GoldBricking BC Budgets: Will Premier Bill Bennett's BCRIC Shares be worth more than Premier Christy Clark's Prosperity Fund?

Two Premiers, Two resourced based Public (Government) funds being used in the hope of recovering their political parties (BC Social Credit Party and the BC Liberal Party) from certain defeat ...... and along the way, damn the Taxpayers.

Premier Bill Bennett's Gold BCRIC-ing Version I  (value today ZERO)

The British Columbia Resources Investment Corporation, or BCRIC (pronounced "brick") was a holding company formed under the government of William R. Bennett.
The company took over ownership of various sawmills and mines that had been bought and bailed out by the government. The name was eventually changed to Westar Group Ltd.

The most famous aspect of the company were the five free bearer shares, dated August 7, 1979 that were distributed to all British Columbians, to promote investment in the province, and earn back a profit to the buyer. British Columbians and investors were encouraged to buy more. The company expanded, and bought numerous mining and logging installations. etc....

Unfortunately, because of significant investment in a North Sea oil play by a subsidiary, Westar Petroleum, as well as bad timing in a mining investment by another subsidiary, Westar Mining, the company ran into financial trouble. Investors saw their thousands of dollars dwindle to pennies.  Wikipedia

 Premier Christy Clark's Gold BCRIC Version II .... The Prosperity Fund

There's an old saying "Out with the Old, in with the New".....  Christy Clark's handlers, speech writers, cartoonists???, have used the word "New " to describe the "New Prosperity Fund" as if there was a predecessor, an older Prosperity Fund, that failed.

Strikingly familiar is how closely the Prosperity Fund and BCRIC promised to bring on a NEW ERA, just like the New Era of the HST.  Sky High spending without creating debt, that's what the BC Liberals are promising.  $56 Billion is the absolute tops.

Premier Christy Clark announced Tuesday the establishment of a new British Columbia Prosperity Fund to ensure communities, First Nations and all British Columbians benefit from the development of a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry.

"The safe recovery and export of our abundant supply of natural gas presents an opportunity for prosperity unlike anything we have ever seen before," says Premier Clark.

"British Columbians can secure tens of thousands of new jobs for decades to come by developing this clean energy resource, and protect this new wealth for the benefit of all of us today, as well as our children and their families, tomorrow."

Billions-of-dollars in new revenue will be dedicated to the B.C. Prosperity Fund. A key priority will be to eliminate the provincial debt over time, reduce the cost burden on B.C. families through further tax reductions, and make long-term investments in the services that people depend on, such as health care, education, employment and vital infrastructure.   Castanet News BC

Perhaps Christy Clark's true goal in May is to have a bridge or a building or a mountain or a NEW Deas Island Tunnel/Bridge named after her so as to attain the same status as the Bridge that bears the name of Bill Bennett...... in Kelowna, by then Premier Gordon Campbell on the eve of a Provincial election in 2005.... buying votes perhaps.

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Tales from the Crypt: The British Columbia Resources Investment Corporation

by David Climenhaga on February 12, 2009

Snip   .... Perhaps thinking that the B.C. government’s involvement made BCRIC shares a little like Canada Savings Bonds, members of the public – mostly small investors without a great deal of sophistication about how markets work or who works the markets – gave their money to these Big Businessmen whose names escape me to invest and create wealth for them.

Alas, almost unbelievably, the Big Businessmen – despite the fact they had beautiful suits, great haircuts, Rolex watches, snazzy foreign cars and lots of MBAs working for them – made some very bad miscalculations! They sank some of the money – quite a bit of it, as a matter of fact – in North Sea oil at a time petroleum prices were going down, down, down. (Rather like right now.) They dropped more money down a mineshaft that turned out not to have a bottom. Whoops! Sorry, folks! Small investors who had put thousands of their hard-earned dollars into the Brick saw their investments drop like the company’s namesake. Before long, their thousands were worth only a few pennies.

By then, of course, the company, with its nearly worthless shares, wasn’t called BCRIC any more. It had a convenient new inoffensively corporate name: Westar Group Ltd. No need to remind folks that this was Mr. Bennett’s brainchild!   Snip

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From BC Business:

Christmas came early in 1979 when Premier Bill Bennett gave away 12 million shares of B.C. Resources Investment Corp. to British Columbians.

“As the son of one of British Columbia’s most iconic leaders, Bill Bennett not only emerged from his father’s shadow – he built his own legacy. He will be remembered as one of our greatest and most influential leaders. - Premier Christy Clark

“This government, with the most revolutionary proposal that’s been brought to public life in the last 30 years, has brought in an initiative through the B.C. Resources Investment Corporation to involve all our people in individual ownership where they will have a right, say, of collecting dividends and of buying more shares. I think this experience with ownership will encourage them to buy more. Not only are they getting free shares . . . they’re also being encouraged for the first time, on a ground-floor basis, to invest in their own company rather than send money to buy it from the government.” – Premier Bill Bennett, B.C. Legislature, March 30, 1979

Today the shares can be found in sock drawers and lining budgie cages throughout the province

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Google Search Criteria 

british columbia resource investment corporation

AND

Second version of the same criteria but under the heading of  BLOGs

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UPDATE:

Vancouver Sun's Craig McInnes  February 25, 2013

Fantasy gas fund built on shifting sands

Putting faith in LNG is like counting your chickens before they hatch - or banking on a future that may never arrive.

