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Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, January 1, 1952 to February 17, 1954:

• January 1-March 18, 1952: Visiting family in Penticton and Washington state
• March 18-April 3, 1952: Working at Christy's Lodge at Lower Post
• April 4-May 20, 1952: Kechika River valley
• May 20-June 18, 1952: Travel to Omineca District
• June 19-August 22, 1952: Packer for Northwestern Explorations in Omineca District
• August 22-29, 1952: Travel to Mooseskin Johnny Lake via Telkwa
• August 29-September 22, 1952: Packer for Northwestern Explorations at Mooseskin Johnny Lake
• September 22-October 27, 1952: End of summer activities and travel to Christy's Lodge
• October 27, 1952-February 28, 1953: Working at Christy's Lodge at Lower Post
• February 28-April 8, 1953: Diamond J Ranch and Kechika River valley
• April 8-29, 1953: Working at Christy's Lodge
• April 29-May 13, 1953: Travel to Fort St. James and visit with friends in Fort St. John
• May 14-September 29, 1953: Packer for Northwestern Explorations
• September 29-October 28, 1953: Work at Kennco's warehouse in Fort St. James
• October 29-November 13, 1953: Travel to Lower Post via Prince George and Dawson Creek
• November 14-December 22, 1953: Working at Christy's Lodge
• December 23, 1953-March 31, 1954: Kechika River valley

Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, January 1, 1954 to December 31, 1957:

• January 1-March 31, 1954: Kechika River valley
• April 1-June 3, 1954: Working at Christy's Lodge in Lower Post
• June 3-September 14, 1954: Working for Northwestern Explorations around Mile 1117 on the Alaska Highway
• September 15-30, 1954: Travel to Fort St. James and preparations for trip to Diamond J Ranch
• September 30-November 15, 1954: Trip to Diamond J Ranch with Clem Reierson
• November 16-December 31, 1954: Kechika River valley with Clem Reierson
• January 1-February 12, 1955: Kechika River valley and trip to Lower Post with Clem Reierson
• February 12-March 12, 1955: Alaska Highway
• March 12-May 25, 1955: Kechika River valley
• May 25-June 1, 1955: Trip to Lower Post
• June 1-July 11, 1955: Lower Post waiting for Emil Bronlund and his Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Ltd. (CMS) crew
• July 11-August 16, 1955: Packing for Emil Bronlund
• August 17-September 11, 1955: Lower Post and trip to Diamond J Ranch
• September 11-23, 1955: Trip to Lower Post
• September 24-October 1, 1955: Lower Post
• October 2-15, 1955: Return trip to Diamond J Ranch
• October 16, 1955-May 17, 1956: Kechika River valley
• May 17-26, 1956: Trip to Lower Post and preparation for packing
• June 5-September 21, 1956: Packing for Northwestern Explorations' Flat Lake mineral claims
• September 21, 1956-February 18, 1957: Lower Post
• February 18-May 27, 1957: Kechika River valley
• May 27-July 3, 1957: Alaska Highway
• July 3-September 4, 1957: Packing for Continental Mining in Yukon
• September 4-October 13, 1957: Alaska Highway
• October 13-26, 1957: Travel to Freer's cabin at Horneline Creek
• October 26-December 9, 1957: Kechika River valley
• December 10-18, 1957: Trip from cabin to Lower Post
• December 18-31, 1957: Lower Post

Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, January 1, 1958 to December 31, 1961:

• January 1-March 11, 1958: Lower Post
• March 11-May 26, 1958: Kechika River valley
• May 26-June 3, 1958: Trip to Lower Post
• June 4-July 15, 1958: Lower Post
• July 15-July 27, 1958: Work for George Midgley in the Dease Lake area
• July 28-August 5, 1958: Travel to Denetiah Lake
• August 5-September 6, 1958: Packer for Geological Survey of Canada
• September 6-14, 1958: Travel in Kechika River valley
• September 14-October 8, 1958: Hunting guide for Amos Alec
• October 8-15, 1958: Watson Lake
• October 15-26, 1958: Travel to Freer's cabin on Horneline Creek
• October 26-December 31, 1958: Freer's cabin
• January 1-March 4, 1959: Kechika and trips to Lower Post
• March 4-June 5, 1959: Freer's cabin
• June 6-September 3, 1959: Packer for Geological Survey of Canada
• September 6-16, 1959: Travel and return to Freer's cabin
• September 17-October 3, 1959: Hunting guide for Robin Dalziel and return to Freer's cabin
• October 3-December 31, 1959: Freer's cabin
• January 1-May 27, 1960: Kechika River valley
• May 27-September 11, 1960: Work for Geological Survey of Canada as packer and boatman
• September 11-December 31, 1960: Alaska Highway and Fireside, BC
• October 1-December 31, 1961: Alaska Highway and Fireside, BC

Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, January 1, 1962 to December 31, 1963:

• January 1-March 8, 1962: Alaska Highway and working at Fireside, BC
• March 8-May 3, 1962: Kechika River valley
• May 3, 1962-March 7, 1963: Alaska Highway and working at Fireside, BC
• March 7-June 2, 1963: Kechika River valley
• June 2-December 31, 1963: Alaska Highway, working at Fireside, and boat trips up Kechika River

Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, January 1, 1964 to December 31, 1966:

• January 1-March 28, 1964: Working at Fireside
• March 28-June 8, 1964: Living at his cabin in Kechika Valley and engaging in fur trading
• June 8-July 3, 1964: Working at Fireside and Alaska Highway
• July 3-27, 1964: Preparing for hunting trips, working for Robin Dalziel
• July 27-September 6, 1964: Packer and hunting guide for Robin Dalziel
• September 6-14, 1964: Travel back to Freer's cabin in Kechika Valley
• September 14-27, 1964: Worked on fencing and clearing trails
• September 28-October 5, 1964: Raft trip to Fireside down the Kechika River
• October 5-17, 1964: Work at Fireside and trip back to Kechika
• October 18, 1964-June 18, 1965: Kechika River Valley
• June 18-July 24, 1965: Watson Lake and Canadian Geological Survey watchman, Mile 130, Cantung
• July 25-August 4, 1965: Preparing for work, Fireside and Kechika Valley
• August 4-September 14, 1965: Packer and hunting guide for Robin Dalziel
• September 15-30, 1965: Return to Kechika Valley cabin and errands
• September 30-October 29, 1965: Bringing Gordon Toole's horses to Kechika River valley to winter
• October 30, 1965-July 2, 1966: Kechika River Valley
• July 2-15, 1966: Watson Lake and Fireside
• July 15-August 11, 1966: Preparation for hunting trips
• August 11-October 2, 1966: Hunting guide and packer for Skook Davidson
• October 2-12, 1966: Freer's cabin in Kechika River valley
• October 12-December 31, 1966: Working at Fireside, BC

Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, January 1, 1967 to December 31, 1969:

• January 1-5, 1967: Working at Fireside, BC
• January 6-May 25, 1967: Freer's cabin in the Kechika River valley
• May 25-June 1, 1967: Fireside, BC
• June 1-17, 1967: Working for a government water resources project
• June 17-July 23, 1967: Freer's cabin in the Kechika River valley
• July 24-31, 1967: Preparing for hunting trips
• August 1-September 26, 1967: Hunting guide and packer for Skook Davidson
• September 26-November 15, 1967: Diamond J Ranch and Freer's cabin in the Kechika River valley
• November 15, 1967-August 18, 1968: Working at Fireside along the Alaska Highway
• August 18-September 26, 1968: Packer and hunting guide for Earl Boose
• September 26-November 30, 1968: Kechika River valley and Alaska Highway
• December 1, 1968-January 11, 1969: Trip to Dawson Creek and Peace River District
• January 12-February 1, 1969: Watson Lake
• February 1-June 6, 1969: Freer's cabin in the Kechika River valley
• June 6-December 31, 1969: Alaska Highway and trips on the Kechika River

Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, January 1, 1970 to December 31, 1972:

• January 1-March 25, 1970: Working at Fireside, BC
• March 25-September 5, 1970: Kechika River Valley
• September 5-12, 1970: Fireside, BC
• September 12-29, 1970: Medical trip to Fort Nelson
• September 29-October 13, 1970: Preparations and trip to Kechika River Valley
• October 14-31, 1970: Fireside, BC
• November 1-13, 1970: Medical trip to Edmonton
• November 14, 1970-February 19, 1971: Working at Fireside, BC
• February 19-June 22, 1971: Kechika River Valley
• June 22-July 25, 1971: Working at Fireside, BC and trip to Fort Nelson
• July 25-August 4, 1971: Medical trip to Edmonton
• August 4-October 24, 1971: Working at Fireside, BC
• October 24-November 4, 1971: Medical trip to Edmonton
• November 4, 1971-April 22, 1972: Working at Fireside
• April 22-August 17, 1972: Kechika River valley
• August 17-September 12, 1972: Medical trip to Edmonton, visit to Fort Nelson, and return by bus to Fireside
• September 12-25, 1972: Preparations and travel up the Kechika River to Freer's cabin
• September 25-December 31, 1972: Kechika River Valley

Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, July 1, 1945 to March 31, 1946:

• June 3-7, 1945: Trip to Thutade Lake as a packer for Emil Bronlund, mining engineer for Consolidated Mining and Smelting
• June 7-October 5, 1945: Thutade Lake
• October 5-12, 1945: Trip to Fort Ware
• October 14-26, 1945: Return trip to Diamond J Ranch
• October 27-December 31, 1945: Diamond J Ranch
• January 1-February 25, 1946: Diamond J Ranch
• February 25-March 3, 1946: Trip to Fort Ware
• March 3-13, 1946: Fort Ware
• March 13-26, 1946: Fort Ware to Fort St. James
• March 27-April 15, 1946: Fort St. James, working with Hendry Kinniburgh

Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, May 1, 1948 to October 29, 1948:

• May 1-27, 1948: Spring at Diamond J Ranch, with supply visits from bush planes
• May 27-June 6, 1948: Trip to Lower Post and preparation for work
• June 7-October 1, 1948: Head packer for the British Columbia-Yukon Boundary Survey
• September 26-October 18, 1948: Return trip to Diamond J Ranch
• October 18-29, 1948: Diamond J Ranch

Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, October 1, 1942 to December 31, 1943:

• October 1-13, 1942: Employed with the United States Army in Northern BC, packing and outfitting for the survey crews of the Alaska Highway in the areas of Deserters Canyon, Fort Ware, Sifton Pass, and Fox Pass
• October 16-29, 1942: Journey to Kechika River and Skook Davidson's Diamond J Ranch
• October 30-December 31, 1942: Working and establishing residence at Skook Davidson's Diamond J Ranch
• January 1-May 19, 1943: Working at Diamond J Ranch with Craig Forfar
• May 19-30, 1943: Trip to Fort Ware
• May 30-June 30, 1943: At Fort Ware, preparing for packing BC Government triangulation survey trip to surveying location and waiting for Skook Davidson to arrive with horses purchased from Jim Beattie
• June 18-July 13, 1943: Travel to surveying location
• July 15-August 17, 1943: Taking care of case camp while survey crews in field
• August 17-26, 1943: All crews working together
• August 27-October 23, 1943: Return trips between Fort Ware and Diamond J Ranch
• October 23-December 31, 1943: Diamond J Ranch

Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, October 1, 1944 to July 1, 1945:

• September 28-October 21, 1944: Fort Ware trip to pick up food and machinery left after the Bedaux expedition
• October 22-December 31, 1944: Diamond J Ranch
• January 1-May 26, 1945: Diamond J Ranch
• May 26-June 1, 1945: Trip to Fort Ware
• June 3-7, 1945: Trip to Thutade Lake as a packer for Emil Bronlund, mining engineer for Consolidated Mining and Smelting
• June 7-October 5, 1945: Thutade Lake

Summary of the diary of Willard Freer, October 1, 1947 to April 30, 1948:

• October 1-11, 1947: Head packer for the British Columbia-Yukon Boundary Survey, travel to Lower Post
• October 11-21, 1947: Return trip to Diamond J Ranch
• October 21, 1947-May 27, 1948: Off season at Diamond J Ranch, with supply visits from bush planes

Item is an original "Do's and Don't's When Marking Stands For Cutting" booklet illustrated by J. Pickford.

Item is an original report by Teuvo Ahti entitled "Ecological Investigations on Lichens in Wells Gray Provincial Park, with Special Reference to their Importance to Mountain Caribou". Includes accompanying correspondence between Ahti and his BC Parks employers regarding travel and contract details.

Item is the 1958 BC Forest Service report from Myra, BC titled "E.P. 160 & 503: Development of a Residual Stand of Interior Spruce-Alpine Fir During the First 28 Years Following Cutting". This report is the follow-up to the 1926 and 1936 reports titled "Conditions After Logging of a Spruce-Balsam Forest in Relation to Spruce Reproduction and to the Rate of Growth of the Second Story".

Item is the 1957 version of the BC Forest Service report from Myra, BC titled "E.P. 160: Conditions After Logging of a Spruce-Balsam Forest in Relation to Spruce Reproduction and to the Rate of Growth of the Second Story" by R.F. Stettler.

Item is a research notes on "E.P. 373 - Ecology: Spruce-Balsam Type, Aleza Lake" by J.C.W. Arlidge of the British Columbia Forest Service.

Item is a report for EP 387 entitled "Direct Seeding of White Spruce, Alpine Fir, Douglas-Fir, and Lodgepole Pine in the Central Interior of British Columbia" by A.E. Prochnau of the Research Division, B.C. Forest Service.

Item is a report entitled "E.P. 426: Report on the Condition of Balsam and the Special Clauses Covering Balsam on T.S. X42765" by T.P. Decie and A.R. Fraser of the Research Division, B.C. Forest Service.

Item is a poorly photocopied version of Decie's preliminary report on "E.P. 501 Comparative Study of Scarification Equipment". Location of original unknown.

Item is a report entitled "E.P. 528: Invasion of Scarified Areas by Vegetation in the Prince George Area" by J.W.C. Arlidge.

Item is a report on EP 639 entitled "Silviculture in Spruce-Alpine Fir types in the North Central Interior of British Columbia" for the Research Division, BC Forest Service by John Revel.

This digital document is a born-digital PDF containing details of forest floor sample collection & handling for the EP 660 Buckhorn Ridge installation.

Item is a compiled hand-written data set for "Experimental Plot No. 116 (252): Rate of Growth and Mortality in the Mature Uneven-Aged White Spruce-Balsam Type" at the Aleza Lake Experimental Station.

Item is a photocopy reproduction of "Exploring and Plant Collecting in Northern British Columbia" by Mary Gibson Henry, reprinted from the 1933 Year Book of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

Sanborn, P. and R. Brockley. 2005. Sulphur deficiencies in lodgepole pine: occurrence, diagnosis, and treatment. Ext. Note 71. B.C. Min. For., Res. Br., Victoria, B.C.

Item is a document written entitled "Faller's Selection".

This 2002 Sanborn & Grilz phytolith report to the M-K Trust Fund presents research results, compiles data, and includes site descriptions and photographs.

Item is an original wildlife section report by F.H. Hartman entitled "Floristic Descriptions of Cover-types in Wells Gray Park".

This digital document is a scanned PDF of a Prince George Forest Region Forest Research Note #PG-12: "Experimental Project 660 - Overview of Three Experimental Installations - A 30-year Progress Report".

This digital document is a scanned PDF of a Prince George Forest Region Forest Research Note #PG-12-1: "Experimental Project 660 - 30-year Progress Report - Buckhorn Installation".

Unpublished results for the Sulphur stable isotope tracer study (E.P. 886.15) were presented in annual reports to the funding agencies, including this FRBC 2001 Preliminary Final Report from April 2002.

