Photograph of a partially sunken sailboat near a harbour. Individuals on debris and in a rowboat are surveying the damage. Annotation on recto reads: "GTP. SS Prince Rupert Sept 28th 1920 McRae." Handwritten annotation on verso reads "CTP "Prince Rupert" Sunk at Prince Rupert BC 1920."
View of building, dock, harbour and small islands with snow peaked mountains in background. Printed caption on verso reads: “Port Essington B.C. Photo by P. E. Fisher”. Handwritten annotation in ink on verso reads: “up the Skeena”, in pencil on verso: “Port Essington, North Coast Commercial Coy”.
Boats, docks, ships and a large building in waterscape. Printed annotation on recto reads: “Prince Rupert B.C.” Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “McRae Bros”.
Handwritten annotation on recto of photo reads: "Harry Monson Edmonton Prince George." Harry reclines on bed under window, surrounded by personal effects. Photograph was taken after nightfall. Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "Harry talked my dad into selling him my boat".
Image depicts a piece of heavy machinery lifting numerous logs off the back of a logging truck. It is likely located in Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts a piece of heavy machinery lifting numerous logs off the back of a logging truck. It is likely located in Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts a piece of heavy machinery lifting numerous logs. It is likely located in Prince George, B.C.
Photograph depicts the Hedley Gold Mine, 26 miles east of Princeton. Crusher workings.
Photograph depicts crusher plant in centre foreground. Shifter shack and vehicles can be seen in front of pit area. West Peak semi-visible in right midground. Mine valley an northwestern mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts the West Peak of the Cassiar mine on McDame Mountain. Pit area visible between West Peak and road in foreground. Mine valley and north mountain range in background. Photo speculated to have been taken from a point on or near the South or North Peak.
Photograph depicts mine valley and road in foreground. Cassiar plant and tailings pile visible in left midground, townsite in right midground. Mountainside of McDame Mountain in foreground, southern mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts plant buildings in front of tailings pile in midground. Forest, power line, and tramline in foreground; south mountains in background.
Photograph depicts plant buildings below, tailings pile in foreground. Valley and mountains in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "CASSIAR".
Photograph depicts two unidentified men entering building with the sign "THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA" above main entrance. Photographer with tripod in foreground.
Photograph depicts tail rotor of helicopter in left foreground, as helicopter ascends or descends. It is possible that this photo may have been taken at Clinton Creek, Y.T. rather than Cassiar, B.C.
Photograph depicts two unidentified men in front of yellow and red helicopter at unknown location. Power lines and trees in background. It is possible that this photo may have been taken at Clinton Creek, Y.T. rather than Cassiar, B.C.
Photograph depicts row of houses behind trees. Power line, road, and vehicles in foreground; mountain in background.
Photograph depicts row of houses behind trees. Road, front yards, and vehicle in foreground, mountains in background.
Photographs depict groups of men gathered on ice. Herbert leans over behind two friends seated on ice sled (son of Marion and Archdeacon W.H. Collison). Pile of caught fish can be seen in foreground behind large whole in ice.
Handwritten annotations on verso read: "Oolichan Fishing Fishing Bay Nass River"; "Uncle Herbert with Indian friends fishing for oolichan through the ice."
View of fish boat in water, with net spread and smaller boat on opposing side of net. Several gulls can be seen flying in the air. Rail cars town and treed hills in background. Printed annotation on recto reads: “Herring Fishing In Prince Rupert Harbour McRae Bros.” Handwritten message in ink on verso is addressed to “Mr. H. Smart 2550 Blackwood St. Victoria B.C.”
The pair walks on sidewalk, wearing hats and long coats, Glassey on right. Crowd of walking people and tall buildings in background. Photograph taken by street photographer. Stamped annotation on recto of photograph: "SOUVENIR SNAPS 401 W. HASTINGS ST. VANCOUVER, B.C. EXTRA COPIES BY NUMBER."
Glassey sits on ground with unknown man in area believed to be a mining location, rocks and logs in background.
Glassey stands with three men in mine adit, rocky hillside and vegetation in background.
Photograph depicts H.F. Glassey wearing a suit and tie, holding up a wolf pelt in both hands. House stands behind Glassey, pelts hanging from eaves in front of porch. These pelts came from the Teslin Lake area (this region spans Northern British Columbia and the Yukon Territory). Anglican Church partially visible in left background. Typed annotation on recto of photograph: "Come up and do some hunting." Typed caption below this photograph: "Atlin." See also items 2009.5.2.68 & 2009.5.2.69.
Map depicts historical rail lines in the BC lower mainland, including trackage for the BC Electric Railway, the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Great Northern Railway, and the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, among others.