I put Premier Christy Clark's "plan" for a multibillion-dollar "Prosperity Fund" in the same category of wishful thinking. We don't have a single commitment yet for a major LNG export plant, yet we're already spending the money.

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Part II: Cobweb covered RCMP Reports kept safe and sound by the Legislative Library for 33 Years

 One can never be quite sure if one Blogger's writings effect the wheels of justice....... Our writings, work better if shared with others, like Laila Yuile, when she picked up on a Post here at the BBC.  It works both ways..... visa versus.

Back on October24, 2012 we wrote EXCLUSIVELY on the "Report on Rape in BC", and wondered out loud why the report had been kept secret for 33 years, and only came to see the light of day because of what we wrote. 

Was it something what we said that prompted others to speak  out?  or it was just bound to happen?

News | Feb 13, 2013 | 2:51  CBC

RCMP accused of rape in report

The RCMP says it wants to get to the bottom of abuse allegations against its officers in B.C. involving aboriginal women, but says individuals making the claims must come forward

From our original Post from October 2012, a portion is presented here.....

“The saddest part about British Columbia is that neither the Legislative Library nor the RCMP , have a clue as to what’s in their respective  “collections” of tales and Reports and even more Reports……, the public included…”

~snip~

“The RCMP appears to have turned a blind eye on past Reports ordered by  the Attorney General of British Columbia, specifically the one published in March of 1979.

Is there any Commanding Officer in Division E of the RCMP in British Columbia who can remember reading the Report from March of 1979?   Probably not, otherwise changes would have been made, the public educated on the Do’s and Don’ts of hitchhiking, lives would have been saved, cases closed, instead, the RCMP waited for someone to die in prison, in the USA.  While other serial killers are still walking Free.

The Report was made available to all Officers in 1979, even the most impressionable younger ones like the officer who has become the focal point for CBC’s: what an Officer should wear, WITH his boots, on.

SNIP

The “Report” that the Attorney General of BC (Garde Gardom 22 Dec. 1975 – 24 Nov. 1979) received in March of  1979, is titled, “Rape in British Columbia“, written by Nancy Goldsberry.  The document is available in the BC Legislative Library.”

 SNIP

Petroglyphs at waters edge, Threatened with Oil

Oil from Alberta;

Liquid Natural Gas from British Columbia...

......... leaving the Ports of  Prince Rupert (which has had three groundings of freighters in late 2012)  AND Kitimat.   The latter is expecting 10 major projects to get underway within a year.

There's been plenty of concerns raised with Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipeline, from Watershed destruction, to fisheries, to the removal of 1,000 square kilometres of islands in way of Douglas Channel.  The Captains of industry will stop at nothing to gain riches.

Ecological Reserves....  are in Harms Way, so too is this:

Google Search Criteria    Alaska petroglyphs, Babbler Creek, Sitka

The rock art of the Northwest Coast. - Summit - Simon Fraser ...

summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/4415/b13752807.pdf

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
by DM Lundy - 1974
This thesis examines Indian petroglyphs and pictographs (carvings and ... of Alaska south to the Dalles of the Columbia River. ..... At Katlian Bay, (in the mouth of the bay) north of. Sitka. Kennedy 1974. At the village of Sitka, in Kalinin ... Reported located at Craig Boat Harbour, Kennedy 1974. .... Located on Babbler Point.

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These images, like most on the shores of Alaska and British Columbia, are at the water's edge... reached by canoes, originally..... power boats today, Oil and LNG tankers tomorrows.

TMI: A new Measurement of Volume: Olympic Size swimming pool

TMI

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This morning, the Press is reporting on "Canada not ready to dispose of mercury-laden light bulbs" - Vancouver Sun  from   The Canadian Press  Dean Beeby 

Mercury-laden CFL:

Snip

Beginning next January, a new regulation will effectively ban the sale of standard incandescent bulbs in favour of energy-efficient versions, most of which contain mercury.

So-called compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs, will also enter the waste stream as they break or burn out, many destined for landfills where their harmful mercury can get into the water.

Environment Canada (Pages 3 and 11) says the MERCURY contained in a typical thermometer can contaminate five Olympic-size swimming pools to toxic levels.                                         Snip

Imagine that, one Typical thermometer can contaminate FIVE OLYMPIC-SIZE SWIMMING POOLS!   There's no mention, however, of how many Compact Fluorescent lamps can fit into a Typical thermometer............

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From Christy Clark's Minister of Environment, Terry Lake's (fitting last name) desktop:

Did you know that the average British Columbian uses about 490 litres of water each day? If you include the water that is embedded in the food you eat, the clothes you wear and the products you use every day, your “water footprint” may be over 6,000 litres a day. Over the course of a year, that’s almost a full Olympic-sized swimming pool of water per person!  - Living Water Smart

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Maple Ridge uses 4,200 full Olympic sized swimming pools per year, that's 10.5 million cubic meters   .... population 69,000 to 75,000.

