File consists of photocopied material regarding the Aleza Lake Experimental Station from BC Archives.
File contains charts consisting of the remeasurements of the basal area and cut stump data in permanent sample plots.
File consists of C.I.F. section report and related correspondence, 1954-55.
Photograph of many fishing boats in a Prince Rupert harbour. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Fishing Boats Prince Rupert, BC Photo by J. Wrathall." Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Greetings from British Columbia Ruth and Jim Warner[??]." Postcard is addressed to: "Mr. and Mrs. C. Ott 426 So. Humboldh Denver 9. Colorado U.S.A." Verso is affixed with a 4 cent Canadian stamp. Postmark reads: " Vancouver B.C. Canada. Jun 5 5 PM 1954."
File contains an original report entitled "An Appraisal of Logging Practices in the Naver Forest" by D. Burbidge of the BC Forest Service.
File contains photocopies of handwritten notes and measurement charts, correspondence regarding various administrative concerns, and research project reports.
Item is a research notes on "E.P. 373 - Ecology: Spruce-Balsam Type, Aleza Lake" by J.C.W. Arlidge of the British Columbia Forest Service.
File includes:
- C.I.F. Annual Report of the Cariboo Section (1953-54) and related correspondence
- Silviculture Report from C.I.F. Cariboo Section and related correspondence (1954)
- correspondence related to membership applications and membership mailing list, 1953-1954.
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.
Item is an original report by D.J. Robinson, Game Management Biologist, entitled "Interim Report re Status of Sayward Forest Deer Herds".
File contains records created or collected by Bob Stowell over the course of his employment with The Pas Lumber Company (B.C.) Ltd. (1965-1991):
- Photocopied 1953 Annual Report of The Pas Lumber Company, Limited
- Photocopied "Questions Regarding The Pas Lumber Company, Limited", 1955
- Letter to salesmen from Winton Lumber Sales Company regarding board measure & surface measure, April 1956
- Proposal from Swan, Wooster Engineering Co. Ltd. for a proposed Parsnip River crossing with a timber trestle bridge at Anzac, 1959-1961. Includes technical drawings.
- "A Brief to the Select Standing Committee on Forestry and Fisheries on Bidding Practice in Crown Timber Sales submitted by the Parsnip Rivers Operators' Association", 1963
- Photocopied letter from District Forester McRae to The Pas Lumber Company (B.C.) Ltd. regarding the company's request to scale debarked timber at Anzac Sawmill, 1966
- Photocopied agreement between Imperial Oil Limited and The Pas Lumber Co. (B.C.) Ltd. for petroleum products, 1966
- Untitled report on stumpage appraisal for Prince George region, [1968 or 1969]
- Photocopied table "The Pas Lumber Company (B.C.) Limited - Projected Net Income for 1967 as Effected by an Employees Strike", 1967
- Photocopied table "Rustad Purchase - Income & Cash Flow Projection", [1968 or 1969]
- Photocopied response report from B.C. Loggers' Division of COFI to the Stanford Research Institute Report, 1969
- Letter to stockholders of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. re: "Offer to buy The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. Common Stock and 5% Subordinated Debentures", 1969
- Photocopied "The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. Dry Kiln Project", 1969
- Correspondence regarding Anzac Sawmill, 1969
- Proposal report regarding Anzac Small Log Mill, 1969
Series consists of textual material regarding wildlife and habitat in British Columbia created or collected by Grant Hazelwood. Predominantly includes reports (published and draft), discussion papers, article reprints, memoranda, and booklets.
Photograph depicts red truck dumping waste at what is believed to be the tailings pile at the Cassiar plant. Small building and unidentified individual in bottom left foreground, valley and mountains in background. Photo caption next to printed copy of image in 1953 Annual Report: "Stockpile of 80,000 tons of Ore at Mill."
File consists of photocopied material regarding the Aleza Lake Experimental Station from BC Archives.
File contains photocopies of a study on seed production in coniferous trees for a period over 7 years.
Item is an original issue of British Columbia Forest Service Research Notes on "Marking of Spruce in the Fort George Forest District" by L.A. deGrace, E.W. Robinson, and J.H.G. Smith.