Photograph depicts a dam and wooden spillway along a creek. Annotation on verso reads: "This is the dam and spillway about 9 miles up Hixon Creek belonging to the Hixon Creek Cariboo Gold Co. Original handwritten annotations on verso of photograph are signed by Tom Marsh and covered by mounting the photo on paper. Photograph is taped to paper. Typed annotation on recto of paper reads: “This is the dam and spillway about nine miles up Hixon Creek belonging to the Hixon Creek Cariboo Gold Co., whose main camp on Hixon Creek was at the falls. A fellow Sterling or (Bill) Tordiffe & I took a contract to cut the logs for this dam in January 1934. The first few winters Quesnel Quartz had to shut down for snow."
Photograph depicts a dam and spillway obstructing a creek. Photo is adhered to paper backing, upon which handwritten annotation on recto reads: “This is the dam and spillway about nine miles up Hixon Creek belonging to the Hixon Creek Cariboo Gold Co., whose main camp on Hixon Creek was at the falls. A fellow Sterling or Bill Tordiffe & I took a contract to cut the logs for this dam in January 1934. The first few winters Quart [sic] Quesnel Quartz had to shut down for snow”
Image depicts the Britannia Mine, which closed in 1974 and is now a museum. "Anaconda" was the last operating owner.
There are three different sections of film footage on this reel.
The first is of two men and a young boy going fishing from a river bank, gutting and cleaning the fish they catch and baiting their hooks with mill eggs. There is more filming of three other men going down the river in a small boat and then banking it to fish. They gut and clean their fish as-well. They load their small boat into the back of a red pick-up truck after they are finished their day.
The second part of this film reel begins with a map of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park. Men on snowmobiles traveling to an abandoned log home and acreage. They then break through the ice on the nearby lake and begin to retrieve their previously set beaver trap, which has a caught beaver. The men then travel to a different location and set up a beaver trap. There is some additional footage of two moose in the snow as the men travel to a third location and retrieve another caught beaver from under the ice. The men return to their cabin and skin the beavers.
The third part of this film is footage of Anahim Lake village, birds in the area, wild flowers, cattle drive, children fishing on the river and swimming, a pelican on a lake, and people in a boat traveling.
Possible other locations of filming include Bella Coola River, Dean River, Ulkatcho, Ulkatcho Mountains, and Tweedsmuir Provincial park.
Photograph depicts bucket hanging from tramline in foreground. Support tower stands in midground in front of station building. Another building can be seen at top of mountain in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "INCOMING BUCKET #1 STATION". Photograph was glued to cardboard backing with the annotation: "1962".
Image depicts a piece of industrial machinery, likely for either mining or forestry, in an uncertain location near McLeod Lake, B.C.
Image depicts industrial machinery in an uncertain location near McLeod Lake, B.C.
Image depicts a piece of industrial machinery in an uncertain location near McLeod Lake, B.C.
Several large buildings on a rocky shore. Wood piles and a crane are visible in the background. Annotation on recto reads: "Prince Rupert BC"
Image depicts two mills; the Intercontinental Pulpmill is on the left side of the tracks in the image and the Prince George Pulp and Paper Mill is located on the right side in Prince George, B.C. The Northwood Pulp Mill can be seen in the distance.
Image depicts two mills; the Intercontinental Pulp Mill is on the right in the foreground, and the Prince George Pulp and Paper Mill is on the left in the background. The picture is taken from the South, possibly off Yellowhead Bridge in Prince George, B.C.
Publication contains an "Interim Submission of Kitimat Oil Coalition to West Coast Oil Ports Inquiry" published in Vancouver, BC.
Photograph depicts ore haul truck on road in mine area, mountain wall in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Int. Harvester Payhauler Model 95", on verso: "1961".
Photograph depicts ore haul truck at dump in mine, mountain range in background. Photo also features driver and a second unidentified man standing in front of truck. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Int. Harvester Payhauler Model 95 dumping stripping waste at 6565 Elevation", on verso: "1961".
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and an unknown man looking over the sawmill owned by Rim Forest Products in Hazelton.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and an unknown man looking over the sawmill owned by Rim Forest Products in Hazelton.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and a man wearing a hard hat and ear protection at a sawmill owned by Rim Forest Products in Hazelton.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking with a group of logging truck drivers at the Frank Beban Logging camp in Athili Gwaii (Lyell Island) during a 1978 Skeena riding tour.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo handing a piece of paper to a man in a hard hat at Rim Forest Products in Hazelton.
A black and white photographic print of Iona Campagnolo in the Cassiar mill wearing a ‘VISITOR’ hard hat and overalls. Two unidentified workers provide a tour of the mill and show sample of the asbestos fibres.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo shaking hands with an unidentified employee of Frank Beban Logging while standing beside a large piece of heavy machinery.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo speaking with an unknown man wearing a hard hat and holding a package at a sawmill owned by Rim Forest Products in Hazelton.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking with an unidentified employee of Frank Beban Logging standing beside a large piece of heavy machinery.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking with a logging truck driver of Frank Beban Logging at Athili Gwaii (Lyell Island) during a 1978 Skeena riding tour.