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2004.8.1.96 · Item · [ca. 1935]
Part of Alexander Manson mining collection

Photograph depicts three unidentified men standing in an old ditch cut through a forested environment. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "View along old ditch - brushed out & deepened, Germansen Placer Ltd."

2004.8.1.65 · Item · [ca. 1935]
Part of Alexander Manson mining collection

Photograph depicts three men standing on a rocky terrain along a creekbed in front of a forested landscape. Annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Taken to show carpest(?) stones seen on Creek. Shows old Five (?) workings of "Upper Toboggan" Claim situated on lower end of Cos' upper Creek leases. Dr. Mathews writing from Germansen Camp - 12/9/71. to Editor colonist mentions "Upper Toboggan Claim is actually paying $30 to $50 per day per wau(?)" - Old timers were able to work this low lying beach owing to shallow and rich gravels -- were stacked by hand. Snow water aided sluicing."

Three diversion tunnels
2000.13.1.66 · Item · [between 1962 and 1967].
Part of Ray Williston fonds

Item is a photograph of the three tunnels built to divert the Peace River around the Bennett Dam construction site.

The Mark of Progress
2016.5.3.16.1 · Item · 1959
Part of Harry Coates fonds

A VHS tape containing "The Mark of Progress" film created by the British Columbia Forest Service and first played for a live audience in 1959 in Prince George, BC.

2023.2.2.11.1 · Item · 1996
Part of Dr. Paul Sanborn fonds

The BC Ministry of Forest's EP 1148 Long-term Soil Productivity (LTSP) study addresses two key factors— soil porosity and site organic matter—that potentially limit tree growth and site productivity in the timber-harvesting land base and that can be affected by forestry operations.

This establishment report for EP 1148, "The effects of soil compaction and organic matter retention on long-term soil productivity in British Columbia (Experimental Project 1148)", is accompanied by a floppy disk containing 12 data sets (see 2023.2.2.11.2).