File contains a folio with correspondence and documents regarding Noranda's purchase of BC Forest Products shares.
British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.File contains brief correspondence about a trip Adam Zimmerman took to Vancouver, as well as a letter addressed to JW McSwiney, president of Mead Corporation.
Mead CorporationFile consists of:
- Photocopied version of John Revel's problem analysis entitled "Reforestation in the Vancouver Forest District (Plantation Assessment)" for E.P. 585 with the Research Division of the BC Forest Service.
Caption describing photograph: "Pulpwood Logging Operations on P.T.S. X91960, Swamp Lake, Prince George Pulp and Paper Ltd."
Caption describing photograph: "Pulpwood Logging Operations on P.T.S. X91960, Swamp Lake, Prince George Pulp and Paper Ltd."
Caption describing photograph: "Pulpwood Logging Operations on P.T.S. X91960, Swamp Lake, Prince George Pulp and Paper Ltd. Close-up of Pre-loading Trailer and Typical Load of pulp wood."
Caption describing photograph: "Pulpwood Logging Operations on P.T.S. X91960, Swamp Lake, Prince George Pulp and Paper Ltd. Close-up of rubber-tired skidder at landing." Harry Coates holds a measuring tape against a felled tree to show trunk diameter.
Caption describing photograph: "Pulpwood Logging Operations on P.T.S. X91960, Swamp Lake, Prince George Pulp and Paper Ltd."
Subseries contains administrative records created and accumulated by Adam Zimmerman at the Noranda Inc. (formerly Noranda Mines) corporate office in Toronto. Includes correspondence, legal records, speeches, reports, and records regarding corporate relations, donations, the Noranda Environmental Committee, marketing, and other administrative matters.
Noranda Inc.File contains correspondence, memoranda, bound reports, and progress reports for the Free Piston Development Company.
Free Piston Development Company"The Asbestos Sheet" is a newspaper that documents the community and work life of the residents of Cassiar BC. Content includes text and photographs, as well as jokes, comics, and games.
Photograph depicts group of ten men standing and kneeling in front of BE 40R blasthole drill in mine area. For names of individuals, see similar image, item 2000.1.1.3.19.72.
Photograph depicts group of ten men standing and kneeling in unknown location at the Cassiar mine. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "APPROX 1965 / BACK L-R / 1.- / 2. Don Erwin [i.e Irwin] / 3. MAC MAcCLOUD DIED 1979 / 4. JIM MURDOCK MINE SUPER / 5. RUPERT McKENZIE CAPT / 6. DANNY DEMETRI / 7. VIC SARAKOSKI / FRONT. L-R / 1. DON HUDGEON / 2. MIKE CLARK / 3. - [Adrian VanHill Sr.]". Information in above annotation supplemented with insight from individuals who contributed to Northern BC Archives Facebook Photo ID Project, contact archivist for more information in research file pertaining to this photograph.
File contains legal correspondence and court ruling regarding exploration rights.
Northwood Mills Ltd.File contains a promotional/informational booklet on Canfor entitled "Canadian Forest Products Limited and Affiliated Companies".
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains correspondence regarding taxes and harvesting. Also includes newspaper clippings.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains correspondence, reports, memoranda, maps, and a harvesting proposal regarding Northwood Pulp's Special Sale Area Negotiations.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains correspondence, memoranda, and reports regarding Northwood Pulp's sawmills.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains brief correspondence attached to a mill efficiency and production study in a bound report.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains correspondence, memoranda, several folded blueprints, and reports regarding Northwood Pulp construction.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains construction progress reports for the mill at Prince George.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains calculations and reports supporting the creation of a chemical plant in Prince George, British Columbia that would become BC Chemicals.
BC Chemicals Ltd.File contains a newspaper article about MacMillan Bloedel & Power River Ltd.'s 1964 Annual Report excerpts.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.Series consists of maps, technical drawings, and other oversize material collected by Gary Runka that are not associated with specific Land Sense Ltd. client jobs.
