This data set consists of elemental analysis data for selected B horizons from Wounded Moose paleosols sampled by Tarnocai and Smith. The file includes the original ALS lab report, additional panes showing comparison of replicates, and calculation of a weathering index.
In July 2009, Dr. Paul Sanborn undertook the first soils field research at the Fort Selkirk volcanic field in central Yukon, with helicopter support and funding from the Yukon Geological Survey. This file includes the following data sets gathered from the research:
- Ft Selkirk 110114069.xls [particle size analysis data, CANTEST]
- S1090final.xlsx [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory]
- S1112final.xlsx [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory]
- Ft Selkirk 2009 soils data (updated Sept 15, 2010 and April 10, 2023).xls [consolidated lab data for all 2009 samples]
File contains the following data sets:
- BC & Yukon 2008 soils data – compiled.xls [combined chemical & physical data for BC08-06, Y08-39, Y08-41, Y08-43]
- S925finl.xls [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for pedons BC07-03 & BC07-04; also includes data for Y07-06 & Y07-07 (Klutlan Glacier – see associated file note)]
- S979finl(revised) – PS edits.xls [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for BC08-06, Y08-39, Y08-41, Y08-43]
- S994finl_revised.xls [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for BC07-04 (CaCO3-equiv, total & inorganic C, pyrophosphate, oxalate & dithionite extractions) & selected horizons from BC07-07 & BC07-09 (Nazko basaltic soils))
- CANTEST lab report 91010076.pdf [particle size analyses for BC08-06, Y08-39, Y08-41, Y08-43]
- CANTEST lab report 90206003.pdf [particle size analyses for Tuya pedons BC07-03 & BC07-04 & Klutan Glacier pedons Y07-06 & Y07-07]
File contains the following data sets:
- S925finl.xls [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for pedons Y07-06 & Y07-07; also includes data for BC07-03 & BC07-04 (Boreal Cordillera grassland soils – see associated file note)]
- S1007finl_revised2.xls [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for pedons Y07-06 & Y07-07: oxalate & dithionite extractions, P retention; also includes P retention data for Nazko pedons BC07-07 & BC07-09]
- CANTEST lab report 90206003.pdf [particle size analyses for Klutan Glacier pedons Y07-06 & Y07-07; also Tuya pedons BC07-03 & BC07-04 &]
File consists of thin section micrograph images from the Boreal Cordilleran grassland soils study (2007 & 2008).
Data set consists of lab data for sites Y04-01 to Y04-04. Original data set created in 2004; an update was provided in March 2023 but horizon designations were not updated to be consistent with the paper.
Data set "Yukon-AK 2004 soils data (Lost Chicken).xls" consists of Pliocene Rego Humic Gleysol (peaty) data from the Lost Chicken Mine site.
Data set consists of data collected for Inlin Brook (sites N04-02, -03, -04) and Red Ochre River (N04-05).
Data sets for the Sulphur stable isotope tracer study (E.P. 886.15) include:
- 03-095 UNBC PS-For.xls Particle size analyses (Kenneth Creek 0-20 & 20-40 cm)
- 03-096 UNBC PS-For.xls Particle size analyses (Holy Cross 0-20 & 20-40 cm)
- 082037.xls XRF elemental analysis (Holy Cross pedon)
- 082038.xls XRF elemental analysis (Kenneth Creek pedon)
- 084996.xlsx XRF elemental analysis (HC & KC parent materials)
- EP 886 15 S isotope data (2001-2005) - foliage_completed (Feb 18).xls Pine foliage d34S (total S & total SO4-S)
- EP 886.15 2003 Foliage & Soil Chemistry Summary.xls
- EP 886.15 Foliar Analyses (selected) 2001-2006.xls Total N & S, SO4-S
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross & Kenneth Creek 2005 foliage.xls
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross & Kenneth Creek 2006 foliage.xls
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross 2001 FH (S516FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross 2001 Foliage (T727FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross 2001 Litter (S515FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross 2001 Mineral Soil (0-20 cm) (S507FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross 2002 Foliage (T785FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross 2003 FH (S642FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross 2003 Foliage (T836FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross 2003 Litter (S641FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross 2003 Mineral Soil (0-20 cm) (S643FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross 2004 FH (S702FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross 2004 Foliage (T904FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross 2004 Litter (S701FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Holy Cross 2004 Mineral Soil (0-20 cm) (S703FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2001 FH (S521FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2001 Foliage (T727FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2001 Litter (S520FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2001 Mineral Soil (0-20 cm) (S508FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2001 Mineral Soil (20-40 cm) (S509FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2002 Foliage (T785FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2003 FH (S645FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2003 Foliage (T837FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2003 Litter (S644FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2003 Mineral Soil (0-20 cm) (S646FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2003 Mineral Soil (20-40 cm) (S647FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2004 FH (S705FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2004 Foliage (T905FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2004 Litter (S704FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2004 Mineral Soil (0-20 cm) (S706FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Kenneth Creek 2004 Mineral Soil (20-40 cm) (S707FINL).xls
- EP 886.15 Sample Inventory.xls Listing of MoF Lab Job No.'s
- Fertilizer March 2003.xls d34S data for commercial fertilizer S sources
- hc_2002.xls Initial (2002) pine tree measurement data - Holy Cross
- kc_2002.xls Initial (2002) pine tree measurement data - Kenneth Creek
File consists of the following data sets:
- Kluane crust Min N (2003) S671FINL.xls [mineralizable nitrogen for biological soil crusts & upper mineral soil, 2003 samples]
- Kluane Crust samples (2004) moisture contents.xls [moisture content of air-dry 2004 crust samples from Peninsula & Silver City sites; sampling procedures & locations in Marsh et al. (20060]
- Kluane Soil Crusts (2004) chemical analyses.xls [consolidated file of chemical data for 2004 crust samples from Peninsula & Silver City sites]
- Kluane 2003 soil & crust 15N data.xls [15N natural abundance, total N, organic & inorganic C for 2003 crust & upper mineral soil samples]
- Kluane 2003 soil data.xlsx [consolidated file of chemical data for 2003 crust and mineral horizon soil samples]
- Kluane Crust 2004 total C & N data.xls
- Kluane AMS dates (2003-2008 charcoal samples).xls [radiocarbon dates from the University of Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Lab]
- Kluane soil transect - texture data.xls [2009 soil particle size analysis data, with potential lithological breaks highlighted]
- Kluane surveys 2009.xls [topographic surveys for 3 soil transects cutting across eskers along Cultus Bay Rd., SE shore of Kluane L.]
- S1061_1069_Final_Rev1.xls [lab data report from Ministry of Forests Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for 2009 transect samples: total C, inorganic C, & total N]
- 100812003 (annotated) -corrected.xls [2009 transect samples: particle size analysis data report from CANTEST]
- Kluane soil transect - master data file.xls
Data sets associated with the Cluculz retrospective study (E.P. 886.10):
- 082036.xls -- Elemental analysis (XRF) for mineral horizon samples from profile at Cluculz EP 886.10 site
- CLUCINC.xls -- Summary chemical properties for composite samples in aerobic incubation
- Cluculz Ck 2002 Foliar Analysis.xls -- Analyzed for individual single-tree plots
- Cluculz Ck 2002 Forest Floor.xls -- Forest floor mass data
- Cluculz composite list (2003 samples).xls -- Composite groups (3 original samples in each) used for organic & mineral soils
- Cluculz composite list (incubation experiment).xls -- Composite groups (3 original samples in each) used for organic & mineral soils
- Cluculz composite list for incubations (2003 samples).xls -- Composite groups (3 original samples in each) used for organic & mineral soils
- Cluculz Creek S mineralization - initial fractions (2).xls -- S fractions - organic & mineral soil composites
- Cluculz Creek S mineralization - initial S fractions.xls -- S fractions - organic & mineral soil composites
- Cluculz Creek S mineralization (IC).xls -- S mineralization data for aerobic incubation - organic & mineral soils
- Cluculz foliar and soil data.xls -- Chemical properties of foliage, composite forest floors, composite mineral soils
- Cluculz pH.xls -- pH - organic & mineral soil composites
- Cluculz S fraction graphs.xls -- S fractions - organic & mineral soil composites
- Elemental Analysis of Standard by XRF (2005).xls -- Published & XRF analysis of CANMET TILL-1 soil standard (used in Cluculz XRF analysis)
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.
