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1934-1989 (Creation)
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- Fletcher Challenge Canada Limited. Cowichan/Nitinat Division
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6.6 m of textual records;ca. 10 maps
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The Cowichan Division of BC Forest Products Ltd. (BCFP) was created in 1946 by consolidating several logging operations in the Cowichan Lake area, including Industrial Timber Mills Ltd. The Division was headquartered at Caycuse, an isolated logging camp that had been established in 1926 on the south shore of Cowichan Lake. BCFP built a new town to replace the old floathouses and bunkhouses, including an elementary school, store and community hall. At its peak in the early 1950's, an estimated 1000 loggers and their families lived at the camp. The Division included the Renfrew area with a logging camp at Nitinat.Until the introduction of truck logging in 1954, all of the logs from the region were transported by rail and boomed across Cowichan Lake to be used in the sawmill owned by BCFP at Youbou. From 1957 timber was also used at the newsprint plant in Crofton. In 1962 the Cowichan Division held the rights to 83000 acres of timber and employed 200 men, half of whom lived in the Caycuse camp with their families. H.E. Hobson was Logging Manager for the Division from 1946 - 1964 and was succeeded by Les R.Way. Fletcher Challenge Canada acquired the operation in 1988 and closed the camp at Caycuse in 1992. Operations were transferred to the Gordon River Camp.
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The records were salvaged by the Kaatza Museum from the office at Caycuse in 1992 and donated to the Kaatza Archives.
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The fonds consists primarily of office files from the Cowichan-Renfrew Division of BC Forest Products Ltd., dating from 1946 - 1968 and document the responsibilities of the Division. These include correspondence from Head Office in Vancouver on a wide range of management issues such as accidents, union, legal affairs and finances; personnel maters including appointments, health and safety; administration of the camps at Caycuse(Camp 6) and Nitinat(Camp 3); maintaining equipment and transportation links; and management logging operations. The fonds includes a series of maps and plans documenting the camps, logging activity, railway and road surveys and forest cover.
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BCAUL control number: KSM-2159