File contains a monthly recording of the wages and expenses of employees from May 1898 to October 1901.
Buildings visible on shore in distance.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Amidst drift ice on Fishing Bay Nass River. Insert at Page 38. Indian Fishing Encampment".
Photograph depicts a cannery on pilings over the water with other cannery buildings in the background.
Photograph depicts a line of cannery fishing boats being towed across the water with the base of a mountain in the background.
Photograph depicts a distance perspective of several cannery buildings with a body of water in the foreground and a mountain range in the background.
Photograph depicts a building under construction with wood planks on the dock in the foreground and a forested area in the background.
Photograph depicts cannery buildings on wooden pilings with a body of water in the foreground and a forested area in the background.
Photograph depicts cannery buildings on pilings with a body of water in the foreground and tree covered mountains in the background.
Photograph depicts cannery buildings on pilings with a body of water in the foreground and a deforested area behind the shoreline.
Image depicts the BC Packers Ltd. cannery in Prince Rupert, B.C.
Map depicts passenger routes on the Canadian Pacific Railway and its connecting lines in 1925.
Image depicts numerous piles of wood planks at the Canadian National Railway Yards in Prince George, B.C. The cutbanks are seen in the background.
Map depicts the CNR system in Canada and the United States and all of its connecting lines, including the Central Vermont Railway, the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, and the Duluth Winnipeg & Pacific Railway.
Map depicts the Canadian National Railway system, including trackage for the Central Vermont Railway, the Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Railroad, the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, the Duluth Winnipeg & Pacific Railway, and the Northern Alberta Railway.
This fonds consists of membership lists and application forms, correspondence, reports, minutes, information bulletins, and constitution & by-law information created or received by the Canadian Institute of Forestry - Cariboo Section during its first years of establishment.
Canadian Institute of ForestryMap depicts the shipping highway routes across Canada. Primary, secondary, and access routes are noted as-well as proposed routes.
Photograph of a factory on the shoreline amidst a forested area. The factory is emitting steam or smoke and has a white exterior. Annotation on recto reads "Canadian Fish & Cold Storage Co. Prince Rupert BC."
Publication contains booklet entitled "Canadian Crude Oil Supply-Demand Outlook and Related Issues" which was submitted to the West Coast Oil Ports Inquiry.
Map depicts Canadian railways in operation at 2011.
Photograph depicts five long buildings in forest clearing, lining left of a road down the center of the image. Wood piles are stacked against buildings. Men can be seen in distance near a white tent.
Photograph depicts a numerous variety of buildings in snowy clearing of forest. A car is parked in foreground on road leading into the camp. Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "Sumit Lake Camp". It is speculated that this may be the Campbell Construction Co. road camp.
Photograph depicts the camp at Summit Lake, B.C., a numerous variety of buildings in snowy clearing of forest. A car is parked in foreground on road leading into the camp. It is speculated that this may be the Campbell Construction Co. road camp.
Photograph depicts the boom, stick, and bucket of a "Northwest" cable shovel loading a dump truck in excavation area, snow and forest in background.
Stick, boom, and bucket of a "NORTHWEST" cable shovel excavator can be seen left of a steep wall of earth in lower level of construction area. Construction worker is partially visible in foreground on far right. Building materials in background.
Overview of Giscome, BC showing built and natural landscape.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Bunkhouse & Dining Room / Giscome BC".
File contains a record of the mine’s monthly expenses from August 31, 1896 to October 1898. Pages 1 - 67 are torn out and missing.
The fonds consists of six company ledgers: 1894 - 1896, 1896, 1898 - 1901, 1900, 1904 - 1905, 1923 - 1926. Also includes 15 pages of correspondence and notes. The ledgers note expenses for various operations in the mine and in the company owned premises in town. The letters and notes concern the purchase of explosives for the mine and discusses the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company.
Bullion MinesPhotograph depicts man driving bulldozer in front of framework for Crusher building, view facing into the mountain. Excavated dirt in foreground.
Photograph depicts a round bucket attached to the main hook line of a crane and suspended over building framework in crusher construction site (crane not visible in image). Men stand around the bucket on high level of crusher building. A dirt road and long building believed to be housing conveyor "B" can be seen in background.
Photograph depicts a round bucket attached to the main hook line of a crane (crane not visible in image) suspended over building framework in crusher construction site. Four construction workers stand around the bucket. Two men can be seen on roof of long building in background believed to be the section of the crusher building which housed conveyor B. Dirt road crosses midground.
Map depicts the Coast of British Columbia and Federal and Provincial proposed fishing boundaries, including the 200 mile limit.
Map depicts railways in British Columbia, with insets for the Lower Mainland and the Kootenays.
Government map depicts railway lands, lands "disposed of", grazing leases, and timber berths. Shows the British Columbia 'railway belt' running from Greater Vancouver to Field, B.C.
Map depicts annotations of the freight-way routes throughout British Columbia. These routes include: the Garnet Enterprise Truck Haul from Vancouver to Terrace, the Canadian Freightways from Vancouver to Edmonton to Alaska; the Lindsay Transfer from Terrace to Dease Lake and Telegraph Creek; and the Northland Navigation roll-on and roll-off service.
