Photographs depict electrical room.

Photographs depict electrical room.

Photograph depicts tanker truck overturned in snow, trees in foreground. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "March 29th: 1. Jack Ward's tanker over the bank at Centreville."

Photograph depicts bridge in snow landscape, trees in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "March 29th: 2. Timber bridge at the Blue River."

Photograph depicts bridge in snow landscape, trees in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "March 29th: 3. Timber bridge at the Blue River."

Photograph depicts loader in dirt on Cassiar plant site, building in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "April 7th: 4. Digging the excavation for the jaw crusher foundations with the Eimco loader."

Photograph depicts bunkhouse under construction in wooded area, men in foreground. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "April 7th: 5. Erecting the walls for # 1 Bunkhouse. Looking east."

Photograph depicts bunkhouse under construction in wooded area, men barely visible, mountain in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "April 7th: 6. Erecting the walls for # 1 Bunkhouse. Looking east."

Photograph depicts pile of pan-abode materials in snow covered area. Bunkhouses, trees and mountains in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "April 7th: 7. Street in front of bunkhouses showing stockpiles of Pan-abode building materials. Looking south."

Photograph depicts dirt road in snow, trees on either side, mountain in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "April 7th: 8. Street running east and west closest to creek. Looking west."

Photograph depicts building foundation, trees in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "April 7th: 9. Laundry foundations completed and strating on floor."

Photograph depicts snow-cleared dirt area, trees in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "April 7th: 10. Site for townsite well cleared and started excavating."

Photograph depicts digging area in front of large building. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "April 7th: 12. Excavation for Symons crusher foundation."

Photograph depicts man with shovel on ice in wooded area. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Feb. 15th, 1953: 1. First glacier east of Joe Reeds' on McDame road. Mr. Little."

Photograph depicts man near unfinished cabin in snow, trees and mountain in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Feb. 15th, 1953: 2. Bartle's cabin on Aeroplane Lake."

Photograph depicts ice on snow covered road, trees on either side, mountains in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Feb. 15th, 1953: 3. Second glacier east of Joe Reeds' on McDame road."

Photograph depicts snow-plowed road, trees and mountain in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Feb. 15th, 1953: 4. Joe Reed's Mountain."

Photograph depicts mountain range, snowbank and trees in foreground. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Feb. 15th, 1953: 5. Haskins Mountain."

Photograph depicts boxed shipment in back of hauling truck, snow pile in foreground. Second truck, building and mountain in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Feb. 15th, 1953: 6. Second diesel, 6VEBX, on two trucks on arrival at property."

Photograph depicts scaffolding on machine shop, roof under construction. Snow in foreground, one man on scaffolding, one man on roof. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Feb. 23rd: 7. Installing truss rafters on new machine shop. Looking east."

Photograph depicts electrical panel, dark figure or shadow on left. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Feb. 23rd: 8. Panel board in Power House."

Photograph depicts scaffolding around building under construction, snow-covered road in foreground. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Feb. 27th: 10. All roof trusses on and starting on shiplapping the roof. Machine Shop."

Photograph depicts man in snow-covered area, trees and mountain in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Feb. 27th: 11. Clearing site for bunkhouses. Picture shows that some trees being left. Looking N.E."

Photograph depicts scaffolding around building under construction, snow in foreground, tanks and mountain in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Feb. 27th: 12. Roof on machine shop. Looking N.W."

Photograph depicts body of water in mountain valley, trees surrounding.

Photograph depicts three men in snow at high altitude in mountain range.

Photograph depicts mill building and covered conveyor, mountains in background.

Photograph depicts snow-covered mountain top, side of other mountain in foreground.

Photograph depicts two men at bottom of steep mountain slope, second mountain in background.

Photograph depicts four men standing in doorway of log shelter built into mountainside. Men standing in path leading to doorway, snow at elbow height on either side. Shelter is speculated to be a portal to a mine adit.

Photograph depicts diesel engine and alternator in room, electrical board on right. Typed annotation taped to verso of page stapled to photograph: "300 K.W. Ruston Hornsby diesel and alternator in power house."

Photograph depicts close perspective of equipment believed to be in concentrator, dryer, or mill building. Typed annotation taped to verso of page stapled to photograph: "View of fan at right which provides vacuum for screen hoods and at left, collector which removes fibre from the air stream and drives it to the fans below for further processing."

Photograph depicts close perspective of equipment believed to be in the concentrator, dryer, or mill building. Typed annotation taped to verso of page stapled to photograph: "View of Denovan screen with feed chute at upper left and vacuum hood at lower right."

Photograph depicts equipment believed to be in the concentrator, dryer, or mill building. Typed annotation taped to verso of page stapled to photograph: "View of Denovan screen with feed chute at upper left and vacuum hood at lower right."

Photograph depicts equipment believed to be in the concentrator, dryer, or mill building. Typed annotation taped to verso of page stapled to photograph: "Close-up of vacuum hood which sucks fibre away from the rock."

Photograph depicts mill building and covered conveyor. Trees and mountains in background. Typed annotation taped to verso of page stapled to photograph: "View of mill building looking south-east, showing covered conveyor - way from truck dump at left, and tailings' bins at right."

Photographic negative depicts power house on left, water and diesel storage tanks on right. Rocks in foreground, trees and mountains in background.

Photographic negative depicts ore gravity chute. Portion of switchback mountain road in foreground, mountains in background.

Photographic negative depicts numerous men in box of dump truck with the sign "CASSIAR ASBESTOS [CORPORATION LIMITED ?] 2" on door. Three men on ground on left, one man in doorway on right. Building and mountain in background.

Photograph depicts a man in a hat and tie on a tractor pushing ore to chute area on crest of mountain in the mine area. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page reads, "August 5th: 10. Bulldozing ore to chute on crest of mountain."

Photograph depicts an ore gravity chute on McDame Mountain. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "August 5th: 12. Ore chute down mountain slope." Typed annotation taped to verso of page stapled to photograph: "View looking down portion of chute."

Photograph depicts plant site, two mountains in background. Power poles, box, and piles of unidentified material in foreground. Speculated corresponding annotation on verso of page stapled to photograph: "Cassiar Hills (Midday in December)".

Photograph depicts mill under shadow of mountain. Three white piles in foreground. Power poles, one white pile, and mountains in background. Speculated corresponding annotation on verso of page stapled to photograph: "Cassiar Mill".

Photograph depicts mountains, half covered in shadow. Power poles and power house in foreground, piles of unidentified material on right. Speculated corresponding annotation on verso of page stapled to photograph: "Cassiar Hills (Midday in December)".

Photograph depicts eight men in snow around unidentified object, speculated to be portion of glacier. Speculated corresponding annotation on verso of page stapled to photograph: "Overturned Tanker (Glacier 1 mile north of Joe Reed's)".

Photograph depicts overturned tanker in snow bank, man on left, mountainside in background. Speculated corresponding annotation on verso of page stapled to photograph: "Overturned Tanker (Glacier 1 mile north of Joe Reed's)".

Photograph depicts three men in front of tarp-covered truck. Ladder, building, and mountains in background.

Photograph depicts three men in front of tarp-covered truck. Dog, ladder, building, and mountains in background.

Photograph depicts mill building. Rocks in foreground, mountains in background.

Photograph depicts a mill with scaffolding on the left side of the building. A second scaffolding structure is in the foreground with trees and mountains in background. Typed annotation taped to verso of page stapled to photographs: "View of mill building looking west."