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BC Hydro
2000.23.1.076 · File · 1978-1984
Part of Audrey Smedley L'Heureux fonds

File consists of collected research material regarding BC Hydro, including development reports, community attitudes towards B.C. Hydro, and expansion plans. Materials include photographic negatives, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets. Highlights include:

  • B.C. Hydro, "Duncan Dam Columbia River Power", 1983 (pamphlet)
  • B.C. Hydro, "Cathedral Square Substation", 1984 (pamphlet)
  • B.C. Hydro, "Cheekye-Dunsmuir Transmission Project", 1984 (pamphlet)
  • B.C. Hydro, "Diesel Generating Stations", 1983 (pamphlet)
  • B.C. Hydro, "Kootenay Canal Hydroelectric Development, Columbia River Power", 1978 (pamphlet)
  • B.C. Hydro, "Trees and Overhead Powerlines, A Guide to safe, sensible tree selection", 1983 (booklet)
  • B.C. Hydro, "Revelstoke Dam & Generating Station, Columbia River Power", 1984 (booklet)
  • B.C. Hydro, "Mica Dam Columbia River Power", 1983 (booklet)
  • B.C. Hydro, "W.A.C. Bennett Dam & G.M. Shrum Generating Station, Peace River Power", 1982 (booklet)
  • B.C. Hydro, "Peace Canyon Dam & Generating Station, Peace River Power", 1983 (booklet)
  • Trade and Commerce, "10th Annual Market Survey, Northwest Territories, one of Seven Reports", 1974 (magazine)
  • Photographic negative of a map titled "Early Days in Stewart"
BCR
2012.13.1.50.027 · Item · 1975
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts the BCR tracks passing through a mill somewhere near the 100 Mile.

Bee Hive Burner
2012.13.1.7.001 · Item · Oct. 1975
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts a bee-hive burner beside a rail-road track at an unidentified mill somewhere in Prince George, B.C.

2000.13.1.50 · Item · 1958.
Part of Ray Williston fonds

Item is a photograph of Bert Leboe, MP for Peace River, watching the construction of a trading boat traditionally used in the Peace / Parsnip area. These boats were used to conduct surveys and transport supplies during the construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.

2005.3.59 · Item · [ca. 1945]
Part of John Hart Highway Photograph Collection

Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "Bert and Kitchen Staff". Photograph depicts Bert (Youngstrom?) standing close to a woman and young girl on snow in front of unidentified buildings. Forest trees can be seen in background. It is believed that this photo was taken at the camp in Summit Lake, B.C. (see item 2005.3.57).

2005.3.55 · Item · [ca. 1945]
Part of John Hart Highway Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts Bert Youngstrom leaning on one of two gas pumps in front of three long buildings. Trees can be seen in background, as well as snow all around. Steel drums an other miscellaneous material surround the buildings. Handwritten captions above and beside this photo read: "Bert Youngstrom" "Shop & Warehouse".

Bill Plumb Exploration
2000.1.1.1.07 · File · 1963 - 1965
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph of Cassiar's Chief Geologist Bill Plumb who led many exhibitions for the purposes of Cassiar's outside exploration endeavors. Various photos in this collection depict Bill on some of these exhibitions.

2000.1.1.3.24.01 · Item · [ca. 1980]
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph depicts William (Bill) Storie at location known as Limestone Mountain, southwest of Cassiar, B.C. Photo features profile of Bill, hands in pocket, Cassiar valley and mountains in background. Storie was a renowned prospector in the Cassiar area, and the new school at Cassiar was named for him in 1992.

2007.17.1.4 · Item · 1935
Part of James Joseph Claxton Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a snow-covered forest clearing with six structures and a truck. Buildings have been numbered 1-8 with pen. Original handwritten annotations on verso of photograph are signed by Tom Marsh. Photograph is taped to paper. Typed annotation on recto of paper reads: “1. Bridge over creek. 2. Blacksmith shop. 3. Powerhouse. 4. Headframe over 200’ shaft. 5. Office 6. Water tanks from powerhouse. 7. Bunkhouse. 8. Truck. 9. Cookhouse behind #6 cannot be seen. We were always able to find the cookhouse even though hidden in this picture. Taken about 1935 by Russell Ross, supt. Quesnel Quarts Mine. Tom Marsh, Box 156, Squamish B. C.”

Board of Directors
2000.1.1.4.3 · File · ca. 1951 - ca. 1960
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

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.

Bob Harkins fonds
2001.12 · c.1953 - c.2000

Fonds consists of textual records, photographic items and published reports related to professional life and career of Bob Harkins, broadcaster, local historian, and former city councilor. Includes textual and photographic items related to development and history of city of Prince George and the Central Interior of BC region history and development in late 20th century. Items includes an unpublished manuscript on the life of Ray Williston by Eileen Williston, an unpublished paper on the history of technological change in logging industry; an unpublished paper on the history of radio and television in Prince George; a report related to the creation of a university for Northern British Columbia (1989) and proofs of the publication "Wild Liard Waters: Canoeing Canada's Historic Liard River" by Ferdi Wenger, c.1998. Also includes photographic files including CKPG Radio Studio photographic items c.1953; and photographs and correspondence regarding guide outfitter Skook Davidson c.1975.

