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1996.7.1.06 · File · 1993-1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of outgoing correspondence from BCUC (and others) to the province of British Columbia as well as incoming correspondence to BCUC from the province. Also includes a "Summary of Alcan's Proposed Kemano Completion Flow Regime" and a copy of Slaney et al's "Habitat Capability Analysis of the Nechako River for Rainbow Trout and Char and the Effects of Various Flow Regimes".

Alcan correspondence
1996.7.1.07 · File · 1993-1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of outgoing correspondence from BCUC (and others) to Alcan as well as incoming correspondence to BCUC from Alcan and their solicitors. Prominent correspondents include Bill Rich, Vice President for British Columbia for Alcan, and their solicitors, Lawson Lundell Lawson & McIntosh.

BC Hydro correspondence
1996.7.1.08 · File · 1993-1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of outgoing correspondence from BCUC (and others) to BC Hydro as well as incoming correspondence to BCUC from BC Hydro. Prominent correspondents include Thom Thompson, Vice President of Corporate and Aboriginal Affairs for BC Hydro.

BCUC documents
1996.7.2.2 · File · 1993-1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of miscellaneous documents created or received by the British Columbia Utilities Commission regarding the Kemano Completion Project review hearings. Includes news releases, newsletters, meeting notes, excerpts from hearings transcripts, lists of registered participants, schedules, terms of reference, "Kemano Completion Project Review Draft Public Hearing Procedures", and a chronology of DFO's involvement in the project.

Alcan promotional material
1996.7.2.4 · File · 1993-1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of photocopies of promotional material produced by Alcan. Includes Alcan Special Reports, "Kemano: Energy for the Future", pamphlets, news releases, and a "Statement by William J. Rich, Vice President for British Columbia Alcan, at Press Conference, 9 July 1993". Also includes an original "Kemano Completion Project Information" newsletter.

Reference material
1996.7.2.6 · File · 1993-1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of photocopies of reference material sent to BCUC for the Kemano Completion Project review hearings. Includes excerpts from Shirvell's thesis "Effects of Abstraction on a Trout Stream"; Shirvell's lecture notes on Instream Flow Incremental Methodology; a 1974 article by Larkin entitled "Play it Again Sam--An Essay on Salmon Enhancement"; graphs of results from the Fraser River Temperature Program; a copy of a September 28, 1989 agreement between Alcan and the Cheslatta Band; and a "Response to Department of Fisheries and Oceans Discussion Paper, Toward a Fish Habitat Decision on the Kemano Completion Project" by Save the Bulkley.

1996.7.3.7 · File · 1993-1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of requests for information sent to various participants by the British Columbia Utilities Commission and other registered participants in the Kemano Completion Project Review. Also includes responses to those information requests, summaries of information requests, and accompanying correspondence.

1996.7.3.8 · File · 1993-1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of an index created by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to all of their discovered documents relating to the Kemano Completion Project. This information was requested from DFO by the British Columbia Utilities Commission in conjunction with the Kemano Completion Project Review hearings.

1996.7.3.9 · File · 1993-1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of copies of discovered Department of Fisheries and Oceans documents relating to the Kemano Completion Project. These documents were requested from DFO by the British Columbia Utilities Commission in conjunction with the Kemano Completion Project Review hearings.

1996.7.4.06 · File · 1993-1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of submissions from various participants in the BCUC hearings on the review of the Kemano Completion Project. Includes submissions from Mike Robertson, W.G. Hazelwood, the Village of Fraser Lake, Allan Lamb, the Peace Valley Environmental Association, the Canadian Autoworkers Local 102, Terry Slack, Erythana Ventures Corporation, and Douglas Massey.

1996.7.4.07 · File · 1993-1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of a correspondence file collated by the BCUC staff involved in the Kemano Completion Project Review. Includes incoming correspondence regarding concerns about the review, correspondence regarding submissions to the community hearings, and copies of oral presentations given at the community hearings along with accompanying correspondence.

1996.7.4.08 · File · 1993-1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of an accumulation of rebuttals from Alcan employees to expert reports submitted by Department of Fisheries and Oceans scientists for the 1987 Nechako River court action. Includes an index to the thirteen rebuttals by authors Bruce Jenkins, A.C. Mitchell, D.W. Chapman, and Rolf Kellerhals.

Final submissions
1996.7.4.11 · File · 1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of final submissions submitted to the BCUC public review of the Kemano Completion Project. Includes final submissions and accompanying correspondence for the Nechako Environmental Coalition; the District of Vanderhoof/Regional District of Bulkley Nechako/The River Forever/Vanderhoof District Chamber of Commerce; Sustainable BC; J.M. Black; and Rediscovery Prince George. Also includes the Nechako Environmental Coalition's "Rebuttal to Final Submissions of Alcan & the Government of Canada"; the "Final Argument of the Province of British Columbia"; and the "British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority 1993 Revenue Requirements Application Final Argument".

