This series contains interviews with various key figures who played a vital role in the early years of the Parks’ development of Manning Park. Interview subjects include Joe Hilton; R.H. Boyd; R.H. Ahrens; Tom Moore; Charlie Velay, and Davey Davidson.
This series contains records accumulated by J.D. Anderson that offer modern context for Parks-related concerns; including biodiversity; climate change; Park values; public protests, and indigenous rights.
This series contains records accumulated by J.D. Anderson that document various land trust and acquisition activities undertaken by the BC Parks system. This includes records on land acquisition rationale; a registry of transactions; property donations; a land acquisition "wish list;" records regarding various lands Parks sought to acquire including files on Burns Bog, Quarda Island, and Goldstream; records on the Vancouver Island Land Use Plan; various administrative records, and relevant miscellany.
This series contains records accumulated by J.D. Anderson that document various administration activities relevant to BC Parks. This includes records that describe the long-term evolution of Parks system planning; the interpretation program; facilities standards; the operations of Provincial Marine Parks and protected areas; recreation areas; tree hazard policy; conservation policy; the Parks' relationship with the private sector; fixed roof structure policy; standalone Parks records; staff development, directives, charts, and photographs, the Outdoor Recreation Branch; selected biographical records of folks relevant to BC Parks, and a file on Youth Crew activities.
This series contains records accumulated by J.D. Anderson that document the inner working of various specific parks. This includes files on Strathcona, Cypress, Kalamalka Lake, Adams River, Muskwa-Kechika, Great Bear Rainforest, Alsek-Tatshensini, McMillan Park, Cathedral Grove, and Clayoquot Sound.
This series contains records accumulated by J.D. Anderson that document the development of the Parks system. This includes "Post Card Parks" materials on “post card Parks” and “new large Parks;” BC Forest Service materials; materials from the Natural Resources Conference; records on facilities and plans; records documenting the then-new Department of Recreation and Conservation; the personal papers of D.H. Macmurchie and R.H. Ahrens; New Park Act materials; “The Sacred Legacy” materials; “Major New Parks” materials; Outdoor Recreation Branch materials; Recreational/Green Belt Encouragement Fund Act materials; Wilderness Advisory Committee materials; Land use strategy materials; and protected area strategy files. Wilderness Advisory Committee (WAC) materials; Land use strategy materials, and protected area strategy files.
This series contains records accumulated by J.D. Anderson that document the administrative activities that took place in Southern Chilcotin Mountains Park. This includes records from the Southern Chilcotin Mountains Park Wilderness Society; studies; recreation area materials; records regarding Spruce Lake, and materials from the Park's Land Resource Management Plan (LRMP).
This series contains records accumulated by J.D. Anderson that document general information about the BC Provincial Park system. These include materials regarding the legislation and systems management of BC Parks; materials documenting facilities inventories and attendance; files that speak to Anderson's interest in documenting the history of the BC Parks system; selected annual ministry reports, as well as a copy of James K. Younds' thesis, which provides a case study of B.C.'s provincial Park system from 1911 to the late 1970s.
The accrual is comprised of Roberts' paper for the Canadian Peace Research and Education Association Annual Meeting (1982) and a copy of the "Quaker Minute" following Roberts' death published in Reports for Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1999).