File includes six aggregations of photographs which have been assembled in this file in order to maintain the integrity of each group by keeping the photos arranged together, though each group features operations pertaining to multiple files in this subseries. Includes groups featuring photos from 1961, 1965 1971, a helicopter trip, a community album, and a workplace album. Photographs depict images pertaining to the following operations at Cassiar, B.C.: mining, milling, maintenance, labratory tests, and tramline and town operations. Images featuring operations of the company town include the grocery store, bank, churches, school, library, lounge, pool, theater, community center, outdoor recreation, hospital, dentist, cafeteria, bus route, residences, air strip, firehall, laundromat, park, police, and newspaper.
Photograph depicts building containing Cassiar's bar and snackbar, visible across ball field. This building originally housed school classrooms, movie theater, barber shop, and rec centre with three pool tables. Private liquor store originally located in far right of building. Liquor store was known to be the only legal bootleg liquor business in the province at the time, before it was transferred to Cassiar's government liquor store and replaced with a Sear's office. Catholic church and other buildings are visible behind trees in right midground. Road and field in foreground, valley and mountains in background. Community Centre located behind photographer, out of frame, curling rink on photographer's right.
Photograph depicts men's ball game in foreground, spectators and cars visible behind backstop net. Bar and snackbar building in right midground, trees and mountain base in background. See item 2000.1.1.3.19.52 for information regarding bar and snackbar building.
Photograph depicts man with badminton racket in foreground of gymnasium, woman with racket facing away from photographer in background. Doors, chairs, and piles of boxes visible in background.
Photograph depicts Hilde Voss (see item 2000.1.1.3.19.68) wearing white shirt, with unknown woman in snackbar. Counter and other individuals on left, cooking supplies in foreground. Interior window in background connected snackbar to poolroom. Eventually this snackbar was moved to poolroom, and liquor store located in original snackbar.
Photograph depicts two unidentified men on front deck of building behind trees. Road and car in foreground, mountains visible in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Directors Lodge Cassiar June 15 71". Building also known as "House 130".
Photograph depicts unknown individuals seated in chairs of room speculated to be a living room or common area. Potted plants, television, open door, and wall hangings in background. Lamps, chairs, and side tables in foreground.
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."
Photograph depicts five unidentified individuals skiing in flat snowy area, forest in background.
Photograph depicts DeCecco wearing helmet and snowsuit while seated on Arctic Cat "Pantera".
Photograph depicts group of men and women on rocky shore, pile of fish in foreground. Photo speculated to have been taken in the Telegraph Creek area, possibly at the Tahltan or Stikine River, B.C.
Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd opened a second mine in 1967 at what became the one-industry town of Clinton Creek, Y.T. File contains photographs depicting different areas of operations at Clinton Creek. Locations include the mine, plant, town, tailings pile, main office, the 40 Mile River, and surrounding area. Town photos depict the grocery store, cafeteria, medical clinic, school, auditorium residential area, Connell Street and power house. File also includes aerial photographs and images depicting forest fighting, photographers capturing the tailings pile, asbestos samples, mining machinery, staff offices, and operations in the mill, lab, and garage.
Additional photographs integrated into file depict Clinton Creek's surrounding area, and three slides of a tailing pile explosion believed to be Clinton Creek.
Photograph depicts group of eight men standing on lawn in front of building known as "House 130" or "Director's Lodge" (see item 2000.1.1.3.19.88). Left to right: Nick Gritzuk, Charles Rainforth Elliot, Jack Christian, W. Harold Connell, Plato Malezemoff (from Newmont Mining), Tam Zimmermann, Ken A. Creery, Fred Martin Connell. Daffodils and tulips planted in foreground, trees and mountains in background. Most men featured in photo are believed to be members of Cassiar's Board of Directors.
Photograph depicts group of eight men standing on lawn in front of building known as "House 130" or "Director's Lodge". Left to right: Nick Gritzuk, Charles Rainforth Elliot, W. Harold Connell, Jack Christian, Fred Martin Connell, Ken A. Creery, Plato Malezemoff (from Newmont Mining), Tam Zimmermann. Trees and mountains in background. Most men featured in photo are believed to be members of Cassiar's Board of Directors.
Item is a photograph of the women and children on Rathrevor Beach.
Item is a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Williston in the summer of 1987 at their retirement home in Gibson’s, BC.
Item is a photograph of the 1938 Princeton Basketball Team which won the 1937-38 men’s B.C. Senior Championship. Ray Williston is third from the left in the front row.
Profile of Moran, wake visible in water behind her. Opposite shore in background.
Photograph depicts unknown lake. Moran slightly visible in far left. Village can be seen on opposite shore in background.
