Photograph depicts water tower framework. Building materials, truck, and oil tanks in foreground; mountains in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Pictures taken June 28th, 1952: (8) Water tower erection. Looking northwest."
Photograph depicts body of water in mountain valley, trees surrounding.
Photograph depicts a mill with scaffolding on the left side of the building. A second scaffolding structure is in the foreground with trees and mountains in background. Typed annotation taped to verso of page stapled to photographs: "View of mill building looking west."
Photograph depicts four unknown animals in distance on mountain slope, valley in background.
Photograph depicts two men in plant site, mountains in background. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "Pictures taken July 3rd, 1952. 3. Quonset warehouse in background. Temporary set-up for circular saw in foreground."
Photograph depicts scaffolding around garage, trees and mountainside in background. Men, steel drums and smaller white buildings can be seen around base of garage. Snow and dirt piles in mid ground, dog and steel drum in foreground. Corresponding note on accompanying photo description page: "8. Service garage nearly completed. Wide doors for taking bulldozers, and high enough to clear a van truck."
This file contains photograph from early construction of Cassiar Mine and townsite. Photographs were stapled to inter-office correspondence paper and sent with pages of photo descriptions. Photographs have been removed and rehoused, maintaining original order.
Map depicts rail lines in the BC lower mainland, including BC Hydro Railway, Burlington Northern Railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Canadian National Railway, and the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.
Map depicts the routes of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, showing stations, railway connection, and the PGE Microwave Communication System.
Subseries contains a map of timber growth in the McKenzie mountain and West Lake region.
Buildings in foreground, waterscape in midground, trees and snowcapped mountains in background. Printed annotation on recto reads: “Marine and Fisheries Digby Island Prince Rupert B.C. McRae Bros”
Side view of the wet end of mazza machine.
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.
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 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 a man wearing an ammunition belt and holding a rifle, standing with a young boy also holding a rifle, on left of image. Two dogs stand between them over a fallen deer. Another unarmed man stands to the right of a second cannery retort.
Photograph depicts one man standing on framework of crusher building and a second man leaning over on a lower level. Lumber and hose in foreground.
Photograph depicts two construction workers in far right sitting on edge above of excavation area, and two construction workers behind them standing at a higher level with construction of lumber walls behind them. The boom and stick of the "Northwest" excavator are semi-visible on left.
Photograph depicts two men standing beside beds of fish laid out to dry. More oolichan fish hang on tall structures in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Oolichan drying & [?] grease at Fishing Bay Nass River 'Winter food supply'".
Men working among lumber at crusher building site, ladders and various materials scattered around them.
Men working among lumber at crusher building site, various materials scattered throughout. Vertically protruding planks from framework of crusher building are in foreground. Tree-covered valley in background. Construction of a long structure near the edge of the excavation area can be seen in midground; this is speculated to be the section of the crusher building which housed conveyor "B".
Photograph depicts two men standing on unidentified track vehicle, and a third man seated on a crawler tractor. Machinery is standing on snow-covered area in front of forest trees.
Photograph depicts two men on a log deck, possibly at Peden Hill sawmill.
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 perched on top of a freight truck carrying a load of timber at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts three men pushing wheelbarrows in crusher construction site. The end of a tractor is semi-visible on right of image. Miscellaneous tools and materials scattered throughout area, rock wall of mountainside in background.
Photograph depicts men working on different levels of construction site, some in dangerous areas, one man driving unidentified machinery in foreground. Long hose in right of image. View facing into the mountain.
Men standing behind saw horses on bottom level of crusher building site, lumber scattered throughout. View facing into mountainside.
View of crusher building from above, featuring the bottom level foundation. A dirt road and long building believed to be housing conveyor "B" cross the midground. Valley in background.
Photograph depicts four construction workers in front of tall wood structure extending to top level of construction area. Building material and supplies cover the ground: lumber, saw horses etc. Barricades against loose rock enclose area in midground (see item 2000.1.1.2.352). Plastic-covered pile sits at top level in background.
Photograph depicts group of men working in unknown excavation area, possibly mining. Bushes in foreground, forest in background.
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".
Photographs are part of an album depicting the dust conditions in the mill and the measures taken to control the dust.
Photograph of mill fan with supplied note "Ascolecric Limited, Brantford Ontario" and engineering notes for pressure for oil, water and gas.
Photograph of mill fan with supplied note "Ascolecric Limited, Brantford Ontario" and engineering notes for pressure for oil, water and gas.
Photograph of the Mill Modification program in 1970. This photo is part of larger collection of 71 photographs of regarding the improvements to the mill as part of the plantsite and was compiled into a report in 1978.
Photograph of two workers in background working on the Mill Modification program in 1970. This photo is part of larger collection of 71 photographs of this program, compiled into a report in 1978.
Item is a photograph of a small mill operation.
Photographs are of potential mill renovations. Most photographs are annotated to describe the upcoming renovations.
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".
Photograph depicts the inside of a mill.
Photograph depicts a work area in a mill.
Photograph depicts a work area in a mill with danger signs in English, French, German, and Spanish.
Photograph depicts the inside of a mill.
Photograph depicts the inside of a mill.
Photograph depicts the inside of a mill.
Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine. North and South peak featured in background, and West peak in left foreground. Pit is being developed between South peak and West peak. Old mine garage is visible in lower centre of image, and crushing plant in right foreground. Mountain range in distance.
Crushing plant and strip mining area visible in Cassiar mountain range.
Photograph depicts chute from distance. Annotation on verso of photograph: "CASSIAR ASBESTOS CORP. LTD. MINE AND ORE CHUTE ON McDAMES MOUNTAIN".
Photograph depicts the pit mine, and road in valley below. Town of Cassiar can be seen in distance at foot of south mountain range.