Final arguments
1996.7.4.12 · File · 1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of final arguments submitted to the BCUC public review of the Kemano Completion Project. Includes final arguments and accompanying correspondence for the Rivers Defense Coalition; the Nechako Valley Regional Cattlemen's Association and the Nechako Valley Dairymen's Association; the Nechako Environmental Coalition; Ben B. Meisner; the Province of British Columbia; the Government of Canada; Ecology Circle Prince George; Rediscovery Prince George; and Rick Berry.

1996.7.4.13 · File · 2 Sept. 1994
Part of BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review Collection

File consists of a copy of the "Argument and Summary of Evidence for the BCUC Review of the Kemano II Project by the District of Vanderhoof, Regional District of Bulkley Nechako, The River Forever, and the Vanderhoof District Chamber of Commerce".

Diamond core drilling
2000.1.1.1.11 · File · 1971- 1977
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Six metal storage cases containing primarily slides depicting drill core sections in wooden storage trays. Cases contain inventories of slide images as well as annotations which document the year, drill hole number, and the length along the drill hole from which core sections are taken. In addition to the documentation of drill core sections, the cases contain slides depicting the following subjects: “Representative samples” of drill core fragments, drill core fragments in perspective, “physical characteristics” of the drill cores and the storage trays, the pit mine, a worker in a plaid shirt, close up shots of the geology of the working face, and images annotated “SHOTS OF JADE BOULDER CORE J5-J1”. Five slides originally filed separately and stamp dated “Jul. ‘73” depict what is speculated to be employees working on the diamond drilling project include 2 images annotated ‘R. Dickin Aug ‘72’, ‘I. Oliver Aug ‘73’, ‘S. Zimmer Aug ‘73’, and ‘core shack ’73’. The cases contain 234 7x7cm slides and at least 8 5x5 cm slides which are duplicates of the remaining images. The file also contains a slide strip containing several 7x7 cm slide images.

Geology rock samples
2000.1.1.1.12 · File · 1977 - 1991
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

The file contains eight photographs depicting close up images of three rock samples, some photographed with a ruler for scale. One of the rock samples is speculated to be obsidian and the other two are likely serpentine. The images where originally found in an envelope titled "ROCKS" and are likely dated around 1991.

Included in this file are an five photographs of rocks on a shelf, which may be asbestos sample rocks. There are five accompanying negatives to these photographs and are likely dated around 1977. The photographs and negatives were found in an envelope labelled "Negatives - CIMM Photos."

Additionally two negative strips of geology maps of Canada. These negatives were found in an envelope labelled "Negatives - CIMM Papers, Mining, Planning, Geology."

Russian Mine Tour
2000.1.1.1.13 · File · [between 1951 and 1992]
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photographic negatives depict men on tour in unknown locations in Russia. Images depict urban areas, mining areas, construction of buildings, railway, mineral samples, and equipment including dump truck and electric shovel. Also includes images of area speculated to be a mine pit. Men on tour are dressed in formal attire.

Handwritten annotation in pencil on envelope containing negatives: "Russian 'Asbest' Mine Slides" "7 copies of each - 23 negatives - 161 prints".

2000.1.1.1.14 · File · September 1975
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

File contains set of images taken in Faro, Y.T. Annotation on photo envelope reads: “Visit to / CYPRUS ANVIL / FARO Y.T. / SEPT 1975 / BY DALE CARIN / R. WILSON.” Images depict the pit mine operated by Cyprus Anvil Corporation, including a grader, ore hauling truck (likely a Wabco), an explosives transport truck, and unidentified equipment including an electrical utility box and some type of rotating wheel in the mill building.

Thetford Mines, Quebec
2000.1.1.1.15 · File · [ca. 1975]
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

The file contains photographs originally found in an unmarked and undated black binder depicting colour-coded mill equipment and machinery. Several of these images are annotated “Bell”, “Bell Asbestos”, and “National”. It is speculated that these images originate from the underground asbestos mine in Thetford Mines, Quebec operated by Bell Asbestos Mines Ltd. and the National Mine in Quebec. One image appears to be, or looks similar to the new mill at Cassiar, built in 1971.

2000.1.1.1.16 · File · 1978
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

File contains photographs annotated Nordenham, presumably indicating that these images were taken in the Asbestos Corporation's plant in Nordenham Germany. The images depict bagging machinery in the mill, including a palletizer, automatic sewing machine, packer, shrinkwrap machine, glue applicator and cement bags. Some of the images include detailed annotations.

2000.1.1.2.05 · File · March - December 1970
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

File contains photographs documenting the construction of Cassiar's new mill building. Photos depict early excavation, foundations, framework, construction of all seven stories, sheeting, siding, and roof tarring. Also included are photos depicting the large model of the mill, as well as construction work done on the tramline. Photos taken inside the mill depict flooring work, and milling machinery including feed chutes, screens, fans, wheelabrators, control panels, electrical panels, conveyor systems, vacuum systems, and the fan-driven air system that transported the fiber. Many photos depict construction workers, building supplies, worksites, and equipment including cranes, bulldozers, tractors, hauling trucks and trailer flatbeds. Some photos depict aerial views from the new mill and feature the plantsite, tramline, mine road, mountains, and valley.