File contains handwritten tables and graphs of measurements of plots, photocopied reports, 9 black and white photos, and handwritten notes.
File contains photocopied working copy of data listings, loose handwritten ledger pages, and a photocopy of the original study for Plot 291.
File contains loose handwritten ledger pages, a photocopy of the original report, photocopied handwritten notes, and data report sheets for Plot 292.
File consists of photocopied material regarding the Aleza Lake Experimental Station from BC Archives.
File consists of indenture made between H. Cathcart, Deputy Minister of Lands for the Province of British Columbia, and Eagle Lake Sawmill, Ltd. of Giscome , B.C. Includes stumpage prices; conditions of logging; associated costs; and a map of Peace River District outlining the area to be logged.
File consists of a "Operational Manual with Instructions to Forest Officers in Forest Protection" by the Province of British Columbia Department of Lands (Forest Branch) 1942. File includes letters, notices, and updates to the manual.
File consists of a bound typescript book titled "Land Settlement (A report by a C.S.T.A Committee)" produced by the Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists in 1941.
File consists of two ledgers recording sales and expenditures. One ledger includes shipping and sales as well as expenditures, including salaries, from Oct. 1944 to June 1951. The other ledger, with "M + T Journal" on the cover, records logging accounts and payroll from Sept. 1942 to Nov. 1950.
File contains original studies, and black and white photos for Plot 104.
File consists of photocopied material regarding the Aleza Lake Experimental Station from the Canadian Forest Service Archives in Victoria. Also includes handwritten notes.
File consists of photocopied material regarding the Aleza Lake Experimental Station from BC Archives.
File contains timber sale contracts and logging inspection reports for Eagle Lake Sawmill from the Department of Lands and Forests.
File contains plot summaries of selected permanent sample plots, correspondence regarding field courses, records of management committee meetings from 1991 and 1990, documents and correspondence pertaining to the re-opening of the Aleza Lake Research Forest, partial cutting summaries, research proposals and studies, cost and revenues documents, a 1961 biography on Percy Barr, charts covering remeasurements of permanent sample plots, hand written correspondence from 1990 discussing the history of marking crews, and a brief history of the Aleza Lake Experiment Station.
File contains photocopies of timber sale contracts and general correspondence between Olson and Bjorklund Sawmills Limited and the Department of Lands and Forests.
File contains handwritten germination summaries and measurements, charts, and the original study relating to Plot 111.
File contains original study, charts, and measurements of plot 105.
File contains official government reports on tree types, correspondence regarding research proposals, and working plans.
File contains an original EP 433 report entitled "A Preliminary Working Plan for the Aleza Lake Experimental Forest" by L. DeGrace of the BC Forest Service.
File contains an original copy of a BC Forest Service publication entitled "The Development of the Spruce-Balsam Type in the Aleza Lake Experimental Forest" by A.R. Fraser and J.L. Alexander.
File contains datelines, small maps consisting of ecological site types, handwritten notes, overheads, terrain resource management information digital map data, and trail system maps.
Photographs depict aerial views of the Cassiar townsite, plantsite, tailings pile, mine road, bench and pit mine, mine buildings (tramline loading station, crusher, shop, and garage), and surrounding mountain range. Here "aerial" refers to photos depicting a large area and taken from the air or from a high point of elevation.
File contains photographs of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. Includes other northern BC forestry industry images, including Number 5 Timber Ltd. CP625 Block 101, bridge construction, and heavy machinery. Also includes a graphic postcard of Prince George circa 1970s.
File consists of two signs:
- "Government of British Columbia Official Use Only"
- "British Columbia Forest Service Research Plot No Cutting or Disturbance".
File contains a preliminary working plan from 1950.
File consists of a forestry tool called a dibble and mile marker.
File contains typed business correspondence regarding working plans and research projects, small maps displaying locations of sample plots, graphs, and reports on stand development.