File contains the following data sets:
- Phytolith contents.xls [phytolith content in 5-20 µm silt, tallied by morphological categories; also summarized as % of total soil fine (< 2 mm) fraction]
- M-K (2001) soil LOI data.pdf [LOI (loss-on-ignition) data for sampled soil horizons – proxy measurement for organic matter content]
Map depicts the route of BC Rail and its connecting rail lines.
File contains the following data sets:
- S300FINL.XLS [Ministry of Forests lab data report: non-woody forest floor components]
- S301FINL.XLS [Ministry of Forests lab data report: woody forest floor components]
- 660FF97.xls [non-woody and woody forest floor components: mass / unit area (corrected to oven-dry basis)]
- BUCKLIST.xls [table showing internal sample numbers corresponding to lab sample numbers used in MoF lab reports]
Data sets associated with the Arocena & Sanborn 1999 regional soil mineralogy study:
- S234FINL.XLS [data report for mineral horizons from MoF Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, June 20 1996]
- S235FINL.XLS [data report for organic horizons from MoF Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, June 20 1996]
- SAMPLIST.XLS [conversion table for sample numbers used in MoF lab data reports]
- Fe Al extractions.xlsx [assembled from lab data report by L. Arocena for oxalate & dithionite extractions; pyrophosphate extraction data from MoF lab]
- MINSTUDY.XLS [consolidated lab data for organic & mineral horizons, except for BaCl2 exchangeable cations]
- MINCEC.XLS [BaCl2 exchangeable cations & Morgan’s extraction for organic & mineral horizons]
File contains the following data sets:
- Archie Site Tree Data.xls [diameter (dbh) and basal area of trees within and overhanging plots]
- Archie Site non-woody forest floor properties (1995).xls [non-woody forest floor chemical properties – individual sample results & plot means]
- Archie Site woody forest floor component properties (1995).xls [total C, N & S concentrations, pool sizes for woody forest floor components]
- Archie Site mineral soil properties (1995).xlsx [0-20 cm mineral soil chemical properties – individual sample results & plot means]
- Archie Site forest floor mass (1995).xlsx [mass per unit area of non-woody & woody forest floor components, corrected to oven-dry basis]
- S221FINL.xls [MoF lab data report: non-woody forest floor components]
- S222FINL.xls [MoF lab data report: woody forest floor components]
- S251FINL.xls [MoF lab data report: 0-20 cm mineral soil]
This 3.5" floppy contains the following EP 1148 .TXT data sets from 1995-1997:
- sbsapc.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-Boreal Spruce" Intact soil cores
- sbsbd.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-Boreal Spruce" Bulk density mineral soil 0-20cm
- sbsffc.txt "Long-term Soil Productivity Study, Sub-boreal Spruce" SBS forest floor bulk density and mass3
- sbsfc.txt "Long-term Soil Productivity Study, Sub-boreal spruce" SBS forest floor chemistry
- sbsmc.txt "Long-term Soil Productivity Study, Sub-boreal Spruce sites" SBS mineral soil chemistry
- sbskgff.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-boreal spruce zone" SBS forest floor nutrient mass in kg/ha
- sbskgmm.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-boreal spruce" SBS mineral nutrient mass in kg/ha
- sbsom.txt "Long-term Soil Productivity Study, SBS" "SBS bole-only treatment, slash levels"
- sbscr.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-boreal spruce zone" Timber cruise of initial stands
- sbshtcr.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, SBS" Age vs height curves - pretreatment data (mature stand)
- sbssi.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-Boreal Spruce zone" Carmean estimates of site indices for initial stand
- sbstr.txt "Long-term soil productivity study, Sub-Boreal Spruce" Tree measurements
Audio recording is of an interview by Bridget Moran with Ken Rutherford, educator and former municipal politician of Swift Current Saskatchewan. Rutherford was an Alderman prior to becoming Mayor of Swift Current from 1944-1952, he ran unsuccessful for the CCF in 1960 and later for the NDP. Rutherford ran for political office in BC in the electoral district of Fort George in 1963 unsuccessfully against Liberal MLA Ray Williston. The interview includes biographical information as well as memories of his career as a school teacher, his political aspirations and involvement with the CCF and later the NDP and the history of medicare in Canada.
