Item is a reproduced typescript of a paper prepared for the 1968 annual meeting of the Association of BC Foresters in Kamloops by Dr. Peter Pearse. The paper is entitled "Principles for Allocating Wildland Among Alternative Uses".
Item is an original BC Department of Agriculture publication entitled "Growing Filberts in the Fraser Valley".
File consists of a speech titled "Secondary Industries" addressing the potential of industry expansion, specifically in Prince George.
File consists census data from the North West and Peace River regions between 1966 and 1968. Also includes population data from 1951, 1956, 1961, and 1966.
File consists of a paper by the Lower Mainland Regional Planning Board of B.C. about the economic growth in the Lower Mainland. The paper takes a national and provincial economic perspective to determine municipal action.
Item is an original typescript of "British Columbia Recreation Sector Analysis East Kootenay Intersector Evaluation" by the Canada Land Inventory (ARDA) Recreation Sector, led by W.C. Yeomans.
This "The Land is Yours" film is a promotional film produced by the British Columbia Department of Agriculture in Kelowna, ca. 1968 or 1969. The film was produced by Gary Runka and hosted by Russ Richardson. Runka and Richardson provide commentary throughout the film. The film was directed by Nobert Hartig.
File consists of newspaper clippings of G. Gary Runka's participation in curling events.
File consists of a speech given by Gary Runka entitled "Relationship Between A.R.D.A. Soil Capability Ratings and Soil Productivity Ratings".
Commentary on this speech by Barry Smith of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands:
"This is a very useful overview of the agricultural capability ratings.
While no mention is of course made in this (circa) 1969 speech to the BC farmland preservation program, its value rests in the importance of the BCLI in the original designation the ALR and its future administration.
For anyone that is or has been involved with the farmland preservation program, this single sentence within the speech, made about 4 or 5 years before the designation of the ALR, provides an important insight into the value of the CLI and its relationship to farmland preservation. "For example. Class 5 soils while restricted in use to pasture or hay can produce very high yields."
File consists of a master plan for development of Alberta's Provincial Parks. Details the plan, objectives, assessment guides, and features of the plan. Includes one master plan and objective item and one supplementary information package.
Item is a journal reprint entitled "Aerial Photo Interpretation on British Columbia Rangelands" by Lord, T.M. and A. McLean from Journal of Range Management (Vol. 22, No. 1), 1969.
Item is an original typescript entitled "Recreation Land Management Guidelines in Relation to Capability Ratings" by W.C. Yeomans, Project Director, British Columbia Recreation Sector.
Item is a summary of Alastair McLean's thesis entitled "Plant Communities of the Similkameen Valley, British Columbia and their Relationships to Soils".
File consists of a land capability map for the Prince George special sales area, part of the ARDA Canada Land Inventory. Includes a letter from R.J. McCormack, Chief of the Canada Land Inventory.
Item is an original copy of "Lands of the East Kootenay: Their characteristics and capability for agriculture and forestry - Report to the B.C. Soil Capability for Agriculture and Forestry Committee", a co-operative interim report comprising sections and maps, compiled by G. G. Runka, Soils Division, BC Department of Agriculture. Other authors include J.R. Jungen, T. Lewis, J.R. Marshall, M.J. Romaine, J. van Barneveld, and U. Wittneben.
Item is an original BC Department of Agriculture publication entitled "Agriculture in the North Cariboo and Central British Columbia".
File consists of four presentation speeches from the Pacific Northwest Trade Association Conference concerning industry and the environment in North America.
File consists of a report about the Canada Land Inventory Program that examines disparities between urban and rural communities and offers solutions. Also includes a document entitled "The Place of the Canada Land Inventory Program in Resource Management: The Regional District of Fraser-Fort George".
File consists of correspondence between the Architectural Institute of BC and Chander Suri regarding his enrolment in the Institute. Includes course, pricing, exams, and qualification information.
File consists of a speech given by Gary Runka to the Canada Soil Survey Committee in Ottawa entitled "Land Capability Analysis".
Commentary on this speech by Barry Smith of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands:
"This is a fairly technical speech explaining the history, and mechanics of the evolving land capability analysis process in BC. It gives insight into this early period in which there was a fair amount of trial and error to develop the best techniques to display and utilize information.
From an agricultural perspective the speech notes (p.5) that compatibility between agriculture and other sectors is not high. The speech demonstrates what would emerge as an important link between Land Capability Analysis and the ALR. On page 7 "possible predictions that will result in land use conflicts but perhaps better long range planning" are insightful and in the case of this statement, reads like a tentative foreshadowing of the BC farmland preservation program that would emerge in about two years.
