File contains correspondence, memoranda, and other communications regarding the activities of the Canadian Pulp & Paper Association (CPPA) Forest Policy Committee.
Sin títuloFile contains the CPPA annual report for 1988.
Sin títuloFile contains material regarding the effect of the Free Trade Agreement on the Canadian Pulp & Paper Association.
Sin títuloFile contains Canadian Pulp & Paper Association (CPPA) reports and correspondence regarding assessment team activities.
Sin títuloFile contains correspondence and reports concerning the activities of the Fiscal and Monetary Task Force of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association.
Sin títuloFile contains correspondence regarding the efforts of the Canadian Pulp & Paper Association to establish a presence in Europe.
Sin títuloFile contains memoranda to the Canadian Pulp & Paper Association (CPPA) executive with a copy of Bill C-78 (the Environmental Assessment Act).
Sin títuloFile contains Canadian Pulp & Paper Association (CPPA) correspondence, memoranda, and reports regarding the Canadian Forest Industry Study.
Sin títuloFile contains correspondence, memoranda, and other interoffice communications regarding the Forest Products Employee Relations Council.
Sin títuloFile contains correspondence, memoranda, and other interoffice communications regarding the Forest Products Employee Relations Council.
Sin títuloFile contains minutes, agenda, talking points, and accompanying documents for council meetings and executive meetings of the Forest Products Employee Relations Council.
Sin títuloFile contains a meeting agenda, schedule, and notes for a Forest Products Employee Relations Council meeting.
Sin títuloFile contains a meeting agenda, schedule, and notes for a Forest Products Employee Relations Council meeting.
Sin títuloFile contains Forest Products Employee Relations Council correspondence and transcription of a conference call.
Sin títuloFile contains meeting agendas and schedules for a Forest Products Employee Relations Council meeting.
Sin títuloFile contains Forest Products Employee Relations Council correspondence regarding union negotiations.
Sin títuloSubseries consists of records relating to the Forest Sector Advisory Council (FSAC) created or accumulated by Adam Zimmerman during his time as council member. Includes correspondence, meeting materials, and reports.
Sin títuloFile contains correspondence regarding the Forest Sector Advisory Council reference book and a copy of the book itself.
Sin títuloFile contains correspondence, much of it dealing with relations between the Government of Canada and the Forest Sector Advisory Council. Includes reports on the pulp industry and correspondence.
Sin títuloFile contains correspondence, member lists, a trip itinerary, and arrangements for Forest Sector Advisory Council meetings.
Sin títuloFile contains materials produced at the January 29, 1992 meeting of the Forest Sector Advisory Council. Includes an agenda and materials from different presentations made at the meeting.
Sin títuloFile contains a booklet titled "Forest Sector Advisory Council Capital Expenditures in the Pulp and Paper Industry May 1992".
Sin títuloAdam Zimmerman held many external directorships with companies and organizations outside of Noranda. In these roles, Zimmerman provided a creative contribution and improvement to the company boards by providing dispassionate and objective criticism, as well as and contributing to the development strategy of the company. He was not an employee of these companies; he held these external directorships roles while simultaneously being a senior executive with Noranda.
The records in this series are only a representative fraction of the external directorships held by Zimmerman. These include board of director records from Algoma Steel, Koninklijke Nederlandse Papierfabriek (KNP), non-profit organizations, universities, and other companies. Also includes correspondence, fundraising material, and meeting materials.
File contains correspondence, memoranda, bound reports, presentations, and informational material from the Noranda Mines Board of Directors meeting of February 20-22, 1981.
Sin títuloFile contains correspondence, memoranda, and reports regarding mining. Includes the report entitled "Canada's Petroleum and Non-Fuel Minerals: An Overview of Differences and Similarities".
Sin títuloFile contains office memoranda of a general nature for Noranda Minerals.
Sin títuloFile contains director meeting agenda/ minutes and blueprints.
Sin títuloFile contains press releases, distribution lists, and a copy of the annual report for the CCR Division of Noranda Mines.
Sin títuloFile contains business correspondence and progress reports for Geco.
Sin títuloFile contains reports detailing brief biographies of staff and memoranda regarding staffing policies for Hemlo.
Sin títuloFile contains memoranda to Noranda executives and a report on management practices regarding Noranda Mining Inc., an American subsidiary of Noranda that held a number of mines including Grey Eagle, Blackbird Mine, Greens Creek, and Lakeshore.
Sin títuloThis fonds consits of the administrative and business papers of Mr. Adam Zimmerman during his tenure as a senior level executive with Noranda Inc., Noranda Mines Ltd, and Macmillan Bloedel Ltd., particularly in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia with the majority of these records relating to the senior level operations of these companies. It includes textual records relate to the creation and development of Northwood Pulp & Timber Ltd. in Prince George including all aspects of its regional operations throughout Northcentral BC). The fonds also includes records related to Noranda Inc.’s successful and unsuccessful attempts at business acquisitions in both forestry and mining operations internationally, particularly in Mexico, Brazil, the Netherlands and Tasmania.
The fonds also contains textual records generated by Zimmerman in his directorship and chairman positions on various forest industry association boards. It includes his notes, general correspondence, minutes, as well as booklets and brochures notably from the Canadian Forest Industries Council, the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, the Forest Sector Advisory Council and other similar industry associations. Much of this material relates to the issue of the softwood lumber dispute and Zimmerman’s involvement in the lobbying efforts regarding Canada/U.S. Free Trade issues and includes bound reports, agreements, and publications as well as correspondence to/from Zimmerman and his handwritten notes within the files. The fonds also includes general business information (annual reports, brochures, publications) pertaining to other Canadian forestry and mining companies.
The fonds also contains Adam Zimmerman’s speeches and correspondence related to his involvement in numerous charities, foundations and corporate fundraising initiatives with numerous Canadian educational institutions, non-profit societies and federal election campaigns.
Business records of Noranda Inc. are extensive and include administrative, business, personnel, financial and legal records. Record types include correspondence, memos, handwritten notes, business proposals and meeting notes, merger proposals and notes, prospectuses, board meeting agendas and minutes, annual reports, financial statements, resumes, portfolios, printed brochures, publications and other ephemera related to the business operations of Noranda Inc., Noranda Mines and MacMillan Bloedel [during Noranda Mines take-over of MB] all during Zimmerman’s tenure as Chair and/or CEO. The fonds includes correspondence, financial reports, legal testimony transcripts resulting from the Gaspe Copper Mine labour strike in Quebec in 1957 and the subsequent Gaspe Law Suit of 1960 between Noranda and the United Steel Workers of America. The fonds also includes extensive correspondence between Zimmerman and various levels of government regarding the lobbying of government on forestry policy and correspondence with various environmental lobbying groups in the 1980s including correspondence with well-known environmentalist David Suzuki.
Subjects include all facets of business operations pertaining to Canadian forestry and mining sectors including labour issues, environmental impacts of industrial developments, industry and effects on the Canadian economy, the free trade debate, the softwood lumber issue etc.
The fonds provides a detailed archival record of Mr. Zimmerman’s contribution to the building of Noranda Forest in Canada, Northwood Pulp & Timber in BC and Noranda Inc. as a resource-based conglomerate. Many records were utilized by Mr. Zimmerman in the writing of his book, Who’s in Charge Here, Anyway?: reflections from a life in business, (Don Mills, Ontario: Stoddart; Distributed in Canada by General Distribution Services), 1997.
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