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This file consists of 10 photographs pertaining to the Hixon Creek Cariboo Gold Company, and the Quesnel Quartz Mine; as well as two sheets of letterhead from the "Hixon Gold Recovery Ltd." a handwritten speech re: a mineral claim, and a hand drawn map and overlay pertaining to the Wellington and Highland (Belle or Lass) mineral claims.

Photographs within this file document resource industries within Northern BC such as mining, fishing, forestry etc. They also represent resource industry cooperatives, processing, packing and shipping industries, construction and ship building, as well as salvage companies and operations.

File consists of:

• A Canadian Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited publication “Instructions and Part List: ESH Horizontal ESV Vertical Compressors,” received and used by Vickers Krebs drawing office, 31 May 1967 (2 copies)
• Correspondence between B.C. Chemicals and other companies, 14 Mar. 1967-2 May 1967. The correspondence pertains to non-lubricated air compressors.
• A copy of Ingersoll-Rand, Air Power Compressor Division “Installation Manual ESH-ESV Lubricated and Non-Lubricated Double Acting Stationary Air Compressors,” July 1972.
• Two Flotec Inc. documents: “F Series Dimensional Data,” and “‘F’ Series Parts List: Phenolic Flexible Impeller Series.”
• Several documents pertaining to purchasing maintenance kits for air compressors. Includes advertisements, a business card, and “Maintenance Department Stores Code Sheet.”
• A hand drawn sketch for a discharge pipe modification and related correspondence between B.C. Chemicals and Bennett & Emmott Limited.
• An Ingersoll-Rand Co. certified plan 887-D-IAE “Foundation Plan for 7 X 5 ESV-INL-2 Compressor” created for Bennett & Emmott Ltd, March 1970.
• An information request from B.C. Chemicals to Normag Equipment and Rentals Ltd., 19 Oct. 1989.
• Invoices, correspondence and instructions pertaining to a B.C. Chemicals air compressor purchase from Bennett & Emmott in 1981. Includes an Ingersoll-Rand “ESH/V Installation Instructions” and “Parts List 5” & 7” Portable, Non-Lubricated ESV.”
• A plan entitled “20-3065 Grunewald.”
• A copy of Ingersoll-Rand, Air Power Compressor Division “5 & 7 Inch Frame, Lubricated or Non-Lubricated ESH/ESV Maintenance Instructions: Portplate Cylinder Continuous Duty Stationary Air Compressors,” Nov. 1974.
• A B.C. Chemicals memo “maintenance information” on compressors and pumps from 19 June 1978.
• B.C. Chemicals’ work forms, maintenance records, and purchase records for Item No. C-901, Air Compressor 18-3065.
• An Ingersoll-Rand Plan “Foundation Plan for 6 X 5 ESV-INL-2 Compressor,” received on 16 May 1967 and used by Vickers Krebs Drawing Office and B.C. Chemicals. (3 copies)
• A copy of a Ingersoll-Rand publication “Instructions Heavy-Duty T-Series, 7 ½ , 10 and 15 HP Type 30 Compressors,” received and used by Vickers Krebs Ltd., 28 Nov. 1966.
• Four advertisements from 1967 for Air-Maze Dry-Type Filter-Silencers received by B.C. Chemicals Ltd., and Vickers Krebs Drawing Office.
• A Canadian Ingersoll-Rand publication “Instructions for Stationary Compressor Foundation Building” received on 16 May 1967 and used by Vickers Krebs Drawing Office. (2 copies)
• A sheet of equipment notes received on 20 Mar. 1956 and used by B.C. Chemicals.
• Shipping correspondence from 1976 between Canadian Ingersoll-Rand co. and B.C. Chemicals. Two small instruction manuals, related to the equipment shipped, are also included: “Recommendations for the Installation, Fabrication, Testing and Cleaning of Air, Gas or Steam Piping” and “Section 2A General Operation: Non-Lubricated Cylinders, Vertical Units.”
• A Sarco Canada Limited Simplified Instructional Scheme for steam trapping and air venting. A completed examination, and correspondence are included in the course folios.

File consists of two Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd. purchase orders, a blank “Analysis—Accounts and Notes Receivable”, blank “Lumber Inventory” forms for Northern Custom Sawmills Ltd., and blank “Operators Daily Equipment Report” and “Daily Time Report” forms used by the Takla Logging Company.

File contains a copy of Northwood Pulp and Timber Limited, Prince George & Houston, Sawmill Division publication “Company Rules and Safety Regulations” May 1979; two Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd. purchase orders; and an “Agreement between Northwood Timber Limited, Eagle Lake Sawmill, Prince George Sawmill, Shelley Sawmill, Upper Fraser Sawmill, Logging Division and International Woodworkers of America, Local 1-424,” September 1, 1972- August 31, 1974.

