File consists of newspaper clippings, reports, agendas, booklets, articles, and a pamphlet regarding fisheries in British Columbia, particularly the impact of the Kemano Completion Project on the Nechako River and other tributaries. Highlights include:

• Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Public Meetings Concerning Kemano Completion, "Agenda", 1984 (reproduction)
• Reproduction of "Presentation by the Carrier-Sekani Tribal Council to a Public Meeting Called by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) on March 2 & 3, 1984 in Vanderhoof, British Columbia"
• Department of Fisheries and Oceans, "Towards a Fish Habitat Decision on the Kemano Completion Project A Discussion Paper", 1984 (booklet)
• Province of British Columbia, "Fraser River Estuary Study", [198-?] (pamphlet)

File consists of booklets, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and reports on fishing in British Columbia. Highlights include:

• Government of Canada, "Salmonid Enhancement", [after 1977] (pamphlet)
• Province of British Columbia, "Angling Data Northern British Columbia", 1976 (booklet)
• Sportguide Series Special Interest Supplement to TV Week Family Magazine, "The Salt Chucker", Vol. 2, 1978 (magazine)
• Government of Canada Fisheries and Oceans, "Where and When to See Salmon", 1998 (pamphlet)

Al Elsey compiled his original footage from 1965 to produce this commercial film that deals with fly-fishing for Steelhead Salmon on the Dean River and Bella Coola River. The video provides a compilation of film footage shot by Elsey and is narrated by him describing the activities documented in the footage.

The first portion of the film begins with a map of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park and then cuts to a motor boat on a lake, possibly Fenton Lake, and men fishing on the lake. The next clip is of more men fly-fishing on a river, possibly the Bella Coola River or the Dean River. A short clip follows of two children in a boat with a man pushing them along with a rod. There is footage of the scenic landscape, which is most likely the Bella Coola Valley, and a cabin, which is believed to be Elsey's. A woman believed to be Mrs. Elsey sits on the porch and then arranges her flowers. The film shows some ducks on the lake, two squirrels playing and the Elsey's dog in a boat. Mrs. Elsey pulls the boat ashore in the next clip and then the film shows her working in her vegetable garden. There is more scenic filming of the valley and a man cutting down a tree with a chain saw. There is footage of a grouse beating it's wings, chipmunk looking for seeds, birds in a marsh, three moose in a marsh, and a bald eagle perched and flying.

There is a break in the film and the second portion begins with footage of cabin in the mountains, a baby in a cradle, an elder First Nations woman, and a gathering of First Nations peoples by a tent. There is a shot of a picnic site sign labelled "Burnt Bridge Picnic site Parks Branch" and another sign that reads "Kalyskt Creek." There is then footage of the creek and a truck driving down a dirt road. There is then a group of people boarding a motor boat in a river and driving up and down the river, which could possibly be the Dean River or the Bella Coola River. There is then more filming of a cabin in the mountains, possibly Elsey's, and a man cleaning a large fish he caught. Then there is footage of men in a rubber raft floating down a river and fishing from the raft, and then some other men traveling in a motor boat.

There is an another break and the third portion of the film begins with footage of birds on a lake and footage from a boat showing the mountains. On land there is filming of two bears walking, men hunting the bear, killing the bear, and skinning the bear. The film cuts back to the boat and the filming the mountains along the water. The people on the boat then pull up crab traps from the water and cook the crabs on the boat. The film ends with footage of salmon jumping and a man filleting his fish catch.

Begins with footage of maps of the Bella Coola area, Tweedsmuir Park, and Wells Gray Park. Then there is a title slide that reads "Steelhead Unlimited on the Bella Cover River". There is general scenery footage of mountains, streams, rivers, a black bear, a white robin, Eagles.

Footage of men floating down minor river rapids in a rubber boats the men banking their boat and fishing from shore.

Footage of Ooligan fishing and processing : paddling the long dugout canoe with the nets in the water, hauling the fish to shore, placing them in "stink boxes" to extract the grease, and wrapping up the nets .

Possible locations of the footage is Bella Coola, Bella Bella, Bella Coola River, Dean River, Chilcotin region, Tweedsmuir Provincial Park or Wells Gray Park.

Footage of thee men in dugout canoe bringing in ooligan nets full of ooligan fish on what is believed to be the Bella Coola river. Two of the men bring in the net while the third bails water. The men then bring in the canoe to shore using long poles. Women then join and help transport the fish to shore and then place the fish in large "stink box" where they are stirred with a stick.

Footage includes salmon jumping in a river, men filleting fish in fishing boat in tide water, a beaver in the water, and a bird, probably a heron, flying.

