Subseries contains external correspondence collected by Fyfe Lake Fir.
Subseries contains publications pertaining to or used by forestry industries in Canada.
Subseries contains a map of timber growth in the McKenzie mountain and West Lake region.
Consists of photographs depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, the British Columbia Railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Canadian National Railway. Also includes photographs of various forestry-related scenes.
Series consists of graphic material depicting railways in British Columbia. Includes prints, negatives, and postcards.
Image depicts the Bridge River No. 1 hydroelectric station on the shore of Seton Lake (rear side of powerhouse).
Image depicts the Lajoie hydroelectric generating station at the Lajoie Dam on the Bridge River (view of powerhouse and tailrace from top of dam).
Photographs within this file document resource industries within Northern BC such as mining, fishing, forestry etc. They also represent resource industry cooperatives, processing, packing and shipping industries, construction and ship building, as well as salvage companies and operations.
Man driving a two horse cart in front of beehive burner, cart is full of bark presumably sawed off the logs.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Mill Burner".
Photograph depicts the Pinchi Lake mercury mine as seen from the water. Some buildings appear to be under construction. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Pinchi Lake min (mercury).
Overview of the Giscome sawmill behind road. Lumber yard is visible in foreground while mill stands in background.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Giscome Mill / lumber yard in foreground".
Overview of Giscome, BC showing built and natural landscape.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Bunkhouse & Dining Room / Giscome BC".
An “Indiana” flatbed logging truck releases logs from its load onto a makeshift log slide at the edge of a road.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "unloading logs".
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a switchback, wood plank logging road.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Truck Logging / Giscome BC.”
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a wood plank logging road. Another road under construction is also visible through forest in background.
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a wood plank logging road. Another road under construction is also visible through forest in background.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Logging - Giscome B.C. Plank truck road - also road under construction showing sills & cribbing."
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Daily Capacity 100,000 f.b.m. sawmill in foreground planer mill and lumber yard in background.”
Group of five miners stand in mining area on left. Woman, man, and young girl sit and stand on far right in more formal attire. Mining tools and equipment throughout.
Printed annotation on recto of photograph: "Société Minière de B.C., Atlin B.C. July 28th, 1901, A.C. Hirschfeld, No. 707".
Five unidentified miners pose for a photo. Logs and wood scraps in foreground, forest in background.
Printed annotation on recto of photograph: "PLACER MINING, ATLINTOD RIVER, ATLIN, B.C. A.C. HIRSHFELD NO. 753."
Photograph depicts small square building with an elevated door, log pile on its left, and stand of trees in background. Handwritten photo caption below photograph reads: "Old Salmon cache. Fort St James, BC June 1923".
Iona leans against a fallen tree and rests her own hardhat on her knee.
Campagnolo stands on ladder of machine.
Handwritten annotations on verso read: “Granisle Mine,” and “woman operators on strip mine”.
Sign in foreground reads: “Stop Bull Shitting, [Phoney (crossed out)] Ioney”.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “The Kitimat Oil Port Environmental Lobby, didn’t believe I killed it. I did!”
Semi-visible sign reads: “Supertanks - Pipelines S.O.S.”
Photograph depicts crowd with individuals holding protest signs.
Machinery visible in background.
Handwritten annotations on verso read: “Stewart, B.C.,” and “Bottom: at Granduc Copper mine with Mary Schindel, I drove the ‘Mitzie’”.
Machinery visible in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “John Lundquist, Mary Schindel”.
Publication contains background paper for parliamentarians entitled "Mining in Canada: The Reality and the Promise" by John DeGrace of the Research Branch, Library of Parliament.
Publication contains an abridged version of the publication entitled "Termpol Assessment of the Navigational and Environmental Risks Associated with the Proposal of Kitimat Pipe Line Ltd. to Construct a Marine Oil Terminal at Kitimat, B.C." published by Transport Canada Coast Guard.
Publication contains an "Interim Submission of Kitimat Oil Coalition to West Coast Oil Ports Inquiry" published in Vancouver, BC.
Publication is entitled "Proposal for a New Grain Terminal at Prince Rupert", which outlines a grain shipping terminal at Prince Rupert, its design, a suggested site and estimated costs.
Map depicts the whole of Canada and notes: gas pipelines, gas gathering lines, proposed gas pipelines, oil pipelines, oil gathering lines, proposed oil pipelines, gas fields, oil fields, refining centres, extraction plants, and oil sands. There is a smaller subsequent map of Alberta highlighting these features in greater detail.
Map depicts proven on & offshore oil & gas areas, and probable oil & gas areas in less then 1000' water. The map conveys the North Pole in the centre and spans out to include Canada, Europe and the "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics."
Map depicts existing oil lines, oil lines proposed or under construction, product lines, existing gas lines, gas lines proposed or under construction, LPG lines, and LPG lines proposed in Canada and Northern USA.
Map depicts the Coast of British Columbia and Federal and Provincial proposed fishing boundaries, including the 200 mile limit.
Map depicts producing mines and prospects in British Columbia and parts of Alberta.
Map depicts various gas projects across North America including: the "El Paso Project" along American and Mexican boarder; the "Arctic Gas Project" which runs from the Beaufort Sea through Alberta towards San Francisco and Chicago; the "Alcan Project" which runs through Alaska, British Columbia, Alberta and onwards to San Francisco and Chicago; the "Maple Leaf Project" which runs from the Beaufort Sea into Alberta; and the "Polar Gas Project" which runs from the Parry Islands and circles the Hudson Bay towards Quebec.
Map depicts the regional district of Kitmat, but is extensively annotated showing the proposed route of the Kitmat Truck Ferry, running through Terrace and up into the "Yukon Markets," and the Kispiox Connector, running from Prince Rupert to Hazelton and further East along Highway 16 and north along the Kispiox River.
Map depicts annotations of the freight-way routes throughout British Columbia. These routes include: the Garnet Enterprise Truck Haul from Vancouver to Terrace, the Canadian Freightways from Vancouver to Edmonton to Alaska; the Lindsay Transfer from Terrace to Dease Lake and Telegraph Creek; and the Northland Navigation roll-on and roll-off service.
Map depicts the shipping highway routes across Canada. Primary, secondary, and access routes are noted as-well as proposed routes.
Map depicts proposed industrial area outside of Terrace, British Columbia.
Map depicts existing harbour development in Stewart, with an enlargement of the west side of the harbour.
Satellite map of the district of Kitimat for the purpose of developing an industrial corridor.
Proposed master plan for the inner areas of Kitimat Port. Drawing includes proposed terminal area, industrial terminal, future forest products terminal, bulk terminal, and the industrial corridor.
Detailed floor plan for fish-processing plant in Port Simpson. The drawing includes production plan showing locations of the workers.
Photograph depicts two fisherman on a boat--one holding a crab trap and another looking at the catch.
Photograph depicts a Dorosz Tool Company tri-cone rock bit on a Prince Rupert pamphlet.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo shaking hands with an unidentified employee of Frank Beban Logging while standing beside a large piece of heavy machinery.