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Al Elsey compiled this commercial video using footage he filmed in 1964 and 1965 in the Bella Coola area. The video provides a compilation of film footage shot by Elsey and is narrated by him describing the activities related to the Grease Trail. Description verso of VHS commercial box reads:
"Al Elsey's friendship with Margaret Siwallace with other people of the Nuxalk Nation dates back over fifty years. This, his premier documentary, produced from vintage 16 mm movie film taken in the Bella Coola Valley in 1963, invites us to witness their tradition of making Ooligan Grease. The process, followed for centuries by the Nuxalk and other coastal First Nations people, was of such importance that their trading routes from the Coast to the Interior of British Columbia were called Grease Trails. The Ooligan were netted by the ton each year, returning from the ocean to spawn in early spring. The destruction of the Ooligan runs in the Bella Coola and other coast rivers of Southern B.C. probably resulted from over-fishing by shrimp trawl draggers during the late 1990s. GREASE shows catching the Ooligan with conical nets and dugout canoes, rotting them in "stink boxes," then rendering and purifying the Grease. Elsey's captivating narrative and brilliant footage transport us back to another time on the shores of the Bella Coola River."

File consists of collected research materials regarding the Grand Truck Pacific Railway. Materials include brochures, newspaper clippings, a CN supplement, a bibliography, pamphlets, correspondence, photographs, and reproductions of articles. Highlights include:

• Fraser Fort George Museum, "Grand Truck Pacific: The Transcontinental Line", 1983 (exhibit brochure)
• CN Mountain Region Supplement 1 employee time table for June 21, 1978
• CN Headquarters Library, "A Selected Bibliography on Canadian Railways", Special Series No. 25 6th edition, 1968
• Greater Victoria Public Library, "Railroads & Railroading in Canada: A selected booklist", 1988 (pamphlet)
• Stephen Ruttan, "Transportation in British Columbia", 1985 (pamphlet)
• Fort George Regional Museum, "Fort George Railway, Prince George B.C.", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Bulkley Valley Historical and Museum Society, "Smithers Grand Trunk Pacific Freight and Passenger Division Headquarters", 1978 (booklet)
• Prince George Railway Museum, "On Track" newsletter, Vol. 9 No. 6-7 July, 1991 (newsletter)
• Central British Columbia Railroad Preservation and Museum Society, "On Track" newsletter, Vol.3 No.5 1985 (newsletter)
• BC Provincial Archives of British Columbia Aural History Programme, "The Grand Trunk Pacific", Interviewed by Imbert Orchard, People in Landscape Educational Series, 1969 (booklet)
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway entitled "Camp near Burns Lake", Aug 1912
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway entitled "G.T.P. Steel bridge across the Shuswap River, Mile 79, 12 miles east of McBride", [191-?]
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway entitled "Prairie Creek Bridge nearly completed, 5 miles west of Hilton", [191-?]
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the "McKenzie & Blais store", [191-?]
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway entitled "Linking up of Steel on G.T.P. Transcontinental, Fort Fraser", 1914

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.

The file contains eight photographs depicting close up images of three rock samples, some photographed with a ruler for scale. One of the rock samples is speculated to be obsidian and the other two are likely serpentine. The images where originally found in an envelope titled "ROCKS" and are likely dated around 1991.

Included in this file are an five photographs of rocks on a shelf, which may be asbestos sample rocks. There are five accompanying negatives to these photographs and are likely dated around 1977. The photographs and negatives were found in an envelope labelled "Negatives - CIMM Photos."

Additionally two negative strips of geology maps of Canada. These negatives were found in an envelope labelled "Negatives - CIMM Papers, Mining, Planning, Geology."

Film is a dramatization of the construction of the fourth generator at the Kemano hydro-electric power plant in Kitimat

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.

Subseries contains general operations material used or created by Fyfe Lake Fir. Includes automobile licenses and insurance plans.

An assortment of photographs speculated to have been used for research purposes as Cassiar administration established the mine and the town.

Subseries consists of photographic material pertaining to the following subject areas: mine operations; plant operations;labour strike 1970s images; townsite operations of the company towns of Cassiar and Clinton Creek (including community activities associated therein and townsite development); as well as, images of mines not owned by Cassiar Asbestos Corporation, but which are believed to have been used for operational research purposes.

