Crown Forest / Gorman Bros. / I.L.M.A. Woods Tour June 24, 1987
- File
- 1987
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Contains duo tang folder with map, itinerary.
Crown Forest / Gorman Bros. / I.L.M.A. Woods Tour June 24, 1987
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Contains duo tang folder with map, itinerary.
Crown Zellerbach / Crown Forest 1980s General
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Sous fonds consists of documentation of Sharron J. Simpson’s activities between the years of approximately 1994 to 2011. Sous fonds is predominantly concerned with Sharron J. Simpson’s leadership in the Simpson Covenant court case in 2007 and 2008, as well as the compilation of her personal family research and a few writing samples. In addition, an aggregation of photographs related to her activities is also included.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Series documents Sharron J. Simpson’s activism as the leader of a legal initiative challenging the proposed dissolution of the Simpson Covenant, a restrictive land sale agreement made between her grandfather, Stanley M. Simpson and the City of Kelowna in 1946.
To explain the context of the creation of the covenant: following a mill fire on S.M.S. Ltd. land on what is now Kelowna’s downtown waterfront (around the area known as Manhattan Point) S.M. Simpson sold this land to the City of Kelowna with the understanding that S.M. would sell at a reduced rate, and the City of Kelowna would agree that the land be used for civic or community (not commercial) purposes. In the 2000s, the City of Kelowna moved to dissolve the so-called “Simpson Covenant,” and in response Sharron J. Simpson launched a court challenge to enforce the maintenance of the covenant.
Series contains correspondence, legal documents (including petitions, reasons for judgment, affidavits, civic records and land title office records, City of Kelowna memoranda, press clippings and press releases, appraisal records, etc.).
Simpson, Sharron J.
Reasons for Judgement June 25 and 26 2008
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Legal documentation giving reasons for judgement in the Simpson Covenant case.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Includes City of Kelowna Memorandum (annotated) Subject: Future of Stuard Part and City Hall Properties with appendices, and Council Meeting minutes.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Legal description of properties related to the
OSC ARC 04 | Finding aid | page 24 of 31
Simpson Covenant Case, including statutory declaration, and record of extraction from B.C. Land Title Office.
Simpson Covenant Background and Opinions
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Includes copy of subdivision plan and prepared historical overview of Simpson Covenant Documentation. 1 aerial photograph ca. 2004.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Petition of Save the Heritage Simpson Covenant Society, on notice to The City of Kelowna, files by Porter Ramsay law firm, and filed in the B.C. Supreme Court, Kelowna Registry no. 75886 on 21 June 2007. Includes set of b&w and aerial photographs showing property in question.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Correspondence between Porter Ramsay law firm and Sharron J. Simpson.
Press Releases, Press Conference, Publicity 2004
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Newspaper clippings, CD ROM of saved poster PDFs, copies of press releases.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Also includes Tom Smithwick (lawyer) affidavit, and letters of support from the community which are not part of the public record.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Includes Real Estate Appraisal, Consultation & Arbitration: "Retrospective Market Review…1945 Acquisition of The Kelowna Saw Mill Company Limited" as well as Tom Smithwick's trial notes and body of relevant affidavits.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Spiral bound appeal record between Save the Heritage Simpson Covenant Society and the City of Kelowna, filed at the Vancouver Court of Appeal Registry 17 October 2008.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Includes prepared body of affidavits, originals from 1951 regarding initial sale of land to City of Kelowna, presumed copied around 2007, and affidavits dated 2007 from Sharron J. Simpson. Also includes chamber briefs.
Zoning Bylaw Amendment Proposal and Application 2004
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Zoning Bylaw Amendment Application, filed by Westcorp Inc. to the city of Kelowna and Development Proposal for "Pandosy's Landing," also filed by Westcorp., Inc.
Binder: Press Coverage predominant with some correspondence 1994 to 2007
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Clippings and copied tear sheets.
Simpson Covenant Newspaper Clippings
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Includes copy of the original signed petition, subdivision plans, and press coverage.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Contains press clippings RE: Simpson Covenant.
Civic Centre Simpson Covenant Volume 1
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Contains predominantly copies of press coverage, copies of bylaws, and correspondence. Original materials date to 1945 and more recent, but it is presumed that all copies were made after 2004.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Compositions and transcriptions of reminiscences from former S.M. Simpson employees.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Various newspaper clippings and copied tear sheets, annotated by Sharron J. Simpson. Originals date from ca. 1918, but all materials presumed copied around 1999.
The International Woodworkers of America 1940 to 1948
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Copied chapter, from "Nationalism, Communism, and Canadian Labour."