File contains photographs featuring members of the Board of Directors of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd., which was formed on the 17th of May, 1951. Cassiar's forerunner was a company named Conwest, formed in 1534, a consolidation of two companies owned by Fred Martin Connell and his brother W. Harold Connell. The first board of directors included the Connell brothers, George Armstrong, John E. Kennedy, Charles & Arthur Mortimer, and Charles Rainforth Elliot (chartered accountant and secretary-treasurer of Conwest & Cassiar). Directors depicted in this file include F.M Connell, Harold Connell, Charles Elliot, John E. Kennedy, George Armstrong, Ken A. Creery, John Drybrough, Tam Zimmermann, George Washington Smith (president of Bell Asbestos Mines), Nick Gritzuk, Jack Christian (general manager, president, and CEO). Other individuals depicted include Fred Murry, Andre Beguin, Plato Malozemoff from Newmont Mining (co-founder of Cassiar with F.M. Connell), Alfred Lloyd Penhale (founder and CEO of Asbestos Corporation of Canada Ltd.), C.B. Brown, Pierre Marcotte, Francis Parker Smith (brother of George Smith), Bill Oughtred, Bill Johnson, and a Mr. Janitsch. File also includes a portrait of an unidentified director of Cassiar from Turner and Newall in England, taken at the corporate club in Toronto. Group portraits were taken at the Cassiar Valley, the office building, "House 130," fishing outings, and at formal events in unidentified locations.
File consists of correspondence, membership lists and applications forms, minutes and policy statement regarding the formation of the Cariboo Section of the Canadian Institute of Forestry.
File includes:
- Conference and meeting programs including
- Eighteenth North American Wildlife Conference and Related Meetings in Washington, D.C. March 9-11 1953
- Forty-third Annual Meeting Canadian Institute of Forestry October 11-13 1951 in Banff, Alberta
- Canadian Institute of Forestry Annual General and Professional Meeting October 19-21 1953 in Winnipeg
- Joint Meeting of the Canadian Institute of Forestry and the Society of American Foresters November 17-20, 1952 in Montreal.
- C.I.F. Annual Meeting correspondence regarding tour and activities (1954)
- correspondence regarding the C.I.F. Annual Meeting in 1954
- C.I.F. Annual Meeting programs, agendas, and notes
- file also includes membership names and addresses and minutes.
File includes:
- Canadian Institute of Forestry By-laws of the Institute
- Constitution and By-Laws of the Cariboo Section of the Canadian Institute of Forestry
- Petition to the director of the Canadian Institute of Forestry for the formation of a new section to be called Cariboo Section
- By-laws of the Manitoba section of the Canadian Institute of Forestry
- related correspondence.
File contains an original copy of a United States Department of Agriculture Handbook No. 6 "Northeastern Loggers' Handbook" by Fred C. Simmons. This handbook includes detailed information about logging tools and techniques, many of which would have been used in British Columbia logging practices.
File consists of photocopied material regarding the Aleza Lake Experimental Station from BC Archives.
File contains photocopies of a study on seed production in coniferous trees for a period over 7 years.
File includes:
- C.I.F. Annual Report of the Cariboo Section (1953-54) and related correspondence
- Silviculture Report from C.I.F. Cariboo Section and related correspondence (1954)
- correspondence related to membership applications and membership mailing list, 1953-1954.
File contains records created or collected by Bob Stowell over the course of his employment with The Pas Lumber Company (B.C.) Ltd. (1965-1991):
- Photocopied 1953 Annual Report of The Pas Lumber Company, Limited
- Photocopied "Questions Regarding The Pas Lumber Company, Limited", 1955
- Letter to salesmen from Winton Lumber Sales Company regarding board measure & surface measure, April 1956
- Proposal from Swan, Wooster Engineering Co. Ltd. for a proposed Parsnip River crossing with a timber trestle bridge at Anzac, 1959-1961. Includes technical drawings.
- "A Brief to the Select Standing Committee on Forestry and Fisheries on Bidding Practice in Crown Timber Sales submitted by the Parsnip Rivers Operators' Association", 1963
- Photocopied letter from District Forester McRae to The Pas Lumber Company (B.C.) Ltd. regarding the company's request to scale debarked timber at Anzac Sawmill, 1966
- Photocopied agreement between Imperial Oil Limited and The Pas Lumber Co. (B.C.) Ltd. for petroleum products, 1966
- Untitled report on stumpage appraisal for Prince George region, [1968 or 1969]
- Photocopied table "The Pas Lumber Company (B.C.) Limited - Projected Net Income for 1967 as Effected by an Employees Strike", 1967
- Photocopied table "Rustad Purchase - Income & Cash Flow Projection", [1968 or 1969]
- Photocopied response report from B.C. Loggers' Division of COFI to the Stanford Research Institute Report, 1969
- Letter to stockholders of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. re: "Offer to buy The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. Common Stock and 5% Subordinated Debentures", 1969
- Photocopied "The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. Dry Kiln Project", 1969
- Correspondence regarding Anzac Sawmill, 1969
- Proposal report regarding Anzac Small Log Mill, 1969
File consists of photocopied material regarding the Aleza Lake Experimental Station from BC Archives.
