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File contains 3 strips of negatives depicting water control structures inluding pipes, culverts, and holding ponds. The strips were found in a photo lab pouch annotated "Sedimentation Pond Sept 1991" and addressed to "Cassiar Mining Corp. Attn; R. Tyne."

Photographs from Cassiar trip report to Ditton Works, a pipe division of TAC Construction Materials Ltd. Asbestos pipe was made at this particular factory. The company used some Cassiar fibres in their production. Labelled appendix I, this collection includes: photographs of equipment, bagging, packaging, fibre, pipes, and screens from inside the factory.

Photographs from Cassiar trip report to Demona plant of Friction Materials Corporation in Israel. This plant makes only brake linings and they use a blend of blend of fibre and rayon in production. Labelled Appendix J, this collection includes landscape photos of the plant.

Photographs from Cassiar trip report to R.C. quarry plant in Sweden. This plant utilized rubber type dust enclosures to maintain low dust levels. Labelled Appendix F, this collection includes: landscape photograph of quarry, seal to conveyor gallery, rubber lined truck, rubber seal on equipment, rubber cover screen, and rubber bucket elevator.

File contains images depicting the underground mine at Cassiar, showing structural damages, repaired damage ground support, and mining and repair processes.

The file contains a photo inventory entitled “Underground Mine Structural Inspection, Rock Mechanics Dept. Foto Documentation” with a complete file inventory linking the picture number to a location, title, and dated film. This photographic documentation was assembled for the purposes of liaising with a underground mining consultant located in South Africa.

• Images document structural ground support including steel cables, support arches, metal mesh, shotcrete, rockbolts, wooden beams.
• Images show ground support damaged through ground movement, but some depict newly installed or repaired support.
• Images depict ventilation ducting that was crushed or torn.
• Mining processes depicted include miners installing a rock breaker, miners paving the adit floor with concrete, miners inspecting a damaged section of mine, miner loading drill or blastholes with ANFO (ammonium nitrate / fuel oil mixture) explosives, and long hole drilling.
• Technical elements of the underground mine depicted include a mining device and ore in a chute (annotated ‘1290 crusher’), the conveyor, ‘LH drill’, ore processing machine annotated ‘1350 breaker’, and an electrical box titled ‘Weighometer’.
• Specific locations shown include ore draw points, ore passes, access drifts, a hatch and door titled “Fuel station 1415”, and a dead end drift with a stack of equipment and an orange cable annotated “1335 access electrical stations”.

This file contains various aspects of the underground mine.

• Photos depicting damage to the underground mine such as fallen rocks, cracked shotcrete, twisted rock bolts and metal mesh, exposed and damaged steel structural frames, and repairs underway.
• Steel cables, chains, support arches, and custom welded rebar frames used in the structural reinforcement of the underground mine.
• Several engineering tests related to the structural damages are depicted.
• Two sets of images show a Porta Power hydraulic tool with a ready rod attached, a hand pump, as well as images of a technician testing the holding power of a rock bolt.
• Set of images documents a technician drilling cores and installing extensometer anchors, as well as grouting the anchors and connecting an extensometer. Technicians are shown inspecting damages with a ruler and rockhammer for scale.
• A set of images showcase the threaded rebar, nuts, and face plates used for rockbolts.
• Utility vehicles, yellow vent ducting, and utility pipes are visible in several images.
• Also include is an image of a man in office space, foggy night scene with a telephone pole, office desk, stack of supplies including concrete, steel cable, and spray paint, and several images of a broken piece of ore and concrete outside the mine portal.
• Several images depict miners working in the bucket of a scoop tram.
• Photos of the stramler feeder breakers, which was used in the underground mine.
• Images of ground support verifications where the deficiency of the exhaust ramp was investigated. This collection has various annotations explaining the broken shotcrete and the wire mesh installed.
• A collection of photographs depicting tunnel shotcrete failures. Each photograph has an accompanied textual annotation.
• Photos of MMD #750 Sizer equipment - assumed used in Underground Mine.
• Photos of pump used in 1335 level, wheel fan for ventilation removed from 1350 level,
• A collection of ground fall event 29 March 1989 - with annotations depicting damage

Photographs from Cassiar trip report to Kaiser Resources and Fording Coal near Sparwood, British Columbia. This collection depicts equipment in the field such as a backhoe, shovel loader, trucks, mobile service trailer for shovel maintenance, dragline bucket and exploration tank drill. there are also landscape photographs of the mine area.

Photographs from Cassiar trip to Whitewood and highvale Mines. This collection includes photographs of Rapier Dragline depositing spoil, Erie Dragline, Dragline bucket size, Marion Dragline, coal removal with Bucyrus-Erie coal shovel, Euclid coal hauler, Caterpillar loader removing coal, Euclid hauling coal seam, Highwall and spoil pile, angle of spoil pile, landscape of reclamation mined land, beginning of vegetation, utilization of reclaimed land, water druck and road between spoil piles.

Photographs from Cassiar trip report to Similkameen Mine in British Columbia. This collection of photographs depicts road conditions of mine pit, bench maintenance, landscape of pit, cable equipment, and machinery such as drills and graders.

Photographs from Cassiar trip report to Kal Tire Retread Plant at Kamloops, British Columbia. These photographs are of tires that are in the process of being retreaded.

Photograph collection of trip report to Nordenhem Finishing Mill in Germany.

Photographs from Cassiar trip report to Brenda Mines in British Columbia. These photographs depict pit design, landscape of field and pit, cable stations, mine rescue truck, and equipment such as graders, trucks, drills and cats.

Photographs from Cassiar trip report to Afton Mines in British Columbia. This collection of photographs depicts the road maintenance by cat. and grader, the bench heights, levels, scaling, holes and maintenance, and equipment used such as drills, buckets, trucks, crusher for pit maintenance of walls, slopes and angles.

This collection of photograph is a Cassiar trip report to Weldotron Inc. Industrial Packaging Systems in Piscataway, New Jersey to look at the shrink wrap system. The ten photographs depict the wrap applicator, bag maker placer, feed side of wrap applicator, shroud wrap machine, and before and after packaged asbestos. One photograph is of the Kellogg Plant in Michigan depicting forklifts. There is also a commercial photograph of the "Weldotron Pallet Pak Shrouder & Shrink Tunnel for shrink wrapping pallet loads."

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 contains records created or collected by Bill Stowell over the course of his employment with Tolko Industries Ltd. as a log trader (1994-2010). Includes correspondence, memoranda, company budgets, reports, and periodical clippings.

The file contains photographs originally found in an unmarked and undated black binder depicting colour-coded mill equipment and machinery. Several of these images are annotated “Bell”, “Bell Asbestos”, and “National”. It is speculated that these images originate from the underground asbestos mine in Thetford Mines, Quebec operated by Bell Asbestos Mines Ltd. and the National Mine in Quebec. One image appears to be, or looks similar to the new mill at Cassiar, built in 1971.

File contains records created or collected by Bob Stowell over the course of his employment with The Pas Lumber Company (B.C.) Ltd. (1965-1991):

• Handwritten notes from Westward Timber regarding Table River C.P. 814, March 1990
• Photocopied "Freight Transportation Agreement" between BC Rail Ltd. and Takla Track and Timber Ltd., 1990
• Letter from The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. to all contractors and employers regarding the company's zero tolerance policy regarding leaving garbage in the forest environment, 1990
• Correspondence regarding controversial New Yorker Magazine article "The Ancient Forest" by Catherine Caulfield, 1990
• The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. September 1990 newsletter featuring news pieces on the new planer facility, economic problems, and employee changes
• The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. October 1990 newsletter featuring news that the sawmill and planermill will have downtime
• The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. January 1991 newsletter featuring news pieces on the new planer, lumber market prices, and stumpage.
• Photocopied letter from The Pas Lumber Company to the Ministry of Forests regarding harvesting contract regulations, 1991
• Photocopied log quality and bucking specifications of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd, 1991
• The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. April 1991 newsletter featuring news pieces on lumber and log production, lumber markets, Vanderhoof Pulp & Paper Ltd., the B.C. Forest Alliance, and employee changes
• Letter from Don Gould to Bob Stowell regarding The Pas Lumber Company's economic problems, 1991
• Photocopied September 1991 "Forestry Bulletin" from David & Company Barristers and Solicitors
• Financial performance quarterly reports for the British Columbia forest industry, 1991-1992
• The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. planting summary 1973-1992
• The Pas Lumber Company Ltd., Prince George, employee listing and telephone directory, 1992
• Letter to employees of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. announcing the retirement of Don Gould, 2001

