Series contains speeches and addresses related to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Material consists of an address given by Mr. M.G. Robson to the Bankers Lecture Club of B.C. on Marketing Problems of the Lumber Industry of British Columbia, an address by H.R. MacMillan to the Vancouver Board of Trade, an address by J.H. McDonald on the work of the Lumber and shingle Manufacturers Association in British Columbia, a radio address on CKMO on the lumber industry in the world market, and a broadcast on the lumber industry during the depression.

The series contains a personnel file, consisting of an employee’s correspondence, resignation letter, and job application.

Series contains administrative records relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of N.R. Dustings business files regarding the association’s activities and functions, and blueprints of the Canadian Indemnity Building located at 1477 Pender St, Vancouver, offices for the Council of Forest Industries, Plywood Manufacturers Association, British Columbia Loggers Association, Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau, British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association and the Consolidate Red Cedar Shingle Association.

Series contains records relating to the administration of the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Material consists of company letterheads from forestry related companies, the record containing information about the core functions of the association; general advertising conducted by the association, Societies Act circulars, invitations and menus from the annual banquet, and the general organization and plans of the association.

The series contains advertisements relating to the Consolidated Red Cedar and Shingle Association of British Columbia. Material consists of radio announcements advertising Red Cedar Shingles from British Columbia on CKMO and an excerpt from a radio program on Red Cedar Shingles.

Series consists of the Softwood Lumber Agreement and a signed final copy of the Cooperative Overseas Market Development Project and Western Canada Agreement and a copy of the British Columbia Jobs and Timber Accord.

Series contains agreements and licenses related to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Material consists of register of Provincial License Berths and B.C. Timber Licence Owners in Good Standing. The series also includes the BCLMA’s certificate of incorporation and Companies’ Act.

Series consists of membership agreements between the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, and the Pacific Mill Limited, Powell River Company Limited, Canadian Forest Products Limited, Sidney Roofing & Paper Company Limited, British Columbia Pulp & Paper Company Limited, and Bloedel, Stewart & Welch Limited.

Series contains trade agreements and agreements between associations and companies with the Consolidated Red Cedar and Shingle Association of British Columbia. The material consists of correspondence and memoranda regarding the trade agreements with the United States, duty and quota of Red Cedar Shingles on the market, revisions to the trade agreement, the association’s by-laws and the Companies Act for the Red Cedar Shingle Export Association.

Series contains audio-visual material relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of audio reels, video cassettes, film reels, and cassette tapes that document different types of trees, health and safety procedures during forestry operations, and promotional material regarding forestry and lumber.

Series contains briefs relating to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Material consists of briefs on the pulp industry in British Columbia, Canadian freight rates, and customs tariff on lumber between the United States and Canada.

Series consists of a brief to the Sloan Commission prepared by CRCSA on the past and present status of Red Cedar Shingle industry in British Columbia, a brief to the royal Commission of Enquiry into the Forest Recourses of British Columbia, a brief prepared for the United Kingdom on the exports of Western Red Cedar Shingle to the U.K, and briefs concerning merchandising techniques of shingles.

Series contains briefs relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of a briefing on the reorganization of COFI, brief concerning the Future History Project, and a debriefing concerning a meeting entitled “Canada’s Forest Philosophy.”

Series contains bulletins created by the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Material consists of news bulletins, a bulletin regarding the wages of employees in the sawmill industry, bulletins that report on the logs, scaling, exports, the markets, and a bulletin relating to the BCLMA, SMA and BCLM lumber associations.

Series consists of bulletins that discuss several topics include shares on British Columbia Red Cedar Shingle Export Association, meeting reminders for Board of Director meetings and BCLMA meetings, and general correspondence.

This series contains the by-laws and constitution of the British Columbia Loggers Association. The records include a by-law from 1926 and the 1949 amended by-law for the Association. The series also includes the Logger Association’s membership Act, the Benevolent Societies Act, Extraordinary Resolutions, and amendment to the Criminal Code with a particular attention to the theft of logs.

Series contains certificates, constitutions, declarations and by laws relating to the British Columbia Manufacturers Association. Materials consists of the association’s certificate of incorporation, by-laws and article of association.

Series consists of circulars from the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau based in Seattle, Washington, which outline “Waterborne Shipments of Lumber” by the foot for each year, circulars concerning trade extensions regarding various markets including South Africa, the United States British West Indies, Hong Kong, extracts from the Seattle Post Intelligencer and other American newspapers.

Series contains circulars relating to the British Columbia Loggers Association. Material consists of circulars that provide information on the stock, production and consumption of logs, log stocks, sold and unsold logs at market, quality of logs, details about stocks at mills, and log consumption by district.