Recordings from the boat on a river, some loons on a lake, either Anahim or Fenton lake, and a panoramic view of the lake with mountains in background.

Also some footage of men fishing from the shore of a river, children catching fish, children swimming, some river rapids, footage of an eagle, a pelican on the lake, a group of birds, probably sand pipers, in water.

There are two young girls playing on a boat near shore, a view of white and brown house, and an older boy pulling a young girl in a wagon.

Include is footage of a backyard BBQ picnic, two young girls fishing, a cabin at a lake, and general scenery of birch trees, a boat house, and a dock at lake.

There is also a sign that reads "Breezy Cove," people relaxing on porch in front of cabin, and footage of a woman believed to be Mrs. Elsey and a friend walking on a forest path.

The film ends with footage of more fishing off a motor boat and unloading the motor boat at a dock.

Possible locations of the filming include the Bella Coola River, the Bella Coola Valley, the Bulkley Valley, the Hagensborg area, and Nimpo Lake.

Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "FORMING FOOTING FOR TRANSFORMER HOUSE AUG 20/64." Photograph depicts construction workers standing in forms made of wood and rebar for cement footings. Lumber scattered throughout, mountain range in background.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the forest and lumber industry in British Columbia.

File contains:

• Name and address list for BC forestry companies, circa 1990-2005
• Ministry of Forests publication, "Major Primary Timber Processing Facilities in British Columbia, 1993"
• Photocopied 1988 chart prepared by the Ministry of Forests, "Ownership and Inter-corporate Linkages of Selected Forest Companies Operating in B.C."
• Photocopied 1978 table from Forest Industries magazine entitled "The Top 100 Lumber Producers, U.S. and Canada, 1977"
• Forest Industries magazine excerpt from July 1984 issue, "1984 Annual Lumber Review"
• Forest Industries magazine excerpt from July 1985 issue, "1985 Annual Lumber Review"
• Forest Industries magazine excerpt from July 1986 issue, "1986 Annual Lumber Review"
• Forest Industries magazine excerpt from July 1987 issue, "1987 Annual Lumber Review"
• Forest Industries magazine excerpt from July 1988 issue, "1988 Annual Lumber Review"

File contains ephemeral material collected by Bill Stowell over the course of his career in the BC forestry industry. Includes:

• "Hug a Logger" bumper sticker
• Forestry business cards
• Bucking specification cards for various forestry companies
• Purden Ski Village ski run map [undated]
• Photocopied Harken Towing Co. Ltd. map of Greater Vancouver log towing locations along the Fraser River between Sea Island and Nicomen Island

File contains newspaper and periodical clippings collected by Bill Stowell over the course of his career in the BC forestry industry. Includes the following full issues:

• Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certification Coalition "Bulletin", Vol. 5, No. 2, August 1999
• Forest Alliance of British Columbia, "Choices: Issues and Options for B.C. Forests", Vol. 8, No. 1, [2000?]
• Crestbrook Forest Industries Ltd., "The Log", October 1981
• MacMillan Bloedel Limited, "MB Journal", Vol. 10, No. 6, June 1990
• "Forests Forever: Northern Interior" special B.C. forest industry newspaper supplement [to the Prince George Citizen], March 1989

Subseries contains publications pertaining to or used by forestry industries in Canada.

File contains:

• B.C. Forest Service, "Site Index: A Growing Issue" pamphlet, 1986
• The Working Forest Project, "Clearcuts don't stay cleared... End of argument." pamphlet, 1994
• Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada, "Handbook for Ground Skidding and Road Building in the Kootenay Area of British Columbia", 1976
• Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, "From Watershed to Watermark: The pulp and paper industry of Canada", 1987
• Forest Productivity Councils of British Columbia, "Forest Growth and Yield in British Columbia - Vision" pamphlet
• Prepared for BC Ministry of Forests and Range by Laszlo Orbay and Derek Goudie or Forintek Canada Corp., "Values and Volumes of Lumber Recovered from Mountain Pine Beetle Killed Wood", 2006

File consists of collected research materials regarding Fort Fraser, Fraser Lake, Engen, Endako, and the Endako mine. Includes a Provincial bulletin, postcard, histories of Fort Fraser, correspondence, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings, articles, and an advertisement for Fort Fraser. Highlights include:

• Province of British Columbia Lands Service, "The Fort Fraser-Fort George Bulletin Area", 1967 (booklet)
• Postcard of Fraser Lake, [198-?]
• Don & Sue Rudland, "Welcome to Historic Fort Fraser", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Christero Communications, "Rose Prince of the Carrier Nation", [198-?] (pamphlet)

