A collection of photographs of the early exploration exhibitions in the asbestos mountains area.
This file contains photograph from early construction of Cassiar Mine and townsite. Photographs were stapled to inter-office correspondence paper and sent with pages of photo descriptions. Photographs have been removed and rehoused, maintaining original order.
An assortment of photographs speculated to have been used for research purposes as Cassiar administration established the mine and the town.
Photographs of asbestos milling in Welshpool, Australia. Collection depicts the mazza machine, mixing plant, beam rollers, paper machine, asbestos feeder, asbestos store house, asbestos transport, bower separator, laboratory equipment, curling box rollers, pipe turning lathe, pipe flexural tester and pipe coupling multi parter.
Photographs depict aerial views of the Cassiar townsite, plantsite, tailings pile, mine road, bench and pit mine, mine buildings (tramline loading station, crusher, shop, and garage), and surrounding mountain range. Here "aerial" refers to photos depicting a large area and taken from the air or from a high point of elevation.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: report. Notes: by V. Gregoire.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: report.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: drawings.
Photographic slides of map of Canada depicting different geology and geography interests such as: mines and reserves, physiographic regions, soil regions, permafrost limits, underdeveloped hydro potential and development corridor.
File contains photographs featuring members of the Board of Directors of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd., which was formed on the 17th of May, 1951. Cassiar's forerunner was a company named Conwest, formed in 1534, a consolidation of two companies owned by Fred Martin Connell and his brother W. Harold Connell. The first board of directors included the Connell brothers, George Armstrong, John E. Kennedy, Charles & Arthur Mortimer, and Charles Rainforth Elliot (chartered accountant and secretary-treasurer of Conwest & Cassiar). Directors depicted in this file include F.M Connell, Harold Connell, Charles Elliot, John E. Kennedy, George Armstrong, Ken A. Creery, John Drybrough, Tam Zimmermann, George Washington Smith (president of Bell Asbestos Mines), Nick Gritzuk, Jack Christian (general manager, president, and CEO). Other individuals depicted include Fred Murry, Andre Beguin, Plato Malozemoff from Newmont Mining (co-founder of Cassiar with F.M. Connell), Alfred Lloyd Penhale (founder and CEO of Asbestos Corporation of Canada Ltd.), C.B. Brown, Pierre Marcotte, Francis Parker Smith (brother of George Smith), Bill Oughtred, Bill Johnson, and a Mr. Janitsch. File also includes a portrait of an unidentified director of Cassiar from Turner and Newall in England, taken at the corporate club in Toronto. Group portraits were taken at the Cassiar Valley, the office building, "House 130," fishing outings, and at formal events in unidentified locations.
A collection of 10 photographs of documented exploration in the early 1950s in and around the Cassiar area. Noted locations are Quartz Creek, Mocassin Mines, Blue River Bridge and the Alaska Highway.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: blueprints. Notes: File#205-01-02.
Photographs of piping manufacturing in Perth, Australia. Collection depicts feed and control gates, single beater, pulling mandrel, pipe machine, and fibre cement (machine).
A collection of photographs from the site that Cassiar was being built in the early 50s. Photos depict lumber piles, early camp area, the first buildings, mountains, and the creek.
Along with this collection there are a set of images also from the early Cassiar site mainly depicting a dirt road and various individuals and machinery along it.
File contents relate to: Accounting / Payroll.
File contents relate to: Asbestos. Document type(s) include: pamphlet.
File contents relate to: Retail Store, Accounting / Payroll.
File contents relate to: Cassiar Mine - operation and administration. Document type(s) include: brochure.
File contents relate to: Accounting / Payroll. Document type(s) include: computer floppy diskette.
File contents relate to: Asbestos. Document type(s) include: pamphlet.
File contents relate to: Asbestos. Document type(s) include: file inserts.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: pamphlet. Notes: Instruction Pamphlet.
File contents relate to: Asbestos. Document type(s) include: booklet.
File contents relate to: Mine Maintenance Issues, Asbestos. Document type(s) include: report. Notes: budget for projects.
File contents relate to: Accounting / Payroll. Document type(s) include: balance sheets.