File contains records created or collected by Bob Stowell over the course of his employment with The Pas Lumber Company (B.C.) Ltd. (1965-1991):

• Photocopied draft of proposed Plantation Performance Assessment System from the B.C. Forest Service, 1980
• 1980 Annual Report of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd., Prince George, B.C.
• Photocopied memorandum to The Pas Lumber Company Management Group re: "Background Information and Thoughts for Management Group's Consideration in Future Planning Strategies and Objectives for Company", 1982
• Correspondence between The Pas Lumber Company and the Ministry of Forests regarding planting on "Third Band" cutting permits, 1983
• Photocopied report "Prince George T.S.A. Committee - Preliminary Analysis of Strategy Options for Sustut and North Takla Areas of Prince George T.S.A." by Industrial Forestry Service Ltd., 1984
• 1984 Annual Report of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd., Prince George, B.C.
• 1985 Annual Report of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd., Prince George, B.C.
• Photocopied letter from P.T. Eastman of the Canadian Department of External Affairs thanking The Pas Lumber Company for the successful visit of U.S. and Canadian officials to the mill, 1986
• Photocopied briefing book for Hon. Jack Kempf, Minister of Forests and Lands, Province of British Columbia, 1986
• Correspondence between The Pas Lumber Company and the Ministry of Forests regarding stumpage rates, 1987
• Notes relating to a meeting with Dave Parker, Ben Marr, Bob Stowell and Don Gould, 1987
• "The Forest Industry in British Columbia 1987 Comparative Cost Report - Lumber: Northern Interior Region" data and statistical tables compiled by Price Waterhouse
• The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. November 1987 Cost & Financial Statements
• "Written Submission by The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. to the Select Standing Committee on Forests and Lands - Timber Harvesting Contracts", 1988
• Faxed copy of letter from the BC Ministry of Forests and Lands to the City of Prince George regarding a response to their letters concerning timber prices in the Prince George area, 1988
• Newspaper articles from the Prince George Citizen, 1988-1989
• "The Forest Industry in British Columbia 1988 Comparative Cost Report - Lumber: Northern Interior Region" data and statistical tables compiled by Price Waterhouse
• November 1989 newsletter to all employees of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. outlining poor economic outlook for the upcoming 1990 fiscal year

File contains records created or collected by Bob Stowell over the course of his employment with The Pas Lumber Company (B.C.) Ltd. (1965-1991):

• Invoice from Howard J. Lloyd Logging Ltd., 1970
• Correspondence from Flynn Bros Logging Ltd., 1971
• Report for "Proposed Purchase of Ferguson Lake Sawmill Ltd. Shares", April 1971
• Photocopied "Report on Timber Sale Harvesting Licence Administration" by the B.C. Forest Service, June 1972
• Photocopied newspaper article clippings, primarily from the Prince George Citizen, that include mention of The Pas Lumber Company, 1972-1973. Many of the articles relate to the company's controversial decision to open a new sawmill near Bear Lake.
• Photocopied letter from Ray Williston in support of the proposed new mill at Bear Lake, Feb. 3, 1972
• Photocopied letter from the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George in support of the proposed new mill south of Bear Lake, Feb. 22, 1972
• Photocopied letter from Spruce City Wildlife Association to Ray Williston regarding the proposed industrial site near Bear Lake, Feb. 15, 1972
• Photocopied letter from Howard J. Lloyd Logging Ltd. to The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. regarding difficulties with their company to contractor relationship, 1973
• Pamphlet for Central Interior Loggers' Association 9th Annual Convention, Prince George, 1976
• Photocopied rough draft by Ken Bernsohn sent to Bob Stowell for article "The Biggest, Fastest Operation in the North Pioneers a New Type of Environmental Logging", [after 1976]
• 1979 Annual Report of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd., Prince George, B.C.

