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2000.1.1.4.4.1 · Item · 1963
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph depicts three young women wearing "PRINCESS SILVER STAR" banners, standing to left of "CASSIAR ASBESTOS CORPORATION LTD" display table. Table features photos, rock samples possibly containing asbestos, and objects presumably made from asbestos fibre. Large snowflake symbol visible on wall in background. Photo speculated to have been taken at an event in Vernon, B.C. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "1963".

2004.8.1.127 · Item · 1939
Part of Alexander Manson mining collection

Photograph depicts a sideview of a shovel digging a ditch through a forested hillside. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "One of deepest cuts, 1 yd. P & H, shovel 36 ton, floor of ditch is 15 feet length, 10 miles". Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Germansen shovel in deep cut on ditch construction 1939".

2009.5.2.44 · Item · 25 July 1939
Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a large structure in center of mining area in riverbed, equipment and supplies scattered throughout. Buildings and forest in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Spruce Creek, Lower Shovel Workings 6/25/39.", on recto: "Atlin".

Shovel & Haul Trucks
2000.1.1.3.15.15 · Item · [ca. 1958]
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph depicts cable-operated shovel loading Kenworth haul truck on road in mine area at high elevation. Pickup truck in background, four unidentified men are gathered around second Kenworth truck in foreground. Valley and mountain range in distance.

Seton Lake, Lillooet
2020.08.29 · Item · [1914 or 1915?]
Part of Pacific Great Eastern Railway Region Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts the steam-operated sawmill at Seton Lake and a fish weir at the mouth of the creek. The railway grade alongside the lake, constructed circa 1914-1915, is visible in the background. The Seton Lake fish hatchery, which built and used the fish weir, ceased operations in 1915, dating this photograph sometime around 1914 or 1915.

Seton Lake Fish Hatchery
2020.08.39 · Item · [between 1905 and 1909]
Part of Pacific Great Eastern Railway Region Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts the Seton Lake hatchery building constructed by the British Columbia provincial government in 1903.

Additional photographs and information about this construction is provided in the Fisheries Commissioner's Report for that year:
"In October, 1902, bids were invited for the construction of a hatchery building and Superintendent's cottage on Lake Creek, the outlet of Seton Lake, near the village of Lillooet. There were six bidders. A contract was let to W. Duguid, of Lillooet, the lowest bidder, in November. The buildings were completed and accepted in March, 1903. The hatchery building is a substantial wooden structure 210 feet long by 40 feet wide. The roof is supported by the walls, thus giving a clear floor space for the 160 hatching troughs, which are each 16 feet long, 16 inches wide and 7 inches deep. Two troughs are placed end to end and extend the width of the building, and receive the water from the head flumes which run lengthwise of the building. The equipment permits of the handling of forty million eggs. The water supply is taken from Lake Creek at a point some 1,400 feet from the hatchery, and about the same distance from Seton Lake, by means of a wooden flume three feet wide and two feet deep. A comfortable cottage for the Superintendent and a boarding-house for the other employees were constructed and furnished. The station in all its equipment is modern, and is not excelled by any other on the coast..."

Hatchery operations were terminated in Seton Creek in 1915 because the salmon runs had been almost destroyed.