Alexander Myles Jardine was born in Vancouver in 1914 and moved to Victoria with his family at an early age. He attended South Park School, working in the summer of 1928 at the Natural Bridge Tea House near Field, B.C., and in September of 1929 with a forest survey crew in the vicinity of Powell River. He worked for a short period in the office of the B.C. Electric Co. in Victoria in the fall of 1929, before joining Canadian Pacific Steamship as an ordinary seaman on the Empress of Canada. In 1932 he joined Donaldson Lines as a cadet and in 1935 received his Second Mate certificate after study in Glasgow. In 1935 he joined the Royal Air Force and served in Britain until 1937 when he was posted to Singapore. He was taken prisoner of war in 1942. In 1946, he transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force. His RCAF career is outlined in the curriculum vita in box 1, folder 1. He was Head of the Department of Military Studies, Royal Military College, Commanding Officer, RCAF stations Rockcliffe, St. Hubert, and Penhold, Alberta and from 1960-1963, Canadian Air and Military Attache at the Canadian Embassy Prague, Czechoslovakia. He retired from the air force in 1965. The collection consists of diaries, letters to his family (these are mainly letters to his mother), certificates, correspondence inward, mainly on the occasion of his promotions and retirement, and clippings. The diaries and letters particularly present detailed account of his work at Natural Bridge, near Field, B.C.; his brief stint as an office worker in Victoria, his years with the Merchant Marine, and with the RAF and the RCAF.

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The item is a workprint for a documentary film from 1982. It compares the two possible land/sea routes for the proposed natural gas pipeline from the B.C. mainland to Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast. The Williams Lake-Powell River (northern) route and the Delta-Vancouver Island (southern) route (via Roberts Bank and Valdes Island) are examined, and the engineering and environmental concerns affecting the two routes are discussed.

This series consists of a variety of records related to timber tenures created from 1966-1999 by the Sunshine Coast Forest District, a division of the Vancouver Forest Region.

The series includes the following types of timber tenures: forest licences, replaceable timber sale licences, non-replaceable timber sale licences, tree farm licences, timber licences and woodlot licences. The series includes cutting permits for the following tree farm licences: TFL 10 and TFL 39. Records regard the issuance, evaluation, administration, monitoring, planning, replacement, cancellation, deletion and extension of these timber tenures.

The records may include legal documents, operations information, development plans, correspondence, forms, applications, Forest Service memos, approval letters, reports, maps, licences, permits, photos, and charts.

The series also includes fish and forestry guidelines for major licensees and small business licence holders. these are in the form of assessment action plans and CFFG audit records.

The ministries responsible for creating these records, and the years that they were responsible, are:
Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)
Ministry of Forests and Lands (1986-1988)
Ministry of Forests (1988-2005)

The records were classified as 19500-45, 19580-45, 19600-30, 19600-45, 19600-55, 19620-25, 19700-45, 19720-20, 19720-45, 19720-55, 19910-20 and 19910-30 in the Forest Operational Records Classification System (ORCS).

The item is a composite print of a travelogue made between 1972 and 1977 which highlights the Lower Mainland and Sunshine Coast. Includes footage of Vancouver (general), Abbotsford Air Show, Royal Hudson steam train excursion, ferry from Horseshoe Bay, Sechelt, sport fishing, boat trip up Jervis Inlet, salmon fishing derby, Garibaldi Provincial Park (camping, mountain climbing).