Series contains newsletters relating to the Council of Forest Industries Shingle and Shake Division. Material consists of newsletters that are concerned with education and training information, committee updates and reports, residential housing construction figures, notes on publicity, and average prices of different wood related constructions in the Vancouver and Victoria area.

Series consists of newsletters documenting shingle and shake applicators in the lower mainland, application costs for roofs and walls, information about the Canadian Wood Council, and information of a variety of conferences relating to shingle and shakes specifically and wood more broadly.

Series contains photographs and slides relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Photographs depict uses of shingle and shakes and various members of COFI, past presidents and members of forest and lumber associations in British Columbia.
The series is subdivided into two sub-series: Shingle and Shake Examples and Council of Forest Industries Members and Presidents.

Series contains photographs from the British Columbia Manufacturers Lumber Association. Material consists of one photo album depicting logging and sawmills on and near Queen’s Charlotte’s Island, B.C. These photographs also depict timber company edifices, and photographs of loggers.

Series consists of project files related including material related to shingle and shake promotion project the Brügman BAU Exhibition in Germany. Records include correspondence, pamphlets, and brochures on shingles and shakes in Germany.
Photographs are of the Brügman exhibition stand at fair BAU in Munich. The exhibition stand is roughly 400 square meters. The fairs dominant feature was its Shingle and Shakes. Another photograph is of Mr. Ravens –British Columbia’s housing minister –standing before a totem pole.

Series contains special projects conducted by the Consolidated Red Cedar Shingle Association of British Columbia. Material contains photographs of the re-shingling of the Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent’s home on Sussex drive in Ottawa and includes correspondence on the progress of the project and background information. Also included are correspondence, letters, reports relating to the use and the promotion of the Colt shingles by W.H. Colt Limited, correspondence with the Handsplit Mill Museum, information concerning the Los Angeles fires and their relationship to shingles, correspondence and inquiries into the re-roofing of St. Peter’s Church in England with B.C. shingles.

Series contains of records related to different projects undertaken by the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Materials consist of correspondence requesting films about the forestry and lumber industry, a discussion of caption for a forestry related film, an extract from an article on Fire Proofing Wood, correspondence requesting information on the preservative treatment of timber, and a request for a speaker to present his knowledge of wood chemistry.

Series contains of publicity records relating to British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Materials consist of practice notes on forest conservation, a statement prepared by the Forest Service for the British Empire Forestry Conference in South Africa, an pictorial publication indicating the use of British Columbia timber in the British Empire with an indication of printing prices per sheets, and information notes on the renaissance of England’s wood, and correspondence between the BCLMA and forestry related institutions around the world request promotional material.

Series contains reports relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of reports by the COFI president regarding different forestry related topics, a report entitled “Impact of Government on Industry Competitiveness, reports on forestry resources in B.C, a report on sustainable development and B.C. pulp and paper industry, and a document on Native land claims and their relationship with forestry, reports on the overseas markets and the forestry industry, a review on the Northern Interior Lumber sector, information and proceedings concerning the Forest Forever Campaign for Wood, reports to members and divisions of COFI, a short history of Cedar, reports on the shingle and shake program and its promotion overseas, and a CFS Technical Report.

Series contains reports relating to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Materials consist of reports from the Market Committee outlines shingles in Northwest and Eastern Canada, a copy of a paper by R. H. Alexander, net price information concerning the Prairie and Eastern Canadian markets, the development of forest policy in British Columbia, prices with shipping weights, and rail lists. Also included is a detailed report on lumber exports by product, lumber exports by species, distribution figures, and production in the post-war Canadian market. Also include are the annual reports of the activities of different BCLMA committees for each year.

Series consists of field reports regarding plywood flooring, promotional meetings, report on market surveys, reports on specific projects, housing standards, contractors, engineering, and agriculture.

Series contains reports relating to the Consolidated Red Cedar Shingle Association of British Columbia. Material consists of a history of shingle control in British Columbia, shingle guidelines and specifications, history of tariff duties on shingles and shakes. Report on cedar trade promotion, shingle wages by occupations.