File contains records created or collected by Bob Stowell over the course of his employment with The Pas Lumber Company (B.C.) Ltd. (1965-1991):

• Photocopied 1953 Annual Report of The Pas Lumber Company, Limited
• Photocopied "Questions Regarding The Pas Lumber Company, Limited", 1955
• Letter to salesmen from Winton Lumber Sales Company regarding board measure & surface measure, April 1956
• Proposal from Swan, Wooster Engineering Co. Ltd. for a proposed Parsnip River crossing with a timber trestle bridge at Anzac, 1959-1961. Includes technical drawings.
• "A Brief to the Select Standing Committee on Forestry and Fisheries on Bidding Practice in Crown Timber Sales submitted by the Parsnip Rivers Operators' Association", 1963
• Photocopied letter from District Forester McRae to The Pas Lumber Company (B.C.) Ltd. regarding the company's request to scale debarked timber at Anzac Sawmill, 1966
• Photocopied agreement between Imperial Oil Limited and The Pas Lumber Co. (B.C.) Ltd. for petroleum products, 1966
• Untitled report on stumpage appraisal for Prince George region, [1968 or 1969]
• Photocopied table "The Pas Lumber Company (B.C.) Limited - Projected Net Income for 1967 as Effected by an Employees Strike", 1967
• Photocopied table "Rustad Purchase - Income & Cash Flow Projection", [1968 or 1969]
• Photocopied response report from B.C. Loggers' Division of COFI to the Stanford Research Institute Report, 1969
• Letter to stockholders of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. re: "Offer to buy The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. Common Stock and 5% Subordinated Debentures", 1969
• Photocopied "The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. Dry Kiln Project", 1969
• Correspondence regarding Anzac Sawmill, 1969
• Proposal report regarding Anzac Small Log Mill, 1969

File contains records created or collected by Bob Stowell over the course of his employment with The Pas Lumber Company (B.C.) Ltd. (1965-1991):

• Pamphlet for Winton Company Sales
• Photocopied article from June 1988 issue of Logging & Sawmill Journal, "The Power of the Pas"
• Photocopied article from November 1986 issue of Timber Processing magazine, "Pas Increases Production with $20 Million Rebuild"
• Photocopied article from June 1986 issue of Canadian Forest Industries magazine, "Precision sawing key to $20m Hart sawmill rebuild"
• Photocopied article from Aug/Sept 1985 issue of Hiballer magazine, "The Pas Lumber rebuild - with a new way to push technology"
• Photocopied article from December 1993 issue of unknown periodical, "The Pas Lumber Co. a major economic force"
• The Pas Lumber Co. (B.C.) Ltd. Woodlands division organizational chart [ca. 1980-1992]
• List of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. employee long service awards, March 1992
• "Whip-Saws to Lasers: The Pas Lumber Company Story", 1985
• "A Brief History of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd., Prince George, B.C.", 1985
• Winton Lumber Mills family of companies timeline, 1988

File consists on research on Thomas Ernest Edward (T.E.E.) Greenfield who spent time in the Pacific Northwest as an RCMP officer, gold miner, pharmacist, and construction worker between the years of 1926-1939. Materials include correspondence between Greenfield and L'Heureux, a manuscript, newspaper clippings, and a book. Highlights include:

• T.E.E Greenfield, "Drugs (Mostly)", 1976 (book)
• Photocopied travelogue by Annie Elizabeth Greenfield entitled "Unto the Hills Around Do I Lift Up My Longing Eyes" describing her personal experiences travelling to Prince George, Hazelton, and the Okanagan between June 30-July 20, 1927

File contains images of mine operations and construction, as well as a variety of other subjects.

