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File consists of a report by the Lower Mainland Regional Planning Board of B.C. regarding the facilities that serve households and standards of lower mainland dwelling facilities. The study correlates with a larger "Land for Living" report about land development in the Lower Mainland.

Collection of photographs of the construction of the crushing plant and related services at Cassiar in 1963. The work was contracted out to V.B. Humphrey Construction Ltd based out of North Vancouver. The photographs depict the foundation, installation of machinery, erection of steel frame building, and conveyor system. D.G Garret Foreman was in charge of the project.

Two men bent over ground (one with a shovel) inside semi-finished wood structure. Mountainside in background.

File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: correspondence.

File consists of issues of the literary periodical entitled "Evidence", including issue 7.

Footage of a man filleting a fish on an ocean-going boat.

Footage of ducks flying off a lake.

Possible locations of the film include Nimpo Lake, Anahim Lake, or Lassard Lake.

Footage of men unloading hay for cattle from a horse-drawn flat bed trailer, a panoramic view of the surrounding mountains, and people being driven in flat bed tractor out to a small silver plane and taking off.

File consists of material relating to William John "Wiggs" O'Neill, a riverboat pioneer. Wiggs began working on a Skeena River sternwheeler in 1898 and continued working on the river until the end of the steamboat era in 1911. He then moved to Smithers, where he operated the first power plant and owned an auto agency for 43 years. Materials include two books, newspaper clippings, and reproductions of journal articles. Highlights include:

• Wiggs O'Neill, "Steamboat Days on the Skeena River British Columbia", 1963 (book)
• Wiggs O'Neill, "Whitewater Man of the Skeena", 1960 (book)

File contains correspondence, bound reports, comptroller information, and accounting information for the Free Piston Development Company.

File consists of:

• "Development Study - Northern Resources" by the Columbia Cellulose Company, Limited, September, 1963. This report includes: background information on the company and a contextual background of forestry in British Columbia; a description of resources and proposed facilities, which covers northern wood resources and requirements for future sulphite and sulphate mills; an economic study for new Kraft operations.
• 2 maps: one of British Columbia entitled "Status of Sustained-Yield Forestry Programme as at 31 December 1962" by the Department of Lands, Forests, and Water Resources; the other of British Columbia Forest Service Forest: Surveys and Inventory Division, Key Map Showing: Maps published on scale 1 inch to 2 miles and summary zones of the provincial forest inventory by the Department of Lands and Forests (1957).

File consists of photocopied material regarding the Aleza Lake Experimental Station from BC Archives.

File consists of photocopied material regarding the Aleza Lake Experimental Station from BC Archives.

File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: report.

File contents relate to: Cassiar Mine - operation and administration. Document type(s) include: report.

Footage of Dr. Triffenhagen putting mill eggs as bait on a hook for fishing. Speculated locations include the Bella Coola River or the Dean River.

Footage of fly fishing in a river, possibly the Bella Coola or Dean River, as well as footage of a caribou herd in the high country of possibly the Rainbow Mountains.

Footage of man holding up and examining a moose head trophy in winter.

Possible locations include the Chilcotin region, Rainbow Mountains or Tweedsmuir Provincial Park.

Man fly-fishing from river shore.

The river is believed to be the Bella Coola River or the Dean River.

Footage of a Black bear on a river bank.

Possible locations of filming could be Dean River or Bella Coola River.

Footage of black bear on rocks by river shore. The bear eventually runs away into the surrounding forest.

Winter footage at a ranch, believed to be "Pan's." Film includes recordings of the men loading a tractor with an attached flatbed with gear, putting horses in the corral, and feeding cows hay from a flatbed sleigh pulled by a horse.

Location is believed to be Bella Coola or Tchaha Lake.

File contains Adam Zimmerman's first draft of reply regarding the Gaspe Copper Mine lawsuit claim.

File consists of a BC Railway Historical Association publication by Elwood White and David Wilkie entitled "Shays on the Switchbacks: A History of the Narrow Gauge Lenora, Mt. Sicker Railway".

Map is an original linen Aleza Lake Experiment Forest map that reflects the reserve boundary, roads, trails, 20 feet contour intervals, air photo centre, declination, swamps, and mile posts.

Item is reproduction of a report by W.G. Smith entitled "Investigation of the Elk River Game Reserve".