Forestry

Item is an audio reel containing interviews about logging practices in British Columbia. The first seven minutes in an interview with [Bert] and the remainder of the tape contains an interview with Douglas Gook.

Lodges and orders: Hoo-Hoos, Concatenated Order of

AM54-S17-MS13245
File
1952-1967

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Man testing wood samples in forestry testing lab at U.B.C.]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-108
Item
Feb 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Man testing wood samples in forestry testing lab at U.B.C.]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-109
Item
Feb 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Man testing wood samples in forestry testing lab at U.B.C.]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-110
Item
Feb 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

Map of Gambier Island booming grounds, Howe Sound, B.C.

AM782-S3-: LEG1362.11
Item

Part of Hubert Lindsay Cadieux fonds

Item is a map showing ownership, locations and capacities of booming grounds on south Gambier Island. A small inset map shows Gambier Island in its entirety. Two inset drawings show two types of pillars used in booming grounds and one method of securing chain fastening in rock.

Sawmill fire and Jake Loeppky family

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is an amateur film documenting family life and a sawmill fire in Vancouver. The film consists of home movie footage filmed by Jake Loeppky, including footage of Queen Elizabeth Park, the Stanley Park Zoo, children playing at the family home in Burnaby, children swimming, and the family entertaining at home. The film also includes footage of a logging camp, a large dam, bears, and people waterskiing. Of particular note is several minutes of footage of the five-alarm fire that destroyed the B.C. Forest Products plant and lumber storage facility at 999 West 6th Avenue on July 3, 1960.

Some commercial softwoods of British Columbia, their mechanical and physical properties. By T.A. McElhanney, B.A.SC., and R.S. Perrry, B. SC.

SD 14 .B7 1927
1927

Part of City of Vancouver Archives library collection

The Seechelt [Sechelt] Forest

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a topographical map of the Seechelt Forest surrounding Jervis Island and Princess Louisa Inlet. Includes elevations, roads, and buildings, as well as information regarding vegetation, forestry, and land use.

British Columbia. Department of Lands and Forests. Forest Service

Three men and a forester