File consists of material relating to provincial lands surveys. Materials include newspaper clippings, a pamphlet, a booklet, a reproduction of the land survey act, and reproductions of articles. Highlights include:

• Province of British Columbia, "Protecting Land Survey Monuments", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Nominal Roll, "The Land Surveying Profession in British Columbia", 1970 (booklet)

File consists of material relating to sternwheelers in British Columbia. Materials include newspaper clippings, magazines, reproductions of articles, and photographs. Highlights include:

• BC Provincial Archives, "SS Chilco upper Nechako River", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Fraser River Steam Boat South Fort George", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "At the Boat of the first Canyon upper Nechako River ", 1911 (photograph reproduction)
• BC Provincial Archives, "Passing Through the Fort George Canyon- Possibly the S.S. BX", [191-?] (photograph reproduction)

File consists of material relating to the Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company. Chartered as a private company in 1912 as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE), the company was acquired by the BC provincial government in 1918. In 1972 it was renamed as the British Columbia Railway and in 1984 it took on its present name of BC Rail. Materials include newspaper clippings, a report, correspondence, maps, a brief, reproductions of articles, a booklet, and a proposal. Highlights include:

• Hi-Ballers Railroad Club, "The Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company", Vol. 3 No. 1 1960 (reproduction from magazine)
• Province of British Columbia Department of Railways, "Pacific Great Eastern Railway also Proposed Extensions and Potential Resources of Central Interior and Northern British Columbia, 1949" (reproduction)
• Province of British Columbia, "Royal Commission on British Columbia Railway, Interim Report on the Future of the Fort Nelson Extension", 1977 (booklet)
• Ministry of Mines and Petroleum Resources, "Mineral Deposit-Land use Map - Figure 1", 1977 (map)
• Ministry of Mines and Petroleum Resources, "Mineral Deposit-Land use Map - Figure 2", 1977 (map)
• Ministry of Mines and Petroleum Resources, "Mineral Deposit-Land use Map - Figure 4", 1977 (map)
• Ministry of Mines and Petroleum Resources, "A Brief Submitted to the Royal Commission on the British Columbia Railway", 1977 (booklet)

File consists of material relating to the Peace River. Materials include a newspaper, magazines, a booklet, pamphlet, and reproductions of correspondence. Highlights include:

• Community West, "Dawson Creek the place to live", Vol 2. No. 7 1980 (magazine)
• Grande Prairie Chamber of Commerce, "Welcome to Grande Prairie, A Visitors Guide", [197-?] (booklet)
• District of Chetwynd, "Chetwynd Resource Centre of B.C.", 1982 (booklet)
• B.C. Hydro, "W.A.C. Bennett Dam Peace River", [197-?] (pamphlet)

File consists of collected research material regarding BC Hydro, including development reports, community attitudes towards B.C. Hydro, and expansion plans. Materials include photographic negatives, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets. Highlights include:

• B.C. Hydro, "Duncan Dam Columbia River Power", 1983 (pamphlet)
• B.C. Hydro, "Cathedral Square Substation", 1984 (pamphlet)
• B.C. Hydro, "Cheekye-Dunsmuir Transmission Project", 1984 (pamphlet)
• B.C. Hydro, "Diesel Generating Stations", 1983 (pamphlet)
• B.C. Hydro, "Kootenay Canal Hydroelectric Development, Columbia River Power", 1978 (pamphlet)
• B.C. Hydro, "Trees and Overhead Powerlines, A Guide to safe, sensible tree selection", 1983 (booklet)
• B.C. Hydro, "Revelstoke Dam & Generating Station, Columbia River Power", 1984 (booklet)
• B.C. Hydro, "Mica Dam Columbia River Power", 1983 (booklet)
• B.C. Hydro, "W.A.C. Bennett Dam & G.M. Shrum Generating Station, Peace River Power", 1982 (booklet)
• B.C. Hydro, "Peace Canyon Dam & Generating Station, Peace River Power", 1983 (booklet)
• Trade and Commerce, "10th Annual Market Survey, Northwest Territories, one of Seven Reports", 1974 (magazine)
• Photographic negative of a map titled "Early Days in Stewart"

File consists of collected research materials regarding mines in British Columbia. Materials consist of a book review on "Rough Road to the North", compiled information written by Audrey L'Heureux on Thibert Creek mining, and reproductions of journal articles.

File consists of material relating to Louis Adelbert LeBourdais (June 26, 1888 - September 27, 1947) was a telegraph operator, life insurance agent and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cariboo in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1937 to 1947 as a Liberal. LeBourdais had mining interests in the Barkerville area. He was also an amateur historian. From 1941 to 1948, he was a member of a Liberal-Conservative coalition in the provincial assembly. LeBourdais died in office in 1947. Materials include reproductions of articles, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.