File contents relate to: Accounting / Payroll. Document type(s) include: invoices.
File contents relate to: Accounting / Payroll. Document type(s) include: printout.
- File contains photographs done to item level description, depicting miscellaneous people and locations at or around Cassiar, B.C. This includes a photograph of renowned prospector William (“Bill”) Storie, Bill Pratt with a fox, a community gathering in a someone's home, and a hockey game.
- Also included but not to item level is a photo of "David Madore" as part of his application to Cassiar, photo of "William Field" a local hire maintenance mechanic, and photos of a RNWMP Post sign (Royal North West Mounted Police) that depicts annotations "Indian grave" , "Miners Cabin" , "Road House" , "Customs House" , "St. James Church" , "Swansons Store" etc., and 15 negatives of various individuals at what appears to be someone's home.
- Also included is cabin at Boya Lake, which used to be named Chain lake, located off the Stewart-Cassiar highway. This land of this cabin may have been involved legal issues , which was related to people at Cassiar.
File contents relate to: Asbestos. Document type(s) include: pamphlet.
This file contains photographs of the construction of the dry rock storage building in 1953. The two photographs included in this collection depict the trusses of the building during construction.
File contents relate to: Cassiar Mine - operation and administration. Document type(s) include: summary report.
File contents relate to: Cassiar Mine - operation and administration. Document type(s) include: summary report. Notes: Countries from India to Libya.
File contents relate to: Cassiar Mine - operation and administration. Document type(s) include: summary report. Notes: Countries from Malaysia to Zaire.
File contents relate to: Accounting / Payroll. Document type(s) include: marketing binder.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: blueprints. Notes: File# 201-01-01.
File contents relate to: Accounting / Payroll. Document type(s) include: letter.
File contains photographs featuring the tramline at Cassiar which ran from the crushing plant at the mountain mine to the plantsite in the valley (a drop of 427 meters). The first ore was originally transported by truck to the plant until the gravity chute was built in 1953. This chute was replaced with the first aerial tramline model in 1956, which was succeeded by the second model in 1975. This file also includes one photo of the original gravity chute, and one photo depicting a tramline worker.
Additionally there is a collection of eighteen photographs of tramline cars that were being surveyed for damage and condition, and another collection of six photographs of tramline study. The results of this study determined that there was variances in load sizes of the buckets caused by extra material falling off the panfeeder.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: blueprints. Notes: File#206-01-01.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: blueprint.
File contains photographs depicting an award night that took place in the late 1950s or early 1960s in the old panabode Recreation Centre at Cassiar B.C.. Photos feature groups of people posed with trophies, a family posed together, a large group on stage, the audience, and musicians including individuals with a trumpet, saxophone, guitar and violin. Fred Murray (early Cassiar staff member) is featured in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th photograph.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: correspondence, blueprint.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: correspondence.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: blueprints. Notes: File#206-01-01.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: magazine. Notes: Dredging.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: correspondence.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: blueprints.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: blueprint. Notes: several copies.
File contents relate to: Engineering. Document type(s) include: report, brochures.
Various photographs of equipment that Cassiar was researching to potentially purchase.
One photograph of proposed conveyor, to be used to transport material to the stockpile in 1957. One photograph of DUX Jump Tracker from DUX Machinery Corporation in 1976. Four photographs of George O. Hill Supply ltd. "Hill Belt Cleaner" (a rotary cleaner) in 1985. One photograph of George O. Hill "Poly-Teflon Conveyor Roller" in 1991. Three photographs of an overhead container crane from Kingsway Engineering Corporation in 1978. Two photographs of equipment from Sintra for Underground tunneling machinery in 1985. Two photographs (attributed to Ward&Davidson photography in Montreal) of Denovan machine from Victory Tool & Machine Co. Ltd. Two photographs of minpack system of cable from Mincon Inc. in April 1990. Three photographs of Transwest Dynequip from Por Coquitlam in 1990, with a note stating "To big for our need." Four photos of Euclid Trucks. Four photos of proposed Grader for mine from "Champion." Seven photos of Reed Guncrete equipment for shotcrete in 1989.
File contents relate to: Engineering, Asbestos. Document type(s) include: blueprint.