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Olympic-size swimming pool is the type of swimming pool used in the Olympic Games, where the race course is 50 metres in length and 25 metres in width. - Wikipedia

Success story

Approximately 2.9 million litres of municipal drinking water is conserved annually with a very basic pipe configuration.  This exceeds the volume of water required to fill an Olympic size Swimming Pool.  Page 4 of 4

There are Three watersheds (drainage and catchment areas) in Metro Vancouver Water District, and whereas they are different in land area, the volume of water is essentially the same.  Population: 2,000,000... Two Million......

Capilano Lake held back by Cleveland Dam....... from an earlier Post.

The math should be easy here, based upon Minister Lake's calculations...... of one full Olympic-sized per person...   Maple Ridge's population versus 4,200 pools....

2,000,000 X 1 = 2,000,000 Olympic Size swimming pools

However:
ONE THERMOMETER can contaminate to toxic levels FIVE Olympic Size Swimming Pools.

400,000 thermometers would be needed to contaminate 2 million Olympic swimming pools

One/Third of Four Hundred Thousand ...... approximately 12,000 thermometers per watershed.

2,400 visitors carrying five thermometers each......

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TMI

Could someone please explain why the Federal and Provincial governments are introducing a product that will ... allow terrorists  to contaminate our drinking water with mercury without the means to dispose of the toxic material (mercury), to stop "them", or us?   This insanity must STOP

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 UPDATE  September 26, 2013

The Canadian Press

Published Sunday, April 1, 2012 7:53PM EDT

OTTAWA - Enough nuclear waste to fill more than a hundred Olympic-sized swimming pools could be buried in an underground chamber near the Ottawa River.

The federal government is eyeing the site of the Chalk River nuclear reactor, 160 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, as a radioactive waste site.

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. says 267,000 cubic metres of low- and medium-level nuclear waste is now stored above-ground in metal containers at the Chalk River site.
   
The Crown corporation is looking at building an enormous depository 500 to 1,000 metres underground to bury the detritus of six decades of nuclear testing at the Chalk River site.

UPDATE October 4, 2013

Sir Adam Beck Generating Stations downstream at a rate that would fill an Olympic sizedswimming pool every five seconds

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UPDATE November 3, 2013

Trans Mountain Pipeline aka Kinder Morgan   "Did you Know":

Approximately three million barrels of crude oil travel through Canada’s crude oil pipeline network every day, enough to fill more than 475 million one-litre milk cartons or almost 200 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Factoids

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UPDATE  November 13, 2013

 Natural gas industry accused of illegal water use in B.C.
Environmental groups say Encana should have to pay for water used in fracking process

The environmental groups say as Encana proceeded with the fracking process to extract natural gas from underground reserves, it drew 880 Olympic swimming pools worth of water over three years from the Kiskatinaw River, which supplies drinking water to the city of Dawson Creek.

Sic itur ad astra "thus one goes to the stars"

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Western Canadiana  -  1987

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Delhi Durbar 1911

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"thus one goes to the stars"

Mr. Justice Archer Martin   of   Ballinahinch (Victoria BC)


And if you're wondering what the connection is between Victoria's Ballinahinch and the Chief Justice of British Columbia Court of Appeal and the residence, his residence, ...... he named it after his Great Grandfather "Richard Martin, owner of 200,000 acres of wild and rugged countryside in western Connaught .... from His castle at Ballinahinch."   More detailed info on Page 9 of 14

"Mother" of inventions, a b-b-b-baby.... my baby, my bagel holder, my bike rack, perfected

Update:  November 21, 2012   Couldn't believe our good luck today, the Canadian Department of National Defense came visiting, again, this time for:       3 hours 56 mins 9 secs   ... however, their interest seemed more to do with the 1964 Chevrolet Malibu than the Bagel Holder or the Bike Rack.  That's the pitfall when you click on one our links... we have it set up so that it opens in it's own Window so that you DON'T lose track of where you got the idea from in the first place.... the latest POST is  HERE!

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Maybe the title is just a little bit over the top today, but, "Babies" come in many forms... like:

"how yah doing Baby!"

"this here Robin Egg Blue, 1964 Chevrolet Malibu, is my Baby"

"Oh what a cute Baby"   the real ones  "Kitchy Kitchy Koo"

With each, there are "growing" pains, achievements and dilemmas that need to be conquered, solved, but it's the latter Baby, that really challenges the mind to keep up with his daily developments.   Our family encourages the youngsters, the toddlers too, to do their fare share of the preparations for our meals. Salad making is a great treat because the vegetable seeds were planted by "them", weeded and watered by "them", harvested by "them", to then have "them" prepare the vegetables as a a salad..... or desserts like carrot cake, or COOKIES, gluten free cookies, vegan cookies.

There's the actual preparation, getting out the necessary mixing equipment, like Large spoons, Measuring Cups, large mixing pots, Sheets to cook the cookies upon, flour to be ground, or ground already.  Occasionally there's the BC version of a Mount Everest, not insurmountable, with the Baby crawling, not quite toddling, not quite ready to stand, but is quite ready to be propped up in the highchair while his older sibling, by four, knows all the ins and outs, of cooking...... and cleaning up by .... DOING THE DISHES.  It's better than being IN a bathtub, splashing around, keeps the children's attention too, while the adults daily chores are somewhat accomplished.

Real cookies are oh so more delightful than relying upon one's imagination of a sandbox cookie or the Internet's Cookie.


Each "proving ground" comes with it's own challenges.

Households have these cabinets with plenty of doors and cupboards, and there are numerous safety devices to keep the children out, doors and drawers locked.  However, in our household, there is one "invention" that .... is somewhat akin to the development of the Steam Engine.  We all "know" that James Watt "invented the steam engine", when if fact the Steam Engine was invented long before James Watt came along.  What Mr. Watts did, was PERFECT his Baby, by making the Steam engine much more efficient.

On a BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) documentary from 1978 there emerged The Connection,  John Burke was the narrator.  A Great series, it was HIS Baby.  In one of the series, it touched upon the motor engine, which has gone onto be such a great asset for the world today and possibly the demise of the world tomorrow ......   The point here is, where one Man invented his Baby, the Perfume bottle.... for spraying it unto one self, ..... Benz, as of Mercedes-Benz, saw it as something quite different, something that was missing from his Baby, perfecting the motor engine, with an atomizer      "perfume bottle = the carburetor" ......    think cars, think aircraft, think LawnMowers, think Tanks, think compressing LNG to be shipped out of Kitimat for China......with a motor.

We, here, in our household, have done something that is an improvement upon a product that has been around for years.  The Bagel Holder for slicing safely..... which one of us, not me, saw it as something that would allow the Crawler, the Toddler to be involved with cooking.... and not in a pinch.

Right Side up, the Bagel Holder is a Bagel Holder

Upside Down, the Bagel Holder STOPS the drawer from closing, on fingers

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My Baby, is the perfection of the bicycle storage in the garage.   All those cars traveling with their bike racks firmly mounted in the trailer hitch, made me stop and think... where am I going to find a place in the garage to hang MY Bike rack carrier, when space within is already at a premium.  Takes up a lot of space, and then I would have to hang the bikes from hooks from the ceiling which is Nine Feet high.  There are always those moments when one goes Hmmmmm!  Like maybe a "Watts" or a "Benz", where they still own the patent, whereas in this day and age of the internet, it's so simple to get a patent, and then share the idea.

What I wanted was just the right achievable height for lifting, horizontally.   One drawback, was the handle grip of the first bike against the wall, is fourteen inches long from the centre.  I wanted the bike as close as maybe the pedal... which didn't happen, the wall is made from 2 X 6.  I cut out a square of Gyproc,  ...... it's only a garage, not a living space.

As to the strength to hold the bike carrier in place, we "back framed" the wall and recreated the trailer hitch, out of sight, out of mind.  We added a 2 X 4, for added support, that is resting on the foundation.

The distance from the floor to the bottom of the wheel "hoops", is five feet, which leaves plenty of room to ... park a car's front hood, under, or as in our case, a table saw and it's outfeed table.

From a commercial point of view, one could make up a metal "cross" to fasten directly to the stud (vertically) and a horizontal bar to straddle the studs on either side, for stability from twisting..... oh, and weld the "trailer" hitch square tubing to the "Cross" dead centre.

 

"End Notes" yield up such nuggets as "Dr. Fred and the Spanish Lady: Fighting the Killer Flu" 1918 Vancouver

Practically every book written, in its last pages, has a section called either "End Notes" or "Reference" to keep the reader abreast of from where quotes were taken for research in THE book.


Look at it this way, the book may be new, but the data at the back of the book is a GOLD mine of information just waiting to be re-discovered.   Those References, those End Notes, those Bibliographies, were written before the NEW book was even thought about, probably written before the Author was born.


In an earlier Post, Friday, November 26, 2010, which we called: 

"Appropriation, Taxes and Tolls" and now Shadow tolls, Some things never change

 We mentioned this book:    "The Coast Connection, R.G. Harvey"  available in your local library, but its now available on-line via Google  under something called What????:   

THE Eusmesnm/G ms nrurs OF CANADA

www.eic-ici.ca/hawp9.pdf

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
by RG Harvey - 2001 - Related articles
Scottish born, Bob Harvey graduated in civil engineering from the University ...... In The Coast Connection, R.G. Harvey examines the history of road construction ...

 So here I am today reading:

SNIP   Endnotes link updated 2019-02-09 via the WayBackMachine

 https://web.archive.org/web/20110220040619/http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/background/200902bp_forestten.pdf

  ENDNOTES

This is Page one of three 

1 Task Force on Crown Timber Disposal, “Forest Tenures in British Columbia,” (Report prepared by the Task Force on Crown Timber Disposal, 1974), i; British Columbia, Forest Service of British Columbia, Timber Tenures in British Columbia: Managing Public Forests in the Public Interest ([Victoria]: Ministry of Forests and Range, 2006), 2.
2 British Columbia, Ministry of Forests, Timber Tenure System in British Columbia ([Victoria]: Ministry of Forests, 1997), 1.
3 Donald Mackay, Empire of Wood: The MacMillan Bloedel Story (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1982), 19; Cortex Consultants Ltd., “A Quick Reference: British Columbia’s Timber Tenure System,” http://www.cortex.ca/case.html/TimberTenSysWeb_Nov2001.pdf (Accessed 4 June 2009).
4 Construction needs in the colony and export markets in California fuelled early demands for Vancouver Island timber in the 1850s. For a history of the early timber industry on Vancouver Island see W. Kaye Lamb, “Early Lumbering on Vancouver Island, 1844-1866 [Parts I and II],” British Columbia Historical Quarterly Vol. 2 No. 1 (1938), 31-53, 95-121.
5 “An ordinance for regulating the acquisition of Land in British Columbia,” in Ordinances Passed by the Legislative Council of British Columbia (New Westminster: New Government Printing Office, 1865).
6 Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, “Crown Land Factsheet,” (Accessed 4 June 2009); David Haley and Harry Nelson, “British Columbia’s Forest Tenure System in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities,” Vancouver: BC Forum on Forest Economics and Policy, 2006), n.p.
7 Mackay, Empire of Wood, 15; Richard A. Rajala, Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest: Production, Science , and Regulation (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998) , xviii. The terms of BC’s entry to Confederation in 1871 guaranteed provincial control over lands and resources, including timber. Previously, the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia controlled disposals of lands and resources since acquiring these rights from the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1860.
8 British Columbia, Final Report of Inquiry on Timber and Forestry 1909-1910 (Victoria: King’s Printer, 1910), D11; Statutes of British Columbia [SBC] (1888), ch. 16 s. 8, 18; SBC (1891) ch. 15 s. 13.
9 British Columbia Sessional Papers, “Public Accounts, 1899,” (Victoria: Queen’s Printer, 1900), 20.
10 Rajala, Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest, xviii, xix. Between 1888 and 1891, Crown land leases were for thirty-year terms at an annual rental rate of ten cents per acre and royalty rate of fifty cents per thousand feet of trees cut. British Columbia, Final Report of Inquiry on Timber and Forestry 1909-1910, D11.
11 SBC (1901) ch. 30 s. 6. No longer issued after 1905, pulp leases were subsequently renewed and converted to Special Timber Licenses in 1926 and 1927. British Columbia Forest Resources Commission, “A History of Forest Tenure Policy in British Columbia 1858-1978” (October 1989), 3. The 1912 Forest Act created pulp licenses allowing the cutting of wood for the manufacture of pulp. SBC (1912) ch. 17.
12 SBC (1903) ch. 30; SBC (1905) ch. 33.
13 SBC (1905) ch. 33.
14 British Columbia, Final Report of Inquiry on Timber and Forestry, D13.
15 Ibid., D7, D43-D44, D54-D55.
16 SBC (1912) ch. 17 s. 4.
17 SBC (1912) ch. 17 s. 12, 25.
18 British Columbia, Royal Commission on Forest Resources in British Columbia, Timber Rights and Forest Policy: The Report of the Royal Commission on Forest Resources in British Columbia (Victoria: Queen’s Printer, 1976), 3.
19 British Columbia, Report of the Commissioner Relating to the Forest Resources of British Columbia (Victoria: King’s Printer, 1945), Q127, Q143.
20 Ibid., Q127.   Sixth hit down, I think, are you still clicking and reading here folks
21 SBC (1947) ch. 38.
22 Province of British Columbia, Department of Lands and Forests, “Report of the Forest Service, 1948,” (Victoria: King’s Printer, 1949), LL81; Province of British Columbia, Department of Lands and Forests, “Report of the Forest Service, 1953,” (Victoria: King’s Printer, 1955), 131.
23 Rajala, Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest, 87.
24 British Columbia, Report of the Commissioner Relating to the Forest Resources of British Columbia [Two Volumes] (Victoria: Queen’s Printer, 1956), 399-400, 416, 528.SNIP

Or how about this Reference, on pages 7 and 8 (items #1 through to #39)