Photograph depicts landscape scene. Tree, bridge, and sign featuring cross country skier in foreground. Fence, hills, and forest in background.
Item consists of transcript and tape summary of interview with local boxer Harold Mann discussing his boxing career.
Sans titre
Photograph depicts a trophy moose that had been tracked and shot by Prentiss Gray.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man with binoculars sitting on a snow-covered slope looking for game.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man with binoculars searching for game in a snowy mountain landscape.
Photograph depicts Bruce Otto, a hunting guide, standing next to Prentiss Gray, who is seated on a stump skinning his prized mountain goat.
Photograph depicts a snowy mountain landscape in the Canadian Rockies where Prentiss Gray found his prized mountain goat.
Photograph depicts Prentiss Gray standing with a rifle in his hand in front of a teepee with a forested area in the background.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man sitting on a snowy mountain peak looking to the valley below for game through a pair of binoculars.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man (?) sitting on a mountain slope searching for game through a pair of binoculars in winter.
Photograph depicts snowy mountain peaks and footprints in the snow from a hunting guide in the foreground.
Photograph depicts an unidentified guide standing on a snowy mountain peak searching for game through a pair of binoculars with snow-covered mountain peaks in the background.
Photograph depicts a felled deer on a snow-covered hillside with a rifle behind the deer.
Photograph depicts an unidentified guide seated on a mountain slope searching for game in the valley below with a pair of binoculars. In the background a snow-covered mountain range is visible.
Photograph depicts an unidentified hunting guide sitting on a snowy mountain peak searching for game through a pair of binoculars. In the background of the image snow-covered mountain peaks are visible.
Photograph depicts a camping party consisting of nine individuals having their morning coffee beside their tent located in the Pine area at Lone Prairie. Identified individuals: Harry Snyder wearing a hat, in on the left; Elmer Keith wearing a hat, is on the right.
Photograph depicts Carrol Paul fishing along the banks of a river. In the background is a forested shoreline.
Photograph depicts Carrol Paul (right) and Harry Snyder (left) sitting on the ground during a tea break. In the background is a forested area filled with coniferous trees.
Photograph depicts Harry Snyder sitting under a tent cleaning his rifle. In the background behind Snyder are several boxes and a man standing with his back to the camera.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man cooking food in several pots over a fire at a camp site. In the background several tents are visible in front of a forested environment.
Photograph depicts Harry Snyder sitting under a tent cleaning a rifle with two other rifles resting beside him.
Photograph depicts Carrol Paul standing with rifle on top of felled bull moose. In the background a sparse forest is visible.
Fonds consists of original, silent 16mm reels that portray the natural, social and land use history of the Bella Coola and Chilcotin regions named the "Natural and Guiding History of the Bella Coola and Chilcotin Regions".
Possible locations that Al Elsey filmed include: Bella Coola, Bella Bella, Anahim Lake, Alert Bay, Nimpo Lake, Bulkey Valley, the Rainbow Mountains, Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, Dean River, Bella Coola River, Tchaha Lake, the Chilcotin region, the Ulkatcho Mountains, Lassard Lake, Fenton Lake, Atnarko River, Wells Gray Park, and Holt Homestead.
Footage of steelhead salmon jumping in river channel. The location is unknown.
Footage of Dr. Triffenhagen putting mill eggs as bait on a hook for fishing. Speculated locations include the Bella Coola River or the Dean River.
Footage of a lake shore and a dog, Suzie, retrieving an object from the lake. There is footage of a fish flipping around on the ice and another shot a fish swimming under the lake ice. There are also a recording of a white weasel climbing a tree
It is speculated that location of this film is either Anahim Lake or Fenton Lake.
Footage of man holding up and examining a moose head trophy in winter.
Possible locations include the Chilcotin region, Rainbow Mountains or Tweedsmuir Provincial Park.
Man fly-fishing from river shore.
The river is believed to be the Bella Coola River or the Dean River.
Footage of black bear on rocks by river shore. The bear eventually runs away into the surrounding forest.
Footage of a herd of caribou running on mountain plateau, probably the Rainbow Mountains. Also various clips of hunting camp and the men loading their pack horses.
Film begins with short introduction of girl pointing to a map and drawing a line to where the men will be hunting.
Footage from a small plane overlooking the landscape of what is believed to be either the Bella Coola Valley, Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, Rainbow Mountains, or Chilcotin area.
Footage of hunting party setting up camp in the high country of the mountains. There is a herd of caribou and footage of caribou trophy kill. There is filming of two marmots and additional recordings of camp cooking and socializing.
The film ends with the hunters entering the plane again and returning to their original camp, believed to be Nimpo lake.