File consists of material relating to Guy Lawrence who wrote the autobiographical "Forty Years on the Yukon Telegraph", which details his arrival in Canada in 1898 from England to prospect in the Klondike Gold Fields. While en route, a gold strike was made at Atlin, B.C. that was closer and changed his plans. Spending two years working in various mining camps in Atlin, Lawrence joined the Yukon Telegraph Line, which was just being completed. This line ran 1900 miles from Vancouver, B.C. through Ashcroft to Hazleton, Whitehorse and Dawson City. Up to World War I, Lawrence worked from isolated wilderness cabins, relaying messages and repairing lines. After serving overseas in the war, he ran the telegraph office in Stewart, which ran a branch line along the Portland Canal to the company town of Anyox. He remained in Stewart for 26 years, retiring in 1946. By this time, due to the wireless, most of the line had been abandoned. Materials include reproductions of articles, and a transcribed oral history from Guy Lawrence, copied from the BC Provincial Archives.

File consists of material collected on Frederick William Knewstubb. Frederick William Knewstubb, who first foresaw the possibility of the Kenney Dam/Nechako Reservoir project, which was carried out by the Aluminium Company of Canada (ALCAN). Knewstubb joined the Water Rights Branch as a draughtsman in 1911, became a hydrological engineer in 1926, and was Chief Hydrologic Engineer for the Water Rights Branch at the time of his death, 16 December 1937. Materials includes reproductions of articles, and correspondence.

File consists of material relating to Kitimat and its recognizable features like trails, mines, and industries like Alcan. Materials include newspaper clippings, pamphlets, booklets, newsletters, and a magazine. Highlights include:

• District of Kitimat, "Kitimat British Columbia Canada", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• Alcan Smelters and Chemicals, "Hike Kitimat: An explorers' guide for the whole family", [197-?] (booklet)
• Alcan Smelters and Chemicals, "Kitimat/ Kemano the first 25 years August 3, 1954-1979", 1979 (booklet)
• "Kitimat through Eurocan's Eyes" , [after 1972] (promotional booklet)
• Royal Canadian Legion, "The Bugle", 1980 (newsletter)
• Kitimat Chamber of Commerce, "Visitors' Guide to Kitimat", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• Alcan Smelters and Chemicals, "Alcan Smelter Tours 1978", 1978 (pamphlet)
• Alcan Smelters and Chemicals, "Alcan in British Columbia", 1977 (booklet)
• Kitimat Chamber of Commerce, "Fishing in Kitimat B.C.", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Alcan Smelters and Chemicals, "Alcan in British Columbia", 1972 (pamphlet)
• Outwest Magazine, "Kitimat British Columbia", Vol.1 No. 1, 1975 (magazine)

File consists of material relating to Charles Melville Hays (May 16, 1856 - April 15, 1912) who was the president of the Grand Trunk Railway. He began working in the railroad business as a clerk at the age of 17 and quickly rose through the ranks of management to become the General Manager of the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway. He became Vice-President of that company in 1889 and remained as such until 1896 when he became General Manager of the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) of Canada. He died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic before his plan was complete. File consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and reproductions of articles.

File consists on research on Thomas Ernest Edward (T.E.E.) Greenfield who spent time in the Pacific Northwest as an RCMP officer, gold miner, pharmacist, and construction worker between the years of 1926-1939. Materials include correspondence between Greenfield and L'Heureux, a manuscript, newspaper clippings, and a book. Highlights include:

• T.E.E Greenfield, "Drugs (Mostly)", 1976 (book)
• Photocopied travelogue by Annie Elizabeth Greenfield entitled "Unto the Hills Around Do I Lift Up My Longing Eyes" describing her personal experiences travelling to Prince George, Hazelton, and the Okanagan between June 30-July 20, 1927

File consists of collected research materials regarding the Grand Truck Pacific Railway. Materials include brochures, newspaper clippings, a CN supplement, a bibliography, pamphlets, correspondence, photographs, and reproductions of articles. Highlights include:

• Fraser Fort George Museum, "Grand Truck Pacific: The Transcontinental Line", 1983 (exhibit brochure)
• CN Mountain Region Supplement 1 employee time table for June 21, 1978
• CN Headquarters Library, "A Selected Bibliography on Canadian Railways", Special Series No. 25 6th edition, 1968
• Greater Victoria Public Library, "Railroads & Railroading in Canada: A selected booklist", 1988 (pamphlet)
• Stephen Ruttan, "Transportation in British Columbia", 1985 (pamphlet)
• Fort George Regional Museum, "Fort George Railway, Prince George B.C.", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Bulkley Valley Historical and Museum Society, "Smithers Grand Trunk Pacific Freight and Passenger Division Headquarters", 1978 (booklet)
• Prince George Railway Museum, "On Track" newsletter, Vol. 9 No. 6-7 July, 1991 (newsletter)
• Central British Columbia Railroad Preservation and Museum Society, "On Track" newsletter, Vol.3 No.5 1985 (newsletter)
• BC Provincial Archives of British Columbia Aural History Programme, "The Grand Trunk Pacific", Interviewed by Imbert Orchard, People in Landscape Educational Series, 1969 (booklet)
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway entitled "Camp near Burns Lake", Aug 1912
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway entitled "G.T.P. Steel bridge across the Shuswap River, Mile 79, 12 miles east of McBride", [191-?]
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway entitled "Prairie Creek Bridge nearly completed, 5 miles west of Hilton", [191-?]
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the "McKenzie & Blais store", [191-?]
• Reproduction of BC Archives photograph depicting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway entitled "Linking up of Steel on G.T.P. Transcontinental, Fort Fraser", 1914

File consists of research material collected on the history of Fort George including a Provincial bulletin, newspaper clippings, pamphlet, and reproductions of articles and images. Highlights include:

• Robert Arthur Williams, Province of British Columbia Lands Service, "The Fort Fraser- Fort George Bulletin Area", No.7. 1973 (bulletin)
• Fort George Park, "Fraser-Fort George Museum", [197-?] (pamphlet)
• W.J. MacAllan, "The Moving of the Fort George Indians", Cariboo & Northwest Digest, Summer 1948 (photocopied article)
• Nellie R. Campbell, "When Steel Came to Prince George", Cariboo & Northern B.C. Digest, Summer 1947
• Fraser Fort-George Museum, "Museum Mirror", Vol. 2 No. 1, 1986

File consists of collected research materials regarding Fort Fraser, Fraser Lake, Engen, Endako, and the Endako mine. Includes a Provincial bulletin, postcard, histories of Fort Fraser, correspondence, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings, articles, and an advertisement for Fort Fraser. Highlights include:

• Province of British Columbia Lands Service, "The Fort Fraser-Fort George Bulletin Area", 1967 (booklet)
• Postcard of Fraser Lake, [198-?]
• Don & Sue Rudland, "Welcome to Historic Fort Fraser", [198-?] (pamphlet)
• Christero Communications, "Rose Prince of the Carrier Nation", [198-?] (pamphlet)

File consists of newspaper clippings, reports, agendas, booklets, articles, and a pamphlet regarding fisheries in British Columbia, particularly the impact of the Kemano Completion Project on the Nechako River and other tributaries. Highlights include:

• Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Public Meetings Concerning Kemano Completion, "Agenda", 1984 (reproduction)
• Reproduction of "Presentation by the Carrier-Sekani Tribal Council to a Public Meeting Called by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) on March 2 & 3, 1984 in Vanderhoof, British Columbia"
• Department of Fisheries and Oceans, "Towards a Fish Habitat Decision on the Kemano Completion Project A Discussion Paper", 1984 (booklet)
• Province of British Columbia, "Fraser River Estuary Study", [198-?] (pamphlet)

File consists of booklets, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and reports on fishing in British Columbia. Highlights include:

• Government of Canada, "Salmonid Enhancement", [after 1977] (pamphlet)
• Province of British Columbia, "Angling Data Northern British Columbia", 1976 (booklet)
• Sportguide Series Special Interest Supplement to TV Week Family Magazine, "The Salt Chucker", Vol. 2, 1978 (magazine)
• Government of Canada Fisheries and Oceans, "Where and When to See Salmon", 1998 (pamphlet)

File consists of research materials and correspondence collected regarding Skook Davidson, who was known for being a packer in the Fort St. John area and for being a World War I veteran.

File consists of research and newspaper clippings collected on Sir Arthur Curtis surrounding the Klondike Gold Rush and Curtis' mysterious disappearance on the Yukon Trail.

File consists of material regarding the archaeological history of British Columbia including newspaper clippings, reproduced articles, a pamphlet, and correspondence. Highlights include:

• Charles E. Borden, "Results of Archaeological Investigations in Central British Columbia", 1950 (article reproduction)
• Roy L. Carlson, "C.E. Borden's Archaeological Legacy", 1979 (article reproduction)
• The Archaeological Sites Advisory Board, "Preserving British Columbia's Prehistory", 1973 (booklet)
• J.H. Sewell, "Archaeological Remains in Central British Columbia", 1950 (article reproduction)

File contains letters and notes from October 31, 1895 to March 30, 1896 concerning the purchase of dynamite for the mine.

File contains photographs taken for promotional purposes.

