Photograph depicts a Sawyer Massey steam engine in Nanton, Alberta. It was built in Hamilton, Ontario. It has a single cylinder and large fire box for burning wood or straw.
Photograph depicts a Sawyer Massey traction engine in Nanton, Alberta. The device parallel and topside of the boiler to heat feed water. The water tank is small so it must have had a water cart in constant attendance.
Item is a copy of "Scheduling of Irrigation" by Brownlee, C.H. and J.C. Wilcox.
Unidentified man standing next to farming equipment in a newly ploughed field on the Scholander Farm.
Item is an original Canada Department of Agriculture Publication 1147 entitled "Seeding Forest Ranges in the Dry Belt of British Columbia".
Image depicts a type of gate system for the river water, possibly controlling irrigation, located somewhere in Seton Portage, B.C.
Herd of sheep grazes in ditch. Gravel road in foreground, fence and trees in background.
Item is a copy of "Silviculture - a site degradation consideration?".
Photograph depicts small building speculated to be a house in a farm yard. Frozen water crosses midground, opposite shore in distance.
Photograph depicts small building speculated to be a house in a farm yard. Frozen water crosses midground, opposite shore in distance.
Image depicts an aerial view of what appears to be a small farm, possibly in the McGregor Canyon.
Item is a copy of "Soil Productivity and the Potential Food Supply of the United States: An Address before the Academy of Political Science at the Annual meeting on Food" by Bradfield, R.
Item is an original copy of "Soil Resources of the Smithers-Hazelton Area" by G.G. Runka at the Soil Survey Division, BC Department of Agriculture. Includes two accompanying maps.
Item is a photocopied version of "Soil Survey of the North Okanagan Valley" Interim Report by P.N. Sprout & C.C. Kelley for the BC Department of Agriculture.
Item is an original copy of "Spallumcheen: The Visual Environment" by W. C. Yeomans, Landscape Architect created for the B.C. Land Commission.
Item is an original copy of a report to the Minister of Agriculture and Food by Moura Quayle entitled "Stakes in the Ground: Provincial Interest in the Agricultural Land Commission Act".
Item is an original Canada Department of Agriculture Publication 1179 entitled "Suitability for Irrigation of Water from Lakes and Streams in the Southern Interior of British Columbia".
Disc contents unknown (failed migration).
Typed caption glued to album page directly below photograph reads: "15. Surveying 5-acre Garden Tracts at Fort Fraser." Photograph depicts a man holding a rolled map in one hand and a wooden stake in the other, standing in a wooded area. Photographer: Dominion Stock & Bond Corporation.
Audio cassette titled "Tape 1 - Dec. 10, 1993 - 9:30-1:45 - KBR" is believed to be an audio recording of a workshop for the East Kootenay CORE project.
Audio cassette titled "Tape 2 - Dec. 10, 1993 - 1:45-5:00" is believed to be an audio recording of a workshop for the East Kootenay CORE project.
Audio cassette titled "Tape 3 - Dec. 10, 1993 - 5:00-" is believed to be an audio recording of a workshop for the East Kootenay CORE project.
Audio cassette annotated "Powers Dec. 10" is believed to be an audio recording of a workshop for the East Kootenay CORE project.
Audio cassette annotated "Tape 5 - Dec. 10, 1993 - 8:10-9:44 pm - Dr. Thomas Powers / Dec. 11, 1993 - 8:30-9:50 am" is believed to be an audio recording of a workshop for the East Kootenay CORE project.
Audio cassette titled "Tape 5: 2:45-4:05" is believed to contain a recording of a workshop related to the Vernon commonage project.
Audio cassette annotated "Tape 6 - Dec. 11, 1993 - 9:50-11:40 am" is believed to be an audio recording of a workshop for the East Kootenay CORE project.
Audio cassette titled "Tape 6: 4:05-5:10" is believed to contain a recording of a workshop related to the Vernon commonage project.