• Elements of the underground mine are depicted, including miners working, the marked rock face, yellow ducting and ventilation fan, the portal, mesh rockbolted onto adit walls, shotcrete being applied, and stacked mining construction materials.
• Mining equipment depicted in this file includes underground ore haulage truck, Wabco ore haulage truck, jackleg drill, stoper drill, scoop tram, jumbo drill, conveyor, pickup trucks, unidentified mixing or grinding machine, a cable wagon and half constructed ore haulage truck in the shop, and a continuous miner (also known as alpine miner or roadheader).
• A set of images show a dozer and a lowbed truck transporting a temporary building down the pit mine access road.
• Several images depict drill core fragments, asbestos ore, and geological features of the mine.
• Mining related process are depicted, including a young man sluicing and panning, a mine building under construction, and an unidentified steel frame structure with a hydraulic device suspended on a rail.
• A set of images shows a railway or highway construction project, including stockpile of construction materials, rail cars, caboose, locomotive, front end loader, dump truck, concrete mixing trucks, semi-trucks, and a rail car with large steel drums which are speculated to be specialized for tunnel construction.
• Further images show what is speculated to be tunnel construction.
• A set of images at a high ceiling underground mine which is not Cassiar depicts a man in a suite by a underground ore haulage truck, and other mining vehicles including a crane.
• A set of images depict an ungulate herd, possibly bighorn sheep, on a mountain side.
• The file includes several images which depict personal life, presumably from a family vacation, and access to these images may be restricted. These images depict man with children on a fishing trip, adults and children around a pool, a woman on a motorcycle, and a house and kitchen. Several groups of images are contained in envelopes annotated with dates and “K. Minty”.

File consists of material relating to sternwheelers in British Columbia. Materials include newspaper clippings, magazines, reproductions of articles, and photographs. Highlights include:

• BC Provincial Archives, "SS Chilco upper Nechako River", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Fraser River Steam Boat South Fort George", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "At the Boat of the first Canyon upper Nechako River ", 1911 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Passing Through the Fort George Canyon- Possibly the S.S. BX", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)

This collection is of the pipe line for the New Steam Plant contracted out to Humphrey Construction. The photographs depict the outdoor work of laying the pipe in dug in ground. The file that these photographs were found in contains a contract with Humphrey Construction, specifications for construction and correspondence.

File contains:

• Published pamphlet of the 1981 Burgess-Lane Memorial Lecture, "Timber Supply Management in British Columbia - Past, Present and Future" by W. Young, Chief Forester, BC Ministry of Forests
• Photocopied 1987 speech transcript by W. Young, "A Sad Story about Good Politics and Poor Land Use--The Agriculture Lease Rush of the Late 1960's and Early 1970's in the North-Central Interior"
• Photocopied 1989 speech transcript by H. Carl Mason entitled "Of Owls and Pussy Cats" about the Northwest forest products industry
• Photocopied presentation by W. Young to the 1985 Annual Meeting of the Union of B.C. Municipalities in Vancouver entitled "Politics, Free Lunches & 2.9 Percent"
• Photocopied paper by W. Young presented at a 1985 Forest History Seminar in Prince George entitled "The Forest History of the Prince George Area 1960-1984 -- including the Dynamic Era"
• Photocopied "Safety" speech by Bob Stowell [undated]
• Photocopied "Safety" speech transcript, possibly by Bob Stowell [undated]
• Draft notes for speech entitled "What are the principle safety problems in the North and how can they be coped with???", possibly by Bob Stowell [undated]
• Draft speech notes [undated]

File consists of research materials and correspondence collected regarding Skook Davidson, who was known for being a packer in the Fort St. John area and for being a World War I veteran.

File consists of research and newspaper clippings collected on Sir Arthur Curtis surrounding the Klondike Gold Rush and Curtis' mysterious disappearance on the Yukon Trail.

File contains photographs pertaining to the transportation of asbestos fibre.

