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Hauling logs.

Slide image found in a slide carousel without any numbering associated with the original slide index. As such it has been associated with images indexed under "Pulpmill - General" by the Archivist.

Butch Boggan (Mill Manager) displays several retirement gifts that he received at his retirement party, including: a pair of moose antlers with a banner reading "Good Luck Butch From Northwood Employees," a decorative train, a plaque and a beaver pelt.

The commemorative plaque, with the bottom of the digester attached, that Butch Boggan received for his retirement party. It reads, "A token to remind you of not just the many troubles but also the many friends you acquired at Northwood. Without the built in fault, this scraper arm would be tremendous."

An unidentified man, Butch Boggan, and an Unidentified man hold a decorative plaque that Butch received for his retirement.

The Photographic Material series consists of photographs, slides and negatives illustrating a wide variety of Northwood Pulp & Timber Ltd. operations and events, including but not limited to: employee service awards; N.R.A. (Northwood Recreation Association) activities; Northwood’s 25-year Anniversary celebrations held at Houston, Upper Fraser, North Central Plywood, Shelley, and Prince George Sawmills, as well as at the Northwood Pulp & Timber mill; silviculture and forest harvesting practices; sawmill and pulp mill general operations; logging camps; the building of logging roads and bridges; and Northwood’s own unique heavy equipment, such as the locomotives, the snowplow and the refurbished 1942 fire engine. Also included in this photographic collection are images documenting Northwood Pulp & Timber’s original construction (1964-65), and subsequent expansion (1980 – 1981); aerial perspectives; machinery details; employees at work, or receiving awards and certifications; corporate portraiture; office "spirit" events; corporate outreach activities such as open houses or public displays and demonstrations; and images depicting Northwood’s relationship with the community, such as donations of special reading equipment for the visually impaired, donations of food to the Salvation Army food bank, and corporate financial support for the University of Northern British Columbia.

This fonds consists of 14,764 color, and black & white photographs and negatives either loose or in photo albums ; 3,616 color slides ; 35cm of sound and moving images (including 3 - 16mm color films, 3 mini DVs, 6 CDs, and 19 VHS video cassettes); and 1.26m of textual records.

Aerial of land cleared for Northwood construction.

Bulldozer leveling land.

Section of cleared land against a forest backdrop, piles of logging debris being burnt in preparation for Northwood construction.

Aerial of land being cleared and debris burnt in preparation for Northwood construction.

First few loads of chip at Northwood.

Aerial of Prince George looking East, with Fraser River, Prince George Pulp Mill and Prince George Airport in background, city of Prince George, Grand Trunk Pacific Bridge, and Yellowhead Bridge in midground, and a forested area and the Nechako River in foreground.

(L-R) Al MacPhearson (engineer) and Bill Hickey (1st Union President, Local 603) stand beside British Columbia Forest Products Limited No. 1 locomotive.

Chip railcar unloading at Northwood in the winter.

Chip railcar unloading at Northwood in the winter.

Preparatory welding to the digester (?)

Seam welding on the recaustizing tanks.

Aerial of Prince George with hospital in background and Woodworths Food Floor and Parking Lot in foreground.

Employees - Woods Division.

Profile of locomotive on track.

Placing outside wall to shap (?) and stone build.

Aerial of Security and front office under construction.

Profile of British Columbia Forest Products Limited No. 1 locomotive.

Employees - Woods Division.

Carpenter crew cutting forms for top section of pulper.

Reinforceing steel crew on area 2 of pulper.

Forming base for tanks onlower floor of recovery building.

Close-up of reinforcing steel crew on top of pulper and digester.

Reinforcing steel crew on top of pulper and digester.

Reinforceing crew on top floor of pulper.

Setting welding work crew (?) in position on top floor of pulper building.

Crane lifting a steel girder into the air as two steel workers stand by.

Two unidentified men reading a blueprint, mill construction in background.