Industries

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  • Resource industries (eg. mining, forestry, fishing, etc.)

  • Resource industry cooperatives

  • Processing, packing and shipping industries

  • Construction, ship building

  • Salvage companies and operations

  • SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Business and Commerce; Transportation and Utilities

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          39 Archival description results for Industries

          39 results directly related Exclude narrower terms
          2006.20.10.12 · Item · [ca. 1930 - 1940]
          Part of NBCA Photograph Collection

          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."

          2006.20.10.5 · Item · [ca. 1930 - 1940]
          Part of NBCA Photograph Collection

          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".

          Sawmill at Giscome, BC
          2006.20.10.9 · Item · [ca. 1930 - 1940]
          Part of NBCA Photograph Collection

          Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Daily Capacity 100,000 f.b.m. sawmill in foreground planer mill and lumber yard in background.”

          Mill Site at Giscome, BC
          2006.20.10.8 · Item · [ca. 1930 - 1940]
          Part of NBCA Photograph Collection

          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".

          Mill Burner at Giscome, BC
          2006.20.10.7 · Item · [ca. 1930 - 1940]
          Part of NBCA Photograph Collection

          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".

          Logging Truck at Giscome, BC
          2006.20.10.11 · Item · [ca. 1930 - 1940]
          Part of NBCA Photograph Collection

          Fully loaded logging truck driving along a switchback, wood plank logging road.

          Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Truck Logging / Giscome BC.”

          Industries
          2006.20.10 · File · [ca. 1900 - 1940]
          Part of NBCA Photograph Collection

          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.

          2011.12 · Collection · September 1950 - June 1951

          This photograph collection consists of 53 photographs featuring primarily Giscome with a few of Prince George. Subjects include the Eagle Lake Sawmill, Eagle Lake, Giscome townsite (including specific buildings and general road perspectives), Giscome School, Division II class photos (1950-51), and the Giscome School teacherage.

          Giscome Sawmill
          2012.13.1.87.167 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the mill site at Giscome, B.C. Map coordinates 54°04'19.7"N 122°22'04.7"W

          Giscome Sawmill
          2012.13.1.87.171 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the mill site at Giscome, B.C. A sign in the foreground reads "Maynard's Industrial Auctioneers." Map coordinates 54°04'19.7"N 122°22'04.7"W

          Giscome Sawmill
          2012.13.1.87.168 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the mill site at Giscome, B.C. Map coordinates 54°04'19.7"N 122°22'04.7"W

          Giscome Sawmill
          2012.13.1.87.170 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the mill site at Giscome, B.C. Map coordinates 54°04'19.7"N 122°22'04.7"W

          Giscome Sawmill
          2012.13.1.87.169 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the mill site at Giscome and its beehive burner. Map coordinates 54°04'19.7"N 122°22'04.7"W

          2012.13.1.87.086 · Item · [between 1980 and 2000]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the Giscome mill site in Giscome, B.C. The bunkhouse is the large building with many windows. A train and railroad tracks are in the foreground. Map coordinates 54°04'17.6"N 122°22'06.1"W

          Giscome - Power Poles
          2012.13.1.87.098 · Item · [between 1975 and 1995]
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the remains of a street of houses in Giscome, B.C. The quarry is slightly visible in the background. Map coordinates 54°04'20.9"N 122°21'53.1"W

          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