• These include portraits of Clinton trailer trucks, trucks from the Cassiar Transport Division at Mile 860 on the Alaskan Highway, the assembly of large freight trucks, an unidentified bridge, and ships and buildings at the Cassiar Shipping Facilities at Pier 94 on the Asbestos Warf in North Vancouver, B.C.
• Twenty-three photographs dated 1982 depict asbestos fiber bales on pallets and inside shipping containers, with accompanying annotations commenting on the quality of the packing. Several images show fibre bales broken during shipment. An accompanying note reads: "SMD - please ensure this cannot reoccur.", and a photo caption reads: "pierced bags are resulting as an environmental problem as fibre is beginning to build up in certain containers." One of the photographs depicting the Cassiar Transport Division was used for promotional posters with the following commentary: "The Cassiar Transport Division operates out of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory and is responsible for delivering the asbestos to the White Pass and Yukon Route terminal in Whitehorse. Fuel oil and supplies are backhauled to the mines. By the end of 1967, the fleet will consist of 65 tractor-trailer units, each of which will carry 23 tons of asbestos. The distance from Whitehorse to Cassiar is 357 miles and Clinton is 403 miles. During the past year, the Division's trucks traveled 2,213,534 miles and handled 75,100 tons, and the mileage to 3.5 million miles. This is a year-round operation and convoys arrive at the mine daily in spite of the long difficult haul. The Division currently employs 43 drivers and 35 mechanics and operates its own maintenance and rebuild facilities in Whitehorse. Over the years these men have established and enviable record of safety, cost and performance."
• Additional photographs that have been integrated depict the Asbestos wharf and its condition, 31 slides of wharf, maps of shipping routes, storage, forklifts, shipping trucks, and packaged asbestos.
• Also included in this file are two copies of a "Photo Survey - Cassiar Ton Units - "Amstelveld & Trojoland" on arrival to Brisbane & Sidney - August 1967." This collection of photographs is a part of an assessment of the efficiency of shipping and transport to Australia from Cassiar. Pictures include: loading, forklifts, storage, ripped bags, broken straps, wharfs, trucks, slings. There are accompanied annotations with each of the photos explaining the safety hazards or inefficiency of the situation. This report was found inside a box linked to James Hardie Industries Ltd. This company is not mentioned in the photograph annotations, but could be related to the report since James Hardie Industries Ltd. was a key player in asbestos mining and manufacturing in Australia.
• Collection of photos of roadside spill of Asbestos, depicting a man with shovel cleaning up on 5 June 1985
• Photos from Eternit Societe Anonyme (a European company that Cassiar shipped to) of packaged Asbestos in storage in 1967
• Collection of photos of James Hardie Coy. Pty. Ltd. shipment of asbestos that was not stored or transported effectively. Many photos depict broken bags as a result of inadequate storage and forklift punctures.
• Collection of photos of Cassiar/Stewart Road Proposal. Photos depict tests of the various stages of shipping and transportation process including forklift tests, Marineo Sling tests, stacking tests, durability tests, container loading tests, problems with current units etc. Also included is a marketing drawing if proposed shipping plan - drawn by "Stewart 1977."
• Photos of shipping process of Turners Asbestos Fibres Lmt. Photos depict lowering asbestos pallets onto barge with swing, and storage on barge.
• Collection of photos of a shipment of asbestos, but the bags of fibre are not identified as a Cassiar shipment therefore the location is unknown.

File consists of two Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd. purchase orders, a blank “Analysis—Accounts and Notes Receivable”, blank “Lumber Inventory” forms for Northern Custom Sawmills Ltd., and blank “Operators Daily Equipment Report” and “Daily Time Report” forms used by the Takla Logging Company.

Photographic negatives depict men on tour in unknown locations in Russia. Images depict urban areas, mining areas, construction of buildings, railway, mineral samples, and equipment including dump truck and electric shovel. Also includes images of area speculated to be a mine pit. Men on tour are dressed in formal attire.