1 The estimated death toll varies, ranging from about 20 million to 40-50 million, to 100 million. J.K. Taubenberger, D.M. Morens, “1918 influenza: the mother of all pandemics,” Emerging Infectious Diseases [serial on the Internet], January 2006. Available from http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol12no01/05-0979.htm See also John M. Barry, “The site of the original of the 1918 influenza pandemic and its public health implications,” Journal of Translational Medicine 2: 3, (2004). “Ten things you need to know about pandemic influenza”, Weekly Epidemiological Record, No. 49/50 (December 2005).
2 Janice P. Dickin McGinnis, “The impact of epidemic influenza: Canada, 1918-1919,” in Medicine in Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives, ed. S.E.D. Shortt, (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1981), 447.
3 McGinnis, “Impact of Epidemic,” 449.
4Ibid., 451.
5 Ibid., 458. Public Health Agency of Canada, The Chief Public Health Officer’s Report on the State of Public Health in Canada, (Ottawa: Chief Public Health Officer, 2008), 11.
6 Susan Goldenberg, “Killer Flu,” The Beaver 86, Iss. 5 (Oct/Nov. 2006). Eileen Pettigrew, The Silent Enemy: Canada and the Deadly Flu of 1918, (Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Book, 1983) 13, 134.
7 McGinnis, “Impact of Epidemic,” 460.
8 “An Act Respecting the Department of Health” was assented to on June 6, 1919. Betty O’Keefe and Ian MacDonald, Dr. Fred and the Spanish Lady: Fighting the Killer Flu, (Surrey, BC: Heritage House, 2004), 183. Pettigrew, Silent Enemy, 134.
9 O’Keefe, Dr. Fred, 159-60. Pettigrew, Silent Enemy, 71. [Medical Health Officer], “Report of the Medical Health Officer [1918],” in Corporation of the City of Vancouver Annual Report 1918, (Vancouver: The Corporation, 1919), 72.
10 B.C. OIC 2399/18. “Health Act,” RSBC 1911, ch. 98, sec. 13. Margaret W. Andrews, “Epidemic and Public Health: Influenza in Vancouver, 1918-1919,” BC Studies 34, (Summer 1977), 30-34. BC OIC 2400/18. [Medical Health Officer], “Report of the Medical Health Officer [1918]”, 73.
11 British Columbia, Department of Education, “Annual Report 1919,” in Sessional Papers British Columbia Vol. 1 – 1920, (Victoria: [n.p., 1920], A18.
12 British Columbia, Provincial Board of Health, “Report of the Provincial Board of Health [1919],” in Sessional Papers British Columbia Vol. 1 – 1920, (Victoria: n.p., 1919) B6.
13 “Fifty thousand is cost of ‘flu’ for province to date,” Victoria Daily Times, 18 November, 1918, 8.
14 O’Keefe, Dr. Fred, 85, 92, 96-97. [Medical Health Officer],“Report of the Medical Health Officer [1918]”, 72. British Columbia, Provincial Board of Health, “Report of the Provincial Board of Health [1919],” B6. McGinnis, “Impact of Epidemic,” 455.
15 British Columbia, Provincial Board of Health, “Report of the Provincial Board of Health [1919],” B6. [Medical Health Officer],“Report of the Medical Health Officer [1918]”, 73.
16 British Columbia, Provincial Board of Health, “Report of the Provincial Board of Health [1919],” B5.
17 World Health Organization, Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response: a WHO Guidance Document, (France: WHO, 2009), 13. N.J. Cox, “Global Epidemiology of Influenza: Past and Present,” Annual Review of Medicine 51, (2000), 413. Michael Tibayrenc, Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases, ([n.p].: Wiley-Liss, 2007), 206. “Ten things you need to know about pandemic influenza”, Weekly Epidemiological Record, No. 49/50, (December 2005).
18 Edwin D. Kilbourne, “Influenza Pandemics of the 20th Century,” Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol. 12, No.1, January 2006, 10.
19 The basis for this statement was unclear. The statement was made in the “R.E. Dyer Lecture” published in Public Health Reports in 1958. The author was Dr. Richard E. Shope, a professor and member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Richard E. Shope, “The R.E. Dyer Lecture: Influenza: History, Epidemiology and Speculation” Public Health Reports 73, no. 2, (February 1958), 165.
20 Canada, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Influenza in Canada: Some Statistics on its Characteristics and Trends, (Ottawa: The Bureau, 1958), 6.
21 Canada, Department of National Health and Welfare, Annual Report 1958, (Ottawa: The Department, 1959), 59.“Asiatic flu vaccine here Oct. 1,” Times, 15 August 1957, p. 1. ‘No flu threat in BC-Martin,” Times, 17 August 1957, p.1.

1918 Bulletin #79: Oats and Wheat and Barley Grow and there's a Bonus: our ANCESTORS listed off as Farmers of BC.

Update: "Movember" 9, 2012:   "Cow-Testing Association of British Columbia 1926"

What is unique about this file, and we don't mean to Butter you up with too many details... but it's back to that old Ancestry stuff, and locations of Ranches, Farms...etc.  Page 3 of many.... AND names of Cows... so if you're looking for a new name... like "Katie" or "Jersey" or "Tibby Two" why not take a look?

