Fonds documents Douglas Rickson’s work as a forester, particularly as Chief Forester then Vice-President and Chief Forester at both Canadian Forest Products and Canfor from the mid-1970s to mid-1990s. Material relates to Rickson’s various forestry responsibilities with respect to Canfor’s forest management policies and standards, tenure administration, government relations, representing Canfor on various forestry committees, forest education programs, internal forest practice performance reviews, and presentations to Canfor’s major customers in North America and overseas. The fonds also includes photographs from Rickson’s time as a student timber cruiser in 1954 or 1955 at Hemmingsen Creek.

Fonds consists of memoranda, reports, presentation scripts, briefs, and other material created as part of Rickson’s career at Canfor, as well as photographs from Rickson’s time as a student timber cruiser.

Fonds is arranged into three series: Photographs; DER correspondence; and Reports and presentations.

The fonds consists of records of the company, including outgoing letters of E.K. Laird, prospectuses, an engineer's report on mining property in the Skeena region of B.C., and a newspaper sheet.

The fonds reflects Bernard and Jean Webber’s functions as leading members of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, teachers and education administrators, and advocates for local arts, history and Indigenous cultural regeneration. The fonds is comprised of 4 series; Political Papers series, Correspondence and Biographies series, Education and Employment Records series, and Community Activities series. Materials related to Indigenous arts, education and reconciliation are found throughout the fonds. Correspondence is its own series and is also found throughout, including copies of outgoing business correspondence.

Record types include newspaper clippings, correspondence, articles, scrapbooks, speeches, notes, drafts, reports, teaching materials, subject files and other material.