Photograph depicts long building with blue siding. Security was located at corner of building in centre foreground, behind stop sign. Single red door on left was main entrance into mine dry, where individuals were checked through security. Two larger windows on left indicate the location of the mine store where work apparel could be purchased. Building also housed change house (see item 2000.1.1.3.19.121) and offices of the mine department supervisory staff. Employee parking lot located out of frame to right. Mill building stands in background, tramline dump station on left. Ore car visible, about to enter dump station. Unidentified man and child can be seen in foreground.
Photograph depicts group of unidentified men seated in bus seats, wearing work clothes and hard hats. Believed to be taken on mine bus which ran between the plant and mine (see also item 2000.1.1.3.19.70).
Photograph depicts ore cars on cables running between tramline towers. Flowers in foreground, mine valley and McDame mountain in background. Tramline ran through mine valley, between loading station (2000.1.13.19.197) in mine and dump station at mill on plantsite (2000.1.1.3.19.124)
Photograph depicts the new mine garage behind machinery, mountains in background. Mobile blast hole drill can be seen in left foreground (manufactured by Robbins with Caterpillar undercarriage). Two 50-tonne Wabco "haul paks" in right foreground (ore haulage trucks).
Photograph depicts shovel in excavation area of mine, loading ore haulage truck believed to be a Wabco "haul pak".
Photograph depicts mine area. Switchback road and higher benches in background. Blasthole drills, track shovels, and ore haulage trucks can be seen on level in foreground and higher bench in background. Mountains visible in distance. Benches in background speculated to be located on the mine's West Peak.
Photograph depicts wheel bulldozer in snowy unknown area of mine.
Photograph depicts machinery in snowy area of mine. Euclid ore haulage truck in foreground, cassiar pickup truck visible in lower area in midground. Blasthole drill in front of track shovel in left background, Wabco ore haulage truck visible behind other machinery in right background.
Photograph depicts palletizer machinery, where bags of asbestos fibre were shrink-wrapped and made ready for shipping pallets. Palletizer was located near shipping (believed to be in mill building). Unidentified man visible in machinery on far left.
Photograph depicts DeCecco wearing helmet and snowsuit while seated on Arctic Cat "Pantera".
Photograph depicts two unidentified individuals in canoe on Boya Lake, B.C. (formerly known as Chain Lakes). Foliage silhouetted in foreground; forest and hills on opposite shore in background.
Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine on McDame Mountain. West peak semi-visible in foreground. Drills and ore haulage trucks visible below in pit and on switchback roads.
Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine on McDame Mountain. Blasthole drills and ore haulage trucks visible below in open pit and on switchback road.
Photograph depicts blasthole drill on left, bulldozer in centre, and shovel loading ore haulage truck in background. Second haul truck is semi-visible on far right. Hose equipment can be seen in foreground.
Photograph depicts a shovel loading what appears to be a Euclid ore haulage truck on left. Unidentified Caterpillar machine in foreground.
Photograph depicts a shovel loading what appears to be a Euclid ore haulage truck in excavation area of mine.
Photograph depicts a Euclid ore haulage truck in foreground. Shovel and unidentified caterpillar machine can be seen in background.
Photograph depicts a Euclid ore haulage truck dumping material on pile in left foreground.
Photograph depicts crusher buildings in left foreground, located west of mine on McDame Mountain. Southeast mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts what appears to be a Euclid ore haulage truck at entrance of building speculated to be the truck dumping station at crusher plant in mine.
Photograph depicts ore cars on cables running between tramline towers on left. Road in right foreground, building and McDame mountain in background. Tramline ran through mine valley, between loading station in mine and dump station at mill on plantsite.
Photograph depicts ore cars on cables running between tramline towers on left. Road in right foreground, building and McDame mountain in background. Tramline ran through mine valley, between loading station in mine and dump station at mill on plantsite.
Photograph depicts steel tower. Snow in foreground, mountainside in background.
Photograph depicts tramline conveyors in centre of image (located west of mine). Conveyors ran from crusher plant to the tramline loading station. Building on left believed to be the crusher reject plant. Water truck can be seen by transfer building on far right (truck was used to thaw propane tank when necessary). Mine valley in background.
Photograph depicts tramline conveyor in centre of image (located west of mine). Conveyor ran from crusher plant to tramline loading station. Building on left believed to be the crusher reject plant. Mine valley and northwestern mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts tramline conveyor (located west of mine). Conveyor ran from crusher plant to tramline loading station. Mine valley and northwestern mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts Ruston Hornsby diesel engines which turned the generators in the power house on the Cassiar plant. Two unidentified men wearing coveralls can be seen in image.
Photograph depicts unidentified man standing on Ruston Hornsby diesel engine which turned the generators in the power house on the Cassiar plant.
Photograph depicts two unidentified men standing on Ruston Hornsby diesel engine which turned the generators in the power house on the Cassiar plant.
Photograph depicts Darren DeCecco wearing coveralls and hard hat while sitting on a Pacific truck. (Pacifics were used to supply water to mine, remove snow, and supplement ore haul by tramline).
Photograph depicts palletizer machinery, where bags of asbestos fibre were shrink-wrapped and made ready for shipping pallets. Palletizer was located near shipping (believed to be in mill building).
Photograph depicts pallets of fibre bags in shipping area (believed to be in mill building).
Photograph depicts unidentified man operating forklift. Pallets of asbestos fibre sit on trailer in background. Believed to have been taken in shipping area of mill building.
Photograph depicts unidentified man operating forklift on right. Pallets of asbestos fibre sit on trailer in background. Two men with clipboard stand in left foreground (David Pewsey on left, Chris Tates on right, see also item 2000.1.1.3.19.212).
Photograph depicts Chris Tates seated at table with paperwork in left foreground. David Pewsey stands behind on right, pointing to what appears to the Fibre Loading Schedule. Pewsey was supervisor of the Fibre Storage Shed. Both men wear hardhats. Tates believed to be wearing gold nugget Cassiar ring on left hand.
Photograph depicts large trailer truck parked at what is believed to be the loading station on the Cassiar plant (possibly in mill building).
Photograph depicts large trailer truck parked at what is believed to be the loading station on the Cassiar plant (possibly in mill building).
Photograph depicts two large tanks with Cassiar logo on front, labeled "1" and "2". Road in foreground, garage in background. Mountain base also visible in background.
Item is a photograph of Ray Williston in flight gear.
Item is a photograph of a bulldozer removing debris from train tracks on August 27, 1956 location unknown.
Item is a photograph of Princess Margaret arriving by Canadian Air Forces jet at Prince George. Lieutenant-Governor Frank Ross is walking beside the Princess.
Originally mounted on a poster with photographs 115, 115.2, 115.3.
Item is a photograph of Princess Margaret arriving by Canadian Air Forces jet at Prince George. Lieutenant-Governor Frank Ross is walking beside the Princess.
Originally mounted on a poster with photographs 115, 115.2, 115.3.
Item is a photograph of Princess Margaret with Mr. Williston on her right.
Item is a photograph of a truck hauling logs from the shores of a lake.
Item is a photograph of the construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston standing beside a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer on the deck of a train.
Item is a photograph of construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.
Item is a photograph of graduates of the Service Flying Training school in Calgary taken on October 27, 1944. Ray Williston is third from the left in the front row.
Item is a photograph of a boy carrying a bundle of books on his head.
Item is a photograph of boats docked on the shore behind piles of grain or straw.