Item is "An Analysis of the Difference in Gross Merchantable Cubic-foot Volumes of the Upper Fraser Uneven-aged Spruce-Balsam Type When Computed by 2-, 4-, 6-, and 8-inch D.B.H. Classes" from the BC Forest Service "Research Notes" series.
Item is an original report entitled "Wildlife of the Bowron Lakes Region" by R.Y. Edwards.
File consists of photocopied material regarding the Aleza Lake Experimental Station from BC Archives.
Map is a mylar reproduction of an Aleza Lake Forest Reserve map.
File contains photographs featuring members of the Board of Directors of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd., which was formed on the 17th of May, 1951. Cassiar's forerunner was a company named Conwest, formed in 1534, a consolidation of two companies owned by Fred Martin Connell and his brother W. Harold Connell. The first board of directors included the Connell brothers, George Armstrong, John E. Kennedy, Charles & Arthur Mortimer, and Charles Rainforth Elliot (chartered accountant and secretary-treasurer of Conwest & Cassiar). Directors depicted in this file include F.M Connell, Harold Connell, Charles Elliot, John E. Kennedy, George Armstrong, Ken A. Creery, John Drybrough, Tam Zimmermann, George Washington Smith (president of Bell Asbestos Mines), Nick Gritzuk, Jack Christian (general manager, president, and CEO). Other individuals depicted include Fred Murry, Andre Beguin, Plato Malozemoff from Newmont Mining (co-founder of Cassiar with F.M. Connell), Alfred Lloyd Penhale (founder and CEO of Asbestos Corporation of Canada Ltd.), C.B. Brown, Pierre Marcotte, Francis Parker Smith (brother of George Smith), Bill Oughtred, Bill Johnson, and a Mr. Janitsch. File also includes a portrait of an unidentified director of Cassiar from Turner and Newall in England, taken at the corporate club in Toronto. Group portraits were taken at the Cassiar Valley, the office building, "House 130," fishing outings, and at formal events in unidentified locations.
File consists of correspondence, membership lists and applications forms, minutes and policy statement regarding the formation of the Cariboo Section of the Canadian Institute of Forestry.
File includes:
- Conference and meeting programs including
- Eighteenth North American Wildlife Conference and Related Meetings in Washington, D.C. March 9-11 1953
- Forty-third Annual Meeting Canadian Institute of Forestry October 11-13 1951 in Banff, Alberta
- Canadian Institute of Forestry Annual General and Professional Meeting October 19-21 1953 in Winnipeg
- Joint Meeting of the Canadian Institute of Forestry and the Society of American Foresters November 17-20, 1952 in Montreal.
- C.I.F. Annual Meeting correspondence regarding tour and activities (1954)
- correspondence regarding the C.I.F. Annual Meeting in 1954
- C.I.F. Annual Meeting programs, agendas, and notes
- file also includes membership names and addresses and minutes.
Series consists of records related to the creation and early administrative history of the Cariboo Section of the Canadian Institute of Forestry. Series includes reports, meeting minutes, membership lists, and extensive correspondence.
File includes:
- Canadian Institute of Forestry By-laws of the Institute
- Constitution and By-Laws of the Cariboo Section of the Canadian Institute of Forestry
- Petition to the director of the Canadian Institute of Forestry for the formation of a new section to be called Cariboo Section
- By-laws of the Manitoba section of the Canadian Institute of Forestry
- related correspondence.
This fonds consists of membership lists and application forms, correspondence, reports, minutes, information bulletins, and constitution & by-law information created or received by the Canadian Institute of Forestry - Cariboo Section during its first years of establishment.
Sem títuloFile contains an original copy of a United States Department of Agriculture Handbook No. 6 "Northeastern Loggers' Handbook" by Fred C. Simmons. This handbook includes detailed information about logging tools and techniques, many of which would have been used in British Columbia logging practices.
File contains typed business correspondence regarding working plans and research projects, small maps displaying locations of sample plots, graphs, and reports on stand development.
