Forest products industry--British Columbia

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Aird Flavelle interview

CALL NUMBER: T1855:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Aird Flavelle : half a century in the British Columbia forest industry PERIOD COVERED: 1907-1957 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1957 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Aird Flavelle tells the story of how he, Roland Craig and H.R. MacMillan spent the summer of 1907 staking timber licenses on the coast of B.C. for a group of Ontario investors. TRACK 2: Continuation of the story of the summer of 1907. Flavelle comes to B.C. in 1911 and goes into business with R.J. Thurston. Getting into the milling industry in Port Moody. Flavelle stays in the Port Moody mill until 1955. Differences between the type of lumber and siding cut in 1915 and 1955.

CALL NUMBER: T1855:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Aird Flavelle : the Port Moody mill and business anecdotes PERIOD COVERED: 1912-1957 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1957 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Details about the operation of Flavelle's Port Moody cedar mill. Mill operating costs. Anecdotes about timber sales. The problems of overseas export of lumber. The success of H.R. MacMillan as an exporter. Anecdotes about J.S. Emerson. Sources of supply for the Port Moody mill. TRACK 2: The demise of the cedar sash and door business. Business cycles affecting the operation of sawmills. Depression conditions in 1913. Story about a Chinese worker hanging himself. More on economic conditions. Price and wage comparisons over the years. (End of interview)

Alice Person interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alice Person : rank and file -- women's issues in the wood industry RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1978-07-28 SUMMARY: Mrs. Person has been active in the IWA. She moved to Websters Corners from the prairies during the Depression; got a job in the wood industry during the war; and was active in organizing her plant. She became a member of the plant executive. She discusses relief; agricultural labour during the Depression; the Japanese internment; working conditions in wood; organizing the IWA and her plant; equal pay for equal work; attitudes to women workers; struggles against layoffs after the war. She and her sister were in the first group of women to be hired on at Hammond Cedar in 1942. Mrs. Person, although told by co-workers that "girls don't need as much", decided that equal pay was a woman's right, and this issue became a primary motivation for her and other women to join the union. She feels that many workers were inspired by the IWA leadership. Mrs. Person served as a steward and a warden on the executive.

Allan Robertson interview

CALL NUMBER: T0963:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Allan Robertson describes his family history leading up to their arrival on Cortes Island between 1889 and 1905. He describes his education with John Manson's family; how eggs were the ;main industry; the first settlers of Cortes from 1870 to 1890; Whaletown; Mansons Landing; the growth of Cortes, including the fluctuations and flow of settlers from 1908 to 1920; the climate on the island; more on the development of Cortes; a description of John and Mike Manson; and Allan describes his early life, supporting his family and beginning to log. TRACK 2: Mr. Robertson describes his ;mother as a midwife; and the hospitals of Powell River and Vancouver and Campbell River. He then describes the conditions; clothes; steamship travel; and drinking in logging camps. He then discusses; the Columbia Coast Mission and ministers Alan Greene and John Antle.

CALL NUMBER: T0963:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robertson talks about logging: horse logging; skid roads; steam donkey logging between 1905 and 1910; judging and preparing logs for riding skid roads; getting logs into the water; Gilchrist Jack; hand logging; the employment of oxen and horses; more on steam donkeys; log booms; the use of tow boats; the type of person a logger back then was; cork boots and typical logging clothes. ;TRACK 2: Mr. Robertson continues with more on logging: food in the logging camps; the Union Steamships; logging jargon; origin of "haywire"; different axes; more logging terms; his first job at a log;ging camp in 1911; his early years on Cortes Island and his introduction to logging; the authority of a camp foreman; wages; risks taken and compared to present; and an anecdote about drinking.

CALL NUMBER: T0963:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robertson discusses growing up on Cortes Island; beginning his career as a logger at the age of thirteen; his experience enlisting in WWI; and his various occupations between the World Wars, including his work for the Crown Zellerbach Company. Mr. Robertson then recalls the history of the pulp and paper industry through the history of the Crown Zellerbach, including the reason for t;he odor produced by pulp mills; and he describes the process of paper making. TRACK 2: Mr. Robertson continues with more on the paper making process: the effects of waste on the environment; and reforestation. Then Mr. Robertson discusses commercial and sport salmon fishing; the origins of the name Cortes Island; more on growing up there including a description of the area; canneries on Blind Channel; his own education; and a comparison between kids yesterday and today.

