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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.

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".

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.

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).

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 consists of handwritten and typescript correspondence regarding Ainley's research on ornithology.

File consists of handwritten notes and photocopied research materials on Louise de Kiriline Lawrence.

File contains material relating to the submission and editing of Ainley's chapter, "Marriage and Scientific Work in Twentieth-Century Canada: the Berkeleys in Marine Biology and the Hoggs in Astronomy" in "Creative Couples in the Sciences" about the experiences of two scientific couples: Edith and Cyril Berkeley and Frank and Helen Hogg. File consists of correspondence, edited manuscripts, permissions form templates and a call and instructions for submissions.

File largely consists of photocopied material including articles by or about Dr. Pauline Jewett, her doctorial thesis, and a transcribed interview with Jewett. File also contains research notes for Ainley compiled by Christian Torsein.

File consists of research material on Professor Clara C. Benson, a professor in the department of Food Chemistry at the University of Toronto. Materials consist mostly of printouts and photocopies of books, newspapers, and archival materials at the University of Toronto Archives.

File consists of archival research materials and notes on Dr. Helen Belyea including requests for the aforementioned research material. File also includes research materials on Dr. Grace Anne Stewart and general research materials on women in geology. Included is a conference schedule on Women in the Geosciences from 1992 and a student paper from that year.

File consists of research materials concerning minorities in the sciences. Materials include photocopied newsletter, newspaper clipping from the Montreal Gazette on racial discrimination, a paper by one of Dr. Ainley's students, Dr. Glenda C. Prkachin's CV, printed images of landscapes and women on paper, and 2 overhead transparencies. Finally, file includes a collection of archival reproductions of photographs from Dr. Elinor Huntsman Manson's collection.

File consists of biographical records concerning Dorothy E. Smith.

File consists of records concerning Elinor Silver Keeping, including obituaries, hand written notes, and other photocopied research materials.

File consists of access to records requests from the McGill University Archives for Ainley's research.

File consists of research notes and correspondence on women scientists at Acadia College and University of New Brunswick.

File consists of research paper and notes on women attending Sir George Williams University, which later became Concordia University.

File consists of photocopied research materials including published materials, archival research, and notes on natural history and science.

File consists of the report "Fifty Times Around the Sun: A History of the Montreal Centre Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 1918-1968" signed by the authors.

File consists of research materials concerning Margaret Benston including archival research, photocopied articles, notes, and related correspondence.

File consists of articles by Jun Takeda, a Japanese Ecologist.

File consists of edited draft copies of the covering letters, questions to be asked to interviewees and Alison Bowe's covering letter for the questionnaire sent to female engineering graduates from Queen's University.

File consists of correspondence between Ainley and her research assistant, Jenny Fry, relating to interview requests; responses to Ainley's interview requests; notes; and envelopes marked, "return to sender."

File consists of a paper presented at the 6th Interdisciplinary Congress on Women in Adelaide, Australia in 1996 by Rajendra Prasad Jaiswal, entitled, "Sex Discrimination and Status of Women in Science and Engineering Professions in India"; an annotated article entitled, "On Occupation" by Andrews D. Carson; an article by Jeanne Inch and Monqiue Frize, entitled, "In Their Own Words: Stories by women engineers about themselves"; and a pamphlet from the Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology.

File contains material from a "More Than Just Numbers" conference on women in engineering held in Fredericton, New Brunswick from May 10-12, 1995. File consists of a directory of delegates; the papers and initiatives presented at the conference; a report, entitled, "Engineering Student Activities at the National, Regional and University Levels"; and a pamphlet from a previous "More Than Just Numbers" conference in 1991.

File consists of a photocopy of access to information legislation from Quebec; brochures and pamphlets on female engineers in Quebec; photocopies of archival material relating to the employment and education of women in Quebec; and paper and electronic transcripts from interviews conducted with female engineers in Quebec.

File consists of responses to Alison Bowe's questionnaire by female engineering graduates from Queen's University who graduated in 1979.

File consists of responses to Alison Bowe's questionnaire by female engineering graduates from Queen's University who graduated in 1988.

File consists of a consent form and transcript from an interview with Michelle Thibodeau-Deguire conducted for Ainley's "Critical Turning Points" research. File also contains Thibodeau-Deguire's business card and some biographical information.

File consists of a consent form, transcript summary and audio recording from an interview with Marlene Chow conducted for Ainley's "Critical Turning Points" research.

File consists of a consent form, transcript and audio recording from an interview with Maria Di Capua conducted for Ainley's "Critical Turning Points" research.

File consists of a consent form, transcript, transcript summary and audio recording from an interview with Erica Geddes conducted for Ainley's "Critical Turning Points" research.

File consists of a consent form and audio recording from an interview with Sandra Haslin conducted for Ainley's "Critical Turning Points" research.

File consists of a consent form and audio recording from an interview conducted for Ainley's "Critical Turning Points" research.

File consists of records regarding the collaborative project on "Critical Turning Points: Women Engineers within and outside the Profession" including memos, meeting minutes, proposals, drafts, and other documents.

File consists of records related to the Women and Work grant application for Ainley's chapter on "Women and Scientific Work in Canada. III. "Women's Work in Government and Industry, 1890-1990." File includes application forms, research proposals, and related correspondence.

File consists of records related to rejected grant applications for Ainley's various research projects from 1978-1988. File includes application forms, research proposals, and related correspondence.

File consists of photocopied research materials on Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 - July 22, 1915), a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor who promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of the 24-hour clock as key elements to communicating the accurate time, all of which influenced the creation of Coordinated Universal Time. He designed Canada's first postage stamp, produced a great deal of work in the fields of land surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the first several hundred kilometres of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Canadian Institute (a science organization in Toronto).

File consists of research on Australian aboriginal botany. File includes printed library catalogue records for books.

File consists of correspondence regarding visiting fellowship in Australia.

File consists of printed webpages on the Archives of Australia sectorial network, the Canberra Ornithologists Group Contacts, and handwritten notes.

File consists of photocopied published research concerning aboriginal botany in Australia and women in science in Canada.

File consists of printed bibliographies of research on Australian Anthropology and Australian Aboriginal Ethnobotany.

File consists of typed research notes on books concerning Australian indigenous knowledge and botany.

File consists of handwritten notes by Ainley about her research projects, as well as other events in her life, focusing, predominately on the period from 1985-1993.

File consists of photocopies of methodology articles and conference proceedings, predominately on the topic of qualitative feminist research; correspondence relating to conference session proposals; the submission of a course syllabus to a journal; transcribed notes on methodology; and a book loan request.

File consists of draft proposals, schedules and group assignment information relating to graduate teaching in New Zealand; a notice about changes to internet service at the University of Northern British Columbia; articles on historiography, methodology and qualitative data analysis; correspondence relating to book reviews; and photocopied notes from interviews.

File consists correspondence relating to research requests by Ainley at the archives of McGill University in the 1980s and correspondence relating to the citation for Ainley's article "Women and Science" for Chinook Media's website.

File consists of a profile of video about William Rowan and a presentation by Ainley, entitled, "Re-explorations: science and environment in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia."