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Don MacLaurin

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011
  • Fonds
  • 1929 - 2013

Fonds contain the records of Don MacLaurin. MacLaurin was involved in the forestry industry of British Columbia, taught at BCIT, and was heavily involved with the Resort Municipality of Whistler. He was in several forestry associations, including the Canadian Institute of Forestry, British Columbia Foresters, and the Forest Nursery Association of British Columbia. MacLaurin created the Whistler Interpretive Forest. MacLaurin also completed assessments for private developers. Included in the fonds are his personal records.

Most of the records were created in the Whistler region.

BCIT Documents

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-001
  • Series
  • 1960 - 2013
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

Series contains records from the time Don MacLaurin was employed at BCIT. Records reflect MacLaurin's activity as a professor, included course notes, assignments, and correspondence.

Canadian Institute of Forestry

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-016
  • Series
  • 1952 - 2001
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

Series includes a CD; a phonographic record; Canadian Institute of Forestry (CIF)/Society of American Foresters Joint Meeting programme pamphlet; CIF Convention programme pamphlets; correspondence, maps, and notes associated with a CIF Presentation; CIF receipts; correspondence; reports; notes; cubic-foot volume tables for types of trees; a CIF convention manual/breast pocket name badge; a news clipping referring to a CIF convention; meeting attendance notes; CIF Vancouver Section meeting notes.

Notes:
Two files with suspected moisture damage or mold put in archival-safe folder within file.

CD was in an envelope that was not archival-safe with "CIF 2001 Presentation" written on it. CD is labelled "Don's Presentation Forestry 2001".

Files together in archival paper folder were in envelope that was not archival-safe with "C.I.F. Presentation to Section Meeting - Vancouver O/H - copies to be made".

Phonographic record labelled "Arranged for Canadian Instituted of Forestry, Published by Kisiskadjewan Music BMI-2:52, Munro's Sound Centre, Prince Albert Sask., Forestry Is For People (John Noble . Stan Rowden) PRINCE ALBERTS ROVING GUITARS".

Association of BC Professional Foresters

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-017
  • Series
  • 1980 - 2012
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

Records concerning the Association of British Columbia Professional Foresters. Series includes a CD; registration for Association of BC Professional Foresters conference; Don MacLaurin's Association of BC Foresters license; receipts; correspondence; document titled "Forestry Education Needs in B.C. Until 2000 A.D."; reports; document titled "Arguments Against Proposed Chilliwack Lake Loading-Out Works"; example wood cost budgets for Depot Creek; recreations studies; Whistler Mountain Roundhouse foot traffic simulation chart; document titled "Conservation, Outdoor Recreation, and Forest Management in British Columbia"; document titled "Outdoor Recreation and Forest Stewardship"; prompt notes for meetings.

Note:
CD labelled "Association of British Columbia Professional Foresters - Professional Manual - June 2002", with setup instructions and recommendations for best results.

Don MacLaurin's Reference Material

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-026
  • Series
  • 1949 - 2004
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

Series includes bound copy of "Interpretation of Landforms from Aerial Photographs" by Nurettin Keser; transparencies with geological information; "BC Forestry" journal of the Association of BC Professional Foresters, Volume 2, No. 1, August 1977; bound copy of "Range Management handbook for British Columbia" edited by Alastair McLean; bound copy of "Forest Resources and Utilization in Canada to the Year 2000" by Glenn H. Manning and H. Rae Grinnell; copy of "Wilderness in British Columbia The Need Is Now A Conference Summary" published by the Outdoor Recreation Council of British Columbia; copy of "The Forestry Chronicle" Volume 53, No. 6, December 1977.

Series also includes a map with textual information titled "Forest Fire Weather Zones of Canada" by A. J. Simard; copy of "A Technique for Sampling General Fish Habitat Characteristics of Streams" by Roscoe B. Herrington and Donald K. Dunham; copy of "Canada's Forests - From Seed to Sale", "The Forestry Chronicle," December 1977; copy of "Climate of British Columbia Tables of Temperature, Precipitation, and Sunshine" Report for 1960, with correspondence from the Department of Transport regarding monthly precipitation tables for Texada Island, BC.

