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 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 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 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.

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 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 British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Material consists of ledgers, budget information concerning, the Association’s financial statements

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.