File consists of research material collected on the history of Fort George including a Provincial bulletin, newspaper clippings, pamphlet, and reproductions of articles and images. Highlights include:

• Robert Arthur Williams, Province of British Columbia Lands Service, "The Fort Fraser- Fort George Bulletin Area", No.7. 1973 (bulletin)
• Fort George Park, "Fraser-Fort George Museum", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• W.J. MacAllan, "The Moving of the Fort George Indians", Cariboo & Northwest Digest, Summer 1948 (photocopied article)
• Nellie R. Campbell, "When Steel Came to Prince George", Cariboo & Northern B.C. Digest, Summer 1947
• Fraser Fort-George Museum, "Museum Mirror", Vol. 2 No. 1, 1986

The Fred Jeffery Collection consists of three photograph albums comprising a total of 303 b&w photographs all dating from ca.1924-1933. The subject matter of these images consist primarily of the fishing industry, river & landscapes, salmon cannery images (housing, people, workers, machinery, boats) on the Nass River and North Pacific Coast. Notable are the photographs depicting indigenous (Nisga'a) people and places and Chinese and Japanese cannery workers. Identified canneries featured in these photographs include: Mill Bay Cannery, Namu Cannery, Klemtu Cannery, Shushartie Bay Cannery, Balmoral Cannery, North Pacific Cannery, Nass Harbour Cannery, Port Essington Cannery, Kitwanga Cannery, Port Nelson Cannery, Alert Bay Cannery, Dominion Cannery and ABC Co. Cannery. Photographs also include images of the Canadian Pacific Railway in both Vancouver and Sicamous, BC., as well as, images of the Legislative Assembly buildings in Victoria, the 1924 Special Service Squadron ships in Vancouver, early construction of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and town overviews of Yokohama, Japan (pre WWII).

Photograph depicts two men standing to left of Fred Murray on balcony of large building or structure speculated to be in the Cassiar valley. Portion of log structure in left foreground, man and hauling trucks on road in background.

File consists of material collected on Frederick William Knewstubb. Frederick William Knewstubb, who first foresaw the possibility of the Kenney Dam/Nechako Reservoir project, which was carried out by the Aluminium Company of Canada (ALCAN). Knewstubb joined the Water Rights Branch as a draughtsman in 1911, became a hydrological engineer in 1926, and was Chief Hydrologic Engineer for the Water Rights Branch at the time of his death, 16 December 1937. Materials includes reproductions of articles, and correspondence.

Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "FURNACE PAD AUG 25/64." Photograph depicts construction worker standing on elevated wood platform. Three other men can be seen working in construction area. This location is believed to be under the conveyor to crusher building, retaining wall in midground.

Series consists of general histories, statistics, and sources for railway subjects, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions and clippings from periodicals. Most documents are Canada-wide in scope.

Subseries consists of photographic material pertaining to the following subject areas: mine operations; plant operations;labour strike 1970s images; townsite operations of the company towns of Cassiar and Clinton Creek (including community activities associated therein and townsite development); as well as, images of mines not owned by Cassiar Asbestos Corporation, but which are believed to have been used for operational research purposes.

An assortment of photographs speculated to have been used for research purposes as Cassiar administration established the mine and the town.

Subseries contains general operations material used or created by Fyfe Lake Fir. Includes automobile licenses and insurance plans.

File includes six aggregations of photographs which have been assembled in this file in order to maintain the integrity of each group by keeping the photos arranged together, though each group features operations pertaining to multiple files in this subseries. Includes groups featuring photos from 1961, 1965 1971, a helicopter trip, a community album, and a workplace album. Photographs depict images pertaining to the following operations at Cassiar, B.C.: mining, milling, maintenance, labratory tests, and tramline and town operations. Images featuring operations of the company town include the grocery store, bank, churches, school, library, lounge, pool, theater, community center, outdoor recreation, hospital, dentist, cafeteria, bus route, residences, air strip, firehall, laundromat, park, police, and newspaper.

Film is a dramatization of the construction of the fourth generator at the Kemano hydro-electric power plant in Kitimat

The file contains eight photographs depicting close up images of three rock samples, some photographed with a ruler for scale. One of the rock samples is speculated to be obsidian and the other two are likely serpentine. The images where originally found in an envelope titled "ROCKS" and are likely dated around 1991.

Included in this file are an five photographs of rocks on a shelf, which may be asbestos sample rocks. There are five accompanying negatives to these photographs and are likely dated around 1977. The photographs and negatives were found in an envelope labelled "Negatives - CIMM Photos."

Additionally two negative strips of geology maps of Canada. These negatives were found in an envelope labelled "Negatives - CIMM Papers, Mining, Planning, Geology."