Series contains British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association circulars. Material consists of circulars that provide information on various lumber related topics including the revision of grade names and reading rules, the Canadian Rail Market Survey.

Series contains circulars relating to the Red Cedar Shingle & Shake Division of the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of circulars with budgetary information for the different divisions of the organization, log stocks at the Vancouver market, and news on the transportation in the forestry industry.

Series consists of circulars that discuss statistical information about plywood, plywood by species, veneer productions, temporary import charges, circulars detailing reports by other associations, discussion about freight rates, and production figures.

Series contains records relating to committees in the Consolidated Red Cedar Shingle Association of British Columbia. Material consists of lists of committees under the CRCSA, list of committee members, and the association’s by-laws, which list the duties and responsibilities of the committees.

Series contains records from the Council of Forest Industries committees. Materials include minutes, agendas, reports, and recommendations made by various committees including the Transition committee, the Steering Committee, CHIP Export Advisory committee, Canada’s Forest Philosophy Roundtable and the Shingle and Shake Promotion Committee and alternates.

Series contains complaints and inquiries made to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Materials consist of inquiries and complaints regarding the selling of British Columbia timber, information request about B.C. Lumber and Shingles from European countries, the Australian Tariff Board Enquiry lists of soft and hard wood varieties in British Columbia, and instructional booklets on a variety of different forestry related topics.

Series contains conference and convention documents relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of a submission to the British Columbia Round Table on the Economy and Environment from COFI and notes from a conference call regarding Meech Lake.

Series includes convention information relating to the British Columbia Lumber Association. Materials consists of detailed accounts of the proceedings of the convention, the convention’s program, a list of members present, a speech by A.D. McRae about lumber business in North America and a letter between L.R. Andrews and H.V. Mackin.

Series consists of correspondence between the PMABC and various federal and provincial ministries, correspondence concerning licenses, insurance policies, and field administration staff.

Series includes correspondence, letters, and memoranda relating to the British Columbia Lumber Association. Materials consists of incoming correspondence from forestry associations, annual general meeting notices with members of the association, a reminder for registrations, correspondence concerning the history and the nomination and election of BCLMA members, correspondences and letters concerning Australia’s tariff policy, correspondence regarding the Timber Industries Council of British Columbia, correspondence with the Medical Services Association, correspondence regarding medical insurance and salaries, and overseas correspondence to BCLMA’s partners in the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Russia, and Japan.

Series consists of correspondence concerning the meeting dates and times of committees, draft declaration and by-laws for the association, correspondence concerning the appointment of new directors, that concerning the matters necessary to complete the incorporation and organization of the association, the promotion of the association, correspondence regarding standards and various booklets between the United States Government and CRCSA, regarding shingle grading, and correspondence with lawyers regarding the duty of shingles.

Series contains memoranda and correspondence relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of correspondence with the Honourable Jean-Luc Pepin, correspondence concerning the cost of promoting forestry overseas, memos concerning the United States legislative process, correspondence of the Cooperative Overseas Promotion, correspondence and memoranda regarding the Future History Project and correspondence regarding Canadian lumber dispute, correspondence regarding Mike Aspey’s participation at Meech Lake, correspondence and memos with the Shingle and Handsplit Shake Bureau, correspondence regarding the proper packaging and labelling of shingle and shakes, correspondence and examples of shingle company shipping labels, memos and correspondence with Arnold Porter and COFI regarding the Shingle and Shakes inquiry, correspondence concerning overseas market development and missions with foreign countries, and N.R. Dustings personal correspondences.
Photographs are of different structures located in areas of Pago Pago including The Tusitala Hotel in Western Samoa, a new hotel under construction in Pago Pago, the Painnaber Hotel, a church, and the Convention Centre.
Series also holds 20 35 mm slides on the Destination of BC Forest Products.

Series contains a directory of Western Forest used by the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Material consists of a directory book of lumber industry and forest products that provides general information on forestry as well as statistical information.

Series contains financial records relating to Consolidated Red Cedar Shingle Association of British Columbia. Material consists of the association’s financial audit reports.

Series contains records relating to finances of the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of supplemental program and budget for shingles and shakes and shingle and shake funding.

Series contains financial records relating to British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Material consists of ledgers, budget information concerning, the Association’s financial statements

Series contains records relating to the B.C. Loggers Association’s financial records. Material consists of reports with statements of the accounts including accounts receivable, unpaid fees, income and expenditure, the cost of furniture and fixtures for the premise, accounts payable, assets and liabilities.