 J. A. Higginson, Sardis.
Raine & Carmiehael, Chilliwack.
C. Kerr, Chilliwaek.
Raine & Carmichae!, Chilliwaek.
Raine & Carmiehael, Chilliwack.
Fleming Bros. & Ileeee, Sardis•
W. L. Maeken, Chilliwaek.
W. L. Macken, Chilliw.ack.
E. Unsworth, Sardis.
I. W. Clark, Sardis.
P. Travis, Sardis.
P. Travis, Sardis.
E. Unsworth, Chilliwaek.
C. Kerr, Chflliwaek.
Fleming Bros. & Bocce, Sardis.
li'leming Bros. & Reeee. Sardis.
Raine & Cariniehsel, Chilliwaek.
Fleming Bros. & Reeee, Sardis.
I. W. Clark, Sardis.
Fleming Bros. & Reece, Sardis.
Fleming Bros. & Reeee, Sardi

ETC.

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Farmers!  Can't live without them.  Especially if they're Organic!  Consumers are willing to pay a higher price just to be free from pesticides, and other such chemicals.   When we saw Bulletin #79 at the BC Legislative Library, it made our hearts sing with a childhood song:

chorus:

Oats and wheat and barley grow,
Oats and wheat and barley grow,
But not you nor I nor anyone know
How oats and wheat and barley grow.

Verse 1

First the farmer sows his seed,
Then he stands and takes his ease,
And he stamps his feet and clasps his hands,
While the sun shines on the land.

chorus:

Oats and wheat and barley grow,…..etc

The BC Legislature Library isn't all bad news.  There are some exceedingly high points.... like this one.  To you, it may be dry reading, but if you persevere, you'll discover a Silver lining in this Document.   It starts out like this;

FIELD CROP AND SEED COMPETITIONS
BULLETIN No. 79
1918

But there's a catch though, both in the emotion of what is to unfold in three days time, memories of those who were lost to all wars.   94 years ago World War One ended on November 11th.  The folks at home, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends too, had been working for four long years on their fields, to support those who Volunteered for the War in Europe.

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Returning Soldiers, not necessarily as sound as when they left, were given a stake in Canada, free land, forested land, land that needed to be cleared of trees and trunks, land to be plowed, harrowed, and leveled in preparation for "Oats and Wheat and Barley to Grow", but the first crops were Strawberries and Raspberries.

In the closing pages, starting at Page 14 of Bulletin No. 79, there are thirteen pages:

"A list of the winners in the Field-crop Competitions conducted during 1917":

What you have in the Document above, is a history of where our Ancestors were, before 1918.  The data above is an image, a ScreenShot, which means anyone looking for their Ancestors won't find this Blog, however..... we've started to type in the First of Thirteen Pages, in our "spare time".

Names and Residences, like this.... with a few links too and using GeoBC you can find where the old towns are and what they are called now:   Westholme

Cowichan	Solley, I.F.	Westholme
Cowichan	Kingston, F.L.	Duncan
Cranbrook	Taylor, L.	Wycliffe
Cranbrook	Smith, A.B.	Cranbrook
Cranbrook	Clarke, F.	Wycliffe
Cranbrook	Fleming, C.S.	Wycliffe
Cranbrook	Mitchell, John	Cranbrook
Crawford Bay	Bayliss Bros.	Port Crawford
Crawford Bay	Palmer, O.	Port Crawford
Crawford Bay	Richardson, H.	Port Crawford
Crawford Bay	Johnson, M.	Port Crawford
Crawford Bay	Kean, J.W.	Port Crawford
Eagle River	Anderson, A.	Malakwa
Eagle River	Somerville, B.F.	Malakwa
Eagle River	Johnston, J.	Malakwa
Eagle River	Humphrey, J.M.	Malakwa
Eagle River	Erickson, E.	Malakwa
Grand Forks	Little, J.	Grand Forks
Grand Forks	Laws, E.F.	Grand Forks
Grand Forks	Padget, T.	Grand Forks
Grand Forks	Heaven, C.C.	Grand Forks
Grand Forks	Lawrence, J.T.	Grand Forks
Hendon (River?)	Parkhurst, Fred	R.R. #1, Salmon Arm
Hendon	Buchart, D.B.	R.R. #1, Salmon Arm
Hendon	Andrews, W.J.	R.R. #1, Salmon Arm
Hendon	Hoover, Willie	R.R. #1, Salmon Arm
Hendon	Curtis, A.J.	R.R. #1, Salmon Arm
Kelowna	Fleming, W.H.	Kelowna
Kelowna	Hereron, M.	Kelowna
Kelowna	Crawford, W.	Kelowna
Kelowna	Walker, W.D.	Kelowna
Kelowna	Taylor, F.A.	Kelowna
Kootenay River	Tarry, F.	Tarrys
Kootenay River	Pratt, Wm.	Thrums
Kootenay River	Power, R.I.M.	Thrums
Kootenay River	Scheavan, L.	Shoreacres
Kootenay River	Richards, E.A.	Thrums
Lake District	Blair, T.	Vanderhoof
Lake District	Lampitt, O.R.	Vanderhoof
Lake District	Bice, I.	Vanderhoof
Lake District	Hargraves, J.	Vanderhoof
Lake District	Seager, F.	Vanderhoof
Langley	Mead, J.J.	Langley Fort
Langley	Stockdale, W.	Langley Fort
Langley	McIvor, K.	Langley Fort
Langley	Simpson, Geo.	Langley Fort
Langley	Gay, F.	Langley Fort
Maple Ridge	Laity, R.	Hammond
Maple Ridge	McIver, J.	Hammond
Maple Ridge	Tapp, A.	Hammond
Maple Ridge	Reddcliffe, R.	Hammond
Maple Ridge	Laity, J.H.	Hammond
Matsqui	Israel, J.I.	Mount Lehman
Matsqui	Jackman, Phillip	Denman Island
Matsqui	Aish, Thos.	Matsqui
Matsqui	Towland, W.	Mount Lehman
Matsqui	Bailey, W.	Denman Island
Martin's Prairie	Amey, Jones A.	Pritchard
Martin's Prairie	DeLeenkeer, Pete	Pritchard
Martin's Prairie	Deroo, Pete	Pritchard
Martin's Prairie	Matthewson, Wm.	Pritchard
Martin's Prairie	Charlton, Wm.	Duck Range

