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Caption: Backpacking. Usual load 60-65lbs. We carried a spring balance. The smile is natura.. Item is a photograph of 2 survey crewmen trekking down a slope with packsacks on their backs.

Caption: Backpacking. Usual load 60-65lbs. We carried a spring balance. Water cooling system. Item is a photograph of 2 survey crewmen trekking through water with packsacks on their backs.

Caption: Backpacking. Frank liked his load low. Bob and I prefered [sic] ours high. Item is a photograph of Frank Swannell and another survey crewman trekking up a grassy slope; each with packsacks located at different points on their backs.

Caption: Backpacking: snow cooled. Item is a photograph of two survey crewmen trekking up a snowy slope with packsacks on their backs.

Photograph depicts group of men and women eating on deck attached to unknown house. Photo believed to have been taken during event held to celebrate Bridget Moran receiving an Honourary Law Degree from the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, B.C.

Photograph taken at the defunct Okanagan Landing which was a rail/water transfer point from 1892 to 1940. A buggage trolley from the site still existed.

File consists of an article written by Gary Runka entitled "Balanced Agriculture - Its Social Value" for the Symposium o n Decoupling, Ottawa - February 10-12,1988.

Commentary on this speech by Barry Smith of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands:
"This speech was prepared for publication in the July 1988 edition of t he "Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics".

The Symposium explores the social and economic values of agriculture and this paper primarily pursues the social value side of the equation and asserts that a healthy agricultural sector has a social as well as economic value to Canada.

The paper is broken into four sections:
(I) The Farm;
(II) Rural Communities and Regions;
(III) Canada and Beyond; and
(IV) Summary.

Under these broad topics the paper considers several themes, many of which have a strong or direct relationship to farmland preservation. B.C. and Quebec programs are directly mentioned. A few of these themes are captured here:

• "balanced agriculture" ... let it imply a balance between economic considerations (market forces) and social values
• It is not easy to design legislative programs that will accommodate both the legitimate financial concerns of those who husband the land and the desire of society to protect a scarce resource
• Society must share in t he responsibility to retain foodlands. "...both Quebec and British Columbia accepted this responsibility in their agricultural land preservation legislation by bring in associated commodity income insurance programs along with the provincial designation of land within agricultural land reserve zoning."
• A need for balance between private rights of land ownership with stewardship and the responsibility of government to intervene when private interests do not coincide with public interests.
• The urban majority will have a growing influence on the way farmers and agriculture will be treated in coming decades
• Any country is wise to ensure that it retains the option to produce at least a portion of its own food
• Do we want agriculture driven by a "trade environment" or do we as a country have other social goals that we wish to pursue, of which international trade is part?
• It is in Canadian society's general interest to have economic and social cohesion when considering agricultural policy reform."

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Bald Eagle, Skidegate, 2007”.

Photograph depicts ballast cars at Squamish, near government wharves and chemical plant. They were built by the Western Wheeled Scrapper Co. in Aurora, Illinois and do not have a date.

Photograph depicts a ballast packing machine found at the CN Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts part of a ballast removal and cleaning special train at the CN Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts a ballast wagon awaiting demolition at repair shed of the B.C. Electric Railway in New Westminster. The car was built in 1948.

Photograph depicts ballasting re-laid new track at the Pacific Great Eastern yards in North Vancouver, beside the Vancouver Wharves Ltd.

Photograph depicts a cannery building on a wharf, a cluster of small houses on the shore and a hillside of dense forest. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Skeena River, B.C.".

Photograph depicts the Balmoral Cannery building on a wharf, treed hillside behind and snowy mountains in the distance. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Balmoral Cannery - wharf, 1924".

Annotation on recto: "I-33251" which denotes the same photograph in the collection of the BC Archives.

Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr.

Item is a photograph of a copy print that has been reproduced as a slide, resulting in low photographic quality. Location of original photograph unknown.

Frank Dickson was a UBC pathologist who studied heart rot in balsam at Aleza Lake Experimental Station (and also gave great haircuts).

Photograph depicts a Balsam timber pile adjacent to Aleza Lake Research Forest sign on the Giscome highway. Mark Clark is pictured.