- 2000.1.1.2.1.170
- Pièce
- [July 1952 ?]
Fait partie de Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds
Photograph depicts framework for truck dump. Mountain and power house framework believed to be in background.
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Fait partie de Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds
Photograph depicts framework for truck dump. Mountain and power house framework believed to be in background.
Manager's Photos - Power House
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Photograph depicts power house, exterior finished. Man and building materials in foreground, oil tanks and mountains in background.
Manager's Photos - Snow on Talus
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Photograph depicts snowy mountaintop, wooden shelter and truck in foreground. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Pictures taken July 2nd, 1952. 1. Picture taken from campsite showing snow on talus."
Manager's Photos -Men by Quonset Warehouse
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Photograph depicts two men in plant site, mountains in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Pictures taken July 3rd, 1952. 3. Quonset warehouse in background. Temporary set-up for circular saw in foreground."
Manager's Photos - Mill, South View from Water Tower
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Photograph depicts mill building under construction, mountains in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Pictures taken July 3rd, 1952. 5. Mill. Truck Dump and concrete mixers in foreground. Taken from top of water tower and looking south."
Manager's Photos - Root House, North View
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Photograph depicts small building built into dirt landscape, mountains in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Pictures taken July 5th, 1952. 8. Root House. Looking north."
Manager's Photos - Mill, West View
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Photograph depicts man in distance on scaffolding. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Pictures taken July 5th, 1952. 11. Mill construction. Looking west."
Manager's Photos - Men on Truck Dump
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Photograph depicts men working on truck dump construction, mountains in background.
Manager's Photos - Men on Unknown Building
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Photograph depicts two men on upper floor of building under construction, speculated to be mill building.
Manager's Photos - Men on Unknown Building
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Photograph depicts two men on upper floor of building under construction, speculated to be mill building.
Manager's Photos - Interior of Unknown Building
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Photograph depicts interior framework of building under construction, mountains in background.
Manager's Photos - Mill, South View
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Photograph depicts mill building under construction, mountains in background. Photograph is speculated to be taken from top of water tower.
Manager's Photos - Truck Dump & Power House
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Photograph depicts men building truck dump in foreground, building believed to be power house in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Pictures taken June 11th: (3) Framing water tank tower. Water well in foreground and tower timbers and oil tanks in background. Looking east." [Note believed to be incorrect.]
Manager's Photos - Water Tower, North West View
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Photograph depicts water tower framework. Building materials, truck, and oil tanks in foreground; mountains in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Pictures taken June 28th, 1952: (8) Water tower erection. Looking northwest."
Manager's Photos - Truck Dump & Power House
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Photograph depicts men on plant site. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Pictures taken June 28th, 1952: (9) Truck dump with concrete poured in foreground. Power house in background. Looking north from mill."
Fait partie de Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds
Photograph depicts black dog and tractor tire in foreground, ladder resting on side of quonset building, mountain in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Pictures taken June 28th, 1952: (12) Erecting quonset from Utah Camp. Located south of 30 KW power plant. looking southwest from No. 1 bunkhouse."
Manager's Photos - Track Loader
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Photograph depicts track loader moving dirt in cleared area. It is believed that the loader may have been excavating area for ore haul truck dump (see item 2000.1.1.2.222). Trees and mountains in background.
Manager's Photos - Diesel Engine Foundation
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Photograph depicts 7 men working on building speculated to be foundation for diesel engine. Oil tanks and mountains in background.
Manager's Photos - Diesel Engine Foundations
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Photograph depicts 8 men and possibly 1 woman working in construction area, mountains in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "2. Pouring concrete for second Ruston diesel engine. In foreground is the first diesel foundation stripped of concrete form ready for engine. Looking west."
Manager's Photos - Prefab Lodges
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Photograph depicts four buildings in trees at end of dirt road, mountains in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "7. Prefab buildings for staff families and guest lodge. These buildings nearly completed."
Manager's Photos - Snow Conditions in Mountain Gully
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Photograph depicts mountain side, semi-covered in snow. Snowbank in foreground. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "8. Shows snow conditions in gully just north of talus deposit on south slope. Note considerable snow still above road. Estimated depth of snow here to be from 10 to 20 feet [see also item 2000.1.1.2.229]."
Manager's Photos - Snow Conditions on Mountain Road
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Photograph depicts man standing on dirt road. Snowbank to right of man is almost shoulder-height and disappears as road continues. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "12. Indicates snow along the mountain road."
Manager's Photos - Bunkhouse Buildings at Watson Lake
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Photograph depicts four bunkhouse buildings leading to recreation hall at Watson Lake Airport. Power poles on left. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "7. Same group of buildings as in picture No. 4 [see item 2000.1.1.2.236] showing steel building on the end [see item 2000.1.1.2.235]. Picture taken looking east. Note: There are at least as many more buildings again as shown in these snaps."
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Photograph depicts 4 men working on early stages of mill construction, mountains in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "9. Erecting wall posts on mill foundations. Looking west."
Manager's Photos - Staff Members
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Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "1. Four staff members. L to R - Paisaud, Farewell, Hood, Ward - Taken in front of the office."
Manager's Photos - Framing Diesel Engine Foundations
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Photograph depicts foundation framework, trees and mountains in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "7. Framing diesel engine foundations. Tarp overhead to keep out snow and rain. Oil tanks in background."
