File consists of presentation transparencies for the McGregor Model Forest Association. The slides detail various components, goals, structures and hierarchies of the association and include maps, images, charts, and graphs. Slides include information on: "Technology and Sustainable Forest Management" by Carey Lockwood, elements of SFM, evaluations indicators, criteria for reporting on forest values, forest models for the future, maps of forest areas, provincial planning hierarchy, seral stage table, case study objectives, proposal as submitted FEN table and a document on Public Policy and Forests in Canada. File includes a few pages of paper printouts of graphs and map.
File consists of the "McGregor Model Forest Association Master Direction March 1999" approved by the MMFA Board of Directors.
File consists of the "McGregor Model Forest Association: Annual Report 2005-2006."
File consists of the "McGregor Model Forest Association: Annual Report 2004-2005."
File consists of the "McGregor Model Forest Association: Annual Report 2003-2004."
File consists of the "McGregor Model Forest Association: Annual Report 2001-2002."
File consists of the "McGregor Model Forest Association: Annual Report 2000-2001."
File consists of the "McGregor Model Forest: Annual Report 97/98."
File consists of the "McGregor Model Forest: Annual Report 96/97."
File consists of the "McGregor Model Forest: Annual Report 95/96."
File consists of the "McGregor Model Forest: Annual Report 1999-2000."
This file includes two major photographic collections concerning the construction and development of the underground mine at Cassiar, title the McDame Project.
The first collection includes fifteen monthly progress reports documenting the development from July 1988 to December 1989. The progress reports are authored by G. Verret, and were distributed to the executives of Cassiar Asbestos in Vancouver as well officials of the B.C. Government and other creditors of the Corporation. Most images are annotated and dated. Many of the loose photographs are accompanied by an inventory sheet.
Subjects depicted include: the staging area prior to mine development, the initial development of the “Vent Portal”, a jumbo drill working on the mine face, the working face marked for drilling and wired with fuses, a Caterpillar dozer clearing snow after an avalanche, scene of a fire in winter time, complete conveyor sump decline, mining vehicle parked on the “Lay-Down Area” presumably near the portal, the working face of the mine at various stages of development, 1563 portal being slashed, the removal of the overburden for the tramline loading station site, the construction of the transfer tower(s), construction of the stockpile area, the construction of a sedimentation pond, a presumed cave in, construction of footings for the conveyor, construction of the tramline loading terminal station, construction of the crusher building, a slash titled “Breakthrough in Access Ramp”, storage of powder and fuses, a washout in conveyor decline, fog at the portal in -30 degrees Celsius, the 1290 junction flooded, a slab of shotcrete which fell on and injured a miner while shotcreting, shotcrete blasted off walls for repairs, images of the “Hilti-test”, shots showing grade of drift, and structural failures in the 1350 adit.
Locations and structure within the underground mine depicted include: yellow ventilation ducting, ground support including steel screen and shotcrete, steel cables bolted unto ground support, puddles in the adits, the access road to the lay-down area, the exhaust drift, “Fans and Heaters in the 1415 adit”, the 1350 sump, the access ramp to the 1320, the exhaust ramp safety bay, the conveyor decline, the ventilation adit, the 1563 portal, the temporary repair shop at the 1415 portal, junctions of various drifts, the ”Fresh Water Pump & Pumphouse on lower Creek”, the “Ventilation Raise/1563 Platform”, a “Diamond Drill Station” at 6066 North in the underground mine, the “Bridge to the Gravel Pit”, the “Crushing and Screening Plant” in the gravel pit, the ventilation bulkhead in the conveyor decline, and the “Powder Magazine”.
People depicted include Rose Gay and R. Tyne on a tour of the underground mine, a geologist with a rockhammer, a miner identified as A. Jacobs working, contract miners Bruno and Marbel from Canadian Mine Development, and unidentified miners rockbolting, shotcreting, and drilling using jackleg drills.
Vehicle and mining equipment depicted include jeeps, pickup trucks, a front end loader, an unidentified a small unmanned tracked machine with a long arm, scoop trams, a land cruiser, an ore truck with a flat tire, the cone crusher, a “scissor lift”, a mobile shotcrete machine, a new grout pump, a new Boart Jumbo Drill, and a detached bucket half of a 413 ore truck.
The second collection depicts the McDame Project construction in 1986 and 1987.
Content of these photographs includes: various machinery used for excavating and drilling, underground progress of tunneling, supports, wire meshing, rock formations in mine, and exposed asbestos. There are no annotations regarding this photographs.