"(1) Agriculture - "(c) Conservation of agricultural land through rural zoning of those high capability and high productivity soils, near markets."
It is unknown if the use of the acronym C.S.S.C was intended to refer to the "Canada Soil Survey Committee", which held its eighth meeting in Ottawa in 1970, or to the "Canadian System of Soil Classification. Regardless, for more information on the subject a copy of the 1998 / 187 page report by the Soil Classification Working Group entitled, "The Canadian System of Soil Classification" can be found here: https://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/publications/manuals/1998-cssc-ed3/cssc3_manual.pdf "
File consists of a report to the Housing Committee by the Greater Vancouver Planning Department that outlines the course of action taken based off the recommendations of the committee.
File consists of a speech given by Gary Runka entitled "BC's Land Use and the Current Land Inventory".
Commentary on this speech by Barry Smith of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands:
"Although page 4 of this speech is missing (or possibly intentionally deleted), this document provides a detailed explanation of the CLI ratings and may well have been the basis of interpretation guidelines for agricultural capability mapping used by the ALC.
GGR at the time was the B.C. Land Inventory Field Coordinator.
It appears that slides at one point accompanied this speech."
File consists of a brief report by the Housing Committee to the Greater Vancouver Regional District with recommendations regarding housing.
File consists of meeting minutes from the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George concerning garbage disposal, health conditions in surrounding rural communities, highways, and sawmills.
File consists of spreadsheets detailing the distribution of established timber sale in the Prince George Forest District. Includes a tree farm license map of the district.
File consists of By-law 233 for the village of McBride regulating zoning of buildings and structures. Also includes By-law 235 regulating land subdivisions.
Photograph is a group portrait of the attendees at the Federal-Provincial Canada Land Inventory Coordinators Meeting in Victoria, March 31-April 1, 1971. Starting from the back row, left to right, attendees included: John Senyk, B.C.; Jim Allin, B.C.; Fred Frederickson, B.C.; Red Ward, Ontario; George Rathwell, Saskatchewan; John Foster, Ottawa, Charlie Rowles, B.C.; David Glover, Ottawa; Bill Yeomans, B.C.; Don Coombs, Ottawa; Harold Hoyt, N.B.; Brian King, Ottawa; Art Benson, B.C.; Scott Johnston, Ottawa; Dan Blower, B.C.; Vic Solman, Ottawa; Don Benn, B.C.; Dick Spilsbury, B.C.; Les Lavkulich, B.C.; Doug Lacate, B.C.; John Wilcox, B.C.; Alf Leahey, B.C.; Mike Romaine, Ottawa; Dick Marshall, B.C.; Gary Runka, B.C.; Norm Sprout, B.C.; Ken Beanlands, Newfoundland; Mick Roberts, Ottawa; Paul Lajoie, Ottawa; Pat Duffy, Ottawa; Bert Brink, B.C.; Merv McKay, Manitoba; Rich Goulden, Manitoba; Reg McCormack, Ottawa; Gerry Howell-Jones, B.C.; Marcel Belzile, Quebec; Paul Deane, Ottawa; Laurie Farstad, B.C.; Stu Scott, Alberta.
File consists of two annual reports, one of the president and one of the executive director, of the Union of BC Municipalities.
Item is a typescript of a paper by M. Murtha entitled "An Approach to Land-Use Planning based on the Canada Land Inventory".
Item is an original BC Department of Agriculture publication entitled "Management and Improvement of Meadows on Organic Soils of Interior British Columbia".
File consists of a speech given by Gary Runka at UBC entitled "Integrated Land Use - BC Experience".
Commentary on this speech by Barry Smith of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands:
"The speech provides insight into GGR's concept of integrated land use as opposed to multiple land use.
Agriculture noted as often the 'primary use for land designated in the ALR'. On page 5 GGR reflects on this concept when stating that integrated land use planning is a useful first step "... to indicate the primary physical capability of each landform based on inherent soil and climatic characteristics".
The speech was accompanied by slides."
File consists of annual district reports from 1969 and 1971 for the BC Department of Agriculture Development and Extension Branch detailing weather, crops, and season highlights. Includes a booklet on soil capability classifications and Central BC and Caribou agricultural census data for 1961-1966.
File consists of a report to the Union of B.C. Municipalities on Underground Wiring acknowledging public concerns with overhead distribution systems. Includes a map of the Union of B.C. Municipalities Annual Convention venue at Esquimalt Sports Center.
