File contents relate to: Accounting / Payroll. Document type(s) include: invoices & balance sheets.

These blueprints show the proposed layouts and profiles of the tramway to be constructed in Cassiar. Detailed plans for the bucket design as well as the transfer station and operations of the monocable are included.

This file contains a collection of photographs of Elsa Mine and Venus Mine in the Yukon Territories that were operated by Equipment United Keno Hill, and were subsequently closed after Keno shut down operations in 1989.

It can be assumed that the Cassiar mine was looking at the equipment at Elsa and Venus mine for purchase as the collection depicts various machinery including: shotcrete machine, long hole drill, auger screw, compressed air powered generator, Cat engine, scooptram and slusher from Elsa Mine; and an empty trailer, first aid trailer, compressed air powered tugger, air receivers, cooling system, twist air compressors, and a bit sharpener from Venus Mine.

A collection of photographs of the early exploration exhibitions in the asbestos mountains area.

This file contains photographs of the construction of the dry rock storage building in 1953. The two photographs included in this collection depict the trusses of the building during construction.

This collection is of the pipe line for the New Steam Plant contracted out to Humphrey Construction. The photographs depict the outdoor work of laying the pipe in dug in ground. The file that these photographs were found in contains a contract with Humphrey Construction, specifications for construction and correspondence.

Photograph collection of early mill construction. Various annotations note retaining ribs, pouring ribs, pouring retaining walls, the west wall, steel work, transformer house, and furnace pad.

File contains 6 slide presentations depicting training material for the operation of a P&H excavator published by the Harnischfeger Institute. The presentations depict an introduction to excavator controls and techniques for proper hoist motion, proper swing motion, concerning haulage units, proper propel motion, and proper crowd motion.

Photographs depict aerial views of the Cassiar townsite, plantsite, tailings pile, mine road, bench and pit mine, mine buildings (tramline loading station, crusher, shop, and garage), and surrounding mountain range. Here "aerial" refers to photos depicting a large area and taken from the air or from a high point of elevation.

File contains photographs featuring the tramline at Cassiar which ran from the crushing plant at the mountain mine to the plantsite in the valley (a drop of 427 meters). The first ore was originally transported by truck to the plant until the gravity chute was built in 1953. This chute was replaced with the first aerial tramline model in 1956, which was succeeded by the second model in 1975. This file also includes one photo of the original gravity chute, and one photo depicting a tramline worker.

Additionally there is a collection of eighteen photographs of tramline cars that were being surveyed for damage and condition, and another collection of six photographs of tramline study. The results of this study determined that there was variances in load sizes of the buckets caused by extra material falling off the panfeeder.

This file contains operations at the plantsite:
Below is synopsis of the item level descriptions (see each item for further description)

• locations depicted at Plantsite: mill building, dry rock storage building, tailings pile, gravel pit, power house, and office.
• delivery and installation of a Caterpillar engine, welding repairs underway on a Rustin Diesel Engine in the power house, staff portrait taken by the main office building, and fibre testing
  Not done to item level but integrated into subseries file:
• Photographic negatives included depict milling and packaging machinery in the mill building.
• 93 slides depicting various activities and equipment at the plantsite including: dry rock storage, screens, collectors, loading trucks, bagging, pallets, tailing pile, lab work by engineers, lab equipment, fibre testing, and fibre samples.
• photographs of conveyor foundations, tailings equipment, Grizzly truck, containers from site mechanical inspection, and portable crushing plant in June 1991.
• photos of fibre samples from lab - on display
• collection of photos of 1970 Mill modification Program of April 1978
• collection of photos from 1961 and 1962 of plantsite lab and asbestos samples. file labeled "Suter - Webb VU Graph Analysis" and "Suter - Webb and Turner Comb Analysis"
• Pressure Packer modification photos done by Chapman Industries in 1986
• Powerhouse equipment from 1979
• additional 43 slides of inside the mill in June 1978. Slides were used at a board meeting.
• negatives of inside of mill
• A photo album of 162 photographs depicting various operations at the plantsite including: drill dust collector, outdoor surroundings, conveyors, and the mine site. (album was originally labelled "Cassiar Plantsite).