• Two photos depict a Cassiar display at an unknown event in 1963.
• Eight photos were professionally taken for use in the 1978 Cassiar Asbestos Corportaion Ltd. Annual Report, and possibly other publications. These photos depict a skyscraper and products made with asbestos.
• Additionally, two hand painted postcards of McDame Mountain and Christmas Tree House are included that may have been used for promotional reasons. Also, four slides of a display, "Story of Asbestos."
• five photographs of unofficial tour of Cassiar via airplane in the 1970s.

File contains photographs featuring members of the Board of Directors of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd., which was formed on the 17th of May, 1951. Cassiar's forerunner was a company named Conwest, formed in 1534, a consolidation of two companies owned by Fred Martin Connell and his brother W. Harold Connell. The first board of directors included the Connell brothers, George Armstrong, John E. Kennedy, Charles & Arthur Mortimer, and Charles Rainforth Elliot (chartered accountant and secretary-treasurer of Conwest & Cassiar). Directors depicted in this file include F.M Connell, Harold Connell, Charles Elliot, John E. Kennedy, George Armstrong, Ken A. Creery, John Drybrough, Tam Zimmermann, George Washington Smith (president of Bell Asbestos Mines), Nick Gritzuk, Jack Christian (general manager, president, and CEO). Other individuals depicted include Fred Murry, Andre Beguin, Plato Malozemoff from Newmont Mining (co-founder of Cassiar with F.M. Connell), Alfred Lloyd Penhale (founder and CEO of Asbestos Corporation of Canada Ltd.), C.B. Brown, Pierre Marcotte, Francis Parker Smith (brother of George Smith), Bill Oughtred, Bill Johnson, and a Mr. Janitsch. File also includes a portrait of an unidentified director of Cassiar from Turner and Newall in England, taken at the corporate club in Toronto. Group portraits were taken at the Cassiar Valley, the office building, "House 130," fishing outings, and at formal events in unidentified locations.

File contains photographs depicting superintendents accepting safety awards on behalf of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation ltd, and BCIT Scholarship Winners.

File contains photographs depicting four different tours that took place at the mine, plant, and towns owned by Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. Tours include Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's visit to Clinton Creek in 1968 and Member of Parliament Iona Campagnolo's visit to Cassiar in 1978. Photographs also depict a party of ambassadors touring Cassiar in 1970, and the dedication of a building in the Cassiar plant in the late 1970s.

Photographs of various Cassiar Staff at work. There is extensive annotations on the back of each photo explaining who is depicted and where they are working.

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.

Photographs are part of an album depicting the dust conditions in the mill and the measures taken to control the dust.

File contains photographs depicting individuals at Cassiar on strike in the winter time, marching down roads, holding picket signs, carrying small children who hold signs, and driving cars covered with strike slogans. Many of the signs read "U.S.W.A. LOCAL 6536" (United Steel Workers of America).

• Two photographs depict a man with a video recorder. Some photos feature plant buildings, two were taken at night. One photograph depicts a note that reads: "THERE WILL BE NO AFTERNOON SHIFT THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5th 1970."
• Many photos depict areas in the mine showing snow impacts, fissures in the mountain, asbestos evidence and other environmental activity. The picket signs contain protests regarding contracts, safety, environment, and ethics.
• Handwritten annotation on original envelope containing photographs: "Pictures 1970 Strike."
• Integrated into file are fourteen photos from file marked "Mr. B. Pewsey" that depict an area where a large rock fell, measuring tape, and protest sign.

File contains photographs pertaining to the transportation of asbestos fibre.

