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.
File contains portraits and sample photographs of exposed asbestos fibre: in veins of rock outcrops, and loose in talus on McDame Mountain (location of Cassiar mine). Some photographs were printed in Cassiar's Annual Reports, with labels and descriptions.
This file includes two major photographic collections concerning the construction and development of the underground mine at Cassiar, title the McDame Project.
The first collection includes fifteen monthly progress reports documenting the development from July 1988 to December 1989. The progress reports are authored by G. Verret, and were distributed to the executives of Cassiar Asbestos in Vancouver as well officials of the B.C. Government and other creditors of the Corporation. Most images are annotated and dated. Many of the loose photographs are accompanied by an inventory sheet.
Subjects depicted include: the staging area prior to mine development, the initial development of the “Vent Portal”, a jumbo drill working on the mine face, the working face marked for drilling and wired with fuses, a Caterpillar dozer clearing snow after an avalanche, scene of a fire in winter time, complete conveyor sump decline, mining vehicle parked on the “Lay-Down Area” presumably near the portal, the working face of the mine at various stages of development, 1563 portal being slashed, the removal of the overburden for the tramline loading station site, the construction of the transfer tower(s), construction of the stockpile area, the construction of a sedimentation pond, a presumed cave in, construction of footings for the conveyor, construction of the tramline loading terminal station, construction of the crusher building, a slash titled “Breakthrough in Access Ramp”, storage of powder and fuses, a washout in conveyor decline, fog at the portal in -30 degrees Celsius, the 1290 junction flooded, a slab of shotcrete which fell on and injured a miner while shotcreting, shotcrete blasted off walls for repairs, images of the “Hilti-test”, shots showing grade of drift, and structural failures in the 1350 adit.
Locations and structure within the underground mine depicted include: yellow ventilation ducting, ground support including steel screen and shotcrete, steel cables bolted unto ground support, puddles in the adits, the access road to the lay-down area, the exhaust drift, “Fans and Heaters in the 1415 adit”, the 1350 sump, the access ramp to the 1320, the exhaust ramp safety bay, the conveyor decline, the ventilation adit, the 1563 portal, the temporary repair shop at the 1415 portal, junctions of various drifts, the ”Fresh Water Pump & Pumphouse on lower Creek”, the “Ventilation Raise/1563 Platform”, a “Diamond Drill Station” at 6066 North in the underground mine, the “Bridge to the Gravel Pit”, the “Crushing and Screening Plant” in the gravel pit, the ventilation bulkhead in the conveyor decline, and the “Powder Magazine”.
People depicted include Rose Gay and R. Tyne on a tour of the underground mine, a geologist with a rockhammer, a miner identified as A. Jacobs working, contract miners Bruno and Marbel from Canadian Mine Development, and unidentified miners rockbolting, shotcreting, and drilling using jackleg drills.
Vehicle and mining equipment depicted include jeeps, pickup trucks, a front end loader, an unidentified a small unmanned tracked machine with a long arm, scoop trams, a land cruiser, an ore truck with a flat tire, the cone crusher, a “scissor lift”, a mobile shotcrete machine, a new grout pump, a new Boart Jumbo Drill, and a detached bucket half of a 413 ore truck.
The second collection depicts the McDame Project construction in 1986 and 1987.
Content of these photographs includes: various machinery used for excavating and drilling, underground progress of tunneling, supports, wire meshing, rock formations in mine, and exposed asbestos. There are no annotations regarding this photographs.
A set of 13 maps showing approximate waste extraction areas for different benches during certain months of 1972. Extraction dates are included accompanied by estimated total tonnages for each planned extraction area. All plans are hand drawn using colored pencils, lead and black ink. Approximate calculations of extraction tonnages are included within certain months. Numerical bench markers are included. Total tonnages from the previous year and previous surveys are included within certain plans.
File contains maps, working plans, and related correspondence.
File contains charts consisting of the remeasurements of the basal area and cut stump data in permanent sample plots.
File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 50.
File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 113.
File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 115.
File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 116.
File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 117.
File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 149.
File contains information, including diagrams, measurement charts, and a map, for experimental plot 292.
File contains original ledgers with measurements of permanent sample plots.
File contains a report, working copies of charts, and handwritten ledger pages of Plot 50.
File contains original study, measurements, and charts of plot 104.
File contains original study, charts, and measurements of plot 105.
File contains photocopied study, handwritten loose ledger pages, and photocopied data sheets for plot 107.