Handwritten annotation in pencil on envelope containing negatives: "Russian 'Asbest' Mine Slides" "7 copies of each - 23 negatives - 161 prints".

This collection depicts the construction and development of Roger's Pass Project. Originally part of an album with "Manning - Kumagai" on the front. The photographs depict a railway station, large tent for storage of raw materials, machinery, railway construction equipment, underground tunnel and various people at work in these areas.

This is a collection of photographs from a Trip Report to Eureka Asbestos Cement Plant in Mexico by A.C. Beguin, General Superintendent, in 1958. It was primarily a "contact" visit by Cassiar Co. to the Mexican plant as they were new customers.

The photographs depict various in and around the plant, including: suburbs around plant, entrance to plant, Mexican people making "tortilla," discussions with General Manager Sr. Batis and plant engineer Sr. Gomez, Cassiar fibre reading for blending, weighing and batching area, sludge tank, pipe machine , pipe storage, hammer mill, dust tube filter, sheets going through sizing, shipments, construction of a water storage tank, workmen at work, tank area, loading trucks, testing machine, and final percentages of fibre in products.

Reclamation is the process of recovering disturbed land to its former state or other productive uses. This collection of photographs depicts men at work instituting a project on the control of erosion and to restore the mined areas to a condition in keeping with the environmental standards.

File contains:

• Signed Christmas greeting card from British Columbia Railway, circa 1973-1983
• Original commemorative presentation folio with railway illustration print and leaflet "The President and Directors of the Northern Pacific Railway Company announce the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Completion of the First Northern Transcontinental Railway System, September 8, 1883 - September 8, 1933"

File contains photographs taken for promotional purposes.

• Two photos depict a Cassiar display at an unknown event in 1963.
• Eight photos were professionally taken for use in the 1978 Cassiar Asbestos Corportaion Ltd. Annual Report, and possibly other publications. These photos depict a skyscraper and products made with asbestos.
• Additionally, two hand painted postcards of McDame Mountain and Christmas Tree House are included that may have been used for promotional reasons. Also, four slides of a display, "Story of Asbestos."
• five photographs of unofficial tour of Cassiar via airplane in the 1970s.

This is a collection of photographs from Liverpoool UK for the commercial promotion of a barrel. They are professional depictions of all sides and angles of the proposed barrel that Cassiar was exploring to obtain. It can be assumed that this barrel would have been used in the powerhouse as the original file was titled Powerhouse and contained powerhouse records for development.

File contains postcards portraying life in Prince Rupert, B.C. Images depict harbour scenes, street scenes (Third Avenue, Sixth Street, Central Street, and Mainstreet), airplanes, large ships, fisheries, city aerials, parades, military, a dog sled mail team, and a frozen fishing boat.

File contains postcard photographs portraying life in various Northern BC Communities. Images depict buildings and streets, church structures, harbours and docks, and views of the shore from the water to name a few.

This file contains operations at the plantsite:
Below is synopsis of the item level descriptions (see each item for further description)

• locations depicted at Plantsite: mill building, dry rock storage building, tailings pile, gravel pit, power house, and office.
• delivery and installation of a Caterpillar engine, welding repairs underway on a Rustin Diesel Engine in the power house, staff portrait taken by the main office building, and fibre testing
  Not done to item level but integrated into subseries file:
• Photographic negatives included depict milling and packaging machinery in the mill building.
• 93 slides depicting various activities and equipment at the plantsite including: dry rock storage, screens, collectors, loading trucks, bagging, pallets, tailing pile, lab work by engineers, lab equipment, fibre testing, and fibre samples.
• photographs of conveyor foundations, tailings equipment, Grizzly truck, containers from site mechanical inspection, and portable crushing plant in June 1991.
• photos of fibre samples from lab - on display
• collection of photos of 1970 Mill modification Program of April 1978
• collection of photos from 1961 and 1962 of plantsite lab and asbestos samples. file labeled "Suter - Webb VU Graph Analysis" and "Suter - Webb and Turner Comb Analysis"
• Pressure Packer modification photos done by Chapman Industries in 1986
• Powerhouse equipment from 1979
• additional 43 slides of inside the mill in June 1978. Slides were used at a board meeting.
• negatives of inside of mill
• A photo album of 162 photographs depicting various operations at the plantsite including: drill dust collector, outdoor surroundings, conveyors, and the mine site. (album was originally labelled "Cassiar Plantsite).