Audiocassette Summary
- Rutherford provides genealogical information on grandfather and his mother (her family was from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan)
- Discusses his parent’s marriage
- Recalls schooling in Swift Current, Saskatchewan where he eventually becomes principal
- Rutherford notes he never went to university, but went to Normal School
- Talks about his wife and children
- Donley Hill
- Recalls joining the CCF and distributing pamphlets; recalls 1935 election and CCF getting few votes
- Recalls salary troubles at the school in Swift Current in the 1930s and being both the teacher and janitor
- He was Mayor of Swift Current from 1944-1952; and previously as Alderman and ran for the CCF in the federal election in 1953;
- Recalls spoiled ballots in the election
- Recalls getting involved with the issue of health premium payments in Swift Current c.1940s.
- Recalls the history of the fight for health care in Canada; and strike in Saskatchewan by doctors
- Recalls the national fight for Medicare – 1961
- Discusses Tommy Douglas; Mackenzie King
- Health care issues
File consists of recorded DVD, containing the following video recordings:
- Harkins! - Nov. 23, 1990
- CKPG-TV excerpt- Oct. 3, 1992
- CKPG-TV: Bob Harkins Comments- Dec. 18, 1992
- CKPG-TV: Bob Harkins Comments- April 5, 1993
- UNBC Convocation Address by Bridget Moran – May 26, 1995
DVD Summary
Context: DVD contains recordings originally broadcast on CKPG-TV News, the Prince George CBC affiliate station. It contains multiple recordings of either interviews with Bridget Moran or TV broadcast announcements and news stories relating to Moran’s publications and awards; as well as an excerpt from the May 1995 UNBC Convocation Ceremony featuring Moran’s Convocation Address.
Individual video segments as follows:
(1) Harkins!
Date: 23 November 1990
Length: 30’ minutes
Scope and Content: Contains a recording of a Bob Harkins of Harkins! interviewing Bridget Moran on her books Stoney Creek Woman, Judgement at Stoney Creek and her upcoming publication A Little Rebellion.
(2) CKPG-TV News excerpt Date: 3 October 1992 Length: 2’46” minutes
Scope and Content: Recording of CKPG-TV News excerpt featuring Bridget Moran speaking about her latest publication A Little Rebellion while at a Mosquito Books book signing event.
(3) CKPG –TV News: Bob Harkins Comments
Date: 18 December 1992
Length: 3’minutes
Scope and Content: November weather forecast for Prince George and region, followed by Bob Harkins Comments featuring Bridget Moran and her new book A Little Rebellion.
(4) CKPG –TV News: Bob Harkins Comments
Date: 5 April 1993
Length: 1’35”minutes
Scope and Content: Bob Harkins Comments featuring Bob Harkins speaking about Mary John and Bridget Moran receiving the Governor General’s Award for Outstanding Community Service from MP Brian Gardiner at a ceremony at Mosquito Books in Prince George.
(5) UNBC Convocation Address Date: May 26, 1995
Length: 11’53”minutes
Scope and Content: UNBC president Geoffrey R. Weller introduces Bridget Moran who then delivers her Convocation Address to the students of the May 1995 graduating class. Her speech focuses on change
– positive change - in the realm of education.
During a year away from studies in 1987-88, Dr. Paul Sanborn developed a successful grant proposal to the Science Council of BC (SCBC) to pursue a postdoctoral project with Dr. Tim Ballard in relation to sulphur-deficient soils in BC and prescribed fire. This project built on an existing broadcast burning study conducted by Macmillan Bloedel Ltd. near Port Alberni on Vancouver Island, led by Bill Beese (later at Vancouver Island University). Dr. Sanborn's work addressed sulphur forms and amounts in the soils at these sites, and the chemical processes influencing sulphur availability in relation to prescribed fire.
Only one part of this work was eventually published:
Sanborn, P.T. and T.M. Ballard. 1991. Combustion losses of sulphur from conifer foliage: Implications of chemical form and soil nitrogen status. Biogeochemistry 12: 129–134.
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00001810
The remainder of the work was documented in this Project Completion Report to SCBC, dated February 28, 1990, and entitled "Effects of Prescribed Fire on Sulphur in Forest Soils".
Thirty-four data files were selected for archival retention. There is some redundancy of content among these, with some formatted for incorporation as tables in the report appendices, and others containing some of the same data, but set up as input files for a statistics program. These account for almost all of the data listed in the Project Completion Report appendices. No glossary of variable names is provided, but these should be identifiable by referring to the Report.