Antonio Sabino interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace: a sawmill worker recalls immigration, local work, and changes PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: Tony Sabino (stencilman, resawyer) of Sao Jorge, Azores Islands, where he learned many trades. Terrace, B.C. 1955-1977: Weber's Sawmill, Terrace Forest Products, L.H.&K., Skeena Forest Products. John Lips' farm. C.N.R.; changes in sawmilling; his deafness caused in part by trim saw work; pole cutting. House, wages, construction skills. Terrace in 1957. Price of residential land. Ties to old country, Portuguese-Canadian Club of Terrace.

Arne Bergland interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-09-10 SUMMARY: Born in Norway in 1908; came to Canada in 1927; worked at Great Central Lake for Bloedel, Stewart and Welch; logging camp life; conditions during the Depression; union organisation during the 1930s; strike of 1934; worked for several companies on Vancouver Island; accidents in the woods; started with BCFP in 1946; worked in several coastal camps as foreman and later superintendent; in several BCFP camps on Vancouver Island and the lower coast; problems faced by a logging superintendent in the 1940s and 1950s; changes in logging methods.

A.S. Nicholson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A.S. Nicholson : the British Columbia forest industry, 1903-1945 PERIOD COVERED: 1903-1945 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1959-09-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nicholson to Cranbrook from Ontario in 1903. The formation of Cranbrook Sash and Door Company, 1904. Sold out and returned to Ontario, 1906. Returned to B.C. in 1919. Bought some timber from H.R. MacMillan. Comments about various business deals. TRACK 2: Comments on various East Kootenay sawmills (Indistinct.) Nicholson was a timber comptroller during WW II. Business dealings (Indistinct.) Story of the formation of H.R. MacMillan Export Co., 1919. More on mills in the East Kootenays region. (Recording becomes very indistinct.)

Bill Bennett : [speeches, etc., at Social Credit convention, November 1977]

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0076 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: Addresses Social Credit convention RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-11-04 [or 5?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Premier Bill Bennett addresses the 1977 Social Credit provincial convention. He says that the purpose of Social Credit was not just to defeat the NDP, but to provide a better life for the people of the province. Outlines accomplishments of the Social Credit government: aid to seniors, universal pharmacare, extended health care, hospital construction, education reform, recreational facilities, juvenile law reform, anti-drug program, ombudsman, quarterly financial reports, auditor general, crown corporations, Reporting Act, better relations with municipalities, better relations with the government of Canada. Talks about federal/provincial ferries agreement, DREE agreement, ARDA agreement, BCR agreement; pledges not to abandon BCR; praises cabinet ministers and Social Credit MLAs; says Social Credit government is a team effort; says the government has an economic plan for BC; mining policy. TRACK 2: Forestry policy; new investment in the forest industry; says BC and Alberta are bright spots in Canada; one of the best records of new job creation in Canada; best record of man days lost due to strikes and lockouts in recent history in BC; discusses positive economic impact of the Alcan pipeline; demands national economic plan, cuts in government spending; calls for national unity. November 4 [or 5?], 1977.

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0077 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: "Ask the Cabinet" question and answer session at Social Credit convention RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-11-03 or 04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: An "Ask the Cabinet" question-and-answer session at the 1977 Social Credit convention, moderated by Premier Bill Bennett. Questions regarding child custody hearings; seat belt legislation; enforcement of labour legislation; ferry workers; property tax rates versus mill rates; [interruption as a pie is thrown in Bill Vander Zalm's face]; recreation grants, Vancouver Finlandia club; plans to make the BC economy more productive; pollution in Okanagan Lake; seat belt legislation; comments of Judge L. Bewley regarding women; decentralization of the court system. TRACK 2: Questions regarding government accountability to the convention; decrease in number in non-residential hunters; release of agricultural land from government to farmer and land leasing; Vancouver-Kitimat ferry service; Indian land claims, including Nishga claims; new campsites; why the Lord's Day Act is not enforced; auto insurance rates; balanced budgeting; impaired driving; education priorities; universities; advertising in English textbooks; monorail rapid transit. November 3 or 4, 1977. [Continues on T1707:0077.]