This document is an undated 1990s handout for a field trip to the Archie Road (North) demonstration plot.

This manual contains a brief summary of the principles and practices of game management, as applied to the management of game in British Columbia. It has been designed to serve primarily as a reference and guide in dealing with game management problems, and aims to create a co-ordination of approach among those engaged in game management. Sections include the value of game as a natural resource, relationships between game and economic developments, livestock and game interactions, farming and game interactions, waterfowl and other land users, forestry and game, industry and game, access and game, game management principles and policies, fundamental population dynamics, population behaviour, principles of harvesting, habitat management, winter feeding, game propagation, experiment and research, game reserves and closed areas, public relations, predator control, game management techniques, sampling procedures, aging and sexing game animals and birds, effect of hunting on age classes, aging techniques, big game animals, game birds, waterfowl, upland birds, inventory of game populations (Census), direct methods of census, indirect methods of census, waterfowl, fur-bearers, measurements of browse and plant composition, range surveys, game checking stations, hunger sample or postal survey, predator control techniques, laboratory studies, biological aids to law enforcement, collecting and handling material for examination, game animals and birds of BC, breeding characteristics of the hoofed game, big game animals including moose, elk, mule deer, black-tailed deer, white-tailed deer, mountain caribou, Bighorn sheep, thinhorn sheep, mountain sheep, goat, grizzly bear, black bear, cougar, wolf, coyote, upland game birds, Ruffed grouse, Sharp-tailed grouse, Sooty blue grouse, dusky blue grouse, Franklin and spruce grouse, Ptarmigan, Ring-necked pheasant, Chukar partridge, California quail, band-tailed pigeon, waterfowl.

Item is Ted Newbery's thesis proposal titled "Gap Dynamics in the Sub-Boreal Spruce wk1 Biogeoclimatic Sub-Zone: Spatiotemporal Patterns, Inonotus tomentosus, and Partial Cutting". He submitted his UNBC thesis in 2002 as "Small-scale disturbances and stand dynamics in Inonotus tomentosus infected and uninfected old-growth and partial cut wet, sub-boreal forests in British Columbia".

Item is an original "Gitnadoix Recreation Area Wildlife Survey" by W.G. Hazelwood. Includes original photographic prints pasted into the report and map sheet excerpts.

File contains a record of accounts in Gurmukhi script.

Newspaper consists of the recto and verso of 2 pages (p. 1-4). It was published in Aiyansh on the Nass River in British Columbia in April 1895 and presents a missionary's perspective of regional First Nations traditions and current affairs of the day.

This 75th anniversary history of the Quest Club presented by Margaret Moffat and Joan Grainger at a celebratory luncheon held at Esther's Inn on October 12th, 1999 was gleaned from the History of the Quest Club prepared by Joy McMillan and Joan Grainger in 1984 for the 60th Anniversary of the Quest Club, and from Minutes of the Quest Club meetings up to 1999.

The Quest Club was started by six Prince George women who quested for more information in all fields of knowledge.

This document is a contemporary transcription of a Hudson's Bay Company Fort George (New Caledonia) post journal. The accuracy and completeness of this transcription is not verified.

This document is a contemporary transcription of a Hudson's Bay Company Fort George (New Caledonia) post journal. The accuracy and completeness of this transcription is not verified.

This document is a contemporary transcription of a Hudson's Bay Company Fort George (New Caledonia) post journal. The accuracy and completeness of this transcription is not verified.

This document is a contemporary transcription of a Hudson's Bay Company Fort George (New Caledonia) post journal. The accuracy and completeness of this transcription is not verified.

This document is a contemporary transcription of a Hudson's Bay Company Fort George (New Caledonia) post journal. The accuracy and completeness of this transcription is not verified.

This document is a contemporary transcription of a Hudson's Bay Company Fort George (New Caledonia) post journal. The accuracy and completeness of this transcription is not verified.

This document is a contemporary transcription of a Hudson's Bay Company Fort George (New Caledonia) post journal. The accuracy and completeness of this transcription is not verified.