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Heimburger, C.C. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

440132

Series title:

[National Research Council Oral History Project]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1975-03-11

Item number (ISN):

440132

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA / CONSEIL NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES DU CANADA

Accession:

1975-0011

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1975-03-11

Production company:

National Research Council

Production credit:

interviewer, Don Phillipson

Description:

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Interview of Dr. C.C. Heimburger. Subjects discussed include: 1935 NRC National Conference on Forestry; reseeding by uncut culls after high grading made genetic decline probable; several testing areas had to give way to buildings; plantations such as sugar maples and hardy prairie poplars were built over; after 1945, NRC forest tree breeding stopped for lack of material progress in ten years; Dr. Farrar was seconded to Dr. Grace to study rooting of cuttings with the aid of plant growth hormones; Heimburger supplied Dr. Manske with seeds of several poppy species for his alkaloid research for additional sources of morphine as part of a war effort; after severe winter of 1933-34, Heimburger selected several young Norway spruce at the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station showing no frost damage; FTB was organized by species in provincial and federal research rather than by scientific topics such as photosynthesis; National Association of Tree Breeders; Prairie Research Lab nitrogen-fixation endeavours more advanced than forestry; in 1935 a “super-tree” was a reasonable prospect; in 1935 there was a brain drain to industry which had no interest in forestry science; in 1945, the Dominion Forest Service staff resigned en masse as they were dissatisfied with administration therefore there was no science until 1959 when a Danish scientist was appointed as chief of Petawawa Forest Station; war may have prevented NRC FTB from reforming forestry; A. Koroleff paper; Dr. B. Fernow; hybrid wheat by crossing inbred lines of which one is male-sterile and all have open flowers; Dr. Norman Borlaug. <1h21mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Subject description taken from partial transcript in binder, National Research Council Oral History Project, Index R-Z.~2. Parts of track 1 and 2 of PAC tape 525.

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Vault ISN:

674815

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C00525

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD645

Restrictions on consultation:

open

Copyright status:

under copyright.

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