Series GR-3769 - Timber tenures from the Kamloops Forest District

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Timber tenures from the Kamloops Forest District

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GR-3769

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  • 1962-1986 (Creation)

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1.6 m of textual records and maps

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(1913-1978)

Biographical history

The Kamloops Forest District was established in 1913 under the Forest Act, 1912. In 1916, the district was expanded to include part of the Tete Juane Forest District due to staff shortages resulting from World War I. In 1918 The Lillooet Forest District was also added to Kamloops.

In 1930, the majority of the lands in the Railway Belt, which had previously been administered by the federal government, were also added to Kamloops. The remaining Railway Belt lands were added to the Vancouver and Fort George Forest Districts. As a result of these changes, in 1932, the area previously in the Vernon Forest District was added to the Kamloops Forest District, along with half of the Cariboo Forest District. In 1972, the Cariboo Forest District was reestablished, and these lands were transferred back to it to replicate its previous boundaries.

In 1978, the Kamloops Forest District was renamed the Kamloops Forest Region, however its boundaries remained the same. Between 1978 and 1981, the Region was reorganized to comprise of the following smaller Forest Districts: Clearwater, Kamloops, Salmon Arm, Vernon, Penticton, Merritt and Lillooet. These areas were based on the previous Ranger Districts. Note that the Kamloops Forest District continued to exist after 1978, however, it was a much smaller area part of the greater Kamloops Forest Region.

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Scope and content

The series consists of various timber tenures from the Kamloops Forest District of the Department of Forests and its successors. Records date from 1962-1986.

Forest tenures in this series include cutting permits, timber licences, timber sale licences, timber sale harvesting licences, licences to cut, timber berths, tree farm licences and free use permits. The licences provided the licensee with the right to harvest timber from a specific area. These files document the management of timber licences and include records relating to the issuance, administration, planning, cancellation or deletion, extension and monitoring of the tenures. Files may have A numbers, T numbers, X numbers, or other numbers specific to a type of tenure.

The files may contain a copy of the licence, forms, reports, maps of the area that will be logged, ministry approvals, operating plans, annual reports, as well as a wide variety of correspondence with the licensee.

The records were transferred to the archives under several numbers in the Ministry of Forests ORCS schedule (881261). However, most of the records in this series predate the creation of ORCS, and may have file codes from the old Ministry of Forests File Directory, such as 850-16.

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Physical condition

Immediate source of acquisition

Accession 91-6167 transferred from the Kamloops Forest Region of the Ministry of Forests in 1999.

Accession 90-1733 transferred from the Okanagan Shuswap District of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations in 2016.

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Records are arranged roughly by year, then by number of the tenure.

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No access restrictions apply.

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Finding aids

A file list is available. http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Document/Finding_Aids_Atom/GR-3501_to_GR-4000/GR-3769.pdf

According to the Forests Operational Classification System, the ministry created T number registers (ORCS 19580-07). These registers have not been transferred to the archives. Researchers are therefore advised to contact the ministry to view these registers in order to identify specific files by name of applicant and/or forestry district.

Associated materials

Other timber tenures from the Kamloops Forest District:
GR-3760 - Timber sale licences from the Kamloops Forest District
GR-3768 - Timber sale harvesting licences from the Kamloops Forest District
GR-3770 - Timber berth administration files from the Kamloops Forest District

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Accession: 91-6167, 90-1733

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