Photograph depicts a scow with chips landing on the north shore of Vancouver harbour. There are Saskatchewan wheat elevators in the background.
Photograph depicts a sawmill with a dry kiln next to a rail line. The location and name of the sawmill is unknown.
Image depicts numerous buildings at an uncertain location. A beehive burner and what appears to be a large pile of wood is visible in the background.
Image depicts machinery stripping a log of its bark in a saw mill somewhere in Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts machinery in a saw mill somewhere in Prince George, B.C.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Daily Capacity 100,000 f.b.m. sawmill in foreground planer mill and lumber yard in background.”
Typed caption glued to album page directly below photograph reads: "50. Sawmill at Fort Fraser." Photograph depicts a group photo of men and work horses standing outside the Fort Fraser Sawmill. Photographer: Dominion Stock & Bond Corporation.
Image depicts numerous blocks of wood planks at a saw mill, possibly Lakeland Mills, somewhere in Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts a saw cutting a log in half at a saw mill in Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts numerous stripped logs and several unidentified individuals in hard hats at a saw mill somewhere in Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts a saw mill, possibly Lakeland Mills, with a beehive burner and numerous piles of logs in the foreground, in Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts wood planks in the interior of a saw mill somewhere in Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts the interior of a saw mill somewhere in Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts logs being cut into planks in the interior of a saw mill somewhere in Prince George, B.C.
Image depicts a sawmill, possibly Lakeland Sawmill, in Prince George B.C.
Image depicts logs being stripped of their bark at a saw mill in Prince George, B.C.
Typed caption glued to album page directly below photograph reads: "71. Sawmill." Photograph depicts a rustic sawmill, lumber stacked outside, and a ramp leading from the sawmill to the water's edge where floating logs await. Photographer: Dominion Stock & Bond Corporation.
Photograph depicts a saw on the outskirts of Courtenay on the road to Cumberland.
Hand coloured photo of a clearing in Prince Rupert with a sawmill in the distance. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Prince Rupert, B.C. : Saw Mill Grand Trunk Pacific Railway." Artist's stamp in the lower right corner reads: "103112 J.V."
Photograph depicts Sarah walking amongst people on sidewalk lined with cars and tall buildings. Power lines cross midground. Photograph believed to have been taken by street photographer. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Sarah Glassey."
The pair walks on sidewalk, wearing hats and fur lined coats, Glassey on left. Car, power lines, and tall buildings stand in background. Photograph believed to have been taken by street photographer.
Fonds consists of ledgers recording accounts and maintenance notes of the S. B. Trick Lumber Co. and one photograph of the Ambrose Trick Sawmill.
S. B. Trick Lumber Co.Photograph depicts a Ruston steam roller owned by Gary Wellburn in Duncan, BCIt was previously owned by the Oak Bay municipality.
Photograph depicts the large bearing cups of one of the Ruston Hornsby diesel engines that turned the generators in the power house on the Cassiar plant. Engine believed to be under repair. Electric panels in background.
Photograph depicts the large bearing cups of one of the Ruston Hornsby diesel engines that turned the generators in the power house on the Cassiar plant. Engine believed to be under repair. Electric panels in background.
Photograph depicts the large bearing cups of one of the Ruston Hornsby diesel engines that turned the generators in the power house on the Cassiar plant. Engine believed to be under repair. Electric panels and unidentified individual in background.
Photograph depicts the large bearing cups of one of the Ruston Hornsby diesel engines that turned the generators in the power house on the Cassiar plant. Engine believed to be under repair. Saw horse, machinery, and electric panels in background.
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".
Photograph of rotex screen covers at Nordenham Finishing Mill in Germany. Part of trip report.
Photograph of rotex screen at Nordenham Finishing Mill in Germany. Part of trip report.
Photograph depicts an unidentified First Nations man standing to right of wolf pelts that hang from eaves of house in Atlin, B.C. Stewart and Glassey stand on left, Glassey wearing a suit and tie. Typed annotation on recto of photograph: "Wolf pelts from Teslin, B.C.", handwritten: "Ron Stewart is policeman." See also items 2009.5.2.67 & 2009.5.2.68.
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.
Photograph depicts truck at reject plant in foreground. Mine road can be seen leading to plant in centre background, town in right background. South mountain range visible in distance. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "June 1970 / Looking South across Rock Reject Tailings / Note Southern direction of conveyor [?] towards No 1 Gully. Tom Kiefer".
Image depicts a river full of logs, somewhere near Bralorne, B.C.
Photograph depicts the reverse view of a steam donkey at Sayward near Kelsey Bay on North Vancouver Island.
Consists of 165 black and white photographs depicting Northwest Coast communities including Bella Bella, Rivers Inlet, Port Simpson, and Prince Rupert between approximately 1900 and 1920. Also includes postcard images of ships and boats on the North Coast belonging to the Large family, from Reverend Large's son Dr. R.G. Large. Also includes 39 colour slides ca. 1960 of ship scenes and weather balloon launches from the Dr. R.G. Large family.
Large, R.W., Rev.Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "RETAINING WALL POUR JULY 9/64." Photograph depicts construction workers among machinery near retaining wall under conveyor of crusher building. Crane stands on left, front end loader and back hoe tractor in foreground on right. Mountainside in background.
Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "RETAINING WALL POUR JULY 9/64." Photograph depicts two construction workers standing on retaining wall in foreground. Two other men stand near a crane operating in midground, with its load suspended above men on wall. Crane stands on road between a building and retaining wall, mountain range in background.
Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "RETAINING WALL POUR JULY 9/64." Photograph depicts large unidentified machinery in front of the retaining wall under conveyor of crusher building. Boom of crane can be seen in midground on right. Crusher building in background, dirt road in foreground.
Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "RETAINING RIBS JUNE 29/64". Photograph depicts construction workers on and near wooden framework structure extending from base of crusher building. Crane in background against mountainside. Miscellaneous construction equipment and materials throughout.
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.
Photograph depicts Red Mountain Lumber Company mill owned by Roy Spurr in Penny, BC in 1929. Scattered all around the mill are the remnants of the previous coniferous forest that was destroyed in the Penny Fire that occurred 2 years earlier.
Photograph depicts Red Mountain Lumber Company mill owned by Roy Spurr in Penny, BC in 1929. Scattered all around the mill are the remnants of the previous coniferous forest that was destroyed in the Penny Fire that occurred 2 years earlier.
Photograph depicts Red Mountain Lumber Company mill owned by Roy Spurr in Penny, BC in 1929. Scattered all around the mill are the remnants of the previous coniferous forest that was destroyed in the Penny Fire that occurred 2 years earlier.
Photograph depicts Red Mountain Lumber Company mill owned by Roy Spurr in Penny, BC in 1929. Scattered all around the mill are the remnants of the previous coniferous forest that was destroyed in the Penny Fire that occurred 2 years earlier.
Photograph depicts Red Mountain Lumber Company mill owned by Roy Spurr in Penny, BC in 1929. Scattered all around the mill are the remnants of the previous coniferous forest that was destroyed in the Penny Fire that occurred 2 years earlier.
Photograph depicts Red Mountain Lumber Company mill owned by Roy Spurr in Penny, BC in 1929. Scattered all around the mill are the remnants of the previous coniferous forest that was destroyed in the Penny Fire that occurred 2 years earlier.
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.
Photograph depicts the Peden Hill sawmill, after the mill was rebuilt after the first mill burnt down in 1941. The first mill was operated by steam; the second mill was powered by a diesel-powered motor.