During the 1980s, Agriculture Canada pedologists Scott Smith (retired from Summerland Research Station, formerly based in Whitehorse) and Charles Tarnocai (retired from Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa) had a large field program which addressed the trends in soil development in the central Yukon. Across this region, particularly between Whitehorse and Dawson City, the land surfaces and surficial deposits vary greatly in age due to the differing extents of glaciations over the past ~2 million years.
Tarnocai and Smith shared the unpublished data and soil samples from this work with Dr. Paul Sanborn, and this resulted in a student project published as:
Daviel, E., P. Sanborn, C. Tarnocai, and C.A.A. Smith. 2011. Clay mineralogy and chemical properties of argillic horizons in central Yukon paleosols. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 91: 83-93. https://doi.org/10.4141/cjss10067
This data set consists of transcribed data from lab data sheets, showing McQuesten-Dawson City paleosol data from the Tarnocai and Smith 1983 AAFC Yukon Paleosol Study. The data set includes chemical and particle size data for Tarnocai & Smith samples, as determined by the Ag Canada lab. Note that the “Site” column indicates the NTS topographic map sheet (e.g. 115P/13) for the sampling locations.
Large-format map depicts Northwood Pulp & Timber operating areas in 1975.
File consists of a 1973 BC Land Commission photographic slide and audio tape set entitled "Land Commission Act and the Agricultural Reserve Plan" that was used in original public hearings throughout the province. The 80 slides included with the presentation materials were created mostly by Gary Runka. The audio cassette is a recording of the presentation with speakers Bill Lane, BC Land Commission Chair, and Gary Runka, BC Land Commission General Manager.
Map depicts the routes of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, showing stations, railway connection, and the PGE Microwave Communication System.
This original film footage clip depicts Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) track inspection with a V-10 vehicle from Fort Nelson to Fort St John in October 1971.
This original film footage clip depicts a Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) track inspection trip with a V-10 Vehicle from Fort Nelson to Fort St John, October 1971.
This original film footage clip depicts depicts the first Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) revenue train running south from Fort Nelson with Premier Bennett, September 1971.
Map reflects boundaries for the Aleza Lake Experiment Station, permanent sample plots, timber sales locations, and the Ecological Reserve.
This original film footage clip depicts the opening of the new Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) car shop in Squamish with Premier Bennett circa 1970. Around 0:55, W.A.C Bennett is speaking with Eric Prince Stathers, the former Superintendent of Car Equipment at the Squamish shop.
Item consists of a map of British Columbia showing Status of Sustained-Yield Forestry Programme as at December 31, 1969 with colour coded areas indicating Public Sustained Yield Units, Special Scale Areas, Tree Farm Licences, and Major Parks.
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.
This original film footage clip depicts the opening of Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) Line in Fort St James with Premier Bennett on 1 August 1968.
Item is a labeled diagram of the power group at a mill.
Item is a diagram of the bleachery and washing portion of the pulp mill.
Item is a diagram of the digesters of the pulp mill.
Item is a diagram of the filter plant and lime kiln of the mill.
Item is a map that distinguishes the regions covered by Tree Farm Licence No. 1 granted to Columbia Cellulose and Three Farm Licence No. 40 granted to Skeena Kraft. Major locations indicated in this map include: Prince Rupert, Terrace, Hazelton, Smithers, Kitimat, Skeena River, and Nass River. Railway routes are also shown.
Attached description: The graph indicates how Skeena Kraft pulping characteristics compare with the burst-tear properties of other bleached kraft market pulps. In this relationship, Skeena Kraft develops the high bursting strength typical of northern Canadian krafts while retaining a distinct advantage in tearing strength.
Item is a diagram of recausticizing plant and lime kiln.
Item is a diagram of the layout of Skeena Kraft recovery and recausticizing.
Item is a diagram showing the process through chip preparation and continuous digesting, brown stock washing, brown stock screening and cleaning, bleach plant, and bleach stock screening and cleaning.
Item is a map showing the watersheds of Diana Lake, Rainbow Lake and Prudhomme Lake.
Large-format map depicts the Monkman Public Sustained Yield Unit (PSYU) and Tree Farm Licence 30 east of Prince George.
Large-format map depicts the Monkman Public Sustained Yield Unit (PSYU) east of Prince George.