• These include portraits of Clinton trailer trucks, trucks from the Cassiar Transport Division at Mile 860 on the Alaskan Highway, the assembly of large freight trucks, an unidentified bridge, and ships and buildings at the Cassiar Shipping Facilities at Pier 94 on the Asbestos Warf in North Vancouver, B.C.
• Twenty-three photographs dated 1982 depict asbestos fiber bales on pallets and inside shipping containers, with accompanying annotations commenting on the quality of the packing. Several images show fibre bales broken during shipment. An accompanying note reads: "SMD - please ensure this cannot reoccur.", and a photo caption reads: "pierced bags are resulting as an environmental problem as fibre is beginning to build up in certain containers." One of the photographs depicting the Cassiar Transport Division was used for promotional posters with the following commentary: "The Cassiar Transport Division operates out of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory and is responsible for delivering the asbestos to the White Pass and Yukon Route terminal in Whitehorse. Fuel oil and supplies are backhauled to the mines. By the end of 1967, the fleet will consist of 65 tractor-trailer units, each of which will carry 23 tons of asbestos. The distance from Whitehorse to Cassiar is 357 miles and Clinton is 403 miles. During the past year, the Division's trucks traveled 2,213,534 miles and handled 75,100 tons, and the mileage to 3.5 million miles. This is a year-round operation and convoys arrive at the mine daily in spite of the long difficult haul. The Division currently employs 43 drivers and 35 mechanics and operates its own maintenance and rebuild facilities in Whitehorse. Over the years these men have established and enviable record of safety, cost and performance."
• Additional photographs that have been integrated depict the Asbestos wharf and its condition, 31 slides of wharf, maps of shipping routes, storage, forklifts, shipping trucks, and packaged asbestos.
• Also included in this file are two copies of a "Photo Survey - Cassiar Ton Units - "Amstelveld & Trojoland" on arrival to Brisbane & Sidney - August 1967." This collection of photographs is a part of an assessment of the efficiency of shipping and transport to Australia from Cassiar. Pictures include: loading, forklifts, storage, ripped bags, broken straps, wharfs, trucks, slings. There are accompanied annotations with each of the photos explaining the safety hazards or inefficiency of the situation. This report was found inside a box linked to James Hardie Industries Ltd. This company is not mentioned in the photograph annotations, but could be related to the report since James Hardie Industries Ltd. was a key player in asbestos mining and manufacturing in Australia.
• Collection of photos of roadside spill of Asbestos, depicting a man with shovel cleaning up on 5 June 1985
• Photos from Eternit Societe Anonyme (a European company that Cassiar shipped to) of packaged Asbestos in storage in 1967
• Collection of photos of James Hardie Coy. Pty. Ltd. shipment of asbestos that was not stored or transported effectively. Many photos depict broken bags as a result of inadequate storage and forklift punctures.
• Collection of photos of Cassiar/Stewart Road Proposal. Photos depict tests of the various stages of shipping and transportation process including forklift tests, Marineo Sling tests, stacking tests, durability tests, container loading tests, problems with current units etc. Also included is a marketing drawing if proposed shipping plan - drawn by "Stewart 1977."
• Photos of shipping process of Turners Asbestos Fibres Lmt. Photos depict lowering asbestos pallets onto barge with swing, and storage on barge.
• Collection of photos of a shipment of asbestos, but the bags of fibre are not identified as a Cassiar shipment therefore the location is unknown.

Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd opened a second mine in 1967 at what became the one-industry town of Clinton Creek, Y.T. File contains photographs depicting different areas of operations at Clinton Creek. Locations include the mine, plant, town, tailings pile, main office, the 40 Mile River, and surrounding area. Town photos depict the grocery store, cafeteria, medical clinic, school, auditorium residential area, Connell Street and power house. File also includes aerial photographs and images depicting forest fighting, photographers capturing the tailings pile, asbestos samples, mining machinery, staff offices, and operations in the mill, lab, and garage.

Additional photographs integrated into file depict Clinton Creek's surrounding area, and three slides of a tailing pile explosion believed to be Clinton Creek.

File includes six aggregations of photographs which have been assembled in this file in order to maintain the integrity of each group by keeping the photos arranged together, though each group features operations pertaining to multiple files in this subseries. Includes groups featuring photos from 1961, 1965 1971, a helicopter trip, a community album, and a workplace album. Photographs depict images pertaining to the following operations at Cassiar, B.C.: mining, milling, maintenance, labratory tests, and tramline and town operations. Images featuring operations of the company town include the grocery store, bank, churches, school, library, lounge, pool, theater, community center, outdoor recreation, hospital, dentist, cafeteria, bus route, residences, air strip, firehall, laundromat, park, police, and newspaper.

This file contains operations at the plantsite:
Below is synopsis of the item level descriptions (see each item for further description)

• locations depicted at Plantsite: mill building, dry rock storage building, tailings pile, gravel pit, power house, and office.
• delivery and installation of a Caterpillar engine, welding repairs underway on a Rustin Diesel Engine in the power house, staff portrait taken by the main office building, and fibre testing
  Not done to item level but integrated into subseries file:
• Photographic negatives included depict milling and packaging machinery in the mill building.
• 93 slides depicting various activities and equipment at the plantsite including: dry rock storage, screens, collectors, loading trucks, bagging, pallets, tailing pile, lab work by engineers, lab equipment, fibre testing, and fibre samples.
• photographs of conveyor foundations, tailings equipment, Grizzly truck, containers from site mechanical inspection, and portable crushing plant in June 1991.
• photos of fibre samples from lab - on display
• collection of photos of 1970 Mill modification Program of April 1978
• collection of photos from 1961 and 1962 of plantsite lab and asbestos samples. file labeled "Suter - Webb VU Graph Analysis" and "Suter - Webb and Turner Comb Analysis"
• Pressure Packer modification photos done by Chapman Industries in 1986
• Powerhouse equipment from 1979
• additional 43 slides of inside the mill in June 1978. Slides were used at a board meeting.
• negatives of inside of mill
• A photo album of 162 photographs depicting various operations at the plantsite including: drill dust collector, outdoor surroundings, conveyors, and the mine site. (album was originally labelled "Cassiar Plantsite).