Series consists of general histories, statistics, and sources for railway subjects, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions and clippings from periodicals. Most documents are Canada-wide in scope.

Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "FURNACE PAD AUG 25/64." Photograph depicts construction worker standing on elevated wood platform. Three other men can be seen working in construction area. This location is believed to be under the conveyor to crusher building, retaining wall in midground.

File consists of material collected on Frederick William Knewstubb. Frederick William Knewstubb, who first foresaw the possibility of the Kenney Dam/Nechako Reservoir project, which was carried out by the Aluminium Company of Canada (ALCAN). Knewstubb joined the Water Rights Branch as a draughtsman in 1911, became a hydrological engineer in 1926, and was Chief Hydrologic Engineer for the Water Rights Branch at the time of his death, 16 December 1937. Materials includes reproductions of articles, and correspondence.

Photograph depicts two men standing to left of Fred Murray on balcony of large building or structure speculated to be in the Cassiar valley. Portion of log structure in left foreground, man and hauling trucks on road in background.

The Fred Jeffery Collection consists of three photograph albums comprising a total of 303 b&w photographs all dating from ca.1924-1933. The subject matter of these images consist primarily of the fishing industry, river & landscapes, salmon cannery images (housing, people, workers, machinery, boats) on the Nass River and North Pacific Coast. Notable are the photographs depicting indigenous (Nisga'a) people and places and Chinese and Japanese cannery workers. Identified canneries featured in these photographs include: Mill Bay Cannery, Namu Cannery, Klemtu Cannery, Shushartie Bay Cannery, Balmoral Cannery, North Pacific Cannery, Nass Harbour Cannery, Port Essington Cannery, Kitwanga Cannery, Port Nelson Cannery, Alert Bay Cannery, Dominion Cannery and ABC Co. Cannery. Photographs also include images of the Canadian Pacific Railway in both Vancouver and Sicamous, BC., as well as, images of the Legislative Assembly buildings in Victoria, the 1924 Special Service Squadron ships in Vancouver, early construction of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and town overviews of Yokohama, Japan (pre WWII).

File consists of research material collected on the history of Fort George including a Provincial bulletin, newspaper clippings, pamphlet, and reproductions of articles and images. Highlights include:

• Robert Arthur Williams, Province of British Columbia Lands Service, "The Fort Fraser- Fort George Bulletin Area", No.7. 1973 (bulletin)
• Fort George Park, "Fraser-Fort George Museum", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• W.J. MacAllan, "The Moving of the Fort George Indians", Cariboo & Northwest Digest, Summer 1948 (photocopied article)
• Nellie R. Campbell, "When Steel Came to Prince George", Cariboo & Northern B.C. Digest, Summer 1947
• Fraser Fort-George Museum, "Museum Mirror", Vol. 2 No. 1, 1986

File consists of collected research materials regarding Fort Fraser, Fraser Lake, Engen, Endako, and the Endako mine. Includes a Provincial bulletin, postcard, histories of Fort Fraser, correspondence, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings, articles, and an advertisement for Fort Fraser. Highlights include:

• Province of British Columbia Lands Service, "The Fort Fraser-Fort George Bulletin Area", 1967 (booklet)
• Postcard of Fraser Lake, [198-?]
• Don & Sue Rudland, "Welcome to Historic Fort Fraser", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Christero Communications, "Rose Prince of the Carrier Nation", [198-?] (pamphlet)

Subseries contains publications pertaining to or used by forestry industries in Canada.

File contains:

• B.C. Forest Service, "Site Index: A Growing Issue" pamphlet, 1986
• The Working Forest Project, "Clearcuts don't stay cleared... End of argument." pamphlet, 1994
• Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada, "Handbook for Ground Skidding and Road Building in the Kootenay Area of British Columbia", 1976
• Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, "From Watershed to Watermark: The pulp and paper industry of Canada", 1987
• Forest Productivity Councils of British Columbia, "Forest Growth and Yield in British Columbia - Vision" pamphlet
• Prepared for BC Ministry of Forests and Range by Laszlo Orbay and Derek Goudie or Forintek Canada Corp., "Values and Volumes of Lumber Recovered from Mountain Pine Beetle Killed Wood", 2006