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Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Bob St. Claire was an American forester who came to BC with an MF degree and some experience in the US Forest Service. He was familiar with the US Forest Experimental Stations. In 1923, as Assistant Chief Forester, he wrote a report recommending: 1) a research station centred in Victoria, and 2) an experiment station in each major forest region in the province. His recommendations were followed. In 1924, Aleza Lake Experimental Station was established and in 1929 Cowichan Lake Experimental Station was established. Bob St. Claire was Assistant Chief Forester three times, but never became Chief Forester.
Item consists of transcript of interview with Ambrose Trick discussing the sawmilling and logging industry in Northern BC, c.1930s-1950s including the 1953 strike; the creation of the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association. Trick also discusses his involvement in railway work, his involvement with hockey in Prince George and discusses Prince George politics, prominent personalities in the North.
Harkins, BobItem consists of typed transcript and tape summary of interview with Olive Foote who discusses her family's history in Fort Fraser, Stellaco area c.1930s and later move to Prince George region.. Includes discussion of her father working mineral claims in Endako area c.1950s
Harkins, BobItem consists of typed transcript of interview with Ivor Guest discussing his early memories of Prince George as a river man and logging. Includes discussion of Cataline, and Quaw family.
Harkins, BobItem consists of transcript and tape summary of interview with Elmer Nelson who discusses Axel Wenner- Gren's business interest in the Rocky Mountain Trench area of Northern British Columbia in the 1950s.
Harkins, BobItem consists of transcript of interview with Bob Dunsmore, CNC Forestry Dean who discusses forestry and agriculture education at College of New Caledonia.
Harkins, BobItem consists of transcript of interview with writer, film maker, and guide outfitter Andy Russell conducted by Bob Harkins at Prince George Radio Station, CJCI regarding Russell's experiences with guiding in Northern Rockies. Russell also discusses his new work The Life of a River and discusses the environmental impact of hydro-electric development on rivers
Harkins, BobItem consists of transcript of interview with Alex and Chris Muldowan discussing family history and Muldowan's involvement in forestry in North Central BC.
Harkins, BobFootage of fishing boat named the "Canadian Prince" docking at the harbour in Bella Coola, BC.
File contains photographs featuring members of the Board of Directors of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd., which was formed on the 17th of May, 1951. Cassiar's forerunner was a company named Conwest, formed in 1534, a consolidation of two companies owned by Fred Martin Connell and his brother W. Harold Connell. The first board of directors included the Connell brothers, George Armstrong, John E. Kennedy, Charles & Arthur Mortimer, and Charles Rainforth Elliot (chartered accountant and secretary-treasurer of Conwest & Cassiar). Directors depicted in this file include F.M Connell, Harold Connell, Charles Elliot, John E. Kennedy, George Armstrong, Ken A. Creery, John Drybrough, Tam Zimmermann, George Washington Smith (president of Bell Asbestos Mines), Nick Gritzuk, Jack Christian (general manager, president, and CEO). Other individuals depicted include Fred Murry, Andre Beguin, Plato Malozemoff from Newmont Mining (co-founder of Cassiar with F.M. Connell), Alfred Lloyd Penhale (founder and CEO of Asbestos Corporation of Canada Ltd.), C.B. Brown, Pierre Marcotte, Francis Parker Smith (brother of George Smith), Bill Oughtred, Bill Johnson, and a Mr. Janitsch. File also includes a portrait of an unidentified director of Cassiar from Turner and Newall in England, taken at the corporate club in Toronto. Group portraits were taken at the Cassiar Valley, the office building, "House 130," fishing outings, and at formal events in unidentified locations.
File consists of a conference paper by Weller titled "Blue Gold and Bourassa: The Bonanza from the North." This file was originally numbered to correspond with conference paper number 43 listed in Weller's CV.
Caption describing photograph: "Excellent form and growth of a blue form of White Spruce wildling. Transplanted Autumn 1964 from 10 miles South of Findlay Forks on Parsnip River. Height 13.5", 1966 growth to date 4.2", Hardened off."
Attached description: The two black tanks in the foreground are blow tanks for the two Kamyr digesters which tower behind them. This picture, taken from ground level, shows graphically the 210-foot height of the digesters. Chip conveyors lead in from the right. Each digester is served by a separate conveying line, providing flexibility in the type of wood used, and also ensuring that operation of one digester can continue.
