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Photograph depicts part of a brown and white building similar to the "Director's Lodge" at Cassiar, B.C. (see items 2000.1.1.3.19.88 and 2000.1.1.3.19.89). Unidentified individuals visible inside greenhouse in fenced back yard. Forest in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Cassiar June 15 71".

Image depicts a cow at an uncertain location.

Photograph depicts a cow with a bell around its neck standing in the front yard of a house.

Item is a photograph of forests and farms from the air.

Image depicts an agricultural field, most likely near Prince George, B.C.

Image depicts some farmland near Alexandria, B.C.

Slide depicts an apple tree blossoming in a backyard. The yard is surrounded by a wooden fence. Original slide index description: "Apple blossoms Kelowna."

Item is a photograph of a river bend and the surrounding country taken from the air.

Item is a photograph of a rural area taken from the air.

Item is a photograph of boats docked on the shore behind piles of grain or straw.

Item is a photograph of rows of plants in a garden.

Item is a photograph of people harvesting grain by hand.

Item is a photograph of a woman working in a field.

Image depicts a field of hay somewhere in Beaver Valley.

Photograph features a wooden box of pears sitting on grass, bushes in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "This is a prize box of pears." It is believed that this photograph was given to Lillian & A.K. Bourchier by their niece Jean.

Slide depicts cherry trees blossoming in an orchard. Original slide index description: "Cherry blossoms Lakeview Heights."

Image depicts a view of some farm land in Chetwynd, B.C.

Photograph depicts the Copeland ranch on a bench of the Fraser River in Lillooet, BC.

Image depicts two unidentified individuals and a van on a farm at an uncertain location, possibly a place called Cypress Hill, with an atmometer and a sunshine recorder.

Image depicts a farmhouse in Dome Creek, B.C.

Image depicts a horse and a barn in Dome Creek, B.C.

Image depicts a small farm located in Dome Creek, B.C.

Image depicts a view of an experimental farm, possibly taken from Tabor Mountain.

Image depicts a farm at an uncertain location.

Image depicts a farm likely in Woodpecker, B.C.

Image depicts a farm likely in Woodpecker, B.C.

Image depicts a farm likely in Woodpecker, B.C.

Image depicts what appears to be a farm at an uncertain location.

Image depicts a farm at an uncertain location; possibly somewhere in the McGregor Valley.

Image depicts a farm at an uncertain location.

Image depicts a farm at an uncertain location.

Image depicts a farm at an unknown location.

Photograph depicts two horses in one of many fenced areas, buildings and machinery in background. Highway, house, and forest also visible in distance.

Photograph depicts snowy area speculated to be a farm yard in foreground. Frozen water crosses midground, opposite shore in distance.

Image depicts a street, possibly in Kamloops, which has been closed for a Sunday morning Farmer's Market.

Photograph depicts farmstead in cleared area of forest. Plowed and fenced area on left, buildings and firewood on right.

Typed caption glued to album page directly below photograph reads: "81. Field of Oats and Potatoes near Fort Fraser." Photographer: Dominion Stock & Bond Corporation.

Barbed wire fence in foreground, shed in background.

Turkeys in foreground, shed in background.

Firewood pile in left foreground. Buggy, wood house, and porch in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Wishing Aunt Lillian + Uncle Alan a very Merry Xmas and Happy New Year. Please do not criticize the stitches too closely Aunt Lillian. These snaps are some of part of my flock of 102 this year. These were snapped about a week before Thanksgiving. All the birds you see are this year's hatch. Some of them dressed 17 1/2 + 18 lbs at Thanksgiving. With love from Jean."

Typed caption glued to album page directly below photograph reads: "20. Vegetable Garden growing every kind of vegetable near Ft. Fraser." Photograph depicts rows within a vegetable garden. Photographer: Dominion Stock & Bond Corporation.

Image depicts a group of unidentified individuals in a greenhouse, possibly somewhere in Fort St. John, B.C.

Image depicts an unidentified man in a greenhouse, possibly somewhere in Fort St. John, B.C.

Photograph depicts young fruit trees planted in fenced area with small wind mill, hills in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "This is part of the fruit trees if you place it along side of the other one you can see the location the farm buildings are on the other side I didn't get one of them."

This fonds illustrates the life and work of G. Gary Runka and his contributions to the province of British Columbia. Gary Runka was the first General Manager of British Columbia's Agricultural Land Commission and helped establish the provincial Agricultural Land Reserve. After transitioning from a government career to private consulting, Runka provided comprehensive professional services through his land consultancy business, G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd., offering land capability and environmental assessments, integrated resource management, land and water use conflict resolution, and interdisciplinary land use planning. Described by colleagues as one of BC's most highly respected agrologists and influential land use planners, Runka had a 52-year career working on (or against) an incredible number of landmark projects in British Columbia, such as the Site C Project. Gary Runka’s partner in life and vocation, Joan M. Sawicki, worked with Gary on many of these projects—as well as her own; her contributions are also represented throughout the records of this fonds.

Gary Runka's deep connection to the land is evident from his earliest papers on aerial photo interpretation, his work with the Canada Land Inventory, through his speeches and his work establishing the BC Agricultural Land Reserve and in his subsequent consulting career through G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd. Gary Runka's influence and legacy was recognized in the tributes paid after his death, including the post-humus award as the Real Estate Foundation's "Land Champion" for 2014.

The G. Gary Runka fonds has been divided into the following nine series:
1) Personal Records
2) Speeches & Publications
3) Professional Records
4) Agricultural Land Commission
5) Land Sense Ltd.
6) Client Files
7) Maps
8) Photographs
9) Digital Records