Photographs depict aerial views of the Cassiar townsite, plantsite, tailings pile, mine road, bench and pit mine, mine buildings (tramline loading station, crusher, shop, and garage), and surrounding mountain range. Here "aerial" refers to photos depicting a large area and taken from the air or from a high point of elevation.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Series consists of tools and materials Harry Coates used during his work as a BC Forest Service Research Technician at Aleza Lake Research Forest. Series also includes awards Harry Coates received during his career.
File contains photographs of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. Includes other northern BC forestry industry images, including Number 5 Timber Ltd. CP625 Block 101, bridge construction, and heavy machinery. Also includes a graphic postcard of Prince George circa 1970s.
The Cassiar Asbestos Corporation and townsite records encompass a massive archival holding of approximately 1,600 bankers boxes. A box level inventory was created by student employees of the archives over a 15-year period. This inventory is provided here for access purposes only and its accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
In 1952 the Cassiar Asbestos Mining Corporation constructed an asbestos open-pit mine and mill and created a town site for its workers that became the town of Cassiar, British Columbia, 50 miles south of the Yukon border, and 80 miles north of Dease Lake. For 40 years Cassiar was a thriving asbestos mining town with a population at its peak of about 2500, with production statistics for 1989, recording over 60 million tonnes of ore mined, producing a billion dollars of new wealth. In 1989 Cassiar added an underground mine to the site, and despite attempts to run it profitably, in 1992 the entire mine closed partially due to the global market decline in the demand for asbestos, resulting in the closure of the town, and the move of its workers and families out of Cassiar. An auction was held to sell off all the mining equipment, townsite infrastructure, its buildings, people’s residences and the site was bull-dozed, with many houses burned to the ground. Today little remains in this remote area of Northern British Columbia to mark Cassiar’s industrial, economic or social history.
In 1992 the University of Northern British Columbia acquired the holdings of CAMC and the Cassiar townsite recognizing its potential for academic research, as the records could provide insight into natural resource industry extraction operations in Northern BC from mid to late 20th century, illustrative of ‘boom & bust’ industries, and to provide context to the development of the Cassiar Asbestos Mining Corporation and the history of the ‘life’ of a one-industry company town. The holdings document mining operations by CAMC and of the town site of Cassiar, originally consisting of the equivalent of 1800+ bankers’ boxes, including records on construction, engineering, operations, administration of CAMC, tallies of extractions, labour and union activities, corporate events and visits by dignitaries (including Prime Minister Trudeau who visited CAMC’s northern operations unit in Clinton Creek in 1968 and M.P. Iona Campagnolo in 1978). As CAMC was owner of both the mine and the Cassiar town, the company provided municipal services (i.e. sewer, water, and electricity) for its workers and their families. The archived municipal records document townsite construction, including the creation of health, education and community services such as Cassiar’s private hospital, school, library, community centre, hockey arena, and retail store. The holdings also include extensive visual documentation of natural and man-man landscapes within this remote and scenic area of Northern British Columbia. The formats of the archival holdings are diverse consisting of textual, photographic, cartographic materials, electronic records, films, promotional video-recordings, and a near complete run of the Cassiar community’s print newspaper.
File consists of two signs:
- "Government of British Columbia Official Use Only"
- "British Columbia Forest Service Research Plot No Cutting or Disturbance".
Item is an original Silvicultural Research Note on"Selective Logging of Spruce in Sub-Alpine Alberta" by L.A. DeGrace.
File contains a preliminary working plan from 1950.
Item is a report entitled "Tree Length Skidding and its Influence on Residual Forest Stands in the Fort George Forest District" by L. deGrace of the British Columbia Forest Service.
File consists of a forestry tool called a dibble and mile marker.
Diagram reflects outline for the proposed Ranger Station at the Aleza Lake Experimental Forest.
Diagram reflects outline for the proposed Ranger Station at the Aleza Lake Experimental Forest.
File contains datelines, small maps consisting of ecological site types, handwritten notes, overheads, terrain resource management information digital map data, and trail system maps.
Series consists of cartographic materials including maps and blueprints of the Aleza Lake Research Forest. The maps reflect permanent sample plots and other study areas. The blueprints outline details for the development of a Ranger Station.
File contains official government reports on tree types, correspondence regarding research proposals, and working plans.