File contains photocopied and handwritten data listing reports, and a photocopy of the related study for Plot 119.
File contains original loose handwritten ledger pages and data charts, and the original related reports for Plot 120.
File contains photocopied report, loose handwritten ledger pages, photocopies of handwritten notes and data listing reports for Plot 148.
File contains handwritten cross section book, original studies with handwritten measurement charts and black and white photos, loose pages of original correspondence, handwritten diagrams and measurement charts, loose handwritten tally sheets, black and white photographs, hand coloured plot diagrams, photocopies of aerial photographs, and original correspondence for Plot 160.
File contains loose handwritten ledger pages, a photocopy of the original report, photocopied handwritten notes, and data report sheets for Plot 292.
File consists of climate station data printed from computer disks, original and photocopied soil description forms, and original copies of ecological and terrain mapping reports.
File contains photocopies of handwritten notes and measurement charts, correspondence regarding various administrative concerns, and research project reports.
File contains correspondence regarding Estate Modelling plans for the Aleza Lake Research Forest and handwritten notes from meetings.
File consists of material relating to gold mining in British Columbia. Materials include articles, a magazine, and newspaper clippings. Highlights include:
- Envex Investments Inc., "The Gold Guide: The Buy & Sell in The Mining Industry", Vol. 1 No. 2, 1982
- "First Gold in British Columbia: The Pend-d'Oreille", BC Historical News, Summer 1980
File consists of 1 VHS recording entitled "It Takes Time," produced by the Columbia Basin Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program.
File consists of 1 audiocassette of public presentation hosted by Bob Harkins discussing the history of sawmilling in Prince George Region. Introduces several people involved in sawmilling industry and also discusses history of the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association. Also shows a historical film about sawmilling and provides commentary.
Sans titreFile consists of outgoing correspondence from BCUC to four groups represented by solicitors Fraser & Beatty: District of Vanderhoof, Vanderhoof District Chamber of Commerce, Regional District of Bulkley Nechako, and A River Forever. Also includes incoming correspondence to BCUC from the four organizations and their representatives.
File consists of outgoing correspondence from BCUC to the Rivers Defense Coalition as well as incoming correspondence to BCUC from the coalition, its solicitors, and its chairperson Pat Moss.
File consists of requests for information sent to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans by the British Columbia Utilities Commission and registered participants in the Kemano Completion Project Review. Also includes DFO's responses to those information requests and accompanying correspondence.
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.
File consists of schedules for the Kitimat community hearings, along with submissions for the presentations at the hearing.
File consists of a document entitled "Submission Summaries from Community Meetings Regarding Procedures and Terms of Reference for the KCP Review". Includes submission summaries from community meetings held at Prince George, Fort Fraser, and Kitimat in April 1993.
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.
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.
File contains the 1929 Aleza Lake guestbook, a report on seeding, and photographs.
File contains various correspondence regarding 1964 annual cuts for sawmills in the area, memoranda consisting of various administrative issues such as the 1973 amalgamation of Purden Lake and Aleza Lake, and the sale of lumber previously infested by spruce beetles. File also contains 1972 applications to purchase Crown timber and road use, as well as 1966 logging permits.
File contains timber sale contracts and related correspondence between the Department of Lands and the Northland Spruce Lumber Company.
File contains photocopies of timber sale contracts and general correspondence between Olson and Bjorklund Sawmills Limited and the Department of Lands and Forests.
File contains timber sale contracts and logging inspection reports between the Department of Lands and Forests and the Fichtner Lumber Company.
File contains timber sale contracts and general correspondence between the Department of Lands and Forests and the Fichtner Lumber Company Limited.
File contains general correspondence and timber sale contracts between the Department of Lands and Forests and the Fichtner Lumber Company Limited.
File contains timber sale contracts and logging inspection reports between the Department of Lands and Forests and the Fichtner Lumber Company Limited.
File contains correspondence and diagrams regarding potential harvesting of spruce beetle killed trees from Northwood Pulp and Timber Limited.
File contains ecosystem treatment data sheets from Northwood Pulp and Timber Limited.
File contains a preliminary working plan from 1950.
File contains drafts of management and working plan for the period of 1992 to 2002, the final draft for the management and working plan, and related correspondence between Mike Jull and those involved with the Aleza Lake Research Forest.
File contains two different working and management plans for 1992 to 2002 as submitted by the Aleza Lake Steering Committee.