File contains slides depicting places in and around Manson Creek.
Image depicts the gas station at Manson Creek, B.C.
Image depicts a creek with a half collapsed shack in the background somewhere in Manson Creek. The slide is labelled "Manson workings."
Image depicts the Omineca Museum in Manson Creek, B.C.
Photograph of the Prince Rupert wharf. Many vessels are docked next to small buildings along the water. Annotation on recto reads: "Prince Rupert BC."
Image depicts a man holding up a board which appears to have maps of the Cottonwood Park on it.
Photograph of a marching band performing down a wooden road. Spectators can be seen in the foreground and various businesses are in the background. Annotation on recto reads: "Prince Rupert BC."
Photograph of a small marching band parading down Second Avenue in Prince Rupert. A large crowd is gathered. Annotation on recto reads: "Photo by MacRae Bros Prince Rupert BC 2nd Ave Prince Rupert BC."
Street view of a large crowd of veterans marching down a street in Prince Rupert. Printed annotation on recto reads: "3." Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Prince Rupert: Nov. 11. 1940. Main St."
Margaret (nee Baxter) Lund stands in snowshoes wearing skirt, high socks, sweater, hat and gloves. Log fence crosses midground, power poles and unidentified building stand in background. Margaret is younger sister to Bob Baxter.
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”
Photograph depicts Archdeacon William Henry Collison to left of wife Marion, who stands bent over garden on right. Church steeple visible behind wood fence in background. Hills can be seen in distance.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Grandad & Grannie in garden at Kincolith".
Marion sits to left of husband Archdeacon William Henry, small boy in between. Young children sit and stand in foreground, Katherine 'Katy' and Muriel 'Mimi' stand in background (daughters of W.E. Collison). The group poses in front of a wood door, ivy on either side.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Grand-dad (Arch. W.H. Collison) & Grannie with grandchildren at Kincolith".
Marion sits to left of husband Archdeacon William Henry, beside five small children. Muriel 'Mimi' Collison (daughter of W.E. Collison) stands on right holding a younger grandchild.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Arch. WH Collison & Mrs Collison with grand-children at Kincolith".
Photograph depicts Marion and William Henry Collison standing on left with shovel, Bertha Collison on right, and young Muriel and Katherine Collison in centre with shovel (eldest daughters of W.E. Collison). Wood buildings cross midground, trees and hills visible in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Garden at Kincolith / Grandad, Grannie / Mimi, Katie / Mother".
The photograph depicts Mark Gabriel Stadium, a baseball stadium in Prince George. The photo was taken in 2005.
The photograph depicts Mark Gabriel Stadium, a baseball stadium in Prince George. The photo was taken in 2005.
Image depicts a row of houses in the village of Masset on Haida Gwaii.
Photograph depicts the west side of the Masset public library as it was under construction.
Photograph depicts the east side of the Masset public library as it was under construction.
Image depicts McBride, B.C.
Image depicts an abandoned building on the corner of a street in McBride, B.C.
Image depicts an abandoned building on the corner of a street in McBride, B.C. The faded letters on the side read: "McBride Trading Co. Mens Wear, Drugs, Equipment."
Image depicts the All Saints Anglican Church in McBride, B.C. The slide labels it as having "moved to PG."
Image depicts a street in McBride, B.C. One of the store signs reads "Allied Hardware."
Image depicts a church somewhere in McBride, B.C. The sign in front possibly reads "St. Patrick's Church."
Image depicts the Elks Hall in McBride, B.C.
Image depicts a machine shop somewhere in McBride, B.C. The sign above the door reads "McBride Air Cooled Engine Services Ltd."
Image depicts a house somewhere in McBride, B.C.
Image depicts several houses in McBride, B.C. A mountain is visible in the background.
Image depicts an old house somewhere in McBride, B.C.
Image depicts a view of what is either the Rocky Mountains or possibly the Columbia Mountains from McBride, B.C.
Image depicts a view of what is either the Rocky Mountains or possibly the Columbia Mountains in the background of a small section of McBride, B.C.
Image depicts a street in McBride, B.C.
File contains slides depicting places in and between McBride and the Yellowhead Pass via the Yellowhead Highway.
Image depicts the CN Station in McBride, B.C.
Image depicts the CN Station in McBride, B.C.
Image depicts the rear-end of the CN Station in McBride, B.C.
Image depicts the McBride CNR station.
Image depicts the McBride CNR station.
Image depicts the McBride District Centennial Library.
Image depicts the McBride Hotel near the Mt. Robson Provincial Park.
Photograph depicts street in McBride, wood buildings and tent buildings on either side. Small businesses and restaurants line the left side of the street. Forest slash stands in newly cleared area in foreground. Railway tracks cross right foreground, hills visible in background. Annotation on verso of photograph reads: "MC.Bride, B.C.", handwritten on recto: "1914 [Bourchier?]"
Photograph depicts the McCulloch CPR depot located at mile 76.7 on the Carmi Subdivision, which is about 27 miles northeast of Penticton. The rear building is the passenger depot, which was painted blue inside. The view is looking north.
Photograph depicts the McCulloch CPR depot located at mile 76.7 on the Carmi Subdivision, which is about 27 miles northeast of Penticton. The building on the right is the passenger depot, which was last officially used in January 1964. The view is looking south on the downgrade.
Photograph depicts the McCulloch CPR depot at mile 76.6 on the Carmi Subdivision. The depot was painted blue inside. The last passenger train was seen 17 January 1964 and the last freight train on the 19 May 1973.
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.
Item is a photograph of the McGregor family on land that was subsequently flooded to create the reservoir for the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.
Image depicts a bridge over the McGregor River. A sign in the image reads: "Danger. The river is not navigable for any type of boat. Down stream falls and rapids impassible!"