Overview of the Giscome sawmill behind road. Lumber yard is visible in foreground while mill stands in background.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Giscome Mill / lumber yard in foreground".
Overview of the Giscome sawmill behind road. Lumber yard is visible in foreground while mill stands in background.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Giscome Mill / lumber yard in foreground".
Item is a photograph of a small mill operation.
Man driving a two horse cart in front of beehive burner, cart is full of bark presumably sawed off the logs.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Mill Burner".
Item is a photograph of a copy print that has been reproduced as a slide, resulting in low photographic quality. Location of original photograph unknown.
Annotation on slide: "Summit Lake M. Jull on skid road with advanced regen".
Annotation on slide: "Summit Lk., Mod. vol. removal".
No annotation on slide.
Annotation on slide: "Blowdown due to butt rot (tomentosus), Summit Lake".
Annotation on slide: "Basal scarring on Douglas fir, Summit Lake".
No annotation on slide.
Annotation on slide: "Light residual basal area, Summit Lake, Summer '92, Jull".
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr. Marked plot reads: "F ^ B, Plot No. 112, North End".
Photograph depicts two men perched on top of a freight truck carrying a load of timber at Peden Hill sawmill.
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.
Photograph depicts workers sitting in the back of a truck at the construction site for the Pacific Northern Gas pipeline from Summit Lake to Kitimat.
Photograph depicts two men on a 'Maple Leaf' Chevrolet truck's running board in an active logging area near Peden Hill sawmill. The truck is hauling raw logs. The man at the right of photograph is Cornel Neronovitch.
Photograph depicts two men on a log deck, possibly at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts three men standing with oars in small boat, forest slash at their feet. More slash lies in foreground behind bushes and plants on swampy shore. Trees in background. These men are believed to be members of the Bourchier forestry crew.
Photograph depicts two men beside the creek below the lake outlet at the proposed site for the hydro power project on Klemtu Lake.
Photograph depicts two men aboard a two horse driven sleigh stopped on a snow covered path. Annotation on recto of photograph states: "The Top of Bald Mountain"
Photograph depicts pipeline construction workers for the Pacific Northern Gas pipeline from Summit Lake to Kitimat with a helicopter on the north end of Prudhomme Lake.
Photograph depicts two men and bulldozer near what appears to be many piles of logs. Unidentified buildings in background.
Photograph depicts two men standing on mining bench in mountainside, three boxes and what appears to be a long hose to the left. Third man and tractor plow can be seen in distance at end of bench. Photo caption next to printed copy of image in 1953 Annual Report: "Benches being prepared for mining."
Photograph depicts two men working with air track drill in mine area. Hose and dynamite box in foreground, mountains in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Sept. 1954." This photograph was originally stored inside duotang labeled "CASSIAR ASBESTOS CORPORATION LIMITED PHOTOGRAPHS 1954"; photo caption beneath this image: "Starting New Bench at South end of Deposit."
Photograph depicts a visit between Governor General of Canada, Ray Hnatyshyn, and Adam Zimmerman.
Photograph depicts a visit between Governor General of Canada, Ray Hnatyshyn, and Adam Zimmerman.
Photograph depicts a visit between Governor General of Canada, Ray Hnatyshyn, and Adam Zimmerman.
Photograph depicts a visit between Governor General of Canada, Ray Hnatyshyn, and Adam Zimmerman.
Photograph depicts a visit between Governor General of Canada, Ray Hnatyshyn, and Adam Zimmerman.
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.
Photograph depicts McRae Creek Falls.
Photograph depicts McRae creek canyon.
Photograph depicts McRae Creek Falls.
File consists of a large poster about the McGregor Model Forest. Information about the Association's development and partnerships within the community are presented.
Fonds consists of the McGregor Model Forest records documenting the operational history of the model forest from 1992 through 2007. These records document the various functions of the McGregor Model Forest reflected in the four series:
This file includes two major photographic collections concerning the construction and development of the underground mine at Cassiar, title the McDame Project.
