File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with James Lorne McConaghy.
File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Arne and Carrie Mellows.
File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Linda Mueller.
File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Dennis Spoklie.
File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Ralph Spoklie.
File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Bill Wade.
Photograph depicts two men on a 'Maple Leaf' Chevrolet truck's running board in an active logging area near Peden Hill sawmill. The truck is hauling raw logs. The man at the right of photograph is Cornel Neronovitch.
Photograph depicts a Fraser River backchannel with logs at Peden Hill sawmill. The jackladder to the sawmill is visible on the bottom right.
Photograph depicts a male worker operating a gin pole, winch and jammer to hoist logs onto a logging truck at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts horse logging.
Photograph depicts a lomen planer in operation at Peden Hill Sawmill lumber yard. Other workers and stacks of timber are nearby.
File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Jim and Dianne Humphreys. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and one copy.
File consists of an audio recording of an interview with John Humphreys. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and one copy.
File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Andre Laquerre. Includes one original recorded audio cassette.
File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Bob Beeson.
File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Mr. and Mrs. Cox.
Photograph depicts the unloading of logs from rail cars into the Mamquam River Blind Channel in Squamish (then Newport). The valley bottom around Squamish was logged from Mamquam River north to across the Cheakamus River before the construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.
Collection consists of records created and collected by Robert "Bob" Stowell (1922-2018) and his son Bill Stowell over the course of their careers in the British Columbia forestry industry.
Bob Stowell spent the majority of his 50+ year forestry career with The Pas Lumber Co. (B.C.) Ltd. in Prince George, BC as their Woodlands Manager between 1965-1991. Bob Stowell's records from The Pas Lumber Co. (B.C.) Ltd. include photographs, company histories, speeches, memoranda, correspondence, reports, and news clippings.
Bill Stowell worked for numerous forestry companies across British Columbia over the course of his forestry career (1977-2018). His collected material predominantly consists of forestry-related clippings from newspapers and periodicals, along with forestry-related publications like pamphlets, booklets, and reports. Represented among Bill Stowell's records are correspondence, memoranda, reports, and ephemera from Tolko Industries Ltd. and other various forestry companies.
Sans titreFile contains:
- Name and address list for BC forestry companies, circa 1990-2005
- Ministry of Forests publication, "Major Primary Timber Processing Facilities in British Columbia, 1993"
- Photocopied 1988 chart prepared by the Ministry of Forests, "Ownership and Inter-corporate Linkages of Selected Forest Companies Operating in B.C."
- Photocopied 1978 table from Forest Industries magazine entitled "The Top 100 Lumber Producers, U.S. and Canada, 1977"
- Forest Industries magazine excerpt from July 1984 issue, "1984 Annual Lumber Review"
- Forest Industries magazine excerpt from July 1985 issue, "1985 Annual Lumber Review"
- Forest Industries magazine excerpt from July 1986 issue, "1986 Annual Lumber Review"
- Forest Industries magazine excerpt from July 1987 issue, "1987 Annual Lumber Review"
- Forest Industries magazine excerpt from July 1988 issue, "1988 Annual Lumber Review"
File contains records created or collected by Bill Stowell over the course of his career in the forestry industry. Includes material regarding Balco Industries Ltd., Weldwood of Canada Ltd., Babine Forest Products Company, West Fraser Timber Ltd., 100 Mile Lumber & Chasm Sawmills, Slocan Forest Products Ltd., Riverside Forest Products Ltd., Dunkley Lumber Ltd., Lignum Ltd., and Weyerhaeuser Canada. Includes a 100 Mile Lumber & Chasm Sawmills log truck safety manual from 2008. Also includes a promotional brochure from Dunkley Lumber Ltd. circa 1980s.
File contains records created or collected by Bill Stowell over the course of his employment with Tolko Industries Ltd. as a log trader (1994-2010). Includes correspondence, memoranda, company budgets, reports, and periodical clippings.