Map depicts railway lines in the state of Washington, including those crossing over the border into British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Red Mountain Lumber Company mill owned by Roy Spurr in Penny, BC in 1929. Scattered all around the mill are the remnants of the previous coniferous forest that was destroyed in the Penny Fire that occurred 2 years earlier.
Photograph depicts Red Mountain Lumber Company mill owned by Roy Spurr in Penny, BC in 1929. Scattered all around the mill are the remnants of the previous coniferous forest that was destroyed in the Penny Fire that occurred 2 years earlier.
Photograph depicts Red Mountain Lumber Company mill owned by Roy Spurr in Penny, BC in 1929. Scattered all around the mill are the remnants of the previous coniferous forest that was destroyed in the Penny Fire that occurred 2 years earlier.
Photograph depicts Red Mountain Lumber Company mill owned by Roy Spurr in Penny, BC in 1929. Scattered all around the mill are the remnants of the previous coniferous forest that was destroyed in the Penny Fire that occurred 2 years earlier.
Plan depicts sections, elevations, and floor plans for the addition to the Kamloops roundhouse.
Photograph depicts Red Mountain Lumber Company mill owned by Roy Spurr in Penny, BC in 1929. Scattered all around the mill are the remnants of the previous coniferous forest that was destroyed in the Penny Fire that occurred 2 years earlier.
Photograph depicts Red Mountain Lumber Company mill owned by Roy Spurr in Penny, BC in 1929. Scattered all around the mill are the remnants of the previous coniferous forest that was destroyed in the Penny Fire that occurred 2 years earlier.
Architectural block plan depicts a proposed addition to the CNR roundhouse in Kamloops.
Man driving a two horse cart in front of beehive burner, cart is full of bark presumably sawed off the logs.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Mill Burner".
Six men visible on hillside and wood plank roadway, working together to roll cut logs down the hill and load them onto the truck.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso read: “logs up to 32 feet in length.”
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a switchback, wood plank logging road.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Truck Logging / Giscome BC.”
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a wood plank logging road. Another road under construction is also visible through forest in background.
Overview of the Giscome sawmill behind road. Lumber yard is visible in foreground while mill stands in background.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Giscome Mill / lumber yard in foreground".
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a wood plank logging road. Another road under construction is also visible through forest in background.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Logging - Giscome B.C. Plank truck road - also road under construction showing sills & cribbing."
Overview of Giscome, BC showing built and natural landscape.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Bunkhouse & Dining Room / Giscome BC".
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Daily Capacity 100,000 f.b.m. sawmill in foreground planer mill and lumber yard in background.”
An “Indiana” flatbed logging truck releases logs from its load onto a makeshift log slide at the edge of a road.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "unloading logs".
File contains:
- Signed Christmas greeting card from British Columbia Railway, circa 1973-1983
- Original commemorative presentation folio with railway illustration print and leaflet "The President and Directors of the Northern Pacific Railway Company announce the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Completion of the First Northern Transcontinental Railway System, September 8, 1883 - September 8, 1933"
Collection consists of records created and collected by Robert "Bob" Stowell (1922-2018) and his son Bill Stowell over the course of their careers in the British Columbia forestry industry.
Bob Stowell spent the majority of his 50+ year forestry career with The Pas Lumber Co. (B.C.) Ltd. in Prince George, BC as their Woodlands Manager between 1965-1991. Bob Stowell's records from The Pas Lumber Co. (B.C.) Ltd. include photographs, company histories, speeches, memoranda, correspondence, reports, and news clippings.
Bill Stowell worked for numerous forestry companies across British Columbia over the course of his forestry career (1977-2018). His collected material predominantly consists of forestry-related clippings from newspapers and periodicals, along with forestry-related publications like pamphlets, booklets, and reports. Represented among Bill Stowell's records are correspondence, memoranda, reports, and ephemera from Tolko Industries Ltd. and other various forestry companies.
Zonder titelPhoto is adhered to paper backing, upon which handwritten annotation on recto reads: “Placer mining Hixon B.C. Hungry 30ies. This picture taken on top of hill across from Quesnel Quartz Mine maybe 800 ft west of Quartz taken approx 45 yrs ago (1933) 1978.12.19”
Photograph depicts a freight truck carrying timber at Peden Hill Sawmill.
Photograph depicts two men perched on top of a freight truck carrying a load of timber at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts two wooden buildings in a snow covered forest environment. Photo is adhered to paper backing, upon which handwritten annotation on recto reads: “Quesnelle Quartz Mining Co. Hixon BCTaken in mid 1930ies. Power house from rear. Present day (1973) Logging road would run through powerhouse at immediate rear of it at which you are looking. Tom Marsh Box 150 Squamish BC 1978.12”
Photograph depicts a dam and spillway obstructing a creek. Photo is adhered to paper backing, upon which handwritten annotation on recto reads: “This is the dam and spillway about nine miles up Hixon Creek belonging to the Hixon Creek Cariboo Gold Co., whose main camp on Hixon Creek was at the falls. A fellow Sterling or Bill Tordiffe & I took a contract to cut the logs for this dam in January 1934. The first few winters Quart [sic] Quesnel Quartz had to shut down for snow”
Photograph depicts a sawmill with a dry kiln next to a rail line. The location and name of the sawmill is unknown.
Photograph depicts a man standing near a log deck at a sawmill, possibly at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts a man standing next to a log chute bringing logs out of the Fraser River into a backchannel at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts Cornel Neronovitch at a Peden Hill sawmill. Caption on back of photograph states: "Cornel Neronovitch".
Photograph depicts a snow-covered forest clearing with six structures and a truck. Buildings have been numbered 1-8 with pen. Original handwritten annotations on verso of photograph are signed by Tom Marsh. Photograph is taped to paper. Typed annotation on recto of paper reads: “1. Bridge over creek. 2. Blacksmith shop. 3. Powerhouse. 4. Headframe over 200’ shaft. 5. Office 6. Water tanks from powerhouse. 7. Bunkhouse. 8. Truck. 9. Cookhouse behind #6 cannot be seen. We were always able to find the cookhouse even though hidden in this picture. Taken about 1935 by Russell Ross, supt. Quesnel Quarts Mine. Tom Marsh, Box 156, Squamish B. C.”
Photograph depicts two men on a log deck, possibly at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts two wooden buildings in a snow covered forest environment. Photo is adhered to paper backing, upon which handwritten annotation on recto reads: “Quesnelle Quartz mining Company Hixon, B.C. Taken in mid nineteen thirties. Powerhouse from rear. Present day (1973) logging road would run through powerhouse at immediate rear of it at which you are looking. Tom Marsh Box 156 Squamish BC V0N 3G0 December 1978”
Photograph depicts a wooden flume funneling water in a forested area. Photo is adhered to paper backing, upon which handwritten annotation on recto reads: “First wash for gold by Hixon Creek Cariboo Gold Co. Across Hixon from Quesnel Quartz up the hill. North side of creek 1930’s”
Photograph depicts a Fraser River backchannel with logs at Peden Hill sawmill. The jackladder to the sawmill is visible on the bottom right.
Photograph depicts a male worker operating a gin pole, winch and jammer to hoist logs onto a logging truck at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts horse logging.
Photograph depicts a wooden flume funneling water in a forested area. Photo is adhered to paper backing. Original annotations on verso of photo are covered by paper mounting. Typed annotation on recto of paper reads: “First wash for gold by Hixon Creek Cariboo Gold Co. Across Hixon from Quesnel Quartz up the hill. North side of creek 1930’s”
Photograph depicts a log jack-ladder up to Nash Sawmill, co-owned by Cornel Neronovitch and Fred Tesluk. This sawmill was steam powered and burnt down in 1941. The sawmill was located on a back-channel of the Fraser River.
Photograph depicts a young man sitting at the top of an active sawmill jackladder at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts a log boom in the Fraser River. These logs were waiting to go into jackladder and down the log chute into the Fraser River backchannel at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts a man sitting on a truck that is transporting logs at Peden Hill Sawmill.
Plan depicts the CNR rail yard in Kamloops. The plan was originally drafted on March 6, 1928 and updated to July 1937.
Photograph depicts two men felling a tree using a two-man crosscut saw in the Prince George area for processing at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts a loaded logging truck on corduroy log road near Peden Hill sawmill. The truck has three passengers--a man and two women--sitting on top of the loaded logs. The leftmost passenger is Mrs. Fred Tesluk; Fred Tesluk co-owned the Peden Hill mill with Cornel Neronovitch. Cornel Neronovitch stands at the right of the photograph, in front of the truck.
Photograph depicts two men on a 'Maple Leaf' Chevrolet truck's running board in an active logging area near Peden Hill sawmill. The truck is hauling raw logs. The man at the right of photograph is Cornel Neronovitch.
Photograph depicts Cornel Neronovitch standing by a 'Maple Leaf' Chevrolet truck near the Peden Hill sawmill. Raw logs are stacked and chained on the truck.
Photograph depicts two men using a gin pole, winch and jammer to load raw logs onto a logging truck, likely near Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts three men loading raw logs onto a 'Maple Leaf' Chevrolet truck near the Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts piles of stacked logs awaiting processing near Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts the Peden Hill sawmill, after the mill was rebuilt after the first mill burnt down in 1941. The first mill was operated by steam; the second mill was powered by a diesel-powered motor.