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0078 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: "Ask the Cabinet" question and answer session at Social Credit convention (cont'd) RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-11-03 or 04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Continues from T1707:0077, track 2.] Questions regarding corporation capital tax; penalties against impaired drivers for causing death in accidents; culpability of union members for damage or injury due to job action; money for university education; core curriculum; difficulties in getting a small company going. November 3 or 4, 1977. [TRACK 2: blank.]

British Columbia Forest Products, Plywood Operations fonds

  • PR-2305
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1988

Fonds consists of administrative and operating records of British Columbia Forest Products Limited in British Columbia between 1946 and 1986, pertaining particularly to plywood production, 1952-1986. Incorporated are records of predecessor companies including Industrial Timber Mills of Cowichan Lake and Douglas Plywood of Vancouver. The fonds illustrates the operating data and composition of working documentation for single plant operations that formed part of a multi-plant company. The fonds is comprised of the records of two of the corporate divisions involved in plywood production: Victoria Plywood and Sawmill and Delta Plywood. Topical files, financial statements, working files, equipment documentation, ledgers and registers, technical drawings and cartographic material predominate. Content pertains to all aspects of division and plant operations including, but not limited to, products, finances, suppliers, clients, markets, partners, facilities, equipment, supplies and human resources. Records from the Victoria Plywood and Sawmill division pertain to operations at Victoria, BC. They were created between 1942 and 1988 and are in three series: 1. Manager's Office files, ca.1950 to 1988, ca. 3.5 metres; 2. Accountant's Office files, 1942 to 1987, ca. 4 metres, and; 3. Cowichan District plans and drawings, ca.1950 to ca.1975, ca. 120 items. The Cowichan Division operated an affiliated veneer plant and sawmill at Youbou on Cowichan Lake, BC. Records from the Delta Plywood division consist of operating files for the plant at New Westminster, BC and pertain to administration and finance. Series are: 1. Administration,1970-1985, ca. 1.5 metres; 2. Accountant's Office, 1972-1985, ca. 3 metres and 3. Douglas plywood project financial files. Alphabetical-chronological filing arrangements have been retained and reconstructed. The fonds also contains a scrapbook of construction photographs.

British Columbia Forest Products, Limited

[Bus tours] : [television spot]

Television shorts. Television commercial showing free public tours of MacMillan Bloedel's logging and forestry operations on Vancouver Island. Offered by the company in the summer of 1972 or 1973, the tours included log harvesting and handling, product manufacture and reforestation.

By the hand of man

Industrial film. Points out the reliability of wood as a building material throughout history. Includes a variety of shots of the forest industry in British Columbia as well as local construction projects, large and small.

Camilo de Medeiros interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace, B.C. : a logger and mill worker recalls immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: Camilo de Medeiros (logger, pole-mill worker) was born in 1927. Azores, farming village. Making charcoal. Learning of Canada. Cedar silviculture and sawmilling in Azores. Immigration to farm in Quebec. Railroad work. Coming to Terrace. Changes in methods of making cedar poles. Building house on Cramer Street. Terrace in 1957. Description of house on Straume Street. Easier for immigrants now. Keeping busy. Sponsoring relatives.

Canadian Plywood Association fonds

  • PR-2178
  • Fonds
  • 1955-1989

The fonds consists of prints and/or printing elements of motion picture films that were distributed by the Canadian Plywood Association (CPA) or its predecessors, the Council of Forest Industries of British Columbia (COFI) and the Plywood Manufacturers Association of British Columbia (PMA). Most of the films were produced between 1955 and 1989 for the COFI or the PMA by three BC companies: Canawest Film Productions, Kelly Duncan Productions, or Lew Parry Film Productions. The films deal with with the harvesting of trees, the manufacture of wood and wood products (including plywood, shakes, shingles, etc.), and the use of these products in the construction industry.

Canadian Plywood Association

Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau fonds

  • PR-2338
  • Fonds
  • 1915-2016

The fonds consists of administrative and operational records of the Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau. The records are comprised of bound minute books of executive and general staff meetings, corporate compliance and business operations records, marketing campaigns, advertising proofs and photographs, bound newspaper clippings, advertisement photographs, and production proofs.