Google Search Criteria:  Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia 1918

There's this too from and earlier Post here at the BBC

Retard assists Oil tankers in Puget Sound page 21

"Retard Assist" aka "Retard Maneuver", calls for Tugs to slow down large vessels by trying to divert them, rather than STOP.   See link at bottom.

No one is suggesting that Enbridge's oil tankers, carting Alberta's petroleum resources to foreign ports of call, should be denied by a fellow province.... accept by Premier Christy Clark.   No one is suggesting that these huge oil tankers will be making a U-Turn in Douglas and Principe Channels, nor is there a suggestion that they will be running these ships at open Pacific Ocean speed.

Many, actually all of the images that Enbridge has produced for public consumption, show our British Columbian waters as idyllic (extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque).

Enbridge promises that there will be two tugs assisting the tanker(s) from the Pacific Ocean to Kitimat empty, save for ballast..... and again from Kitimat to the open Pacific Ocean, fully loaded with sand laden with oil.

One tug, as depicted in the cartoon below is to the Port of the slow moving tanker.  The second tug is Astern of the tanker and that tug  is reversing the whole distance from the Pacific to Kitimat and back again.... under idyllic coastal water conditions.  We know the Astern tug is in reverse because the sharp pointy end of a boat, the Bow is going in the opposite direction as the vessel that it's tied to.    The blunt end is called the Stern and it's facing the Stern of the oil tanker.  This method, that Enbridge has displayed in their artist rendering, this Cartoon, below, is a sure-fire way to send many a good seamen to their watery graves.  The steel hulled Tug, NOT DOUBLE HULLED, will reach the bottom of either of the two channels, before you can utter.... Holy-cow.  Plus if there is a rescue attempt made, it will be akin to the demise of the Atlantic Convoy stragglers.  The "other" tug, in this case, couldn't leave their charge, the massive oil tanker, alone in treacherous waters!

Because of their huge mass, tankers have a large inertia, making them very difficult to steer. A loaded supertanker could take as much as 4 to 8 kilometers and 15 minutes to come to a full stop and has a turning diameter of about 2 kilometers.

EVEN the tugs, will have Quieter Engines

The only way in which Oil tankers and the assisting tugs could have Quieter engines is if they were to use Lithium created energy for propulsion like that of Foss Hybrid Tug.


Here in Vancouver, Canada, ships entering our Harbour have two THREE tugs, Two at the Stern of the oil tanker, facing the same direction as the larger vessel's direction.... Third tug at the fore.

Everest Spirit

 And if you missed the headline August 23, 2012, Globe and Mail:

"The ship currently docked at Kitimat looking like a prizefighter with a broken nose is an ugly reminder of the threat posed by proposed pipelines and tanker traffic to the territory of the Gitga'at First Nation," said the statement issued by the band, which is based in Hartley Bay, on Douglas Channel.

Last but not the Least, of importance is this handy-dandy booklet that we found by using this search criteria in Google:    how powerful has a tug got to be to stop an oil tanker

Retard Assist Page 21 of 154
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Something else you should be looking at, is the speed of an Oil Tanker out in open Pacific Ocean:

12 knots = 13.8094 mph = 22.224 km/h

To put this all in perspective, British Columbians have heard about the BC Ferry system which run  out of Horseshoe Bay and over to Departure Bay is 23 knots pushing 10,034 tonnes along.....  those Oil tankers, the ones plying to and fro our coastal waters,  like a Suezmax Tanker,  Loaded, to 125,000 dwt is TWELVE times larger, in weight, than a BC Ferry... built in Germany.

Enbridges says in their "cartoon" up top that "tankers travel slowly but the speed will be reduced".

The speed of the Tanker isn't the problem here, it's the stopping, or Retarding capabilities like this vessel travelling at 12 knots (Pages 57, 58, 59 of 154):  854.3 feet long etc

"Retarding Maneuver",  NOT stopping,  means that this particular vessel, with Rudder problems, will travel 6,000 feet forward, and another 6,000 feet to Starboard.... but on the diagonal..... Hmmmm where did we leave our Grade 8 Math of  Pythagoras Theorem?  

C = 8,485.28 Feet