Aerial photograph depicts a view overlooking the Georges farm. Note on back stated that this photograph was presented in a frame to the Georges in 2008.
In July 2009, Dr. Paul Sanborn undertook the first soils field research at the Fort Selkirk volcanic field in central Yukon, with helicopter support and funding from the Yukon Geological Survey. This file consists of prints of aerial photographs that depict the area accessed for the study, upstream from the confluence of the Yukon River and the Pelly River.
Air photographs include:
Flight line A17210, Photo Nos. 54-60 (taken 1960)
Flight line A22354, Photo Nos. 43-45, 47-48 (taken 1971)
Flight line A27516, Photo Nos. 48-52 (taken 1989)
File consists of slides depicting Aleza Lake, Klinka, Prince George, McGregor, UNBC campus, Prince Rupert, Great Bear, Health Canada, and a flare pit.
File consists of slides depicting Aleza Lake, Stoney Creek, Tl'azt'en Nation, a Health Centre opening, Dahl Lake, Paul Sanborn, and lacustrine clay.
File contains 2 rolls (51 slides) taken September 25-26, 1995 that depict paired views of plot vegetation and forest floor surface. Handwritten number notations on slide frames indicate plot numbers from the original research installation.
File contains photographs depicting superintendents accepting safety awards on behalf of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation ltd, and BCIT Scholarship Winners.
File contains photographs annotated Nordenham, presumably indicating that these images were taken in the Asbestos Corporation's plant in Nordenham Germany. The images depict bagging machinery in the mill, including a palletizer, automatic sewing machine, packer, shrinkwrap machine, glue applicator and cement bags. Some of the images include detailed annotations.
File consists of slides depicting Bear Lake, piloderma, McGregor Model Forest, Purden Lake, logging truck, Douglas fir, Highway 16, Westwin, knight's plume, and feather moss (pleuzurium).
File consists of slides depicting Bear Lake, West Lake, Williams Lake, 10 Mile Lake, Smithers, Fort St. John, WAC Bennett Dam, and UNBC campus.
File consists of slides depicting Totuk Lake, chernozem, Vanderhoof, a log house, Beaumont Provincial Park, Tamarack Lake, Dahl Lake, an ant hill, and red soil.
File consists of slides depicting Lake Babine, Bell Mines, tailings ponds, Williams Lake, and FSTY 205 and FSTY 425 students.
File consists of photographs of the Upper Fraser Canfor administration buildings, bunkhouse, and fire hall following the 2003 mill closure.
Photographs are panoramas taken from the Churchill BC Forest Service Lookout, located at latitude 54°04' and longitude 122°16'. The photographs were bound together and include a transparent grid that was intended to be used for locating forest fires.
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.
File contains 6 slide presentations depicting training material for the operation of a P&H excavator published by the Harnischfeger Institute. The presentations depict an introduction to excavator controls and techniques for proper hoist motion, proper swing motion, concerning haulage units, proper propel motion, and proper crowd motion.
File contains photographs documenting the construction of Cassiar's new mill building. Photos depict early excavation, foundations, framework, construction of all seven stories, sheeting, siding, and roof tarring. Also included are photos depicting the large model of the mill, as well as construction work done on the tramline. Photos taken inside the mill depict flooring work, and milling machinery including feed chutes, screens, fans, wheelabrators, control panels, electrical panels, conveyor systems, vacuum systems, and the fan-driven air system that transported the fiber. Many photos depict construction workers, building supplies, worksites, and equipment including cranes, bulldozers, tractors, hauling trucks and trailer flatbeds. Some photos depict aerial views from the new mill and feature the plantsite, tramline, mine road, mountains, and valley.
File contains set of images taken in Faro, Y.T. Annotation on photo envelope reads: “Visit to / CYPRUS ANVIL / FARO Y.T. / SEPT 1975 / BY DALE CARIN / R. WILSON.” Images depict the pit mine operated by Cyprus Anvil Corporation, including a grader, ore hauling truck (likely a Wabco), an explosives transport truck, and unidentified equipment including an electrical utility box and some type of rotating wheel in the mill building.
Six metal storage cases containing primarily slides depicting drill core sections in wooden storage trays. Cases contain inventories of slide images as well as annotations which document the year, drill hole number, and the length along the drill hole from which core sections are taken. In addition to the documentation of drill core sections, the cases contain slides depicting the following subjects: “Representative samples” of drill core fragments, drill core fragments in perspective, “physical characteristics” of the drill cores and the storage trays, the pit mine, a worker in a plaid shirt, close up shots of the geology of the working face, and images annotated “SHOTS OF JADE BOULDER CORE J5-J1”. Five slides originally filed separately and stamp dated “Jul. ‘73” depict what is speculated to be employees working on the diamond drilling project include 2 images annotated ‘R. Dickin Aug ‘72’, ‘I. Oliver Aug ‘73’, ‘S. Zimmer Aug ‘73’, and ‘core shack ’73’. The cases contain 234 7x7cm slides and at least 8 5x5 cm slides which are duplicates of the remaining images. The file also contains a slide strip containing several 7x7 cm slide images.
File consists of digital photographs from Dr. Joselito Arocena's external hard drives. Images depict a variety of subjects, including research imagery, photographs from Arocena's travels, UNBC, the construction of the UNBC Northern Medical Program building, Prince George, and the Northern BC region.
File contains photographs depicting close view of drill bits used in the Cassiar mine. The photos were taken for documentary purposes during an evaluation procedure in which the bits were tested and compared. 32 of the photos are adhered to three reports containing detailed analysis of the condition and function of the drill bits used. Reports were addressed to "E. Komperdo / Assist. Mine Superintendent, Production," and were sent by "Bob Clark / Industrial Engineer" and "E. Isaaks / Engineer Trainee." All of the photos are heavily annotated on verso and recto, often documenting the date, bit number, drilling depth, and notes on general condition.
Images contain technical engineering drawings from the Asbestos Mining Corp. Drawings are primarily of plant buildings and mining and milling equipment, but also include drafts of town site and utilities, (extensive images of water and sewer pipes and septic systems). Microfiche slides are 4.6cm x 3.5cm mounted on 8.3 x 18.2 cm paper cards with systematic puncture marks, presumed to be an antiquated form of computer memory. Slides are numbered ranging from 1001 to 1549 and a drawing number ranging from 1006 to 8008, generally in the format “2017/02/02”. Microfiche are dated 1950- 1976, several are dated “OLD”, and several are undated. All microfilm reels are annotated “CASSIAR ENGINEERING DRAWINGS”.
File consists of photographic prints and slides depicting partial-cutting and select logging during the EP 1162 Summit Lake research project.
File consists of slides depicting research samples and sites, possibly relating to "ESSF 96, SBS 95".
File contains 8 slides from 2 rolls, taken August 1997:
Roll 1 - Buckhorn Ridge:
- Slide 31 – Fd (2 x 2 m) – stand view
- Slide 32 – Fd (2 x 2 m) – forest floor view
- Slide 33 – Pl (2x 2 m) – stand view
- Slide 34 – Pl (2 x 2 m) – forest floor view
Roll 2 – Bobtail Road: - Slide 20 – Pl (2 x 2 m) – east plot, stand view
- Slide 21 – Pl (2 x 2 m) – east plot, stand view
- Slide 22 – Fd (2 x 2 m) – east plot, stand view
- Slide 23 – Sw (2 x 2 m) – stand view
File consists of UNBC publications on First Nations cooperation in forestry in BC and a thesis on the Nle?kepmx, or Thompson, First Nation fiber technology. File also includes a photograph of a kangaroo and a computer disk consisting of text files including backup and excerpts of "Complicated Lives" and interviews with Virginia Douglas, Elspeth Baugh, Glenda Prkachin, Sylvia Fedoruk, and Anne Underhill. Disk also includes work on Ikawa-Smith and Kartzmark.