The fonds has been arranged in the following series:
MS-3233: Minute books
MS-3234:Business administration and marketing records
MS-3235: Marketing and production photographs
MS-3236: Newspaper clippings
MS-3237: Advertising proofs and scrapbooks

Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau

Chauncey Donald Orchard oral history collection

The collection consists of oral history interviews on the development of British Columbia's forest industry, covering the period from the late 1880s to the late 1950s through the first-person reminiscences of 44 individuals. The interviewess were lumbermen, loggers, and government officials associated with forestry. The recordings were made between 1955 and 1963 by Dr. C.D. Orchard, who served as British Columbia's Chief Forester from 1941 to 1958.

The original recordings were made on discs on an Edison Voicewriter dictation machine. The Voicewriter discs were copied to audio tape by the BC Archives in the 1970s.

The interviews are preserved in the form of audio tape copies and corresponding transcripts. Tape recordings exist for all of the interviews except the one with Thomas Roeser (T1888). Transcripts are available for all of the interviews except those with Eustace Smith (T1860) and Frank Kappel (T1889).

The collection also includes a 1958 CJVI Radio recording of Dr. Orchard speaking to the Victoria Men's Canadian Club about the British Commonwealth Forestry Conference.

Orchard, Chauncey Donald, 1893-1973

Chemainus Sawmill fonds

  • PR-2306
  • Fonds
  • 1879-1989; predominantly 1920-1970

Fonds pertains mainly to construction and operation of the Chemainus sawmill under the management of Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company until 1946, Victoria Lumber Company, 1946 to1950, and subsequently by MacMillan Bloedel Limited, Chemainus Division. It includes a small quantity of records pertaining to other MacMillan Bloedel operations on Vancouver Island. The fonds documents the rebuilding of the Chemainus sawmill in 1924-1925, particularly the interactions between suppliers and the mill builders, equipment design and placement and site and townsite planning. Further, the fonds documents Chemainus sawmill history before 1924 and the technical, mill site and town changes that occurred after reconstruction. The fonds consists of four series: Sawmill reconstruction and operation: administrative, construction and operational records of the Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Victoria Lumber Company Limited and MacMillan Bloedel Limited, Chemainus Division pertaining to the Chemainus sawmill reconstruction and operation, 1920 to 1989; Legal agreements and insurance policies, 1879-1947: legal agreements generated through the establishment and management of the Chemainus sawmill between 1879 and 1947; Financial records, 1913-1973: dated files of transactions in the form of invoices, credit vouchers and journal records, as well as ledgers, generated by the companies in possession of the Chemainus sawmill between 1906 and 1973; and Plans and drawings, 1920-198-: approximately 6000 technical drawings and cartographic material.

Chemainus Sawmill

Dave Barrett : [press conferences, speeches, interviews, etc., February-May 1977]

CALL NUMBER: T1704:0108 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dave Barrett: Press conferences on BC economy RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-02-18 & 03-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: David Barrett calls unemployment a social time bomb, 18 February 1977. TRACK 2: Barrett says announced spending by MacMillan Bloedel is routine, and not a major new initiative, 23 March 1977. CALL NUMBER: T1704:0109 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dave Barrett : New conferences RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-03-22 & 04-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Opposition leader David Barrett explains why he was ejected from the Legislature after failing to withdraw a remark claiming that Human Resources Minister Bill Vander Zalm had lied to the House, 30 March 1977. TRACK 2: Barrett dismisses the importance of a new standing committee of the Legislature that will oversee the operation of BC Crown corporations, 6 April 1977. Also, a statement by Premier W.R. Bennett outlining the operation of the new committee, 6 April 1977. CALL NUMBER: T1704:0110 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dave Barrett: On government negotiations, Philliponis, Railwest RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-04-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: NDP leader Dave Barrett reacts to the recent federal/provincial cost sharing agreement, and criticizes the ability of the provincial government to negotiate with the federal government, 18 April 1977. TRACK 2: Barrett denies any political connections with the Philliponi family and comments about the economic problems of the Railwest plant at Squamish, 20 April 1977. CALL NUMBER: T1704:0111 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dave Barrett: Makes a statement about unemployment RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-05-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: NDP leader Dave Barrett makes a statement about the problem of unemployment in BC, May 11, 1977. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Donald Baker interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Chemical engineer and Vice-President, BCFP, 1955-1972 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1974-11-29 SUMMARY: Joined BCFP in November 1955; had been with MacMillan at Harmac; working with H.S. Simons Ltd on pulp mill design; new equipment used; first pulp 1957; bleached pulp 1958; expansion of pulp mill with newsprint machine; additions to pulp mill; sales of pulp through Mead; newsprint; Wright Co.; Crofton Pulp and Paper Co.