File consists of an original BC Parks "Master Plan for Valhalla Provincial Park". Includes accompanying correspondence from Grant Hazelwood to Dr. Terry Huberts, Minister of Parks, as well as to Phil Whitfield of BC Parks.
File contains an original BC Forest Service report for E.P. 443 by S. Benteli entitled "Marking of Douglas Fir: A Preliminary Investigation of the Problems, Restricted to Interior Dry Types and the Cariboo".
File consists of "Managing Your Woodland: A Non-Forester's Guide to Small-Scale Forestry in British Columbia" (1988).
File consists of a paper titled "Managing Canada's North: The Case of the Provincial North" presented by Weller at the seminar "Managing Canada's North: Challenges and Opportunities" held by the Institute of Public Administration of Canada as well as copies of the paper printed for the seminar in English and French. This file was originally numbered to correspond with conference paper number 26 listed in Weller's CV.
File consists of two journals both in binding marked Daily Journal 1974. One journal has "Strapper" written across the cover and is mostly empty but contains handwritten strapper maintenance notes and loose paper with diagrams; dates range from 1978-2008. The other journal includes handwritten maintenance notes and loose pages with diagrams, no dates are included.
File contains correspondence regarding the WCB.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains correspondence and press releases regarding MacMillan Bloedel's agreement with Trus-Joist to form a joint venture.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File includes records regarding the Noranda Mines takeover of MacMillan Bloedel. Includes correspondence, press releases, financial information, and a company prospectus.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains lists of shareholders of MacMillan Bloedel before the takeover by Noranda Mines, along with a geographical analysis of shareholder location.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File includes correspondence, agenda, and meeting minutes for the Noranda Mines Board of Directors meetings regarding the takeover bid for MacMillan Bloedel.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains financial documents related to the takeover bid for MacMillan Bloedel. Includes a prospectus.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains correspondence with the Hon. Thomas Waterland, BC Minister of Forests, regarding Noranda Mines' takeover of MacMillan Bloedel.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains documents regarding the British Columbia Resources Investment Corpooration's bid for MacMillan Bloedel.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains "BC Forests in the 21st Century - Submission to the BC Forest Resources Commission by MacMillan Bloedel Limited" from March 1990.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains documents removed from a booklet concerning MacMillan Bloedel strategy review for 1991.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains a strategy document for MacMillan Bloedel entitled "Solid Wood Product Strategy 1983-2000".
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains governmental correspondence and press releases regarding the composition of the Sectoral Advisory Groups on International Trade (SAGIT).
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains quarterly reports to the directors of MacMillan Bloedel.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains material pertaining to the Parallam project and building a new plant in Pennsylvania.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains a fax announcing layoffs at the Alberni Mill.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains document titled "Andersen/MacKinnon/MacMillan Bloedel Settlement Proposal".
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains correspondence, memoranda, and newspaper clippings regarding the BC Pulp & Paper labour negotiations.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains booklet titled "Proposed Changes to BC Timber Pricing July 23, 1987". Also includes correspondence regarding MacMillan Bloedel limited logging rights to Pacific Rim National Park.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains MacMillan Bloedel correspondence, faxes, memoranda, and other interoffice communication.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains MacMillan Bloedel correspondence, faxes, memoranda, and other interoffice communication.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains MacMillan Bloedel correspondence, faxes, memoranda, and other interoffice communication.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains MacMillan Bloedel correspondence, faxes, memoranda, and other interoffice communication.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains MacMillan Bloedel correspondence, faxes, memoranda, and other interoffice communication.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains MacMillan Bloedel correspondence, faxes, memoranda, and other interoffice communication.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains MacMillan Bloedel correspondence, faxes, memoranda, and other interoffice communication.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains MacMillan Bloedel general correspondence.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains a report for MacMillan Bloedel prepared by Goldfarb Consultants.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains meeting minutes of the MacMillan Bloedel Executive Committee.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains a newspaper article about MacMillan Bloedel & Power River Ltd.'s 1964 Annual Report excerpts.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains correspondence and memoranda regarding the Western Canada Wilderness Committee.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains a report regarding high dioxin levels in several species of fish resulting in the closure of the west coast fishery.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains correspondence by Zimmerman responding to a 1.6 million dollar waste wood fine leveled on MacMillan Bloedel.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.File contains correspondence between Adam Zimmerman and George Wood of the Sierra Club.
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.