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Clippings, copied tear sheets, computer printouts.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Contains press coverage of 1999 S.M. Simpson Reunion.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Miscellaneous collected documents from the Sharron J. Simpson sous fonds. Includes a map, funeral program, some copied clippings, handwritten notes of unknown context, OHS report #23 report on population of Okanagan cities, ILMA directory, KPMG Forest Industry Update, and 2 souvenir calendars.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
See title. Includes correspondence, copies of bylaws, affidavits, contracts, City of Kelowna Memoranda, and some press clippings. Also speech notes and meeting minutes. | These Documents are the property of Sharron J. Simpson.
Sharron J. Simpson Research Files
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Sharron J. Simpson Writing Samples
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Documenting mill scenes and reunion events.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Showing scenes of Kelowna, photos of artifacts, former employees, and contemporary mill operations at S.M. Simpson Ltd. Successor.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
1999 reunion. Includes index and some negatives.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
1999 reunion. Includes negatives and index.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
File consists of early photographs of precursors to S.M. Simpson, Ltd., predominantly ca. 1910 - 1939, with occasional outliers dating as recently as the 1950s. Featured in this collection are depictions of The Kelowna Sawmill (KSM), which was moved to the Lakeshore site from Okanagan Mission about 1892, and owned by various historic figures local to Kelowna. KSM burned down several times, and was eventually sold to S.M. Simpson in 1942. Much of the mill burned to the ground in 1944, and while the land was still owned by KSM, the company was owned by S.M. Simpson. Many of the photos in the collection date from those early years. Additionally, there are numerous photos of portable sawmills that were located in Ellison and Winfield, but which didn't form part of S.M. Simpson Ltd., although they were often owned solely, or in partnership, by S.M. Simpson.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Administrative history
The Simpson family fonds is primarily a compilation of the images and records of three corporate entities, (Kelowna Sawmill Ltd., S.M. Simpson Ltd., S & K Ltd.) as well as the records and images of S. M. Simpson’s sole proprietorship between 1913 – 1924, prior to the incorporation of S. M. Simpson Ltd.
The Kelowna Sawmill dates from 1892 when it was first established by Bernard Lequime, who subsequently sold it to David Lloyd-Jones in 1901. Lloyd-Jones had a variety of business partners during the time he owned the sawmill. In 1942, Stanley M. Simpson, the owner of S. M. Simpson Ltd., purchased and operated the Kelowna Sawmill until it was destroyed by fire in 1944. The corporate Kelowna Sawmill Ltd. was maintained and became the retail arm of S. M. Simpson Ltd. until 1956, when retail operations ceased.
Stanley M. Simpson arrived in Kelowna in 1913 and operated a sole proprietorship for the next eleven years (1913-1924) until incorporating S. M. Simpson Ltd. in 1924. During those early years, Simpson operated his business in two different downtown locations, as well as running, or partnering in various portable sawmills throughout the area. His sash and door factory on Abbott Street, manufactured and sold windows and doors, custom furniture, and wooden fruit boxes for the expanding Okanagan fruit and vegetable industry. The business operated out of this location until 1948.
Needing a reliable and accessible source of logs, Stanley Simpson bought land at Manhattan Beach along the lakeshore, in Kelowna’s North End. In 1930, he began constructing a sawmill and box factory and three years later, added a veneer plant to the site.
The Province of British Columbia created Forest Management licenses in 1951, when S. M. Simpson Ltd. was awarded Tree Farm License #9. Needing to diversity, S. M. Simpson Ltd. created S&K Ltd. to add a plywood manufacturing facility to the Manhattan site. It began operations in 1957.
In the following years S. M. Simpson Ltd. purchased other sawmills and logging operations, including Trautman Garraway in Peachland (1955), Peachland Sawmill & Box (1955), McLean Sawmills (1957), Lumby Timber Co (1959), Ferguson Brothers Lumber (1962), Stave Lumber (1962) Eagle Pass Lumber (1963), R&L Lumber (1964).
Stanley Simpson died in 1959. Horace B. Simpson, Stanley’s son, managed S. M. Simpson Ltd. until 1965 when the company was sold to Crown Zellerbach, Canada. A branch operation of the U.S. company, this was the first of a succession of owners, and though the Simpson name was attached to the operations for several years, the family was no longer involved.
In 1965, H.B. Simpson sold S.M.S. Ltd and its several associates and subsidiaries to the Canadian instance of Crown Zellerbach Corporation: Crown Zellerbach Canada. It continued operating as the S.M. Simpson Division of Crown Zellerbach Canada for several years until the name was changed to simply Crown Zellerbach Canada. In 1969, Crown Zellerbach purchased several more sawmills in the region, including Armstrong Sawmills operations in Armstrong, Enderby, Vernon and Falkland, as well as Ponderosa Pine Lumber Co. in 1970.
