Item is a photograph of Princess Margaret on July 17, 1958 at an event staged in the Prince George railway yards. Alex Moffat dressed as a prospector demonstrates panning for previously salted gold nuggets, which were later given to the Princess.
Item consists of typed transcript of interview with Ivor Guest discussing his early memories of Prince George as a river man and logging. Includes discussion of Cataline, and Quaw family.
Harkins, BobItem consists of transcript of interview with Bob Dunsmore, CNC Forestry Dean who discusses forestry and agriculture education at College of New Caledonia.
Harkins, BobItem consists of transcript and tape summary of interview with Elmer Nelson who discusses Axel Wenner- Gren's business interest in the Rocky Mountain Trench area of Northern British Columbia in the 1950s.
Harkins, BobHarry Weaver Memories consists of a copy of the typed manuscript of Harry Weaver's autobiography, as well as various other related trapping information.
Image depicts an area undergoing logging somewhere in Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts the Northwood pulpmill in Prince George B.C.
Image depicts Prince George, possibly with the Northwood Pulpmill in the background.
Image depicts a sawmill, possibly Lakeland Sawmill, in Prince George B.C.
Image depicts a pulpmill, likely Northwood, in Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts the Prince George Sawmill from the Northwood Bridge.
This short colour film depicts logging and sawmill operations at Ferguson Lake in March 1959. Scenes include tree felling, log hauling equipment, the Ferguson Lake lumber yard, use of Ferguson Lake to float logs, and the inside operations of the Ferguson Lake sawmill. Film also includes a brief clip of family film footage of the McKay family home and garden on Melville Street in Prince George with scenes showing a Newfoundland dog named Barney with Donald McKay and Joan McKay.
Photograph depicts a large white building surrounded by a fence.
Photograph depicts Lheidli T'enneh Nation burial grounds in foreground, Hudson Bay Company buildings in background.
Photograph depicts six adults and three or more children sitting on the ground with a log cabin in the background. Snow scatters the ground in small patches.
Photograph depicts twenty-eight or more people standing on the river's edge, a stack of wood is ready for loading on the steamer that is anchored near the shore.
Photograph depicts several people in a large field. There are buildings and trees in the background.
Photograph depicts a tarp spread out on the grass, two men sit nearby the tarp. There is a canvas tent in the background with a man standing beside it. Behind the tent is a low hill with a fence bordering the top of the hill. There are blankets drying on the fence.
Photograph depicts a view from a high hill, looking down on the Nechako river. There is forest and low rolling hills in the background.
Photograph depicts a view from a hill of a river winding through the forest with marshlands nearby.
Photograph depicts a view from a hill of a river winding through the forest with marshlands nearby. This may be a double exposure and there is an indiscernible image in the center of the photo.
Photograph depicts a man bathing himself while standing in a small metal tub. Photograph description in album notes this as "His 'Semi Annual'" [bath]. On the left is a log structure, presumably a cache building. A large clearing surrounds the building and bathing man. There is a forest and bluff in the background. Possibly located near Giscome Portage.
Photograph depicts four men pulling a long canoe across a clearing on a wheeled trailer.
Item is a BC Forest Service beverage coaster.
Large-format map depicts the Monkman Public Sustained Yield Unit (PSYU) and Tree Farm Licence 30 east of Prince George.
Map reproduction of the Sinclair Spruce Lumber Co. Ltd. T.S.H.L. A01848 C.P. 310 cutting area, likely in the Aleza Lake Research Forest.
Large-format map depicts Northwood Pulp & Timber operating areas in 1975.
Map reproduction depicts major areas of the Aleza Lake Experiment Forest.
Slide depicts a black bear eating garbage by wooden outbuildings, possibly at the Aleza Lake Experiment Station.
Slide depicts a detonation in an area of cleared ground in a forested area, likely the Aleza Lake Experiment Station. Work may have been undertaken for roadbuilding activities at the Experiment Station.
Slide depicts a cleared area at the Aleza Lake Experiment Station with plant regeneration.
Item is a photograph of Ray Williston and John Liersch in a small wood area southwest of Prince George.
Item consists of typed transcript and tape summary of interview with Olive Foote who discusses her family's history in Fort Fraser, Stellaco area c.1930s and later move to Prince George region.. Includes discussion of her father working mineral claims in Endako area c.1950s
Harkins, BobItem consists of transcript of documentary consisting of forum with prominent members of the forest industry discussing the history of forestry in North Central British Columbia c.1960s-c.1980s. Participants include Bill Young, Keith Yorston, Ken Bernsohn, Hector Richmond, Russ Cousins, Harry Gairns, Don Gould, Orville Gorley, Frank Oberle, Includes 'logger's commandments' song.
Harkins, BobItem consists of transcript of interview with Ambrose Trick discussing the sawmilling and logging industry in Northern BC, c.1930s-1950s including the 1953 strike; the creation of the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association. Trick also discusses his involvement in railway work, his involvement with hockey in Prince George and discusses Prince George politics, prominent personalities in the North.
Harkins, BobPhotograph depicts nine or more people watching a steamer navigate the rough waters of Fort George Canyon from the river shore.
Photograph depicts scattered buildings, an outhouse, and tents on a rough clearing. A river and its cutbacks are in the background.
Photograph depicts a view from the river looking at the river bank. There is a canvas tent with forest in the background.
Photograph depicts a wide expanse of river in the foreground looking across the water to a narrow clearing along the opposite riverbank. A few building are scattered across the clearing. There is forest in the background.
Image depicts the Northwood pulpmill in Prince George B.C.
Image depicts Prince George, possibly with the Northwood Pulpmill in the background.
Image depicts the Northwood Pulpmill in Prince George, B.C. taken from above the Nechako River looking east. Map coordinates 53°56'00.0"N 122°44'29.7"W
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.
File consists an audio recording of an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by Barbara Coupe.
File consists an audio recording of an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by Barbara Coupe.
File consists a transcript of an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by Barbara Coupe.
Slide depicts a heavily forested area with fallen logs, likely at the Aleza Lake Experiment Station.
Slide depicts the original wooden BC Forest Service sign for the Aleza Lake Forest Experiment Station.
Slide depicts a burning building at the Aleza Lake Experiment Station on the date it was shut down by the BC Forest Service.
Slide depicts a view of what is possibly the Upper Fraser River.