Photographs of piping manufacturing in Perth, Australia. Collection depicts feed and control gates, single beater, pulling mandrel, pipe machine, and fibre cement (machine).

File contains photographs of The Pas Lumber Company Ltd. Includes other northern BC forestry industry images, including Number 5 Timber Ltd. CP625 Block 101, bridge construction, and heavy machinery. Also includes a graphic postcard of Prince George circa 1970s.

File consists of material relating to the Peace River. Materials include a newspaper, magazines, a booklet, pamphlet, and reproductions of correspondence. Highlights include:

• Community West, "Dawson Creek the place to live", Vol 2. No. 7 1980 (magazine)
• Grande Prairie Chamber of Commerce, "Welcome to Grande Prairie, A Visitors Guide", [197-?] (booklet)
• District of Chetwynd, "Chetwynd Resource Centre of B.C.", 1982 (booklet)
• B.C. Hydro, "W.A.C. Bennett Dam Peace River", [197-?] (pamphlet)

File consists of material relating to the Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company. Chartered as a private company in 1912 as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE), the company was acquired by the BC provincial government in 1918. In 1972 it was renamed as the British Columbia Railway and in 1984 it took on its present name of BC Rail. Materials include newspaper clippings, a report, correspondence, maps, a brief, reproductions of articles, a booklet, and a proposal. Highlights include:

• Hi-Ballers Railroad Club, "The Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company", Vol. 3 No. 1 1960 (reproduction from magazine)
• Province of British Columbia Department of Railways, "Pacific Great Eastern Railway also Proposed Extensions and Potential Resources of Central Interior and Northern British Columbia, 1949" (reproduction)
• Province of British Columbia, "Royal Commission on British Columbia Railway, Interim Report on the Future of the Fort Nelson Extension", 1977 (booklet)
• Ministry of Mines and Petroleum Resources, "Mineral Deposit-Land use Map - Figure 1", 1977 (map)
• Ministry of Mines and Petroleum Resources, "Mineral Deposit-Land use Map - Figure 2", 1977 (map)
• Ministry of Mines and Petroleum Resources, "Mineral Deposit-Land use Map - Figure 4", 1977 (map)
• Ministry of Mines and Petroleum Resources, "A Brief Submitted to the Royal Commission on the British Columbia Railway", 1977 (booklet)

File contains photographs depicting four different tours that took place at the mine, plant, and towns owned by Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. Tours include Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's visit to Clinton Creek in 1968 and Member of Parliament Iona Campagnolo's visit to Cassiar in 1978. Photographs also depict a party of ambassadors touring Cassiar in 1970, and the dedication of a building in the Cassiar plant in the late 1970s.

File contains a copy of Northwood Pulp and Timber Limited, Prince George & Houston, Sawmill Division publication “Company Rules and Safety Regulations” May 1979; two Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd. purchase orders; and an “Agreement between Northwood Timber Limited, Eagle Lake Sawmill, Prince George Sawmill, Shelley Sawmill, Upper Fraser Sawmill, Logging Division and International Woodworkers of America, Local 1-424,” September 1, 1972- August 31, 1974.

Photographs depict construction of the new mill, each taken from approximately the same distance and featuring two different angles of the building. Construction work progresses from framework to sheeting and siding. Vehicles, piles of building supplies, and a construction trailer are often in foreground, mountains in background. It is believed that these photographs were taken during a labour dispute. Each photo has been annotated on recto with the date and time of day, and some document the number of workers on site. Annotations include: "2 days work", "work gets less & less", "not much for 4 men", "very little done - less than usual low performance", "0° - 20° weather must have thickened their blood".

Photographs of miniature models for new mill.