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1981 (Creation)
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Approximately 3 cm of textual records; some photographs and copies of photographs.
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Memoir was compiled and sent to Ken Hearnden at Lakehead University in 1981. Previously described as General Archives #337.
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Consists of a memoir written by Horace Hunter "Holly" Parsons, an aerial timber sketcher whose career spanned over 50 years. This memoir contains information about the contracts he fulfilled for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, formerly the Department of Forests and Lands, and various logging, pulp, and paper corporations. Some contracts also involved mapping out the borders of areas where forest fires had occurred. These contracts spanned across Ontario and parts of Quebec, with a focus on the areas surrounding the District of Thunder Bay. Included in the memoir are personal anecdotes, descriptions of his trips, crew members he worked with over the years, and photographs taken by or given to "Holly" Parsons.
Dates of the memoir and accompanying photographs range 1922-1976.
Horace Hunter "Holly" Parsons (1902-1990) was born in Owen Sound, Ontario and lived in Etobicoke, Ontario. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1925 with a Bachelor of Science in Forestry.
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Other copies of this memoir were sent to other institutions.
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- James Bay
- Abitibi (QC)
- Moose Factory (ON)
- Cochrane (ON)
- Chapleau (ON)
- Mississagi Provincial Park (ON)
- Mattagami River (ON)
- Algonquin Provincial Park
- Lake Nipigon (ON)
- Orient Bay (ON)
- Sioux Lookout (ON)
- Fort Frances (ON)
- Lac des Milles Lacs (ON)
- Longlac (ON)
- Port Arthur (ON)
- Thunder Bay (ON)
- Ogoki Lake (ON)
- Eva Lake (ON)
- Twin Lakes (ON)
- Lac Seul (ON)
- Albany River (ON)
- Sudbury (ON)
- Kenora (ON)