Manager's Photos - Diesel Engine Footings
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Photograph depicts 2 men working in building project area, trees in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "1. Building concrete forms for diesel engine footings. Oil tanks in background."
Manager's Photos - Men at Office
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Photograph depicts four men in business attire (two wearing ties) in doorway of log office building. Pile of snow in foreground on right. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "6. In front of office; L. to R. Duncan, Hood, Ward, Jenkyns." It is believed that these men may be staff members.
Manager's Photos -Service Garage Close to Completion
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Photograph depicts scaffolding around garage, trees and mountainside in background. Men, steel drums and smaller white buildings can be seen around base of garage. Snow and dirt piles in mid ground, dog and steel drum in foreground. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "8. Service garage nearly completed. Wide doors for taking bulldozers, and high enough to clear a van truck."
Manager's Photos - Pouring Concrete at Mill
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Photograph depicts group of men working in dirt area, snow and trees in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "10. Pouring concrete at mill. Steamer for heating water in foreground, concrete mixer in background." Concrete mixer is behind four steel drums.
Manager's Photos - Service Garage Walls
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Photograph depicts framed garage in forested area. Snow in foreground, mountains in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "3. Wall studding nearly completed - Service Garage."
Manager's Photos - Portable Compressor
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Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "6. C. I-R 125 CFM. portable compressor. Northwest lumber piles in background." Trees and mountain also visible in background.
Manager's Photos - Cookery & Other Temporary Buildings
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Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "7. Temporary buildings. First building is the cookery. Looking south." Photograph depicts numerous wood buildings down the left of snow-cleared dirt road, each with a small porch. The office and bunkhouse are also among the buildings (see item 2000.1.1.2.305). Wood piles lie in front of cookery, dump truck and dog can be seen at end of road, and another building is semi-visible on right. Tree-covered mountainside in background. See also items 2000.1.1.2.299 and 2000.1.1.2.301.
Manager's Photos - Steel Drums in Industrial Yard
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Photograph depicts a group of steel drums to right of large, flat, snow-covered area. A larger steel tank also lies behind drums on its side. A lumber pile can be seen in distance, as well as what appears to be a very large cylinder tank standing vertically under a shelter. Trees and mountains in background. See also item 2000.1.1.2.295.
Manager's Photos - Man and Lumber Piles
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Photograph depicts a man walking in snow path, many lumber piles on his left. Mountain base in background.
Manager's Photos - Two Men with Wheelbarrow
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Photograph depicts two men with wheelbarrow on wood planks in front of small unidentified packages stacked two-high. Two unidentified buildings in background with slanted roofs. Mountaintops in background.
Manager's Photos - Storage Shelter
Fait partie de Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds
Photograph depicts large shelter with slanted roof storing what appears to be lumber piles.
Manager's Photos - Tent Covered Building
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Photograph depicts small wood building, with two windows and a door, draped with canvas. Snow pile to left of building, road in foreground, trees and mountains in background. See also item 2000.1.1.2.302. This building appears different from those at tent campsite described in item 2000.1.1.2.284.
Manager's Photos - Bunkhouse, Cookhouse, & Office
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Handwritten annotation in blue ink on recto of photograph: "Bunkhouse cookhouse & office". Photograph depicts numerous log buildings in a line, each with a porch and slanted roof. A tractor can be seen snowplowing the road to the left of the buildings. Another building is semi-visible on far left, and another in distance at end of road. Trees and mountains in background. See also item 2000.1.1.2.286.
Fait partie de Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds
Handwritten annotation in blue ink on recto of photograph: "Foreground warehouse under construction and in the background lays asbestos." Photograph depicts two men walking towards warehouse building. Walls are erected though roof is not. Steel drums and equipment under tarp shelter in foreground, trees and mountaintops in background.
Manager's Photos - Asbestos Fibre in Serpentine Outcrop
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Handwritten annotation below photo on page taped to photograph: "PHOTO #1: Outcrop of Serpentine showing veinlets of asbestos fibre. Wider veinlets 1/2" - 1"."
Manager's Photos - Asbestos Outcrop From a Distance
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Handwritten annotation below photo on page taped to photograph: "PHOTO #3 Showing approx. area covered by Asbestos - serpentine float". The approximate area has been outlined in blue ink on verso of photograph. Photo taken from lower level in valley, trees in foreground, outcrop visible in distance.
Manager's Photos - Filling Store Shelves
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Typed annotation in black ink on recto of photograph: "Store Shelves in process of being filled". Photograph depicts miscellaneous household items stocked on shelves in store interior, back wall visible in background.
Manager's Photos - Store Shelves
Fait partie de Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds
Typed annotation in black ink on recto of photograph: "Store shelves". Photograph depicts miscellaneous household items stocked on shelves against wall in store interior.
Manager's Photos - Dining Room Interior
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Typed annotation in black ink on recto of photograph: "View of dining room looking towards kitchen". Photograph depicts rows of long bench tables with white tablecloths and condiments. Kitchen can be seen trough doorways on opposite wall, as well as two large coffeemakers. Bright fluorescent lights shine on ceiling.
Fait partie de Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds
File contains 3 strips of negatives depicting water control structures inluding pipes, culverts, and holding ponds. The strips were found in a photo lab pouch annotated "Sedimentation Pond Sept 1991" and addressed to "Cassiar Mining Corp. Attn; R. Tyne."
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McDame Project - construction progress reports
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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.
Fait partie de Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds
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