File contains photographs depicting four different tours that took place at the mine, plant, and towns owned by Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. Tours include Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's visit to Clinton Creek in 1968 and Member of Parliament Iona Campagnolo's visit to Cassiar in 1978. Photographs also depict a party of ambassadors touring Cassiar in 1970, and the dedication of a building in the Cassiar plant in the late 1970s.

File contains photographs featuring members of the Board of Directors of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd., which was formed on the 17th of May, 1951. Cassiar's forerunner was a company named Conwest, formed in 1534, a consolidation of two companies owned by Fred Martin Connell and his brother W. Harold Connell. The first board of directors included the Connell brothers, George Armstrong, John E. Kennedy, Charles & Arthur Mortimer, and Charles Rainforth Elliot (chartered accountant and secretary-treasurer of Conwest & Cassiar). Directors depicted in this file include F.M Connell, Harold Connell, Charles Elliot, John E. Kennedy, George Armstrong, Ken A. Creery, John Drybrough, Tam Zimmermann, George Washington Smith (president of Bell Asbestos Mines), Nick Gritzuk, Jack Christian (general manager, president, and CEO). Other individuals depicted include Fred Murry, Andre Beguin, Plato Malozemoff from Newmont Mining (co-founder of Cassiar with F.M. Connell), Alfred Lloyd Penhale (founder and CEO of Asbestos Corporation of Canada Ltd.), C.B. Brown, Pierre Marcotte, Francis Parker Smith (brother of George Smith), Bill Oughtred, Bill Johnson, and a Mr. Janitsch. File also includes a portrait of an unidentified director of Cassiar from Turner and Newall in England, taken at the corporate club in Toronto. Group portraits were taken at the Cassiar Valley, the office building, "House 130," fishing outings, and at formal events in unidentified locations.

File contains correspondence, a letter of support and press releases.

File contains memo from IUS President, meeting notices, meeting minutes, IUS newsletter and newspaper clippings.

File contains correspondence.

File contains correspondence and memos.

File contains correspondence and news releases.

File contains correspondence and a newspaper clipping.

File contains correspondence.

File contains proposed news releases, correspondence, handwritten notes and a membership list.

File contains correspondence, handwritten and typewritten notes and miscellaneous textual material.

File contains correspondence and a copy of the executive summary report “Building a future of excellence”.

File contains miscellaneous statistical information.

File contains miscellaneous printed material.

File contains typewritten notes, correspondence, photocopies, brochures and miscellaneous printed material.

File contains correspondence and handwritten notes.

File contains two reports, one on post-secondary education and the role of the federal government and the second on scientific research policies in Canada.

File contains the report “The role of Universities in the economic development of British Columbia” and a cover letter.

File contains Angus Reid proposal to do opinion survey and a cover letter.

File contains Marktrend proposal to do opinion survey and a cover letter.

File contains Angus Reid’s final report and a copy of the detailed statistical tables.

File contains correspondence, a list of Interior University Society (IUS) Directors, handwritten notes, a copy of a lease agreement for IUS office space.

File contains correspondence, a draft copy of the Interior University Society’s constitution and by-laws.

File contains news releases, correspondence and miscellaneous textual materials.

File contains a position paper by Murray Sadler, president of the Interios University Society.

File contains news releases, Minister of Regional Development’s speech notes and informational materials about the Society.

File contains news releases and a speech.

File contains meeting agenda, correspondence, a list of Society Directors, a newspaper clipping and miscellaneous textual material.

File contains a brochure, correspondence, meeting agenda, President’s report, miscellaneous printed material and handwritten notes.

File contains meeting minutes, a meeting agenda and correspondence.

File contains correspondence, list of supports, a meeting agenda, meeting minutes, a newspaper clipping, a financial statement and a flyer.

File contains correspondence and the report “Access to advanced education and job training in British Columbia”.

File contains correspondence and reports on educational concerns of First Nations.

File contains meeting minutes, handwritten notes and miscellaneous textual material.

File contains textual material describing the Interior University Society and its purpose, speech notes, a draft organization chart with handwritten addenda and a transparency of the draft organization chart.

File contains a copy of the certificate of incorporation for the Interior University Society and of the documents filed with the registrar of companies on December 1, 1987.

File contains undated organization charts.

File contains financial statements, a Society newsletter, a copy of Roy Stewart’s resume, handwritten notes and an auditor’s report.

File contains miscellaneous correspondence, internal Executive memos and a meeting notice.