Series contains records relating to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association’s Forest Products Laboratories. Material consists of project and research reports, correspondence, and newsletters outlines the Forest Products Laboratories’ projects for the upcoming months.

Series contains records relating to the reorganization and governance of the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of organization’s mission and mandate, strategic plan, goals and activities, organizational plans, descriptions about COFI positions and departments, questions about the future direction of the organization, staff development seminar documents, documents concerning issues faced by COFI during the 1990s, and the documents regarding the reorganization of the organization. Materials also include COFI’s reorganization of its Shingle and Shake division.

Series contains records relating to the International Trade Commissions and the Council of Forest Industries involvement in the commission. Material consists of memos and correspondence regarding the Commission, statements made by the Senate Finance Committee, a petition to the International Trade Commission and the United States Department of Commerce regard Softwood Lumber, Shakes and Shingles, and Fence, Shingle and Shake pre, post, and hearing documents as well as the injury decision report, notes from P. Gilbert on the Shingle and Shake inquiry, and a collection of proceedings of the Commission.

Series contains records relating to legal proceedings and questions relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of judgements from the Supreme Court of British Columbia and a detailed description of reasons for the judgements and mini trail reports concerning trials of lumber related companies and an inquiry report regarding scaling at Shoal Island Log sort.

Series contains lists of lumber mills used by the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Materials consist of list of members mills located throughout British Columbia and a list of officers and committees that form the BCLMA.

Series consists of lists documenting shingle mills in the province.

Series contains lists of Council of Forest Industries members. Material consists of member mills list, a list of shingle and shake producers, list of shingle mills in British Columbia

Series consists of meeting minutes from the Company Comptroller Committee, the Executive Committee, the Queen Elizabeth Arboretum Committee, the Safety Committee, and the Traffic Committee.
The series is divided into five sub-series: Company Comptroller Committee, the Executive Committee, the Queen Elizabeth Arboretum Committee, the Safety Committee, and the Traffic Committee.

Series consists of meeting minutes related to the Consolidated Red Cedar Shingle Association of British Columbia committees. Material consists of ledger books with meeting minutes pasted inside, type and handwritten minutes.
Minutes are divided into three sub-series: Annual General Meetings, Annual General Meetings of Consolidated Shingles Mills of B.C., and Directors Meetings.

Series consists of meeting minutes related to the British Columbia Loggers Association committees. Material consists of ledger books with meeting minutes pasted inside, type and handwritten minutes. The series has been divided into four sub series: Directors Meetings, General Meetings, Financial Management Committee, and Executive Council of B.C. Loggers Division.

Series consists of meeting minutes of the Council of Forest Industries committees. Material consists of ledger books with meeting minutes pasted inside, type and handwritten minutes.
Minutes are divided into the follow sub-series: Ad Hoc Meeting on Packaging and Labelling Act, Annual General Meeting minutes, Board of Director Meeting minutes, Canadian Forest Industries Council Board of Directors minutes, Canadian Forest Industries Council minutes, Canadian Wood Council, Lumber Promotion Committee minutes, Management Meeting minutes, Nomination Committee, Overseas Market Program Committee, Shingle and Shake Liaison Committee, Shingle/Shake Promotions Committee Meeting minutes, and Working Group of Ad Hoc Committee on U.S. Market Meetings minutes.

Series consists of meeting minutes related to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association committees. Material consists of ledger books with meeting minutes pasted inside, type and handwritten minutes.
Minutes are divided into the following sub-series: Annual General Meeting minutes, Canadian Manufacturers Association (B.C. Branch) minutes, Directors Meetings, Executive Council Meetings, Finance Committee Meetings, Forest Products Market Extension Bureau of B.C. minutes, General Industries Committee minutes, Lumber Mills Branch Meetings, Market Committee Minutes, Member Council, Timber Council Directors Meetings, and Trade Extension Committee minutes.

Series consists of meeting minutes related to the Plywood Manufacturers Association of British Columbia committees. Material contains ledger books with meeting minutes pasted inside, type and handwritten minutes.
The series is divided into two sub-series: Board of Directors and Management Committee meetings.

Series contains news release relating to the Council of Forest Industries Shingle and Shake Division. Material consists of a news release aimed at the European forest industry, more specifically to the United Kingdom and news releases from the Canadian Forest Industries Council regarding the International Trade Administration and their ruling on Canadian lumber products, a communiqué regarding the Wood Products Export Agreement extension, a news release advertising the name change of the Northern B.C. Lumber Association to the Northern Forest Products Association (NFPA) as a result of COFI’s reorganization, a media release concerning an announcement being made regarding B.C. forestry and tourism sector.