Donald Saunders interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mackenzie story RECORDED: Mackenzie (B.C.), 1974-12-13 SUMMARY: Donald M. Saunders, who was appointed general manager at Mackenzie, discusses the founding and construction of the Mackenzie pulp mill and sawmill.

Ed Peck interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Logging Superintendent, BCFP RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1974-06-13 SUMMARY: Born in 1912, in Midale, Saskatchewan; schooling in Weyburn; Ed and his brother came to Cowichan Lake in 1934; jobs splitting wood for a steam donkey; join back rigging crew; worked at various woods jobs at Camp 6, Caycuse, BC; early union efforts at Caycuse; later woods foreman at Caycuse and logging superintendent at Cowichan; due to retire in 1975.

E.E. Cace interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1970 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. E.E. Cace is an administrator, and he discusses his impression of Kamloops as he arrived from Mission in 1965; demographics, diversification of industry, ranching interests, forestry and milling, mining interests, a community with the Okanagan, how the building of the highways will affect Kamloops, the CNR, future development, sawmills, pulp mill operations in pioneer days, emissions; the cattle industry, the results of Kamloops' early growth and how it affects future growth, the regional-district system, Kamloops as an administrative system. TRACK 2: Mr. Cace continues by discussing the spirit of people in Kamloops.

Ermine Ramsay interview

RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1974 SUMMARY: Born in Manitoba in 1905; grew up on the lower mainland; married Victor Ramsay in 1931; life in the Halfmoon Bay logging camp; lived in other logging camps during the 1930s; traveling the coast on Union steamships; Narrow Inlet camp described; camp social life; problems of education in an isolated camp; husband worked for Niemi Logging Company; takeover of Niemi Lumber by BC Forest Products in 1946; moving a float camp described; forest fire at Britain River described; education and teachers at Britain River; medical problems; Oscar Niemi; labour relations; more on camp life; liquor problems in camp; race and ethnic relations; social life.

Frank "Blondie" Wice interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Head sawyer, Hammond Mill, BCFP RECORDED: Maple Ridge (B.C.), 1975-02-26 SUMMARY: First job in 1944 at the Hammond Cedar Co.; returned to Hammond in 1947; learning how to saw; changes in equipment; methods of operation; descriptions of job and types of decisions made on logs; quality of logs; production in the mill.

Frank Wilkinson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Master mechanic in the forest industry RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-06-05 SUMMARY: Born in England in 1902; came to Victoria in 1911; started work for Cameron Lumber Company in 1927; worked as a machinist and engineer; worked in logging camps in the Nitinat area in 1922; description of logging camps; machinery at the Cameron mill in Victoria; employees; types of machinery used and technological changes; retired as a master machinist in 1967.

George Ellerbeck interview ; Stan Douglas interview

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): George Ellerbeck - 1 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: George Ellerbeck discusses the history of the Stave Lake Cedar shingle mill, which became a division of Canadian Forest Products in 1943. He joined the mill as a shingle packer in 1939, and in 1974 was Assistant Supervisor and Personnel Supervisor. [No content summary is available for this interview.]

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0002 item 1 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): George Ellerbeck - 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The George Ellerbeck interview continues for the first half of track 1.

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0002 item 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Stan Douglas - 1 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 (item 2) & TRACK 2: Stan Douglas discusses the history of the Stave Lake Cedar shingle mill from about 1934 to 1967. [No content summary is available for this interview.]

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Stan Douglas - 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Continuation of the Stan Douglas interview.

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