Photograph depicts three men fishing in a boat with a cannery and wooden buildings along the forested shoreline in the background.
Photograph depicts three men at a whaling station with debris on the ground and a large elevated tank in the background.
Item is a photograph of the three tunnels built to divert the Peace River around the Bennett Dam construction site.
Photograph depicts six horses harnessed to a center pole. Three men attend the horses, two men with pitchforks stand atop a wagon loaded with cut grain stocks in the background.
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.
Photograph of a small vessel on the ocean with a dock and harbour buildings in the foreground. Tents and piles of lumber can be seen among the buildings. Annotation on recto reads: "The Wharf, Prince Rupert, BC. 1657."
Photograph depicts a ditch and wooden flume located in a snow covered forest landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "The new ditch and flume at upper Faloggan (?)"
Photograph depicts heavy blanket of snow on fallen logs and forest.
Photograph depicts the Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC.
Photograph depicts the Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC.
Photograph depicts a hillside and mining equipment covered in heavy snow.
Photograph is part of a series of photographs depicting Olin Corporation's Fria location.
Photograph is part of a series of photographs depicting Olin Corporation's Fria location.
Photograph is part of a series of photographs depicting Olin Corporation's Fria location.
Photograph depicts one man kneeling the other sitting on the forest floor. The first man is giving the second man a shave.
This photograph album consists of photographs of remote police barracks at Mile 47 and Mile 29; early settlements and/or mercantile stores at Tete Jaune Cache, McBride, Sand Creek, Fort George and South Fort George; Grand Trunk Pacific Railway forestry and railway camps; scows and paddlewheel conveyors on the Fraser River; automobiles; community leisure activities; as well as, images of the Bourchier family. The following South Fort George establishments are identifiable within these photographs: Empress Hotel, Ah Yee General Merchant, German Bakery, Northern Hotel, South Fort George Drug Store & Post Office, St. Michael’s Church, Prince George Hotel, Ford Monarch dealership, Astoria Hotel, and King George V Elementary School. Identified geographic locations featured in these photographs include: Tete Jaune, Upper Fraser, Mile 47, Mile 29, Fraser River, Mt. Robson, McBride, Sand Creek, Glacier Mountain, Moose River, Giscome Portage, Pott Falls, Red Deer River, Grand Canyon, Summit Lake, Canoe Pass, Connaught Hill, Nechako Bridge, and Island Cache.
Bourchier, Alan K.Photograph depicts a small cluster of buildings near the river bank.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Item is a photograph of a team of ten horses hauling logs.
Photograph depicts exposed asbestos fibre in talus and outcrop.
Photograph depicts exposed asbestos fibre in talus, shovel in left foreground.
File consists of 19 photographs depicting Harry Coates, experiments, landscapes, and air photos, including:
- Photo pf Harry Coates ca. 1958 at Aleza lake Experiment Station
- Photo of Lloyd Brothers at Cluculz Lake, Gordon Talbot
- 3 photos: including a photo of pine trees, a photo of Harry Coates with a damaged tree, and a photo of a damaged pine
- 1 photo of a young man in safety gear sitting in the back of a parked pickup struck, holding circular saw and smiling at the camera
- 3 photos of cleared forest in the winter
- 2 photos from EP 442 Wansa Lake, P. 60, 61 and 70
- 3 photos of Fire Study June 1984
- 1 photo of EP 657.03 Squirral Damage, June 1984
- 1 photo EP 868.07 McBride May 1984
- 3 photos of Bobtail Demo 660 in 1992, EP 657.03.
Photograph depicts two men inspecting dirt at Swiggums' mining claim near Osilinka River.
Item is a copyprint reproduced from the British Columbia Forest Service photographic records held at BC Archives.
Item is a copyprint reproduced from the British Columbia Forest Service photographic records held at BC Archives.
Photograph depicts a view from the water looking toward Swanson's Bay, BC.
Caption describing photograph: "Ground vegetation of swamp, ledum, carex and betula. Main Access Road, F.E.S. Aleza Lake."
Photograph depicts a view of a forested valley, a human figure stands on a path in the midground.
Photograph depicts a large concrete post with dirt mounded around.
Photograph depicts cut alders, a long straight line through the forest.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
"Another expression of the high morale which prevailed was a joint project which we pursued after hours, on our own time. Out of one huge spruce log we made a set of furniture using an axe and a crosscut saw. We made chairs, a table and a sofa." -- quote from Cedric W. Walker (1907-2003) in "An Early History of the Research Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range" (p. 48)
Photograph depicts a tent and a large pile of metal piping set within a forested landscape in winter.
Photograph depicts two men in front of three large trucks believed to be used for ore haulage. Mountains in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Int. Harvester Payhaulers Model 95 / Left: R.R. [Kiresan?] Equipment Supt. / Right: C.E. Bronson Asst. Gen. Supt.", on verso: "1961".
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”.
Photograph depicts seven or more men relaxing near a canvas tent. Some of the men appear to be whittling wood. Long underwear dry on a tent rope and wood smoke drifts past the men and tent to the forest behind.
Photograph depicts a smoking wood fire in the foreground. A man sits in an open canvas tent in the background.
Photograph depicts a man washing clothes using a scrub board and metal wash tub. There is a fire pit in the foreground, tents on either side and forest in the background.
Photograph depicts one or two person's bending over a washtub. There are tall trees behind and a canvas tent to the right.
Photograph depicts a man sitting inside a canvas tent.
Photograph depicts a man using a large wash tub. There is an open canvas tent with large trees behind in the background. There are a variety of camp utensils scattered nearby.
Photograph depicts range grass in the foreground, river in the midground and sparsely treed hills in the distance.