File consists of an index indicating the hosts, where delegates are staying, and municipalities attending the Union of British Columbia Municipalities convention.
File consists of a proposal of recreational areas for Class A Park or National Park status in the Peace River-Liard Regional District.
Item is an original Canada Department of Agriculture Publication 1434 entitled "Climate of the Lower Peace River Region".
File consists of settlement planning documents for the Regional District of Fraser Fort-George. Includes planning pamphlets, handwritten notes, map sketches, tables regarding proportions of land in Agricultural Land Reserves, a report on the Prince George water supply, a list of directors 1968 Regional District Fraser-Fort George Board, and an index to published forest cover maps and data.
Item is an original copy of "Moran Dam Environmental Analysis" by the Cariboo Land Capability Analysis Committee and Intersector Special Study Committee of the British Columbia Canada Land Inventory. The committee members were A. Bedwany, D. Benn, D. Blower, R. Marshall, and G. Runka. Includes 24 original colour photographic prints pasted into the report.
Item is a copy of "Ecology and Food Production" (Vol. 4, No. 14), 1972.
Item is a copy of "The Role of Aerial Photography in the Canada Land Inventory Classification Program" prepared by Gimbarzevsky, P. for the Canadian Forestry Service Department of the Environment for Commission VII International Society for Photogrammetry.
File consists of transcripts of speeches by W. Arthur Benson entitled "Demands for and of the Land" and "Land Information and its Relevance to Planning".
Photograph is a group portrait of the British Columbia Canada Land Inventory team. Back row, left to right: Rob Hawes, unknown, Ivan Cotic, Terje Vold, John Wilcox [?], Keith Valentine, unknown, Alec Green [?], Horst Baender, Dick Marshall, unknown, John Senyk, Bill Watt, Neville Gough, Dan Blower, unknown, Gavin Young, Craig Brownlee. Middle row, left to right: unknown, Peter Murtha, unknown, unknown, John Harris, Al Aldred, Gary Runka, Ed Oswald, Mary Redmond. Front row, left to right: Rick Williams, Gerry Howell-Jones, Chris Stanley-Jones, Larry Lacelle, John Jungen, Tom Pierce, Jim Van Barneveld.
File consists of a speech given by Gary Runka at UBC entitled "Land Capability Analysis".
File consists of a planning study for the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George reporting on the leasing of crown land for the year 1971.
File consists of a planning study for the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George regarding logging and development in the Nadsilnich Lake area.
File consists of a speech given by Gary Runka to the BC Federation of Naturalists in Vernon entitled "The Canada Land Inventory, Land Capability Analysis and the Planning Process".
Commentary on this speech by Barry Smith of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands:
"This speech largely avoids technical detail and an outlining of the mechanics of land capability analysis but does provide several practical examples that allow for a better understanding of the application of the analytical work.
The summary on page 11 is particularly important (in part):
"Planning must anticipate desirable land use patterns, not merely react to the pressure of short run expedients. Above all else let's not forget that land use planning should be people-oriented as well as resources-oriented. Hopefully, facts rather than short term
economics, politics, or emotions will play an increasing role in decision-making."
The speech was accompanied by slides.
(Note: Via a handwritten amendment the title was changed from "Land Capability Analysis and the Planning Process" to 'The Canada Land Inventory, Land Capability Analysis and the Planning Process"
Item is an original copy of "Soil Resources of the Smithers-Hazelton Area" by G.G. Runka at the Soil Survey Division, BC Department of Agriculture. Includes two accompanying maps.
File consists of a planning study for the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George regarding lease applications to the district and the department of lands for 1970-1971.
File consists of a speech given by Gary Runka to the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce Environment Committee entitled "The Canada Land Inventory, Land Capability Analysis and the Chamber of Commerce".
Commentary on this speech by Barry Smith of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands:
"GGR makes the point in opening that the Chamber of Commerce may not be a group the public normally associates with concern for the environment but he feels it is time to correct this fallacy.
This speech is of value, if for nothing else, for the outline provided of the origin of the Canada Land Inventory (page 2).
Interestingly in the light of a future Land Commission publication, GGR uses the phrase "...with proper inventory information perhaps we would have left some of our options open". The 15 page B.C. Land Commission booklet published in March 1975 [was titled 'The B.C. Land Commission: Keeping the Options Open']."
File consists of a booklet of zoning regulations for community planning area no. 7 in the Regional District of Fraser Fort George. Includes an accompanying document on highways in the region.