Series also includes an academic article titled "The Demand Survey Dilemma: Assessing the Credibility of State Outdoor Recreation Plans" by Rabel Burdge and John Hendee, from "Guideline" journal, Volume 2, No. 6, November-December 1972; CD titled "BC Wildfire Conference 2004: Wildland Urban Interface Fire in the New Era" with presentations from the conference; pamphlet titled "Canada's Forests: Prevent Forest Fires" from 1958; booklet titled "Log Scale" from 1959; booklet titled "Grading Rules and Scaling Procedure" from 1963 with BC Forest Branch General Volume tables; copy of "Table of Ten Times Volume of Cylinders in Cubic Feet" from 1953; booklet titled "Protected Areas, Conservation and Development" by Harold K. Eidsvik; booklet titled "Metric Handbook for Canadian Softwood Lumber" from 1977; bound copy of "Forest Survey Notes, British Columbia Forest Service, Forest Surveys and Inventory Division" from 1960; photocopies of tables and figures related to sustainable forestry; photocopies of tables related to the history of recreation development (mainly in the US).

Series also includes a Geological Survey of Canada titled "Glacial Lake History, Southern Interior Plateau, British Columbia" from 1969, with a map titled Ice retreat and glacial lake development, Southern Interior Plateau, British Columbia; document titled "Exotic Trees in the Coastal Region of British Columbia" by E. H. Garman; booklet of Coast Volume Tables in Cubic Feet; adjustable Control Burning Meter for Messmate-Gum or Silvertop Forest Type, from the Forests Commission of Victoria, Australia; booklet titled "Topographical Tables for the use of Timber Cruisers, Forest Engineers, and Logging Superintendents" by A. K. Shives; bound copy of "Measure for Measure" by P. J. Rennie.

Note: This series consists of five folders.

Our Future Forestry in Sea-to-Sky Country Conference 1990

Series includes documents concerning the Our Future Forestry in Sea-to-Sky Country conference held in May, 1990. Series includes a folder printed specifically for the conference, with a "Sea to Sky Enterprise Centre" business card; a list of conference speakers; copies of speeches given during the conference; speaking notes for John Reynolds, Minister of Environment; a presentation by Dick Bryan, given during the conference; employment and population chars for the Sea-to-Sky region; greeting letter from Phil Turner, Mayor of Squamish in 1990.

Forestry Tour Organisation Correspondence

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-033
  • Series
  • 2000 - 2007
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

Documents pertaining to tours Don MacLaurin organized and assisted with. Series includes email correspondence regarding a Retired Chief Foresters Tour; notes, itineraries, and attendance lists regarding the Retired Chief Foresters Tour; a "Workshop Overview Document" for the Sixth North American Forest Ecology Workshop for UBC Faculty of Forestry; email correspondence regarding a Western Forest Products farewell get-together; correspondence regarding VIP Forestry Tours.

Australia Sabbatical Contact Information and Notes

Documents pertaining to Don MacLaurin's working sabbatical, which involved a trip to Australia. File includes lists of contact information for Don's sabbatical application; correspondence from the International Society of Tropical Foresters, Inc. regarding membership renewal for 1986, with a form for membership renewal; notes and itinerary ideas for Don MacLaurin's Australia trip.

Don MacLaurin's Notebooks

File contains Don MacLaurin's notebooks.

Details of each notebook:
001: Spiral bound. Notes from 1990. Contact information; meeting notes; reminders; notes on the status of trees, trails, and forest areas; notes on site visits to the Demonstration Forest; shopping and "to-do" lists; notes on insurance costs; diagrams.

002: Spiral bound. Notes from 1988. Notes on "rendezvous compass shots"; notes on trees; site tour field notes; diagrams; notes related to Rotary Club events; contact information.

003: Spiral bound. Notes from 1989. Supply and "to-do" lists; cost and measurement notes; contact information; lists of trail workers.

004: Spiral bound. Notes from 1991. Contact information; "to-do" and "to-get" lists; Timber Ridge tallies; list of a response team; notes on building materials; notes on signage; notes on kayaking/rafting pull-out stations; diagrams.

005: Binder-style. Trail project notes; schedules; contact information; list of members of the Alta Lake Ratepayers Team; notes on Squamish District lots; notes on inventory and prices for camping supplies.

006: Pages from 005. Notes from 1965. Resolutions notes; diagrams; fire control notes; weather forecast information; meeting notes.

007: Notes from 1985. Notes regarding contacts; meeting notes; "ICDE" notes; contact information; "to-do" lists; airline and accommodations notes.

008: Notes from 1998. Shopping and "to-do" lists; meeting and correspondence notes; meeting notes; Arbour Day preparation notes; contact information; Garden Club meeting notes; Rotary Fireside notes.

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