Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr. Caption states: "Note openings made in stand."
Giscome, BC
16 Archival description results for Giscome, BC
Photographs within this file document resource industries within Northern BC such as mining, fishing, forestry etc. They also represent resource industry cooperatives, processing, packing and shipping industries, construction and ship building, as well as salvage companies and operations.
File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Horst Sander. Includes two original recorded audio cassettes and two copies.
File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Horst Sander. Also includes photocopies of Horst Sander's personal records, such as a tree farm license.
File consists of a transcript of an oral history interview with Ray Williston.
File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Ray Williston. Includes three original recorded audio cassettes and three copies.
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.”
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a switchback, wood plank logging road.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Truck Logging / Giscome BC.”
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a wood plank logging road. Another road under construction is also visible through forest in background.
Man driving a two horse cart in front of beehive burner, cart is full of bark presumably sawed off the logs.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Mill Burner".
Overview of the Giscome sawmill behind road. Lumber yard is visible in foreground while mill stands in background.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Giscome Mill / lumber yard in foreground".
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Daily Capacity 100,000 f.b.m. sawmill in foreground planer mill and lumber yard in background.”
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr.
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr. Photograph depicts mature spruce and balsam reproduction.
An “Indiana” flatbed logging truck releases logs from its load onto a makeshift log slide at the edge of a road.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "unloading logs".
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a wood plank logging road. Another road under construction is also visible through forest in background.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Logging - Giscome B.C. Plank truck road - also road under construction showing sills & cribbing."