Harkins, Bob
2002.12.3.1 · Item · c.1980
Part of Bob Harkins fonds

Item consists of transcript of taped interview with former railway conductor Alex Clapperton conducted by Bob Harkins at Prince George Radio Station, CJCI regarding his career as a railway conductor with Pacific Great Eastern Railway. Clapperton also discusses memories of growing up in Prince George.

Harkins, Bob
2002.12.5.1 · Item · c.1970 - c.1989
Part of Bob Harkins fonds

Item consists of transcript of interview with Bruce Douglas conducted by Bob Harkins at Prince George Radio Station, CJCI regarding his career in early railways in Prince George region and memories of the sawmills in Giscome area..

Harkins, Bob
2002.12.1 · Item · c.1970 - c.1989
Part of Bob Harkins fonds

Item consists of transcript of interview with former Provincial Deputy Minister Mike Apsey conducted by Bob Harkins at Prince George Radio Station, CJCI regarding the Forest Act.

Harkins, Bob
Box Inventory
2000.1.4 · Series · 1950-1998
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

The Cassiar Asbestos Corporation and townsite records encompass a massive archival holding of approximately 1,600 bankers boxes. A box level inventory was created by student employees of the archives over a 15-year period. This inventory is provided here for access purposes only and its accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

In 1952 the Cassiar Asbestos Mining Corporation constructed an asbestos open-pit mine and mill and created a town site for its workers that became the town of Cassiar, British Columbia, 50 miles south of the Yukon border, and 80 miles north of Dease Lake. For 40 years Cassiar was a thriving asbestos mining town with a population at its peak of about 2500, with production statistics for 1989, recording over 60 million tonnes of ore mined, producing a billion dollars of new wealth. In 1989 Cassiar added an underground mine to the site, and despite attempts to run it profitably, in 1992 the entire mine closed partially due to the global market decline in the demand for asbestos, resulting in the closure of the town, and the move of its workers and families out of Cassiar. An auction was held to sell off all the mining equipment, townsite infrastructure, its buildings, people’s residences and the site was bull-dozed, with many houses burned to the ground. Today little remains in this remote area of Northern British Columbia to mark Cassiar’s industrial, economic or social history.

In 1992 the University of Northern British Columbia acquired the holdings of CAMC and the Cassiar townsite recognizing its potential for academic research, as the records could provide insight into natural resource industry extraction operations in Northern BC from mid to late 20th century, illustrative of ‘boom & bust’ industries, and to provide context to the development of the Cassiar Asbestos Mining Corporation and the history of the ‘life’ of a one-industry company town. The holdings document mining operations by CAMC and of the town site of Cassiar, originally consisting of the equivalent of 1800+ bankers’ boxes, including records on construction, engineering, operations, administration of CAMC, tallies of extractions, labour and union activities, corporate events and visits by dignitaries (including Prime Minister Trudeau who visited CAMC’s northern operations unit in Clinton Creek in 1968 and M.P. Iona Campagnolo in 1978). As CAMC was owner of both the mine and the Cassiar town, the company provided municipal services (i.e. sewer, water, and electricity) for its workers and their families. The archived municipal records document townsite construction, including the creation of health, education and community services such as Cassiar’s private hospital, school, library, community centre, hockey arena, and retail store. The holdings also include extensive visual documentation of natural and man-man landscapes within this remote and scenic area of Northern British Columbia. The formats of the archival holdings are diverse consisting of textual, photographic, cartographic materials, electronic records, films, promotional video-recordings, and a near complete run of the Cassiar community’s print newspaper.

Britannia Mine?
2012.13.1.54.53 · Item · July 1980
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts the inside of a mine with an unknown individual present. It is possibly the inside of the closed Britannia Mine.

Britannia Mine Entrance?
2012.13.1.54.52 · Item · July 1980
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts the entrance to a mine with an unknown individual present. It is possibly the entrance to the closed Britannia Mine in the Howe Sound Region.

2009.6.13.45.20 · Item · [between 1974 - 1979]
Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

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.

Bucket Being Lifted by Crane
2000.1.1.2.2.16 · Item · 1963
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph depicts a round bucket attached to the main hook line of a crane and suspended over building framework in crusher construction site (crane not visible in image). Men stand around the bucket on high level of crusher building. A dirt road and long building believed to be housing conveyor "B" can be seen in background.

Bucket Being Lifted by Crane
2000.1.1.2.2.14 · Item · 1963
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph depicts a round bucket attached to the main hook line of a crane (crane not visible in image) suspended over building framework in crusher construction site. Four construction workers stand around the bucket. Two men can be seen on roof of long building in background believed to be the section of the crusher building which housed conveyor B. Dirt road crosses midground.

Bullion Mines Collection
2000.15 · Collection · 1894 - 1925

The fonds consists of six company ledgers: 1894 - 1896, 1896, 1898 - 1901, 1900, 1904 - 1905, 1923 - 1926. Also includes 15 pages of correspondence and notes. The ledgers note expenses for various operations in the mine and in the company owned premises in town. The letters and notes concern the purchase of explosives for the mine and discusses the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company.

Bullion Mines
Bullion Mines Ledger
2000.15.1.2 · Item · 1896-1989
Part of Bullion Mines Collection

File contains a record of the mine’s monthly expenses from August 31, 1896 to October 1898. Pages 1 - 67 are torn out and missing.