In July 2009, Dr. Paul Sanborn undertook the first soils field research at the Fort Selkirk volcanic field in central Yukon, with helicopter support and funding from the Yukon Geological Survey. This file includes digital photographs of the 2009 field work at the Ft. Selkirk site. Some of the digital photographs have been annotated as PDFs.
- Ft Selkirk 110114069.xls [particle size analysis data, CANTEST]
- S1090final.xlsx [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory]
- S1112final.xlsx [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory]
- Ft Selkirk 2009 soils data (updated Sept 15, 2010 and April 10, 2023).xls [consolidated lab data for all 2009 samples]
File consists of digital photographs from Dr. Mike Rutherford depicting a trip to Fort St. John in April 2004.
File consists of slides depicting FSTY 205 students, Tyner Boulevard, Forests for the World, Chilcotin River, FSTY 425 students, Aleza Lake, soil profiles, and luvisol.
File consists of slides depicting Bear Lake, FSTY 205 students, FSTY 404 students, a forestry field camp, Aleza Lake, Paul Sanborn, and UNBC campus.
File consists of slides depicting FSTY 205 students, Forests for the World, Tyner Boulevard, UNBC campus, and Dave Jackson.
File consists of slides noted by Arocena as relating to his FSTY 205 course. People and places depicted include: UNBC Forestry faculty, Aleza Lake, Klinka, Tabor Creek, Lake Babine, Bell Mine site, Smithers, Kitwanga, Alaska Highway, Bear Glacier, Muncho Lake, Mt. Robson, and UNBC Campus.
File consists of slides depicting FSTY 205 students, Dave Jackson, Don Bernier, and research sites.
File consists of slides depicting a sunset, FSTY 205 students, McGregor Model Forest, and possibly a flare pit.
File consists of slides depicting FSTY 205 students and UNBC campus.
File consists of slides depicting FSTY 205 students, UNBC campus, and a science lab.
File consists of slides depicting FSTY 205 students, the Prince George Organic Rehabilitation Program, Chris Opio, Linette Keller, and Clear Lake.
File consists of slides depicting FSTY 205 and FSTY 425 students, Forests for the World, and beaver damage.
File consists of slides depicting FSTY 205 and FSTY 425 students, the UNBC Enhanced Forestry Lab, and rock weathering.
File consists of slides depicting FSTY 425 students in the Okanagan.
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.
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."
File consists of slides depicting Giscome, Smithers, Purden Lake Provincial Lake, and LTSP (long term soil productivity).
File consists of slides depicting the UNBC parking lot, the Domano/Gladstone intersection in Prince George, the Bill Reid banners in the UNBC administration building, a car fire, and UNBC faculty and staff.
File consists of thin section micrograph images from the Boreal Cordilleran grassland soils study (2007 & 2008).
Photograph depicts Harry Coates, Ted Baker, and John Revel at Aleza Lake Research Forest re-opening ceremony on July 9, 1992.
File consists of research material relating to the "Healthy Land, Healthy Future - A Community Study to Examine the Health Issues and their Relationship to Environmental Contaminants with the Takla Lake First Nation and the Tsay Keh Dene Traditional Territories". Includes research grant proposals, draft reports, scientific data, field notes, digital GIS data, photographs, and correspondence.
File contains photographs of a report completed in 1980 depicting the ambulance garage, as well as the interior and exterior of the hospital building in Cassiar, B.C. Each room is captured, as well as medical equipment such as the X-ray, audiometer, lung function apparatus, and autoclave. A doctor, two nurses, and several patients are shown. Accompanying report contains a description of the medical facilities in Cassiar including a detailed budget, description of staffing and utility requirements, and a floor plan of the facilities.
In addition there are two albums of Cassiar Hospital and Pharmacy Staff engaging in social functions. These photographs appear to be informal and depict staff parties, people at work and some of the patients, including their thank you notes to the Cassiar Hospital staff.
Two large black and white prints of infrared dryers annotated on recto "Thompson Pipe and Steel Company Bulk Material Dryers Van Dorn Iron Works Company" and bearing on verso the ink stamp of a photographer from Cleveland, Ohio.