Series contains reports relating to the British Columbia Loggers Association. Material consists of reports outlining the Association’s core activities, monthly log scaling reports, and weekly log sales reports, a list of lumber grading rules, average log prices, timber sales, unsold logs reports, lumber price lists, promotion division reports, shareholder reports, and a map of the Nimpkish Forest.

Series consists of five scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and brief articles about timber and lumber related issues including articles on pulp and plywood, news about shingle mill fires, information about the Truck Loggers’ Association, railway lumber rates, machine grooved shakes, and lumber exports.

Series contains records relating to the Consolidation of Red Cedar Shingles Association of British Columbia’s involvement in the shingle boycott. Material consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and letters concerning the boycott of Canadian shingles in the United States. The majority of the press clippings are from various newspapers in Seattle, Washington.

Series contains records relating to the Sloan Commission. Material consists of memoranda and correspondence, summary of evidence presented at the enquiry, a brief submitted to the Commission by the Consolidated Red Cedar Shingle Association of British Columbia, and transcripts of the inquiry on forest resources.

Series contains remarks and speeches made by the president of COFI. Material consists of remarks made by Mike Apsey as President of COFI at the signing ceremony to launch the cooperative Industrial and Market Development Program.
Photographs include the signing of the $6.85 million agreement between the wood products industry and the B.C. Government. Included in the photo are Ted Cameron, hon. John Jansen, Hon. Frank Oberle and Mike Apsey.

Series contains statistics relating to the Council of Forest Industries activities. Material consists of statistics regard the shingle and shake and lumber exports from Canada to the United States, statistics of Certigrade Shingles and Certi-Split Shake production by grade and type, Red band Shingle Conversion Table, figures on the
shipment of shingle and shakes to external markets, shingle and shake export figures, and shingle and shake exports by country.

Series includes statistics relating to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Materials consist of a comparison of logging and sawmill workers by nationality and statistics from the Bureau of Economics on commodities from British Columbia that are exported to foreign countries.

Series contains statistics relating to the British Columbia Loggers Association. Material consists of three log production statistics books from different logging companies in British Columbia.

Series contains records relating to statistics used by the Consolidation of Red Cedar Shingles Association of British Columbia. Material consists of correspondence with the Dominion Bureau of Statistics and statistics relating to the import of shingles into Canada from the United States.

Series consists of correspondence between the BCLMA and the overseas departments regarding informational material such as articles, promotional material, extending trade of B.C. lumber to other areas of the world, and answers to inquiries form trade departments in various areas of the world.

Series contains records relating to the Edgewood trademark owned by the Consolidated Red Cedar Shingle Association of British Columbia. Materials include correspondence with other forestry organization regarding the use of the Edgewood logo, correspondence with attorneys, the patent certificate for the registration of the trademark, request for re-registration of the trademark and examples of the proper use of the logo. Series also consists of an extensive collection of brand logos relating to lumber, shingles and shakes. These brands include: Seaboard Lumber Sales Co. Ltd., Keystone Shingles & Lumber Ltd., Handsplit Red Cedar Shakes’ Certi-Split Trademark, Victoria Brand Red Cedar Shingles, Huntting-Merrit brand Red Cedar Shingles, Flavelle Cedar brand, Horne Brand , Pluster, Grossman’s British Columbia Red Cedar Shakes and Shingles, Oklahoma Quality Brand red Cedar Shingles, Neverot Stained Shingles from United Mills Limited, Acme, Cardinal Handsplit Shakes, Alaska Pine Sales Ltd., Red Letter Brand Cedar Shingles, McCarter Shingle Co. Ltd., Black Hawk Grade, Superior Shingles Ltd., Circle “F” Brand, Stave Lake Cedar Ltd., Edgewood, Northwest Cedar Products Limited Haida Brand, Robert McNair Shingle Co. Ltd., Bestwood Cedar Shingle Co. Ltd., North Shore Shingle Co. Ltd., Great Central Sawmills Ltd., Capilano Shingle Co. Ltd., Mauk Seattle Lumber Co., and Thurston Lumber Co. Ltd.

Series includes documents relating to the Vancouver Harbour Commission. Materials consists of correspondence and newspaper clippings concerning the Commission, its resolutions, and reports detailing meetings between representatives of the Harbour Commission and of Lumber in B.C.