Showing 192 results

Item 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.

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.

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

Item 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.

File consists of two original copies of the Volume 17, No. 3 issue of UBC Forestry's Branch Lines newsletter from December 2006. This issue features various articles relating to the Aleza Lake Research Forest, including the front page article, "Percy Barr's Research Forest Legacy". Also includes correspondence relating to the newsletter issue.

Item is a BC Forest Service beverage coaster.

File consists of photocopied material regarding the Aleza Lake Experimental Station from the Canadian Forest Service Archives in Victoria. Also includes handwritten notes.

File consists of:

• Draft "Joint Protocol for Co-ordination of Research and Operational Planning Activities at the Aleza Lake Research Forest" between the BC Ministry of Forests, Small Business Forest Enterprise Program, and Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd. (7 Feb. 1996)
• Application for an Exemption to a Silvicultural Prescription and Logging Plan (19 Dec. 1996)
• Amendment to Special Use Permit #19070, Bowron Floodplain Addition, Aleza Lake Research Forest (1 Aug. 1995)

File contains an original "Do's and Don't's When Marking Stands For Cutting" booklet illustrated by J. Pickford.

Videocassette is a VHS recording of an interview with John Revel produced by Spectrum Videoworks as part of a BC Forest Service "Esprit de Corps" institutional memory project.

File consists of:

• Correspondence from Everett Peterson to Paul Sanborn, dated 6 July 2001, which includes photocopied photographs taken at Aleza Lake in summer 1956
• Photocopied version of Everett Bruce Peterson's 1956 "Study of Coniferous Reproduction by Direct Seeding Methods on Various Forest Site Types at Aleza Lake, B.C.: An essay submitted during the Third Year of the Course in Forestry at the University of British Columbia" (original is held at NBCA 2007.1.25.3.12)

File consists of a compilation of Experimental Projects in the Prince George Region. This compilation work was done by Stewart Taylor of the Ministry of Forests. Included are Experimental Projects regarding the Aleza Lake Research Forest that were selected from Taylor's larger project, which contained over 400 EP summaries for the Prince George Region.

Series consists of records reflecting the activities of the Dezell and Rustad families. Series include mayoral records from Bea and Garvin Dezell when Garvin served as Mayor of Prince George. Series includes materials celebrating Bea Dezell's life created by her family. Series also includes fundraising efforts for the Northern Medical Programs Trust. Finally, series includes a collection of "spruce" dollars and commemorative coins.

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.

File consists of two copies of the Forest History Association of British Columbia Newsletter, Issue No. 88, published July 2010. This issue contains a synopsis of the 2009 Forest History Conference that look place at UNBC Prince George.

File consists of an original Forest Research Note published by the BC Forest Service Prince George Forest Region. This March 1999 note (#PG-16) is an article by Paul Sanborn, Marty Kranabetter, and Chuck Bulmer on "Soil Rehabilitation in the Prince George Forest Region: A review of two decades of research".

File consists of two videos:

• A VHS video tape containing "Mark of Progress" promotional and possible training video for the BC forest industry in and around Prince George
• A VHS tape "Reforestation in British Columbia: A Growing Success" published by the Province of British Columbia Ministry of Forests.

File consists of:

• Newspaper clipping from the February 14, 2007 issue of the Prince George Citizen with the obituary of Franklyn Allan Hellenius (Jan. 3, 1944 - February 7, 2007)
• "Memories of Frank Hellenius: Interviewed by John Revel, also present Peter Hellenius, at Prince George, BC, March 2004" (3 copies, one of which is annotated by Mike Jull)

File consists of:

• A computer database print-out of photographs held at the Fraser-Fort George Museum that relate to sawmills (as of 1993)
• The Fraser-Fort George Museum's "Northwood Archives Donation Inventory"

Item 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.

File consists an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by David Mills. Includes a transcript and audio recording.

File consists an audio recording of an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by David Mills.

File consists a transcript of an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by David Mills.

File consists an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by Barbara Coupe. Includes a transcript and audio recording.

File consists a transcript of an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by Barbara Coupe.

Photograph depicts Harry Coates, Ted Baker, and John Revel at Aleza Lake Research Forest re-opening ceremony on July 9, 1992.

File consists of Harry Gairns' speaking notes for his 18 Sept. 2009 banquet talk at the "Exploring Our Roots: Forest History in Our Communities Annual Conference of the Forest History Association of BC" at UNBC in Prince George, September 19, 2009. Gairns' speech was entitled "Prince George Forest History - The 50s and the 60s".

Harry Weaver Memories consists of a copy of the typed manuscript of Harry Weaver's autobiography, as well as various other related trapping information.