File consists a transcript of an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by Barbara Coupe.
File consists an audio recording of an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by Barbara Coupe.
File consists an audio recording of an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by Barbara Coupe.
File consists a transcript of an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by David Mills.
File consists an audio recording of an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by David Mills.
Item consists of transcript of documentary consisting of forum with prominent members of the forest industry discussing the history of forestry in North Central British Columbia c.1960s-c.1980s. Participants include Bill Young, Keith Yorston, Ken Bernsohn, Hector Richmond, Russ Cousins, Harry Gairns, Don Gould, Orville Gorley, Frank Oberle, Includes 'logger's commandments' song.
Harkins, BobPhotograph depicts a view from a hill of a river winding through the forest with marshlands nearby.
Photograph depicts a view from a hill of a river winding through the forest with marshlands nearby. This may be a double exposure and there is an indiscernible image in the center of the photo.
Photograph depicts a wide expanse of river in the foreground looking across the water to a narrow clearing along the opposite riverbank. A few building are scattered across the clearing. There is forest in the background.
Photograph depicts view of the river from a boat. There is a silhouette of a person wearing a hat in the foreground.
Photograph depicts four men pinning a "Union Jack" flag to the exterior of a building.
Slide depicts a heavily forested area with fallen logs, likely at the Aleza Lake Experiment Station.
Photograph depicts several people in a large field. There are buildings and trees in the background.
This short colour film depicts logging and sawmill operations at Ferguson Lake in March 1959. Scenes include tree felling, log hauling equipment, the Ferguson Lake lumber yard, use of Ferguson Lake to float logs, and the inside operations of the Ferguson Lake sawmill. Film also includes a brief clip of family film footage of the McKay family home and garden on Melville Street in Prince George with scenes showing a Newfoundland dog named Barney with Donald McKay and Joan McKay.
Videocassette is a VHS recording of an interview with John Revel produced by Spectrum Videoworks as part of a BC Forest Service "Esprit de Corps" institutional memory project.
Photograph depicts a tarp spread out on the grass, two men sit nearby the tarp. There is a canvas tent in the background with a man standing beside it. Behind the tent is a low hill with a fence bordering the top of the hill. There are blankets drying on the fence.
Photograph depicts four men pulling a long canoe across a clearing on a wheeled trailer.
Slide depicts a detonation in an area of cleared ground in a forested area, likely the Aleza Lake Experiment Station. Work may have been undertaken for roadbuilding activities at the Experiment Station.
Slide depicts a cleared area in a forest, likely at the Aleza Lake Experiment Station.
Slide depicts a cleared area at the Aleza Lake Experiment Station with plant regeneration.
Photograph depicts six men standing outside a small log building. A sawhorse in the foreground, a tall pole "cache" and forest in the background.
Photograph depicts four men paddling a long canoe. The canoe is loaded with supplies and a dog, river and forest in the background.
Photograph depicts a view from the river looking at the river bank. There is a canvas tent with forest in the background.
Photograph depicts several canvas tents set in lush vegetation near dusk.
Slide depicts a bulldozer clearing ground, likely at the Aleza Lake Experiment Station.
Item is a BC Forest Service beverage coaster.
Item consists of transcript of interview with Ambrose Trick discussing the sawmilling and logging industry in Northern BC, c.1930s-1950s including the 1953 strike; the creation of the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association. Trick also discusses his involvement in railway work, his involvement with hockey in Prince George and discusses Prince George politics, prominent personalities in the North.
Harkins, BobItem consists of typed transcript and tape summary of interview with Olive Foote who discusses her family's history in Fort Fraser, Stellaco area c.1930s and later move to Prince George region.. Includes discussion of her father working mineral claims in Endako area c.1950s
Harkins, BobItem consists of typed transcript of interview with Ivor Guest discussing his early memories of Prince George as a river man and logging. Includes discussion of Cataline, and Quaw family.
Harkins, BobItem consists of transcript and tape summary of interview with Elmer Nelson who discusses Axel Wenner- Gren's business interest in the Rocky Mountain Trench area of Northern British Columbia in the 1950s.
Harkins, BobItem consists of transcript of interview with Bob Dunsmore, CNC Forestry Dean who discusses forestry and agriculture education at College of New Caledonia.
Harkins, BobItem consists of transcript of interview with writer, film maker, and guide outfitter Andy Russell conducted by Bob Harkins at Prince George Radio Station, CJCI regarding Russell's experiences with guiding in Northern Rockies. Russell also discusses his new work The Life of a River and discusses the environmental impact of hydro-electric development on rivers
Harkins, BobItem consists of transcript of interview with Alex and Chris Muldowan discussing family history and Muldowan's involvement in forestry in North Central BC.
Harkins, BobSlide depicts a black bear eating garbage by wooden outbuildings, possibly at the Aleza Lake Experiment Station.
Photograph depicts twenty-eight or more people standing on the river's edge, a stack of wood is ready for loading on the steamer that is anchored near the shore.
Photograph depicts a view of the river shore, a few scattered buildings and tents are near the shore. A footpath leads from the water's edge between the dwellings and through the newly cleared land.
Map reproduction of the Aleza Lake Research Forest depicts timber sale areas, forest cover, and other details.
Slide depicts the original wooden BC Forest Service sign for the Aleza Lake Forest Experiment Station.
Map reproduction depicts major areas of the Aleza Lake Experiment Forest.
Item is a photograph of Alex Moffat dressed as a prospector holding gold nuggets he salted into a gravel bed and later panned out and gave to Princess Margaret.