In 1981 Crown Zellerbach Canada was purchased by Fletcher Challenge Canada Ltd. and the entity’s name was changed to Crown Forest, and in 1987 the name changed again to Fletcher Challenge Canada Ltd. The company was then subsequently purchased by Riverside Forest Products in 1992. In 2004 Riverside Forest Products was purchased by Tolko Industries Ltd. which operated until 2020.
Scope and content
The sous fonds includes records generated by Stanley Merriam Simpson both before and after the corporate life of S.M. Simpson Ltd., and additionally documents a suite of succeeding companies that assumed the business operations and assets established by S.M. Simpson.
The sous fonds consists of a photographic record that documents the wood processing entity established by S.M. Simpson across iterations of corporate ownership, as well as business records relating to substantial operations, labour relations, safety programs, legal proceedings, and administration.
The sous fonds consists of a photographic record that documents the wood processing entity established by S.M. Simpson across iterations of corporate ownership, as well as business records relating to substantial operations, labour relations, safety programs, legal proceedings, and administration.
The fonds consists of two separate streams of documentation. The first consists of documents, photographs, and artifacts pertaining to the operations of a succession of sawmills and wood manufacturing plants founded by Stanley Merriam Simpson) and assumed by his son, Horace B. Simpson in the Okanagan area.
The second stream consists of the materials generated by Sharron J. Simpson, a Kelowna author, publisher, and activist. Sharron J. Simpson's records within this aggregation are primarily in relation to legal proceedings against the City of Kelowna in pursuit of the maintenance of the Simpson Covenant, which limits use of waterfront land on a former mill site sold by S.M. Simpson to the City under restrictive terms of sale in 1946. In the 2000s, the City sought to dissolve the Covenant; Sharron J. Simpson founded a society to challenge this initiative.
In total fonds consists of approximately 2,642 photographs, in various forms, including some duplicates. Records provide documentation of legal proceedings, finances, substantial mill operations, safety initiatives, administration, civic engagement, publicity, and labour relations relating to mill business, general family research, and writing samples. Artifacts include exemplars of production and souvenir materials.
Simpson, Stanley Merriam
S.M. Simpson Ltd. Operations Files
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Subseries consists of contractor information, mill operations specifications and rules, notes, reports, customer and sales information, compiled descriptions of forestry sites, strategic planning, and geographical resources
S.M. Simpson Ltd.
S.M. Simpson Ltd. Retrospectives
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Subseries consists of various compiled manuscripts and informally published materials either relating directly to the historical narrative of S.M. Simpson Ltd. or to aspects of its operations.
Date range extends beyond the corporate existence of S.M. Simpson Ltd but is included in the series and parent series because of its pertinence to the company.
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Subseries consists of various artifacts in wood, metal, fabric, paper and other materials, generated in the normal pursuit of business by S.M. Simpson and/or deliberately created as souvenirs.
S.M. Simpson Ltd.
Crown Zellerbach Canada (Southern Interior Wood Products) Operations Files
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Subseries consists of partial documentation of the substantial forestry, logging, and sawmill operations conducted by Crown Zellerbach Canada (Southern Interior Wood Products) during the 1960s through 1980s. Predominantly, this subseries is comprised of prepared reports, prospectuses, industrial profiles, and descriptions of assets, work processes, and mill specifications.
Crown Zellerbach Canada
Crown Zellerbach Canada (Southern Interior Wood Products) Labour Relations
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Subseries consists of documentation of Crown Zellerbach Canada’s interactions with its workers, as well as their labour union, the International Woodworkers’ Association.
Subseries contains primary instance documents including forms (blank and completed), collective agreements, meeting minutes, seniority lists, job categorization lists, correspondence, committee rosters, contracts, bulletins, etc.
Crown Zellerbach Canada
Sharron J. Simpson Research Files
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Series consists of materials documenting Sharron J. Simpson’s efforts to collect external information about various aspects of her family history centering mainly on the history of S.M.S. Ltd., but not including research particular to the Simpson Covenant, which is kept separate.
In addition to the collection of published materials (predominantly newspapers) the series also includes recorded oral histories and select transcripts.
Simpson, Sharron J.
Sharron J. Simpson Writing Files
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Series consists of writing samples created by Sharron J. Simpson.
Simpson, Sharron J.
Sharron J. Simpson Photographs
Part of Simpson Family fonds
Series consists of photographs taken by, or collected by, Sharron J. Simpson. Subjects documented include sawmill operations, 1999 reunion of former S.M.S. Ltd. employees, and the Okanagan fruit industry, as well as deliberate photographs taken preserving images of S.M.S. memorabilia.
Simpson, Sharron J.