File contains photographs featuring the tramline at Cassiar which ran from the crushing plant at the mountain mine to the plantsite in the valley (a drop of 427 meters). The first ore was originally transported by truck to the plant until the gravity chute was built in 1953. This chute was replaced with the first aerial tramline model in 1956, which was succeeded by the second model in 1975. This file also includes one photo of the original gravity chute, and one photo depicting a tramline worker.

Additionally there is a collection of eighteen photographs of tramline cars that were being surveyed for damage and condition, and another collection of six photographs of tramline study. The results of this study determined that there was variances in load sizes of the buckets caused by extra material falling off the panfeeder.

File contains photographs featuring:

• the pit mine: fault line, geology, snowdrifts, plowed snow, blast patterns marked by orange cones, mist, and surrounding mountains.
• Pit mine is depicted by aerial photographs and a profile diagram.
• Several photographs also depict what is speculated to be the portal to the underground mine adit in the early phases of development.
• One photograph depicts the shop building in the pit mine, used for maintenance of mining equipment and to house the primary crusher.
• Several photographs show office interiors and personnel and it is speculated that these photographs were taken in the upper floor of the shop building.
• Several photographs depict small sinkholes in the pit mine.
• Mining equipment depicted includes pickup trucks, front end loaders (including a Cat 988), ore haulage trucks, scoop trams, D8 Caterpillar dozer, grader, mining drill rig, jumbo drill, rock hammer, P&H excavator, and wireline extensometer. Photolab envelopes accompanying these materials were annotated “R. Tyne” and “falling ground”. Slide sleeves were annotated “Mine Nov-Dec 1975”, “AERIAL SHOTS OF MINE 1976” and “Phase 8 Dec 1975”.
• Photographs of a Gardner Denver blasting drill at the mine and other ground drills working
• Photograph of proposed power line to #1 switchback in 1975,
• Collection of photographs of a Wsbco truck with corresponding mechanical transfers of those photographs.
• Also photographs a Gardner Denver drill and a Bucyrus Erie drill that was rented to Cassiar Mine in 1974. This collection includes a depiction of an accident with these drills.
• An additional collection of photographs of #709 Drill that was involved in minor accident. A pipe was either damaged or was the cause of the accident.
• Negative collection of photographs with corresponding notes of descriptions.
• Photographs of G.D. 80 Drill - Blasthole drill at work in the open pit.
• Photographs part of Month End Reports from January - June 1980
• Photographs of portable toilets used on Mine site.
• Photograph collection of mine garage January 21, 1988
• Photograph collection of what is believed to be the inside of the mine garage and various storage units and equipment. Marked "Receiver File" in original enclosure.
• Photos of Crane in 1984.
• An Album of 192 photographs of machinery in March of 1976 working at the mine site. Some of the equipment from either the plantsite or the mill is also depicted.

File contains photographs depicting machinery, individuals, buildings, and mining processes at the open mine on McDame Mountain, Cassiar, B.C. Some photos depict benches from open strip mining, and two images feature models of the mine (1955 and 1970). Machinery depicted includes shovels, bulldozers, tractors, ore haul trucks (Kenworth, International Harvester, and Wabco), air track drills, blasthole drills, and Ingersoll-Rand Drill. Identified individuals include Fred Murray, R.R. [Kiresan?], C.E. Bronson, Bill Giachino, and "Sam".

File contains portraits and sample photographs of exposed asbestos fibre: in veins of rock outcrops, and loose in talus on McDame Mountain (location of Cassiar mine). Some photographs were printed in Cassiar's Annual Reports, with labels and descriptions.

Photographs depict aerial views of the Cassiar townsite, plantsite, tailings pile, mine road, bench and pit mine, mine buildings (tramline loading station, crusher, shop, and garage), and surrounding mountain range. Here "aerial" refers to photos depicting a large area and taken from the air or from a high point of elevation.

File contains images depicting room by room view of a house in Cassiar identified as house 288. Handwritten annotation on verso of photographs: "288 June-9-1992". Photographs originally found in file labeled "TOWN ADMINISTRATION Small Business 1981"; it is likely that these images form part of the process documentation for a small business license.

File contains images depicting the underground mine at Cassiar, showing structural damages, repaired damage ground support, and mining and repair processes.

The file contains a photo inventory entitled “Underground Mine Structural Inspection, Rock Mechanics Dept. Foto Documentation” with a complete file inventory linking the picture number to a location, title, and dated film. This photographic documentation was assembled for the purposes of liaising with a underground mining consultant located in South Africa.

