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Item is a photograph of Ray Williston receiving an honorary degree at the University of Northern British Columbia from Chancellor Iona Campagnolo.

Item is a photograph of the Boy’s Parliament taken on the steps of the Legislature in Victoria. Mr. Williston is on the left in the second row from the front.

Item is a photograph of the Princeton cast of the play “Whatever happened to Jones”. Mr. Williston is on the far left.

Item is a photograph of Gladys Williston sitting at a campfire during her and Mr. Williston’s Hope to Princeton trek in the summer of 1939.

Item is a photograph of the elementary and secondary school staff in Princeton in June 1939. Mr. Williston is first on the left in the front row. Bill Lucas (centre front row) and Cecil Ritchie (second from the left back row) also became school superintendents.

Item is a photograph of graduates of the Service Flying Training school in Calgary taken on October 27, 1944. Ray Williston is third from the left in the front row.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston being sworn as Minister of Education on April 14, 1954. From left: Aide-de-Camp Pennington, Lieutenant-Governor Clarence Wallace, Mrs. Wallace, unknown, Mr. Williston, Premier W.A.C. Bennett and Provincial Secretary Wesley Black.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston completing 500 miles in his personal centennial project of running the equivalent of the distance to Prince George. The run took place on the YMCA track in Victoria.

Item is a photograph of Alex Moffat dressed as a prospector holding gold nuggets he salted into a gravel bed and later panned out and gave to Princess Margaret.

Item is a photograph of Ray Williston with Prince Takamatsu at the Japanese Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 26, 1970.

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 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 the coffer dam built to isolate the construction site for the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.

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

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

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 the Russian helicopter which Ray used to survey timber on the border between Bangladesh and Burma.

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

Item is a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Williston cutting an anniversary cake in front of some of their grandchildren in the West Burnaby United Church Hall in April 1979.

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

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

Item is a photograph of the Reid Lake School.

Item is a photograph of Ray Williston and other cabinet ministers paddling a birch bark canoe in the grass during BC Centennial celebrations in Prince George.

Originally mounted on poster with photographs 115.1, 115.2, 115.3.

Photograph depicts two men at a sawmill. A beehive burner is in the background.

Item is a photograph of a forested area with a partially frozen river, exact location unknown.

Item is a photograph of a small mill operation.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston with a group of men at a logging operation, exact location unknown. Mr. Williston is second from the right.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston presenting Arthur Paget, former Deputy Minister of Water Resources, with a gift on the occasion of Mr. Paget’s retirement.

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston lecturing, location unknown.

Item is a photograph of a boy carrying a bundle of books on his head.

Item is a photograph of men talking in a lumber yard.

Item is a photograph of men doing wood construction.

Item is a photograph of a man carrying bamboo poles.

Item is a photograph of piles of bark in a field.

Item is a photograph of people harvesting grain by hand.

Item is a photograph of a man on the side of a river fishing with a net.

Item is a photograph of the wooden trusses of a bridge.

Item is a photograph of a stack of logs with a crane in the background.

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

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

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

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

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

Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston in Fredericton in February 1974.