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Item is a photograph of the grade 5 class with their teacher Mr. Williston in Princeton School in 1937.

Item is a photograph of the girls basketball team in Salmon Arm. Ray Williston is on the left.

Item is a photograph of Ray Williston and Bruce Brown with a bicycle.

Item is a photograph of a class of elementary school children from the Craigflower School in Victoria. Ray began attending there in 1922.

Item is a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Williston in the summer of 1987 at their retirement home in Gibson’s, BC.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston’s wife Eileen.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston receiving an honourary doctorate from UBC President Dr. Kenney in May 1982.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston’s mother at the age of 86 years.

Item is a photograph of a self-dumping log barge in action.

Item is a photograph of the Board of Directors of the British Columbia Cellulose Company. Pictured from left are: Mr. Harvey of Plateau Mills, Ted Vezak of Ocean Falls Corporation, Ken McKenzie, Ray Williston, John Liersch, Jack Sigalet of Kootenay Forest Products, Ian Mahood, and Don Watson.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston on May 18, 1976 at his desk at BC Cellulose with the Hermes portable typewriter he purchased in 1938.

Item is a photograph of a forested area southwest of Chittagong, Bangladesh close to the border with Burma.

Item is a photograph of the Russian helicopter which Ray used to survey timber on the border between Bangladesh and Burma.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston seated at his desk in his office in Victoria.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston speaking at the “Resources for the future Conference” in Montreal in 1962.

Item is a photograph of the women and children on Rathrevor Beach.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston presenting Mr. Paget, retiring Deputy Minister of Water Resources, with a certificate for meritorious service.

Item is a photograph of retiring Water Resources Deputy Minister Arthur Paget congratulating incoming Deputy Minister Walter Rauvsep while Mr. Williston looks on.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston and his son Dr. Hubert Williston in May 1967 canoeing down the Parsnip / Peace system before the W.A.C. Bennett Dam flooded the area.

Item is a photograph of the Bennett Dam.

Item is a photograph of the concrete spillway.

Item is a photograph of the construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam spillway.

Item is a photograph of the beltway used to carry aggregate to the Dam site.

Item is a photograph of dinosaur footprints discovered at the W.A.C. Bennett Dam site.

Item is a photograph of the coffer dam built to isolate the construction site for the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.

Item is a photograph of the three tunnels built to divert the Peace River around the Bennett Dam construction site.

Item is a photograph of the construction of a temporary river bed to divert the Peace River during construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.

Item is a photograph of the explosion which opened up the diversion route for the Peace River during construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.

Item is a photograph of the diversion tunnel as engineers plan to blast the plug to allow the Peace River to be diverted for construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.

Item is a photograph of Ray Williston standing beside a plaque at the dedication of the Peace River Power Project Substation bearing his name in Prince George on August 30, 1965.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston receiving the Man of the Year Award from the Newsmen’s Club of BC for outstanding achievement in public service. The award was presented by Dr. John B. MacDonald, President of UBC on November 7, 1964.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston receiving the Man of the Year Award from the Newsmen’s Club of BC for outstanding achievement in public service. The award was presented by Dr. John B. MacDonald, President of UBC on November 7, 1964.

Item is a photograph of the exchange of notes during the signing of the protocol and power sale agreements with reference to the Columbia River Treaty on January 22, 1964. Seated from the left are: Paul Martin, Sr., Lester B. Pearson, Lyndon Johnson and Dean Rusk. Mr. Williston is behind and to the right of President Johnson.

Item is a photograph of the exchange of notes during the signing of the protocol and power sale agreements with reference to the Columbia River Treaty on January 22, 1964. Seated from the left are: Paul Martin, Sr., Lester B. Pearson, Lyndon Johnson and Dean Rusk. Mr. Williston is behind and to the right of President Johnson.

Item is a photograph of the signing of the protocol agreements with reference to the Columbia River Treaty at the White House on January 22, 1964. Seated from the left are: Paul Martin, Sr., Lester B. Pearson, Lyndon Johnson and Dean Rusk. Mr. Williston is in the second row on the right.

Item is a photograph of the signing of the protocol agreements with reference to the Columbia River Treaty at the White House on January 22, 1964. Seated from the left seated are: Paul Martin, Sr., Lester B. Pearson and Lyndon Johnson. Mr. Williston is on the extreme right at the edge of the picture.

Item is a photograph of Dennis Kennedy of BC Hydro, Gordon McNabb head of the federal engineering advisory team, and Gordon Kidd of the BC Water Resources Branch.

Item is a photograph of the B.C. Electric Board taken the day after the company’s take over by the Social Credit government on August 1, 1961. Pictured from the left are: Bill Means, former Lieutenant-Governor Frank Ross, Einar Gunderson, board secretary W. Goth, Gordon Shrum, Mr. Williston, Hydro lawyer Arthur Fouks and John Dunsmuir.

Item is a photograph of Premier W.A.C. Bennett, members of the cabinet and other officials on the engine of a Pacific Great Eastern Railway train during inaugural run celebrations in Fort St. John on October 4, 1958. Mr. Williston is on the extreme right.

Item is a photograph of Premier W.A.C. Bennett, members of the cabinet and other officials on the engine of a Pacific Great Eastern Railway train during inaugural run celebrations in Fort St. John on October 4, 1958. Mr. Williston is second from the right, his face partially hidden by the camera he is holding.

Item is a photograph of Bert Leboe, MP for Peace River, watching the construction of a trading boat traditionally used in the Peace / Parsnip area. These boats were used to conduct surveys and transport supplies during the construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.

Item is a photograph of the McGregor family on land that was subsequently flooded to create the reservoir for the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.

Item is a photograph of Percy Gray and pilot Ian Watt gassing up their plane at Finlay Forks before continuing their survey of the Rocky Mountain Trench in March 1957.

Item is a photograph of Finlay Forks trader Roy McGregor, pilot Ian Watt and British resource development designer Percy Gray in March 1957 after the first leg of Grey’s flight over the Rocky Mountain Trench.

Item is a photograph of Ray Williston at a banquet hosted by Sanyo Pulp Ltd. in May 1970. Mr. Williston is flanked by Vern Stothert of Stothert Veco Consultants Ltd., who designed BC Forest products’ mill in Mackenzie and Margaret Nagy, who was scouting financing for a pulp mill in Bella Coola.

Item is a photograph of Ray Williston planting a dogwood tree at the Museum’s grand opening on May 17, 1969. Behind Mr. Williston is NDP Leader Robert Strachan standing beside Premier W.A.C. Bennett. On the extreme left is Mr. George Wellbourn who donated all the equipment to the museum.

Item is a photograph of officials attending the June opening of the Crestwood Forest Industries pulp mill in Cranbrook, until that time the only pulp mill built without benefit of a Pulp Harvesting Area (PHA) license to assure timber supply. Mr. Williston is on the left.

Item is a photograph of Ben Ginter signing the agreement for Eurocan’s pulp mill license while Mr. Williston looks on.

Item is a formal portrait of Ray Williston.

Item is a photograph of a CP Rail chip car being dumped. The development of the interior chip pulp industry necessitated new designs for chip rail cars and their dumping facilities.