• Images document structural ground support including steel cables, support arches, metal mesh, shotcrete, rockbolts, wooden beams.
• Images show ground support damaged through ground movement, but some depict newly installed or repaired support.
• Images depict ventilation ducting that was crushed or torn.
• Mining processes depicted include miners installing a rock breaker, miners paving the adit floor with concrete, miners inspecting a damaged section of mine, miner loading drill or blastholes with ANFO (ammonium nitrate / fuel oil mixture) explosives, and long hole drilling.
• Technical elements of the underground mine depicted include a mining device and ore in a chute (annotated ‘1290 crusher’), the conveyor, ‘LH drill’, ore processing machine annotated ‘1350 breaker’, and an electrical box titled ‘Weighometer’.
• Specific locations shown include ore draw points, ore passes, access drifts, a hatch and door titled “Fuel station 1415”, and a dead end drift with a stack of equipment and an orange cable annotated “1335 access electrical stations”.

This file contains various aspects of the underground mine.

• Photos depicting damage to the underground mine such as fallen rocks, cracked shotcrete, twisted rock bolts and metal mesh, exposed and damaged steel structural frames, and repairs underway.
• Steel cables, chains, support arches, and custom welded rebar frames used in the structural reinforcement of the underground mine.
• Several engineering tests related to the structural damages are depicted.
• Two sets of images show a Porta Power hydraulic tool with a ready rod attached, a hand pump, as well as images of a technician testing the holding power of a rock bolt.
• Set of images documents a technician drilling cores and installing extensometer anchors, as well as grouting the anchors and connecting an extensometer. Technicians are shown inspecting damages with a ruler and rockhammer for scale.
• A set of images showcase the threaded rebar, nuts, and face plates used for rockbolts.
• Utility vehicles, yellow vent ducting, and utility pipes are visible in several images.
• Also include is an image of a man in office space, foggy night scene with a telephone pole, office desk, stack of supplies including concrete, steel cable, and spray paint, and several images of a broken piece of ore and concrete outside the mine portal.
• Several images depict miners working in the bucket of a scoop tram.
• Photos of the stramler feeder breakers, which was used in the underground mine.
• Images of ground support verifications where the deficiency of the exhaust ramp was investigated. This collection has various annotations explaining the broken shotcrete and the wire mesh installed.
• A collection of photographs depicting tunnel shotcrete failures. Each photograph has an accompanied textual annotation.
• Photos of MMD #750 Sizer equipment - assumed used in Underground Mine.
• Photos of pump used in 1335 level, wheel fan for ventilation removed from 1350 level,
• A collection of ground fall event 29 March 1989 - with annotations depicting damage

File contains images of mine operations and construction, as well as a variety of other subjects.

• Elements of the underground mine are depicted, including miners working, the marked rock face, yellow ducting and ventilation fan, the portal, mesh rockbolted onto adit walls, shotcrete being applied, and stacked mining construction materials.
• Mining equipment depicted in this file includes underground ore haulage truck, Wabco ore haulage truck, jackleg drill, stoper drill, scoop tram, jumbo drill, conveyor, pickup trucks, unidentified mixing or grinding machine, a cable wagon and half constructed ore haulage truck in the shop, and a continuous miner (also known as alpine miner or roadheader).
• A set of images show a dozer and a lowbed truck transporting a temporary building down the pit mine access road.
• Several images depict drill core fragments, asbestos ore, and geological features of the mine.
• Mining related process are depicted, including a young man sluicing and panning, a mine building under construction, and an unidentified steel frame structure with a hydraulic device suspended on a rail.
• A set of images shows a railway or highway construction project, including stockpile of construction materials, rail cars, caboose, locomotive, front end loader, dump truck, concrete mixing trucks, semi-trucks, and a rail car with large steel drums which are speculated to be specialized for tunnel construction.
• Further images show what is speculated to be tunnel construction.
• A set of images at a high ceiling underground mine which is not Cassiar depicts a man in a suite by a underground ore haulage truck, and other mining vehicles including a crane.
• A set of images depict an ungulate herd, possibly bighorn sheep, on a mountain side.
• The file includes several images which depict personal life, presumably from a family vacation, and access to these images may be restricted. These images depict man with children on a fishing trip, adults and children around a pool, a woman on a motorcycle, and a house and kitchen. Several groups of images are contained in envelopes annotated with dates and “K. Minty”.

File contains photographs of a report completed in 1980 depicting the ambulance garage, as well as the interior and exterior of the hospital building in Cassiar, B.C. Each room is captured, as well as medical equipment such as the X-ray, audiometer, lung function apparatus, and autoclave. A doctor, two nurses, and several patients are shown. Accompanying report contains a description of the medical facilities in Cassiar including a detailed budget, description of staffing and utility requirements, and a floor plan of the facilities.

In addition there are two albums of Cassiar Hospital and Pharmacy Staff engaging in social functions. These photographs appear to be informal and depict staff parties, people at work and some of the patients, including their thank you notes to the Cassiar Hospital staff.