File 100-2: Office Memos

File 100-2: Office Memos

Description

Title Proper ARC-1346 BOX 100 FILE 100-02
Date(s) 1940
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file contains miscellaneous correspondence and memoranda of the Timber Controller. These records explicate the general lumber situation during wartime and demonstrate the opinion of the Timber Controller regarding preventative measures against businessmen: “It is undesirable that any person should be placed in a position that would prevent his firm from doing business with the Government of Canada, or that a situation should remain open that might be embarrassing to any individual ...” Digitized material consists only of a memorandum from H.R. MacMillan to A.S. Nicholson asserting the undesirability of any person being prevented from doing business.
Name of creator
MacMillan, Harvey Reginald created this archive during his time as BC's first Chief Forester and later as founder of H.R. MacMillan Export Company Ltd. and MacMillan-Bloedel Ltd.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
This record was digitized selectively.

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File 100-2: Office Memos
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Terminology

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