Includes: environmental issues; nature, wilderness and scenery; climate and weather; environmentalists; environmental organizations and businesses; parks and natural areas; wildlife management; habitat and species protection/recovery; conservation activities.
MemoryBC Subject Groups
Image depicts some farmland in Lillooet, B.C.
File contains slides depicting places around and between Lillooet and Howe Sound.
Image depicts rows of water, possibly being irrigation ditches, somewhere in Lillooet, B.C.
Image depicts a view of the mountains surrounding Lillooet, B.C.
Image depicts a view of the mountains surrounding Lillooet, B.C.
Image depicts a view of the Fraser River and the mountains surrounding Lillooet, B.C.
File contains slides depicting places in the Lillooet area.
Image depicts an area around Lillooet, B.C. It is possibly the Fraser River running through the Moran Canyon.
Image depicts the Lillooet River at the head of Lillooet Lake.
Image depicts the Lillooet River at the head of Lillooet Lake.
Image depicts the Lillooet River delta at the head of Lillooet Lake.
Image depicts what is possibly the Lillooet River, full of driftwood.
Marsh along the edges of Eagle Lake features tall riparian plants and lily pads. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “Eagle Lake.”
Map depicts species of forest trees in British Columbia and their regional distribution.
File consists of a list of documents sent to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans from the B.C. provincial government ("Attorney General of British Columbia") for the Nechako River court action. Includes accompanying memoranda regarding the list of documents in regards to preparing for the trial.
File consists of a list of documents from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans that were created between 1977 and 1994 and released to the public through Access to Information Act requests or other means. The list includes requested records that were not made available because they are exempt from the Access to Information Act.
File consists of two lists of female recipients of Aboriginal ethnobotanical knowledge.
File contains material relating to "Re-explorations: new perspectives on gender, environment and the transfer of knowledge in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia." It consists of lists of contacts for research; teaching notes for women's studies courses; a list of material available at the Penticton Archives; notes from an article; and a timesheet for Ainley's research assistant, Anna-Stina Kjellstrom.
Subseries consists of
Shirvell, Cole
Image depicts numerous fallen trees and two unknown individuals somewhere in the Crooked River Provincial Park, near the Livingston Springs.
Image depicts the Livingston Springs in the Crooked River Provincial Park.
Image depicts the Livingston Springs in the Crooked River Provincial Park.
Image depicts the Livingston Springs in the Crooked River Provincial Park.
Image depicts the Livingston Springs in the Crooked River Provincial Park, with an unknown individual present.
Photograph depicts a loaded packhorse carrying Prentiss Gray's camera equipment.
Photograph depicts a pack horse train heading up a snow-covered path along a mountain trail. The environment around the sloping mountain trail is sparsely covered with trees.
Photograph depicts a train of pack horses carrying loaded packs and walking up a mountain trail.
Photograph depicts a loader dumping dirt from a damaged road near Moricetown.
Photograph depicts a loader filling a truck with dirt from the damaged road near Moricetown.
Photograph depicts a loader filling a truck with dirt from the damaged road near Moricetown.
Photograph depicts a loader filling a truck with dirt from the damaged road near Moricetown.
Film begins with aerial footage of mountains believed to be around Bella Coola. Then recording of men loading barrels, supposedly of gas, into a boat using a "home made" winch and boom construction. They ferry the barrels up stream, the river is assumed to be Dean River. and use a similar construction to bring the barrels to shore.
There is also footage of men fishing in the river.
Six men visible on hillside and wood plank roadway, working together to roll cut logs down the hill and load them onto the truck.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso read: “logs up to 32 feet in length.”
Photograph depicts five men loading packed bags into a long boat belonging to Mac McGarvey. The boat is resting near the shore of an inlet at Rolla Landing.
Footage of men preparing pack horses for a hunting trip in the early morning hours.
Possible locations of filming are Holt Homestead or Lassard Lake.
Photograph depicts a man loading up pack horse with two other laden pack horses visible in the periphery of the image.
File consists of a paper titled "Local Government in the Canadian Provincial North" presented by Weller at the 1980 Western Social Science Association conference. This file was originally numbered to correspond with conference paper number 14 listed in Weller's CV.
File consists of a paper titled "Local Government in the Yukon and Northwest Territories" presented by Weller at the 1983 Western Social Science Association conference. This file was originally numbered to correspond with conference paper number 25 listed in Weller's CV.
These historically important aerial photographs depict Williston Lake soon after its creation in 1968 with the building of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam on the Peace River. Also depicted are the rivers and tributaries that empty into the Williston Reservoir, such as the Finlay River, the Ospika River, and the Omineca River.
These remote-sensing aerial photographs were taken by Lockwood Survey Corporation Ltd. under contract for the B.C. Forest Service. Some photographs are annotated to show logging activity; clearcuts, slash piles, log booms, and tree debris on the water are also visible in some of the images. No detailed location information or index accompanies the photographs.
Lockwood Survey Corporation Ltd.
Image depicts a log cabin and an orange truck somewhere in or near Longworth, B.C.
Photograph depicts four long logs crossing flowing water, rocks and bush on opposite shore in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Canyon Creek near 4th Cabin".
Annotation on slide: "Log skidding on main haul road, Fleet Creek Trial SS054, Jan. 1995"
Photograph depicts a forested mountain, the bottom half of which has been logged and terraced; beneath the mountain is a railroad track and parked vehickes including a schoolbus and two dumptrucks.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Fairview Sodturning, Prince Rupert, 1/3/75”.
No annotation on slide.
Annotation on slide: "Summit Lk".
Annotation on slide: "[mostly illegible] Km 3 [?] pinker [?] cubic block"
Image depicts a logging area somewhere near Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts an area undergoing logging somewhere in Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts a logging area somewhere near Prince George, B.C.
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a switchback, wood plank logging road.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Truck Logging / Giscome BC.”