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Dossier Transportation and Utilities
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Maintenance Projects
2000.1.1.2.07 · Dossier · 1977 - 1981, predominant 1977-1978
Fait partie de Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photographs depict different construction projects at separate locations in Cassiar. Photographs were originally housed in envelopes with the following annotations: "POLICE STATION. July 15, 1977."; "Aggregates and Concrete (PERMASTEEL)"; "Fibre Storage and Handling"; "Powerhouse Expansion"; "Sewage Collection Plant."; "Sewage Treatment Plant"; "Single Person Accommodations - Site Work."; "Outside Work - Camp Nos. 1,2,3." Photos generally feature the work sites, supplies, vehicles, machinery, and work in progress at each location.

Additional photographs integrated into file include maintenance project on lining of tubes, lining of aspiration hood, and lining of willow fiberizer. Also five photographs of maintenance in the townsite to fix in ground piping.
Collins Overland Telegraph
2000.23.1.027 · Dossier · 1974-1982
Fait partie de Audrey Smedley L'Heureux fonds

File consists of collected research materials regarding Perry McDonough Collins and the Collins Overland Telegraph. Collins was the visionary behind the Russian-American Telegraph of 1865-1867. The failed venture aimed to connect America to Europe by telegraph via the Bering Strait. Materials include newspaper clippings, a book, as well as reproductions of articles, correspondence, and archival material. Highlights include:

  • D.A. McGregor, "Through B.C. to Bering Sea-A Dream that Failed" from The Province, 1953 (article reproduction)
  • John B. Daniell, "The Collins Overland Telegraph" from the Northwest Digest, 1960 (article reproduction)
  • Illustration from Provincial Archives of British Columbia, "Williams Creek from the canyon To middle town (Barkerville)" from a painting by Frederick Whymper, [186?] (print photograph reproduction)
  • Reproduction of Corday MacKay, "The Collins Overland Telegraph", 1866 (article reproduction)
  • Hon. Homer D. Angell, "Congressional Record: Proceeding and Debates of the 78th Congress, First Session", 1943 (reproduction)
  • Article entitled "Collin's Overland Telegraph" by Kathleen Fitzgerald in "The History of the Canadian West" collector's no. 1, 1982 (magazine issue)
  • Willard E. Ireland, "The Collins Overland Telegraph", 1866 (article reproduction)
CNR Branch - Okanagan
2013.6.36.1.043 · Dossier · 1966-1984
Fait partie de David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Canadian National Railway branch in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia.