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Series consists of timber sale contracts, correspondence, logging inspection reports, diagrams, datasheets, prescription reports, and maps.

Fonds consists of records Harry Coates created or received and retained during his career as a BC Forest Service Research Technician and into his retirement as a Sustainable Forest Management activist. Fonds includes materials from his work at the Aleza Lake Research Forest.

Series consists of cartographic materials including maps and blueprints of the Aleza Lake Research Forest. The maps reflect permanent sample plots and other study areas. The blueprints outline details for the development of a Ranger Station.

Fonds consists of textual, photographic, cartographic, electronic and promotional films/video recordings related to the mining operations of Cassiar Asbestos Mining Corporation (CAMC) and creation of Cassiar townsite. CAMC records primarily consist of records related to mining operations including construction, engineering, daily mining operations, administration of CAMC, tallies of extractions, labour and union activities, corporate events and visits by dignitaries. Townsite records are primarily visual representations of townsite construction, including the creation of health, education and community services including Cassiar's private hospital, school, library, as well as townsite images. Photographs include documentation of natural and man-made landscapes within the Cassiar region of Northern BC. Other holdings include a near complete run of Cassiar's community newspaper.

The Cartographic Materials series consists of maps, plans, schematics and blueprints documenting a wide variety of subject areas pertaining to both the operation of the Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd., and the company township of Cassiar, B.C.

This travel scrapbook was created by Jill Singleton to document a trip to Alaska, Yukon, Haida Gwaii, and northern BC. Jill Singleton and Eric Stathers embarked on a 1985 car camping trip using the BC Ferries and Alaska Ferry systems. Includes postcards, ephemera, handwritten notes, pamphlets, issues of local newspapers, and maps. Also includes 37 photographs.

Includes the following:

• "Queen Charlotte Islands Observer" newspaper issue for August 8, 1985
• "A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Queen Charlotte City", June 1985
• "A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Tlell + Port Clements", June 1985
• "A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Skidegate Landing, Skidegate and Sandspit", June 1985
• "A Walking Tour and Business Directory for Masset", June 1985
• "Explorations Q.C.I." pamphlet advertising guiding, outfitting, and touring
• "Sandspit Inn, Queen Charlotte Islands" pamphlet
• "Visit the Queen Charlottes" pamphlet
• Queen Charlotte Islands map, circa 1985
• BC Ferries pamphlet "New in 1985... Inside Passage Day Cruise"
• BC Ferries pamphlet "Tickets and Boarding Information, Inside Passage"
• "Alaska Marine Highway" pamphlet
• "Discover Southeast Alaska, Ketchikan" pamphlet
• "Alaska State Parks" pamphlet/map
• "Tongass National Forest, Alaska" pamphlet/map
• "Alaska Marine Highway Summer Schedule - May 1, 1985 through September 30, 1985" pamphlet
• History leaflet for St. Michael's Cathedral, Sitka, AK
• Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute leaflets, 1984
• Anchorage 1984 Visitors Guide, Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau
• "Skagway... some Steps on the Gold Rush Trail... walking Tour of the Historic District - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park"
• "Skaguay Alaskan" newspaper issue, Vol. VIII, No. 1880 (1985)
• "Klondike Gold Rush" pamphlet for tourists
• "Broadway, Skagway, Alaska" pamphlet
• "S.S. Tutshi, Carcross" pamphlet
• "Moon Watching" pamphlet by BC Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing (1980)
• "Some Insects of Provincial Parks" pamphlet by BC Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing (1980)
• "Stewart, British Columbia - Hyder, Alaska... Your Gateway to Alaska and the Yukon!" pamphlet
• "Stewart-Cassiar Highway 37" map
• "Prince Rupert City Map & Guide" pamphlet
• "Explore Canada's Yellowhead, Western Canada's New Interprovincial Highway" pamphlet (1983)
• "101 Things To Do in Yukon" booklet published by Tourism Yukon (1985)
• "Your Guide to B.C. Ferries' Inside Passage" booklet by British Columbia Ferry Corporation (1985)
• "Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada" booklet (1981)

Trip itinerary:

• Vancouver, BC
• Nanaimo, BC
• Port Hardy, BC
• Prince Rupert, BC
• Yakoun River, BC
• Haida Gwaii, BC (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands)
• Rennell Sound, BC
• Graham Island, BC
• Queen Charlotte City, BC
• Sandspit, BC
• Prince Rupert, BC
• Ketchikan, AK
• Sitka, AK
• Tenakee Springs, AK
• Juneau, AK
• Skagway, BC
• Carcross, YK
• Atlin, BC
• Telegraph Creek, BC
• Kitwanga, BC
• Prince Rupert, BC
• Prince George, BC
• Lillooet, BC
• Vancouver, BC

Subseries consists of publications, manuscripts, and drafts of worked written, co-written, or edited by G. Gary Runka over the course of his career. Also includes conference proceedings that contain contributions by G. Gary Runka.