The first collection includes fifteen monthly progress reports documenting the development from July 1988 to December 1989. The progress reports are authored by G. Verret, and were distributed to the executives of Cassiar Asbestos in Vancouver as well officials of the B.C. Government and other creditors of the Corporation. Most images are annotated and dated. Many of the loose photographs are accompanied by an inventory sheet.
Subjects depicted include: the staging area prior to mine development, the initial development of the “Vent Portal”, a jumbo drill working on the mine face, the working face marked for drilling and wired with fuses, a Caterpillar dozer clearing snow after an avalanche, scene of a fire in winter time, complete conveyor sump decline, mining vehicle parked on the “Lay-Down Area” presumably near the portal, the working face of the mine at various stages of development, 1563 portal being slashed, the removal of the overburden for the tramline loading station site, the construction of the transfer tower(s), construction of the stockpile area, the construction of a sedimentation pond, a presumed cave in, construction of footings for the conveyor, construction of the tramline loading terminal station, construction of the crusher building, a slash titled “Breakthrough in Access Ramp”, storage of powder and fuses, a washout in conveyor decline, fog at the portal in -30 degrees Celsius, the 1290 junction flooded, a slab of shotcrete which fell on and injured a miner while shotcreting, shotcrete blasted off walls for repairs, images of the “Hilti-test”, shots showing grade of drift, and structural failures in the 1350 adit.
Locations and structure within the underground mine depicted include: yellow ventilation ducting, ground support including steel screen and shotcrete, steel cables bolted unto ground support, puddles in the adits, the access road to the lay-down area, the exhaust drift, “Fans and Heaters in the 1415 adit”, the 1350 sump, the access ramp to the 1320, the exhaust ramp safety bay, the conveyor decline, the ventilation adit, the 1563 portal, the temporary repair shop at the 1415 portal, junctions of various drifts, the ”Fresh Water Pump & Pumphouse on lower Creek”, the “Ventilation Raise/1563 Platform”, a “Diamond Drill Station” at 6066 North in the underground mine, the “Bridge to the Gravel Pit”, the “Crushing and Screening Plant” in the gravel pit, the ventilation bulkhead in the conveyor decline, and the “Powder Magazine”.
People depicted include Rose Gay and R. Tyne on a tour of the underground mine, a geologist with a rockhammer, a miner identified as A. Jacobs working, contract miners Bruno and Marbel from Canadian Mine Development, and unidentified miners rockbolting, shotcreting, and drilling using jackleg drills.
Vehicle and mining equipment depicted include jeeps, pickup trucks, a front end loader, an unidentified a small unmanned tracked machine with a long arm, scoop trams, a land cruiser, an ore truck with a flat tire, the cone crusher, a “scissor lift”, a mobile shotcrete machine, a new grout pump, a new Boart Jumbo Drill, and a detached bucket half of a 413 ore truck.
The second collection depicts the McDame Project construction in 1986 and 1987.
Content of these photographs includes: various machinery used for excavating and drilling, underground progress of tunneling, supports, wire meshing, rock formations in mine, and exposed asbestos. There are no annotations regarding this photographs.
Caption describing photograph: "Maturing 2nd year cones on right, mature non-serrotinous cone with seed dispersed on left."
Caption describing photograph: "Frames 8, 9, and 10. Mature stand of Aspen growing on moderately drained Bednesti silt (Sandy silt). Ht 95', 22" DBH. Age 110 years. Excellent form. Mile 11 Hart Highway. Adjacent field has excellent crop of potatoes and timothy."
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.
No annotation on slide.
No annotation on slide.
Annotation on slide: "Marked-to-cut tree with old scar, Summit selection trial".
Handwritten annotation below photo on page taped to photograph: "PHOTO #2: Looking N across talus slide of asbestos fibre and serpentine fragments." Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph in blue ink describing sections of photograph which have been pointed to or outlined: "Talus of asbestos fibre & serpentine fragments -->" "Photo #1 -->" "Approx upper contact of serpentine -->".
Photograph depicts snowy mountaintop, wooden shelter and truck in foreground. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Pictures taken July 2nd, 1952. 1. Picture taken from campsite showing snow on talus."