File contains photocopies of handwritten notes and measurement charts, correspondence regarding various administrative concerns, and research project reports.
File consists of photocopied material regarding the Aleza Lake Experimental Station from BC Archives.
File contains charts consisting of the remeasurements of the basal area and cut stump data in permanent sample plots.
File consists of C.I.F. section report and related correspondence, 1954-55.
File contains an original report entitled "An Appraisal of Logging Practices in the Naver Forest" by D. Burbidge of the BC Forest Service.
File contains logging inspection reports and timber sale contracts from the Department of Lands and Forests to Newlands Lumber Company Limited.
File contains original ledgers with measurements of permanent sample plots.
File contains photocopies of survey notes from 1954.
File contains photographs featuring the tramline at Cassiar which ran from the crushing plant at the mountain mine to the plantsite in the valley (a drop of 427 meters). The first ore was originally transported by truck to the plant until the gravity chute was built in 1953. This chute was replaced with the first aerial tramline model in 1956, which was succeeded by the second model in 1975. This file also includes one photo of the original gravity chute, and one photo depicting a tramline worker.
Additionally there is a collection of eighteen photographs of tramline cars that were being surveyed for damage and condition, and another collection of six photographs of tramline study. The results of this study determined that there was variances in load sizes of the buckets caused by extra material falling off the panfeeder.
File consists of C.I.F. Secretary's miscellaneous file of correspondence and notes regarding annual reports, etc., 1955.
File includes:
- Minutes of the 48th Annual Meeting of the members of the Canadian Institute of Forestry (October 3 & 5, 1956) and related correspondence
- "Canadian Institute of Forestry Statement" 1956 read by W.A.E. Pepler
- "Forestry and Canadians" by Lowell Besley September 17, 1956
- correspondence too and from members of C.I.F.
- Minutes of Meeting Canadian Institute of Forestry (Cariboo Section) Jan. 21, 1956 and related correspondence
- other C.I.F. correspondence 1955-1956.
File includes:
- "Report of the Committee of Procedure and Standards of Membership Qualifications" Canadian Institute of Forestry 1956
- "Report on the Committee of Membership Qualifications" Canadian Institute of Forestry 1955
- Minutes of the 48th Annual Meeting of the members of the Canadian Institute of Forestry (October 3 & 5, 1956) and related correspondence
- "Canadian Institute of Forestry Statement" 1956 read by W.A.E. Pepler
- "Forestry and Canadians" by Lowell Besley September 17, 1956
- "Where do Canadians Learn About their Forest Resources?" Canadian Institute of Forestry 1963
- "Institute Manual (draft)" prepared by Canadian Institute of Forestry Manual Committee 1955
- documents relating to Canadian Institute of Forestry Meeting October 6-10, 1963 in Halifax
- Minutes and documents relating to the 49th Annual meeting of the Members of the Canadian Institute of Forestry in Toronto Oct. 22 & 24, 1957.
File includes:
- Canadian Institute of Forestry British Columbia Sections "Recommendations on Forest Policy and Administration in British Columbia Prepared for Presentation to the Royal Commission on Forestry" 1955
- "Report to Royal Commission on Forests and Forestry" H.G. McWilliams, Forester, Reforestation Division, British Columbia Forest Service, 1955
- A Brief by the Cariboo Section of the Canadian Institute of Forestry prepared for presentation to the Royal Commission on Forestry, 1955 (with annotations)
- "A Statement Prepared for Presentation to Chief Justice G. McG. Sloan, Royal Commission on Forestry" (Draft Copy) 1955
- Canadian Institute of Forestry British Columbia Sections "Recommendations on Forest Policy and Administration in British Columbia Prepared for Presentation to the Royal Commission on Forestry" 1955
- A Brief by the Cariboo Section of the Canadian Institute of Forestry prepared for presentation to Chief Justice G. McG. Sloan, Royal Commission on Forestry. 1955 (two drafts with annotations)
- Okanagan Section Canadian Institute of Forestry "A Submission Concerning Forest Policy and Administration in British Columbia with Reference to Interior Conditions Generally and Kamloops Forest District in Particular" Prepared for Presentation to the Royal Commission on Forestry 1955
- "Preliminary outline of Brief to Royal Commission on Forestry presented by Cariboo Section, Canadian Institute of Forestry"
- related correspondence
- news clipping "Notice: Public Inquiries Act Royal Commission on Forestry" by F.G. Hart January 17, 1955.
File consists of correspondence and proceedings re: a brief prepared by C.I.F. - Cariboo Section for Sloan Engineering (Commission), 1955.