Audio cassette annotated "Tape 7 - Dec. 11, 1993 - 11:40 am-2:10 pm" is believed to be an audio recording of a workshop for the East Kootenay CORE project.
Audio cassette titled "Tape 7: 5:10-5:50" is believed to contain a recording of a workshop related to the Vernon commonage project.
Audio cassette annotated "Tape 8 - Dec. 11, 1993 - 2:10-4:15 pm" is believed to be an audio recording of a workshop for the East Kootenay CORE project.
Audio cassette annotated "Tape 9 - Dec. 11, 1993 - 4:15-5:00 pm" is believed to be an audio recording of a workshop for the East Kootenay CORE project.
Julian Fry reminisces on his early life and acquaintances in Prince George during his work along the Blackwater Road in the early 1920's. Some notable references include: Blackwater Road, C.F.S. Baldy Hughes, Bill Comstock, Tom Cornell, Duncan MacKenzie, Ernest Levesque, [?] Hathaway, [?] Nelson, Ed and Julia Erickson, Blackwater Telegraph Station, Everett Vandenburg, and [?] Mackenzie.
Item is an original copy of "Ten Years of Agricultural Land Preservation" the 1983 anniversary publication by the Provincial Agricultural Land Commission.
Item is an original copy of a 1979 promotional booklet produced by the BC Agricultural Land Commission entitled "The Agricultural Land Reserve: Protecting B.C.'s Farmland". The booklet was prepared for the Provincial Agricultural Land Commission by J.M. Sawicki. Photographs by G.G. Runka.
Disc contains a single file, "GGR 2A.ppt", which is a PowerPoint presentation by Gary Runka entitled "The Agriculture Land Reserve: What it is and how it got here" created April 18, 2002.
Item is an original copy of a 1982 technical report presented to the British Columbia Utilities Commission by G.E. Cheesman and R.L. Davis of the Ministry of Environment Air Studies Branch entitled "The Agroclimate of the Peace River Valley and a Comparison with other Locations in British Columbia".
Item is an original copy of an Agricultural Land Commission promotional booklet from 1975 entitled "The B.C. Land Commission - Keeping the Options Open".
Item is a 1980 paper entitled "The Bog Forests" by the Corporation of the Township of Richmond Environmental Control Officer and Planning Department.
Item is a faxed copy of a speech by Melvin H. Smith, QC, entitled "The Delgamuukw Case--What does it mean and what do we do now?" which was delivered to the Vancouver Board of Trade on February 10, 1998.
Item is an original copy of "Effects of Pipelines on Fraser Valley Farmland" prepared by Interwest Property Services Ltd. for Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd.
Item is an original copy of "The Fraser Valley Gas Project" presentation to Commission on Fraser Valley Petroleum Exploration.
Item is a copy of "The Future of Animal Production in Canada", a Klinck Lecture by Dr. W.D. Morrison at Agriculture Institute of Canada.
Item is a photocopied version of "The Gitxsan Model: An Alternative to the Destruction of Forests, Salmon and Gitxsan Land" booklet by Eco-Research Chair of Environmental Law and Policy, University of Victoria, BC.
Item is a photocopied reprint of Tisdale's "The Grasslands of the Southern Interior of British Columbia" in the Ecology journal, Vol. 28 No. 4.
This "The Land is Yours" film is a promotional film produced by the British Columbia Department of Agriculture in Kelowna, ca. 1968 or 1969. The film was produced by Gary Runka and hosted by Russ Richardson. Runka and Richardson provide commentary throughout the film. The film was directed by Nobert Hartig.
Item is a photocopied 1986 University of California Berkeley research paper by Philip Girard entitled "The Regulation of Agricultural Land in Canada: A Decade of Innovation, 1974-1984".
Item is a copy of "The Role of Aerial Photography in the Canada Land Inventory Classification Program" prepared by Gimbarzevsky, P. for the Canadian Forestry Service Department of the Environment for Commission VII International Society for Photogrammetry.