File consists of records and textual material related to caribou (predominantly in British Columbia) collected by Grant Hazelwood. Highlights include:
- BC Ministry of Environment, "Woodland Caribou in the Thompson-Nicola Resource Region", June 1981
- R.W. Ritcey, "Caribou and Forest Management in British Columbia", Jan. 1974
- W.G. Hazelwood, "Northern Tweedsmuir Park Flight - October 9, 1979"
- William Low, "A General Ecological Study of Mountain Caribou in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, British Columbia", Mar. 1965 (reproduction)
- W.G. Hazelwood, Northwood Pulp and Timber, "Caribou Flight - March 19, 1980"
- Grant Hazelwood, manuscript notes for caribou flight over the Stikine, Mt. Edziza, Dease Lake areas, 9. Oct. 1979
- Report prepared for Dupont of Canada, "Caribou Studies in the Vicinity of Lawyers Pass, Northcentral B.C., Sept. 1980 to Aug. 1981", Mar. 1982 (reproduction)
- Spatsizi Association for Biological Research, "1980-81 Progress Report No. 8"
- Deborah Cichowski, "Habitat Use, Winter Feeding Ecology and Population Status of Woodland Caribou in West-Central British Columbia", 1990
- Dale R. Seip, "Ecology of Woodland Caribou in Wells Gray Provincial Park", Mar. 1990
Photograph depicts unidentified man lifting package of asbestos bags with forklift in large building. Truck in background, ready for loading. Tires and wood flats against wall in background.
Footage of man fishing near rapids. Speculated locations include the Bella Coola River or the Dean River.
Item is an issue of "Forest Management Notes" on "Scarification in the Spruce Alpine Fir type of the Prince George Forest District" by J.R. Gilmour and J. Konishi.
File contains correspondence regarding various associations, particularly the BC Council of Forest Industries.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains brief correspondence regarding loan guarantees for Fichtner Lumber from the Royal Bank.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains reports and correspondence regarding Leboe Lumber, a potential acquisition for Northwood Pulp.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains minutes of the construction committee meeting in Toronto on November 4, 1965.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains correspondence with officials and individuals from the city regarding complaints about industrial activity; photocopy of signed petition of the residents of Bench Drive.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains legal agreements, bound feasibility reports, and correspondence for BC Chemicals.
BC Chemicals Ltd.File contains correspondence and a business agreement between Mead, Noranda, and Forest Kraft.
Mead CorporationFile contains correspondence regarding sales information to the Noranda sales office in Toronto.
Noranda Inc.Photograph depicts unidentified man lifting package of asbestos bags with forklift in large building. Truck in background, ready for loading.
Item is a photocopied version of Slavoj Eis' "Development of White Spruce and Alpine Fir Seedlings on Cut-Over Areas in the Central Interior of British Columbia" reprinted from The Forestry Chronicle, December 1965, Vol. 41, No. 4.
Footage of two people, Doris and Jerry, in a rowboat on a lake.
Speculated locations include Anahim Lake, Fenton Lake or Lassard Lake.
File contains correspondence between Noranda Mines and their legal counsel. Also includes related financial documents and billing statements.
Noranda Mines Ltd.File contains correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, and agendas from Northwood accountant meetings regarding the accounts of Northwood Mills Ltd.
Northwood Mills Ltd.File contains correspondence and reports regarding the potential acquisition of Boundary Sawmills.
Northwood Mills Ltd.Sub-subseries consists of market research and competitor analysis for Northwood Pulp and it's renamed successors Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd. (1972-1998) and Northwood Forest Industries Ltd. (1979-1998). These records were created or accumulated by Adam Zimmerman during his tenures as the company's President and Director, as well as his Presidency of Northwood Pulp's parent company, Northwood Mills. Includes files pertaining to various individual forest products companies acquired by Northwood and conglomerated under the umbrella of Noranda Mines, and later, Noranda Inc.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains legal and government correspondence between Northwood Pulp & Timber, the BC Forest Service, and Ray Williston.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains correspondence, financial deals regarding chip provision, payments details, etc.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains communications, shipping lists, and correspondence with H.A. Simons.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.File contains a bound agreement between BC Chemicals, Dryden Chemicals, and Prince George Pulp and Paper regarding the construction of a new chemical manufactory in Prince George.
BC Chemicals Ltd.File contains correspondence regarding Noranda corporate relations.
Noranda Inc.Subseries consists of financial and sales records that were created or accumulated by Adam Zimmerman at the Noranda Inc. (formerly Noranda Mines) corporate office in Toronto. Includes accounting records, financial reports and summaries, graphs, financial planning material, sales documents, and prospecti.
Noranda Inc.File contains timber sale contracts, logging inspection reports, and related maps between the Department of Lands and Forests and the Fichtner Lumber Company Limited.