenes; shot of an aircraft.

The item is a reel of industrial film about the wartime logging of Sitka spruce in BC, to be used in the manufacture of aircraft such as the Mosquito bomber. Includes shots of logging and milling operations and Davis rafts, as well as some shots of aircraft.