SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life and work in the lumber industry in Terrace, B.C., 1940-1977 PERIOD COVERED: 1943-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Greg M. Sieben (lumber industry production superintendent) was born in 1921. Saskatchewan background. Arrived in Terrace in 1943 with Army. Pohle Lumber. Major MacMillan. Salvus in 1948. Transportation. Honesty in the 1950s. Logging: falling with hand tools, late 1940s. Hand bucking. Early power saws. Handling large trees. Sawmilling, steam power. Mrs. Pohle's part in sawmill operation. Diesel machinery. TRACK 2: Second Pohle mill, 1950s: foundation, arrangement of steam-driven mill. Improvising parts. Steam engineers, atmosphere of old mill. Modern operators' booths. Electricity. Automation. Hiring practices in the 1950s. Employment of immigrants: language problems, Dutch immigrants, Portuguese immigrants, post-war and present work attitudes. Changes in life-values in past 20 years.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace B.C. in the 1930s and 1940s : military occupation, changes in sawmilling PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Peter Wilfred Benoit was born on March 18, 1927 in Terrace B.C. Background about parents until their settlement in Terrace in 1920. Description of early life on Queensway. Food storage. Life during the depression. School life from 1934. Games. Jobs during the war as water boy in the construction of military camps and workman in the electrical installation at the airport in 1943. Changes in Terrace in the war years. Postwar growth in the sawmill industry. Other changes caused by the military. People's feelings towards Japanese Invasion and precautions taken against it. Skeena Mutiny. Mining of the Skeena Bridge. Departure of the Army. Feelings toward the departure of the military. Effects of the military on social life in (town) Terrace. Description of the business community in Terrace during military occupation. Postwar sawmill development approximately 1947, 1948. Forest Management and Tree Farm License. Location of sawmills. Work at Copper River Mill owned by Cooper and Haggen. Sawmill machinery. TRACK 2: Changes in the forest industry. Processes of making boards. Automation of industry. Changes in loading. Changes in Terrace. Teenage lifestyle in the early 1940s as compared with today. Farming. Food storage. Fertilizers and insecticides before the war. Strawberry growing in the late 1920s. Communication before and after the war. Power facilities in the 1940s. Impact of Kitimat on Terrace. Road development to Kitimat. Use and development of hot springs.