Environment

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  • 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.

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          4533 Archival description results for Environment

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          West Peak from Airplane
          2000.1.1.3.13.54 · Item · 1978
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          Photograph depicts the West peak of the Cassiar mine, pit partially visible below. Drill visible in left foreground at highest elevation of mine, north west mountain range in background.

          West Peak from Airplane
          2000.1.1.3.13.55 · Item · 1978
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          Photograph depicts the West peak of the Cassiar mine, pit partially visible below. Mining equipment barely visible in foreground at highest elevation of mine, north west mountain range stands in background, and mine valley crosses midground.

          2000.1.1.2.03.09 · Item · 8 August 1964
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "WEST WALL FOOTING AUG 8/64." Photograph depicts a construction worker standing on rebar in forms built for cement footings. A front end loader and backhoe tractor can be seen on wood platform above footings. Mountainside in background.

          White Pass - Mountain Side
          2012.13.1.100.12 · Item · 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a mountain side somewhere along the White Pass railway. The thin ridge along the mountain side is possibly either a highway or part of the railway.

          White Pass - Mountain Side
          2012.13.1.100.11 · Item · 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a mountain side somewhere along the White Pass railway. The thin ridge along the mountain side is possibly either a highway or part of the railway.

          White Pass Train
          2012.13.1.100 · Subseries · 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File contains slides depicting locations along the White Pass railway through Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territories.

          2023.7.4.03 · File · 1980-1986
          Part of Grant Hazelwood fonds

          File consists of records and textual material collected by Grant Hazelwood related to BC Provincial Museum wildlife reports. Includes correspondence, news releases, and reports. Highlights include:

          • Ministry of Environment, "Wolf Research Released" news release, Jan. 1984
          • Grant Hazelwood, Director of the B.C. Wildlife Federation, "Wilderness" paper and "Proposed Wilderness Policy" (reproduction)
          • Grant Hazelwood, species sightings in British Columbia lists, 1980 (reproduction)
          • British Columbia Provincial Museum, "Higher Vertebrates of British Columbia, 1986
          • R. Wayne Campbell and Alton Harestad, BC Provincial Museum, "Proposal for an Atlas of British Columbia Vertebrates", May 1981 (reproduction)
          Wildlife - Corridors
          2023.7.4.06 · File · [after 1973]
          Part of Grant Hazelwood fonds

          File consists of records and textual material related to Northern BC wildlife corridors collected by Grant Hazelwood. Includes manuscripts, notes, and summary documents. Discusses the following wildlife corridors:

          • "Fort Nelson - 94 J (Alaska Highway)"
          • "Charlie Lake - 94 A (Alaska Highway)"
          • "Trutch - 94 G (Alaska Highway)"
          • "Halfway River - 94 B (Alaska Highway)"
          • "Alternate Corridor - Chetwind > Fort St. John by Dawson Creek"
          • "Hart Highway Corridor 'A'"
          • "Alaska Highway Corridor 'B'"

          Also includes a 1972 photocopied document titled "Wildlife Oriented Sites within Corridor of Alaska Highway (Wildlife Sites Outside of H.S.S.A.'s).

          Wildlife - Mammals
          2023.7.4.07 · File · 1960-1982
          Part of Grant Hazelwood fonds

          File consists of records and textual material related to mammals (predominantly in British Columbia) collected by Grant Hazelwood. Highlights include:

          • Robert E. LeResche, "Social and Ethical Considerations in Conservation" (reproduction)
          • Grant Hazelwood, Resource Biologist, Northwood Pulp and Timber, "Fisheries Inventory - Driftwood River", 1981 (reproduction)
          • Grant Hazelwood, Resource Biologist, Northwood Pulp and Timber, "Effect of Cut Block Size on Streams", 1981 (reproduction)
          • David S. Shea, "A Wintertime Ecological Evaluation of the North Fork Flathead River Drainage, Glacier National Park", April 1976 (reproduction)
          • A.L. "The Southern Half of the Alaska Highway and its Mammals", 1943 (reproduction)
          • John P. Kelly, "Ecology of the Pine Marten (Martes americana) in North Central B.C.", 1977? (reproduction)
          • V. Geist, "On the Management of Large Mammals in National Parks" in Park News, July 1972 (reproduction)
          2023.7.4.02 · File · 1975-1980
          Part of Grant Hazelwood fonds

          File consists of records and textual material related to wildlife population collected by Grant Hazelwood. Includes journal reprints, reports, and leaflets. Highlights include:

          • John G. Stockner, "Phytoplankton heterogeneity and paleolimnology of Babine Lake, British Columbia, Canada", Nov. 1975 (journal reprint)
          • Western Guides and Outfitters Association, "Aims, Objectives and Policies", Oct. 1980 (reproduction)
          • Information summary sheet leaflets for threatened and endangered Canadian wildlife including the white pelican, sea otter, Vancouver Island marmot, and wood bison, 1979
          • D. Blower, "Population estimates for April 1977 caribou map", June 1977

          Also includes a map:

          • B.C. Fish and Wildlife Branch, "Wildlife Distribution Mapping - Big Game Series: Black Bear", 1978
          2023.7.4.08 · File · 1973-2001
          Part of Grant Hazelwood fonds

          File consists of records and textual material related to rare and endangered species (predominantly in British Columbia) collected by Grant Hazelwood. Highlights include:

          • John Kelson for Kitamaat Village Council, "Investigation of Potential Marbled Murrelet Utilization of Lots 305 and 306", 1995
          • Listings of rare and endangered species in British Columbia, various years
          • Robert Jacobsen, "Legal Aspects of Critical Habitat Determinations", 1978? (reproduction)
          • Grant Hazelwood and P.J. Bandy, "Wildlife Management Plan and Policy for Non-Game Species" (draft), 1973
          • W. Grant Hazelwood, "Species of Management Concern on Kitsumkalum & Zymacord Drainages", Sept. 2001
          Willow River - Lloyd Edwards
          2012.13.1.89.131 · Item · 1985
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a group of people somewhere in Willow River, B.C. The man in the plaid shirt and beige cap is identified on the slide as being Lloyd Edwards.

          Wolf
          2023.7.4.13 · File · 1972-1983
          Part of Grant Hazelwood fonds

          File consists of records and textual material related to wolf (predominantly in British Columbia) collected by Grant Hazelwood. Highlights include:

          • L.N. Carbyn, "Preliminary Analysis of Wolf and Ungulate Interactions with Specific Reference to Moose in Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba", 1977 (reproduction)
          • Francis Singer, "Status and History of Timber Wolves in Glacier National Park, Montana", 1975 (reproduction)
          • "Wolves and Trapping in British Columbia", 197-? (reproduction)
          • Barbara Scott, "The Vancouver Island Wolf (Canus lupus crassodon), An Initial Study of Food Habits, Population Dynamics, and Social Organization", research proposal document and progress report document, 1978 and 1979 (reproductions)
          • BC Fish and Wildlife Branch, "Wolf Predation", May 1969
          • Canadian Nature Federation, "Perspective on Wolf Control in Quebec", Nov. 1972
          • Warren Ballard et al. for Alaska Department of Fish and Game, "Susitna Hydroelectric Project 1982 Annual Report - Big Game Studies - Volume V - Wolf", Apr. 1983 (reproduction)
          Woman with Camera
          2012.13.1.52.27 · Item · 1980
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts an unknown woman with a camera. Nearby are the skeletal remains of an unknown animal. The location is the upper Fraser Canyon.

          2002.14.1.05 · Subseries · 1961-2008
          Part of Marianne (Marika) Ainley fonds

          Subseries contains materials relating to Dr. Ainley's research on women in the fields of science and engineering. Ainley dedicated much of her career to this topic, which resulted in a number of publications. Subseries includes material relating to the submission and editing of Ainley's chapter, "Marriage and Scientific Work in Twentieth-Century Canada: the Berkeleys in Marine Biology and the Hoggs in Astronomy" in "Creative Couples in the Sciences" about the experiences of two scientific couples: Edith and Cyril Berkeley and Frank and Helen Hogg. Materials for this publication include correspondence, edited manuscripts, permissions form templates and a call and instructions for submissions. This subseries also includes research material for a review of Margaret Gillett and Ann Beer's book, "Our Own Agendas: Autobiographical Essays by Women Associated with McGill University," including notes, correspondence and short biographies of women from McGill University. Subseries also contains research on Canadian women in science including photocopied archival materials from various Canadian universities. This subseries also contains materials relating to Ainley's book, "Creating complicated lives: women and science at English-Canadian universities, 1880-1980" and Ainley's chapter, "Soaring to New Heights: Changes in the Life Course of Mabel McIntosh" in "Great Danes." Subseries consists of research relating to women in the Royal Society of Canada and on individual women scientists and engineers. Research materials consist of photocopies of published and archival research materials, correspondence, and applications for grans and ethics reviews. This subseries also contains approximately 80 overhead transparencies from presentations.

          2012.13.1.3.148 · Item · Apr. 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts two snow sculptures near a wooden bridge on an ice rink, possibly during the Winter City Conference, in Prince George, B.C. Taken at the Prince George Civic Center. Map coordinates 53°54'45.6"N 122°44'59.6"W

          Wood Pile in Winter
          2005.3.1 · Item · [ca. 1945]
          Part of John Hart Highway Photograph Collection

          Winter landscape scene featuring a man cleaning up a wood pile covered with snow (?). Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "ALL WINTER 1945 1946 Cleaning of the Wood Pile".

          Woodpecker Ranch
          2012.13.1.41.01 · Item · 1980
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the grade for the British Columbia Railway, which was formerly known as the Pacific Great Eastern until 1972. It is located somewhere near the Woodpecker Ranch in Woodpecker, B.C.

          Woodpecker Ranch
          2012.13.1.41.02 · Item · 1980
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the grade for the British Columbia Railway, which was formerly known as the Pacific Great Eastern until 1972. It is located somewhere near the Woodpecker Ranch in Woodpecker, B.C. There are two unknown individuals present in the image.