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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.

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.

2013.6.36.1.010.50 · Item · Oct. 1965
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Cominco Ltd. In Kimberley, near Cranbrook. There is a 3' gauge overhead electric railway serving the underground workings of Sullivan mine. The view shows the C.P.R. access in the valley and the old mine portal, still used for in-going materials and supplies, at the right center of the photo.

Coal miners near Buckley Bay
2013.6.36.1.003.047 · Item · Aug. 1964
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts coal miners near Buckley Bay. The afternoon shift (3 p.m.) is going down the Tsable drift mine, which is the only working coal pit on Vancouver Island in 1964 and has a total of 70 employees. It is run by the Comox Colliery Co. and has a daily production of 200-300 tons.

2013.6.36.1.004.19 · Item · Aug. 1964
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a Vancouver Iron Works built steam donkey in use until the early 1950s. It was purchased for $800 by an enthusiast in 1963 , set up beside home and roadside at Sayward near Kelsey Bay on North Vancouver Island.