Image depicts the entrance to a mine with an unknown individual present. It is possibly the entrance to the closed Britannia Mine in the Howe Sound Region.
Image depicts a number of old buildings, possibly located at the closed Britannia Mine.
Image depicts a piece of industrial machinery, possibly located at the closed Britannia Mine. Two unknown individuals are also present in the image.
Image depicts a conveyor belt, possibly located inside one of the old buildings at what is possibly the closed Britannia Mine.
Image depicts the inside of a mine with an unknown individual present. It is possibly the inside of the closed Britannia Mine.
Image depicts the Bridge River No. 1 hydroelectric station on the shore of Seton Lake (rear side of powerhouse).
Image depicts the old sales office of Bralorne Pioneer Mines Ltd. which is now the Bralorne Pioneer Museum.
Image depicts what is possibly an old, rundown mill in Bralorne, B.C.
Image depicts what is possibly an old, rundown mill in Bralorne, B.C.
The Cassiar Asbestos Corporation and townsite records encompass a massive archival holding of approximately 1,600 bankers boxes. A box level inventory was created by student employees of the archives over a 15-year period. This inventory is provided here for access purposes only and its accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
In 1952 the Cassiar Asbestos Mining Corporation constructed an asbestos open-pit mine and mill and created a town site for its workers that became the town of Cassiar, British Columbia, 50 miles south of the Yukon border, and 80 miles north of Dease Lake. For 40 years Cassiar was a thriving asbestos mining town with a population at its peak of about 2500, with production statistics for 1989, recording over 60 million tonnes of ore mined, producing a billion dollars of new wealth. In 1989 Cassiar added an underground mine to the site, and despite attempts to run it profitably, in 1992 the entire mine closed partially due to the global market decline in the demand for asbestos, resulting in the closure of the town, and the move of its workers and families out of Cassiar. An auction was held to sell off all the mining equipment, townsite infrastructure, its buildings, people’s residences and the site was bull-dozed, with many houses burned to the ground. Today little remains in this remote area of Northern British Columbia to mark Cassiar’s industrial, economic or social history.
In 1992 the University of Northern British Columbia acquired the holdings of CAMC and the Cassiar townsite recognizing its potential for academic research, as the records could provide insight into natural resource industry extraction operations in Northern BC from mid to late 20th century, illustrative of ‘boom & bust’ industries, and to provide context to the development of the Cassiar Asbestos Mining Corporation and the history of the ‘life’ of a one-industry company town. The holdings document mining operations by CAMC and of the town site of Cassiar, originally consisting of the equivalent of 1800+ bankers’ boxes, including records on construction, engineering, operations, administration of CAMC, tallies of extractions, labour and union activities, corporate events and visits by dignitaries (including Prime Minister Trudeau who visited CAMC’s northern operations unit in Clinton Creek in 1968 and M.P. Iona Campagnolo in 1978). As CAMC was owner of both the mine and the Cassiar town, the company provided municipal services (i.e. sewer, water, and electricity) for its workers and their families. The archived municipal records document townsite construction, including the creation of health, education and community services such as Cassiar’s private hospital, school, library, community centre, hockey arena, and retail store. The holdings also include extensive visual documentation of natural and man-man landscapes within this remote and scenic area of Northern British Columbia. The formats of the archival holdings are diverse consisting of textual, photographic, cartographic materials, electronic records, films, promotional video-recordings, and a near complete run of the Cassiar community’s print newspaper.
Photograph depicts body of dragline crane in snowy area, trees, building, and other vehicles in background. A wood door or structure is semi-visible on far left.
Item consists of transcript of interview with former Provincial Deputy Minister Mike Apsey conducted by Bob Harkins at Prince George Radio Station, CJCI regarding the Forest Act.
Harkins, BobItem consists of transcript of interview with Bruce Douglas conducted by Bob Harkins at Prince George Radio Station, CJCI regarding his career in early railways in Prince George region and memories of the sawmills in Giscome area..
Harkins, BobItem consists of transcript of taped interview with former railway conductor Alex Clapperton conducted by Bob Harkins at Prince George Radio Station, CJCI regarding his career as a railway conductor with Pacific Great Eastern Railway. Clapperton also discusses memories of growing up in Prince George.
Harkins, BobFonds consists of textual records, photographic items and published reports related to professional life and career of Bob Harkins, broadcaster, local historian, and former city councilor. Includes textual and photographic items related to development and history of city of Prince George and the Central Interior of BC region history and development in late 20th century. Items includes an unpublished manuscript on the life of Ray Williston by Eileen Williston, an unpublished paper on the history of technological change in logging industry; an unpublished paper on the history of radio and television in Prince George; a report related to the creation of a university for Northern British Columbia (1989) and proofs of the publication "Wild Liard Waters: Canoeing Canada's Historic Liard River" by Ferdi Wenger, c.1998. Also includes photographic files including CKPG Radio Studio photographic items c.1953; and photographs and correspondence regarding guide outfitter Skook Davidson c.1975.
Harkins, BobPhotograph depicts the "Little Current" and other boats at the Prince Rupert marina.