Item is an original copy of "Soil Resources of the Smithers-Hazelton Area" by G.G. Runka at the Soil Survey Division, BC Department of Agriculture. Includes two accompanying maps.

Subseries includes works collected by G. Gary Runka. Runka collected a comprehensive resource library of publications, reports, and rare grey literature that reflected the depth and breadth of natural resource issues in British Columbia. Material from this resource library was intrinsically tied to Runka's work; selected unique items from the resource library are contained within this sub-series to contextualize the scope of land management issues.

Item is a reproduction of a draft "Fort Nelson Land and Resource Management Plan", accompanied by an original 1997 "Fort Nelson L.R.M.P. Plan Area" map produced by BC Ministry of Forests for the Fort Nelson LRMP Working Group.

File consists of records created and accumulated by Gary Runka over the course of his consultancy work for Corporation of the Township of Richmond for the "Preparation of Background Agriculture Study for Community Plan" project in Richmond. This file was numbered as G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd. client file #107; that client number may be seen referenced elsewhere in the G. Gary Runka fonds. The Land Sense Ltd. client files generally include records such as correspondence, contracts, invoices, project reports, publications, ephemera, memoranda, maps or map excerpts, legal documents, meeting materials, clippings, and handwritten notes.

Includes:

• Township of Richmond Planning Department, "The Richmond Official Community Plan", Sept. 1986
• Township of Richmond Planning Department, "Official Community Plan Issue Paper No. 3 - Agricultural Issues", Sept. 1984.

3 duplicate copies available.

File consists of records created and accumulated by Gary Runka over the course of his consultancy work for B.C. Women's Institutes for the "Site C - Environmental Impact Statement Technical Review" project in Site C. This file was numbered as G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd. client file #671; that client number may be seen referenced elsewhere in the G. Gary Runka fonds. The Land Sense Ltd. client files generally include records such as correspondence, contracts, invoices, project reports, publications, ephemera, memoranda, maps or map excerpts, legal documents, meeting materials, clippings, and handwritten notes. Also includes an oversize bound map book by BC Hydro entitled "Preliminary Impact Lines and Preferred Highway 29 Realignments Maps" for the Site C project, published April 2012.

File consists of Gary Runka's records during his roles as general manager of the BC Land Commission (appointed 1973) and as the chairman of the Agricultural Land Commission (1975-1978) during its formative years. Includes correspondence, reports, informational material, and maps. Highlights include:

• A statement by Gordan Gram delivered 30 March 1976 entitled "Land Commission: Acquisition and Land Management"
• "Brief to the Commission of Inquiry on Property Assessment and Taxation" submitted by the B.C. Land Commission (29 April 1976)
• "Possibilities for Improved Land Management of Class 4 Lands in ALR: A Report to the British Columbia Land Commission" by Terence Lewis (12 Dec. 1975)
• Newspaper articles about the Commission's work and Runka's departure in 1978
• "Script for: Saving the Land - Bernholtz Study Project - A Slide Tape Presentation"
• "Green Paper on Planning for Agriculture: Food Land Guidelines" from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (1977)
• "Where Have the Farm Lands Gone?" pamphlet (1979)
• "Official Regional, Settlement, Community Plan Project 1978-1979"
• "Preserving Agricultural Land: Guidelines for Action" booklet (1978)
• Gary Runka's 1978 resignation letter

Maps include:

• Photocopy of BC Provincial Land Commission, "Agricultural Land Reserve Plan, East Kootenay Regional District", map no. 82K/9, base sheet 16 of 17, last amended July 1994.
• Photocopy of BC Provincial Land Commission, "Agricultural Land Reserve Plan, East Kootenay Regional District", map no. 82G/12, base sheet 8 of 17, last amended Oct. 1995.
• Photocopy of BC Provincial Land Commission, "Agricultural Land Reserve Plan, Thompson-Nicola Regional District", map no. 92L/1, base sheet 14 of 43, original dated August 1974.
• Photocopy of BC Provincial Land Commission, "Agricultural Land Reserve Plan, Thompson-Nicola Regional District", map no. 92L/2, base sheet 15 of 43, last amended Oct. 1998.
• Reproduction of B.C. Land Inventory (C.L.I.) base map 82E/3 showing Agricultural Land Reserve Boundary in the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District, amended to July 1996.
• Reproduction of B.C. Land Inventory (C.L.I.) base map 82E/6 showing Agricultural Land Reserve Boundary in the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District, originally dated February 1974.
• Reproduction of B.C. Land Inventory (C.L.I.) base map 82E/12 showing Agricultural Land Reserve Boundary in the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District, amended to Oct. 1995.

File consists of records created and accumulated by Gary Runka over the course of his consultancy work for Canoe Creek Indian Band for the "Overview of Issues and Concerns Related to Transmission Line Corridor Component" project in Dog Creek. This file was numbered as G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd. client file #650; that client number may be seen referenced elsewhere in the G. Gary Runka fonds. The Land Sense Ltd. client files generally include records such as correspondence, contracts, invoices, project reports, publications, ephemera, memoranda, maps or map excerpts, legal documents, meeting materials, clippings, and handwritten notes. File also includes 2 accompanying DVDs.

Maps include:

• Reproduction of NTS map Bambrick Creek 92-O/11 Edition 2 showing photocopied overlay depicting planned transmission line corridor
• Reproduction of NTS map Mount Alex 92-O/10 Edition 3 showing photocopied overlay depicting planned transmission line corridor
• Reproduction of NTS map Gustafsen Lake 92-P/12 Edition 2 showing photocopied overlay depicting planned transmission line corridor
• Reproduction of NTS map Dog Creek 92-O/9 Edition 3 showing photocopied overlay depicting planned transmission line corridor
• Reproduction of NTS map Mount Tatlow 92-O/5 Edition 2 showing photocopied overlay depicting planned transmission line corridor
• Reproduction of NTS map Elkin Creek 92-O/12 Edition 2 showing photocopied overlay depicting planned transmission line corridor
• Jacques Whitford - AXYS Ltd. for Taseko Mines Ltd. Prosperity Project, "Taseko Transmission Corridor Orthophotography Series 1" draft map, August 2008 (revision #2).
• Jacques Whitford - AXYS Ltd. for Taseko Mines Ltd. Prosperity Project, "Taseko Transmission Corridor Orthophotography Series 2" draft map, August 2008 (revision #2).
• Jacques Whitford - AXYS Ltd. for Taseko Mines Ltd. Prosperity Project, "Taseko Transmission Corridor Orthophotography Series 3" draft map, August 2008 (revision #2).
• Stswecem'c Xgat'tem Natural Resources Department, untitled map showing reserves and transmission corridor, scale 1:26,779, May 2009.
• Stswecem'c Xgat'tem Natural Resources Department, untitled map showing reserves and transmission corridor and transmission line, scale 1:35,705, May 2009.
• Stswecem'c Xgat'tem Natural Resources Department, untitled map showing reserves and transmission corridor, scale 1:63,476, May 2009.

File consists of records created and accumulated by Gary Runka over the course of his consultancy work for BC Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management for the "Facilitation and Mediation of Central Coast Land and Resource Management Plan" project in Central Coast. This file was numbered as G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd. client file #578; that client number may be seen referenced elsewhere in the G. Gary Runka fonds. The Land Sense Ltd. client files generally include records such as correspondence, contracts, invoices, project reports, publications, ephemera, memoranda, maps or map excerpts, legal documents, meeting materials, clippings, and handwritten notes.

Maps include:

• BC Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management Decision Support Services for Treaty Negotiations Office, "Central Coast LRMP", Nov. 2003.
• Nature Conservancy Canada, "Bella Coola Valley CIT Input and Analysis", Dec. 2005.

Area covered: Howe Sound to Maple Ridge/Langley / Coquitlam Lake to international boundary.
Shows: lost streams & shores; existing streams & shores; existing freshwater bodies of water; roads; municipalities.
Verso: Stewarding our local streams; Stream stories; text; illustrations.
Contemporary stream information from TRIM program.

Map depicts forest and non-forest land on Vancouver Island.

Photocopied map depicts mineral and coal mining properties in north western British Columbia.