Item is a diagram of the bleachery and washing portion of the pulp mill.
Photograph depicts two blasthole drills on bench in mine, old garage visible in centre background. Snow-covered mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts a view of the Blackwater bridge from downstream. The cabin, house and telegraph poles in the background.
Photograph depicts a view from above the Blackwater telegraph cabin and house. The house has a large fence garden beside, telegraph poles with wires are visible alongside the dirt road. Wood smoke drifts from the house chimney to the sparsely forested area beside.
Photograph depicts a canvas tent and wooden tent frame in the foreground, more canvas tents erected in the background. Two men carry poles on the right, while another man in center photo stands near another pole frame. There is a body of water in the background.
Photograph depicts three men standing on a bridge in the foreground, a cabin and fenced house in the midground, sparsely forested hills in the background. There are telegraph poles with wires between the bridge, cabin and house.
Photograph depicts a body of water surrounded by sparsely forested hills and low mountains.
Photograph depicts the Blackwater bridge and cabin. The forest in the foreground has been roughly cleared.
Photograph depicts a large body of water the shore edged with forest and low hills.
Caption describing photograph: "Black Spruce as GBW Film 4 Frame 7 ( 2007.1.30.2.045) on left. Betula glandulosa and willow on right, resulting from fire history--foreground showing development of organic peat over clay."
Caption describing photograph: "Black Spruce residuals (Ht 35-40', 5-9" DBH Age 80). Potentially commercial pulp wood remaining after pulp logging a fully stock 95 yrs stand of Lodgepole pine and White Spruce on imperfectly drained silty clay. Mile 6.5 Hart Highway. (Illustrate frequent occurrence of P mariana on soils other than organic muck or sphagnum bogs)."
Caption describing photograph: "Black Spruce germinator. EMK seed."
Black bear on the shore of a river. The location is unknown.
Slide depicts a black bear eating garbage by wooden outbuildings, possibly at the Aleza Lake Experiment Station.
Item is a photocopied BC Parks report by Lee Koza entitled "Birds and Bird Habitat of White Pelican Provincial Park".
File consists of climate station data printed from computer disks, original and photocopied soil description forms, and original copies of ecological and terrain mapping reports.
Item is an original report by Rob Cannings entitled "Biological Investigations of the Blue Rivers Headwaters Area, Wells Gray Park". Includes original photographic prints within the report.
File consists of the original version a report prepared by Grant Hazelwood for the BC Ministry of Forests entitled "Biological Investigation Report - Gosling Creek" regarding the presence of Tailed Frogs in the area.
File consists of a copy of DFO's report on "Biological Engineering Studies Conducted on the Nechako River During 1980, 1981 and 1982". Includes accompanying memoranda regarding the studies and editorial comments.
File consists of records and textual material regarding biogeoclimatic regions of British Columbia collected by Grant Hazelwood. Highlights include:
File consists of a photocopy of a Water Pollution Research Journal of Canada article by Rogers et al. entitled "Bioconcentration of Chlorophenols by Juvenile Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Overwintering in the Upper Fraser River: Field and Laboratory Tests".
Photograph depicts a view from the railroad looking toward the river and mountain beyond at Billings siding.
Footage of Bill Baker performing catch and release fly fishing in possibly the Bella Coola River or the Dean River for cutthroat trout.
Footage of Bighorn Sheep in the winter.
The location of filming is unknown.
Photograph depicts three men standing in a canoe with long poles. Canoe is floating in quiet river water, bluffs in the background.
Photograph depicts a view possibly from a stage coach, fences and rolling hills with dry vegetation in the background.
Photograph depicts a cut ditch into tertiary gravel, with a wooden mining (?) structure and a forest landscape in the background.
Photograph depicts benches after strip mining at Cassiar. Drill visible in distance, ore haul trucks on road in foreground.
Photograph depicts benches above open pit at Cassiar mine. Drills and haulpaks visible in centre image.
File consists of a photocopy of a Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (Vol. 45) article by Fausch entitled "Tests of Competition between Native and Introduced Salmonids in Streams: What Have We Learned?".
Photograph depicts a shallow ditch cut into rocky terrain that leads through a forested landscape.
