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Fraser River Model Project fonds
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- Textual record
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- Source of title proper: The title is based on the contents of the fonds
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1.22 m of textual records
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Administrative history
The Fraser River Model Project, which ran from 1948 to 1961, was designed to improve navigation on the Fraser River Estuary. The National Research Council of Canada funded the initial construction and operation of the model. The University of British Columbia provided land, office, laboratory space, materials, engineering, and administrative supervision. The University's support continued after the Federal Department of Public Works took over the model's operational and financial control in 1953. Located on a three-acre site on the western edge of the Point Grey campus, the project was a hydraulic, erodible-bed, tidal river model and one of the world's largest and the only one of its kind in Canada. The model's horizontal scale was 1:600, the vertical scale 1:70. Edward Sinclair Pretious of the Department of Civil Engineering was the director of the project.
Custodial history
Scope and content
Fonds consists of reports and printed material from the Fraser River Model Project (1948-1963) acquired from Dr. Pretious and the Applied Science Reading Room. The classification system is Pretious's own. The records were maintained in the order they were received.
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Please see finding aid for the file list.
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General note
In the original accession, records included items available elsewhere in the Library's holdings, these duplicate items were removed in a 1998 re-appraisal.
General note
Item 025 is an index to all Fraser River Model publications.
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- Pretious, Edward (Subject)
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Updated in February 2021, JM.