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Photograph depicts a Chevrolet pickup truck on highway to right of Mud Lake, at Km 632 on the Stewart-Cassiar Highway. Forest on hillside in background.

Photograph depicts unidentified young man at clothes dryers. Wall of cubby compartments in background; washing machines and piles of laundry in foreground. Clothes in pile appear to be all coveralls or denim, possibly work clothes.

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 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 trees and pickup trucks in front of long building speculated to be an apartment residence.

Photograph depicts unidentified men and women at counter in Royal Bank at Cassiar, B.C. Two employees stand behind counter.

Photograph depicts unidentified men and women in front of yellow building with the signs "POST OFFCE / BUREAU DE POST / CASSIAR, B.C.", "NO PARKING". Three cars (one with siren on top) can be seen in foreground; forest in background.

Photograph depicts Joseph wearing safety gear while standing at testing equipment on raised sampling station. Sign below Joseph reads "DO NOT DISTURB / SAMPLING IN PROGRESS / PROPERTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL DEPT. / CASSIAR ASBESTOS LTD." Helen Joseph took air quality tests in the working areas and town (see item 2000.1.1.3.19.135). Power lines, unidentified building, and mountain base visible in background. Photo was taken during winter.

Photograph depicts unidentified man wearing apron while handling fruit in produce section of grocery store. Second individual semi-visible on far right.

Photograph depicts three unidentified individuals browsing magazine section of store.

Photograph depicts three unidentified women (two behind counter) at till in grocery store. "MEAT" and FROZEN FOOD" sections visible in background.

Photograph depicts four unidentified individuals walking in front of Cassiar Private Hospital. Sign in foreground reads "VISITING HOURS EVERY DAY / 2 PM - 4 PM / 7 PM - 8 PM".

Photograph depicts six unidentified individuals in interior of curling rink.

Photograph depicts group of children standing in front of diving board, watching a peer dive into water below. Group of swimmers visible in background below domed roof of pool.

Photograph depicts two unidentified men playing tennis in foreground. Buildings stand in midground, including what appears to be the All Saints Anglican Community Church. Forest and mountain in background.

Photograph depicts church believed to be the All Saints Anglican Community Church at Cassiar, B.C. Trees and fence in foreground, forest and mountain in background.

Photograph depicts woman standing to right of bookshelf. Chair in foreground, door and bookshelves in background.

Photograph depicts two unidentified men wearing coveralls, hard hats, and headphones, while working at table in garage. Blasthole drill stands behind them 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 the old company store located at corner of Connell Driver and Creery Street. Retail store was located under company cafeteria "the Cookery", with butcher shop in back. The Cookery was known for serving good food and providing excellent service.

Photograph depicts three unknown RCMP constables standing in red serge uniform.

Photograph depicts Trudeau wearing a white hardhat and standing with a group of men and women.

Photograph depicts Trudeau walking with men in white hardhats by a bus.

Photograph depicts Trudeau speaking with men white hardhats while standing by mine machinery.

Photograph depicts a party of ambassadors standing outside a Canadian military airplane at Clinton Creek.

Photograph depicts a party of ambassadors standing outdoors near a dumptruck that is being loaded with dirt at Clinton Creek.

Photograph depicts a party of ambassadors wearing hardhats and walking outdoors past a building at Clinton Creek.

Photograph depicts a party of ambassadors wearing hardhats while inspecting the inside of the mine at Clinton Creek.

Photograph depicts Danny Demitr speaking with an unknown man.

Photograph depicts group of eight men standing on front steps of Cassiar's Main Office building. Top, left to right: Ken A. Creery, John Drybrough. Middle, left to right: John E. Kennedy, Tam Zimmermann. Bottom, left to right: Fred Martin Connell, George Washington Smith, W. Harold Connell, Charles Rainforth Elliot. Windows and doors to office in background, flowers in bottom right foreground. Photo believed to have been taken on the same day as items 2000.1.1.4.3.4 - 2000.1.1.4.3.6.

Photograph depicts group of nine men standing on lawn in front of building known as "House 130" or "Director's Lodge". Left to right: Andre Beguin, unknown, Charles Rainforth Elliot, Jack Christian, W. Harold Connell, Plato Malezemoff (from Newmont Mining), Tam Zimmermann, Ken A. Creery, Fred Martin Connell. Daffodils and tulips planted in foreground, trees and mountains in background. Most men featured in photo are believed to be members of Cassiar's Board of Directors; Beguin was a General Superintendent.

Photograph depicts three men with fishing gear. Trees and mountains in background. Left to right: Plato Malezemoff (holding fish), Jack Christian, Tam Zimmermann.

Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "FORMING FOOTING RETAINING WALL JULY 4/64." Photograph depicts construction workers
standing in forms for cement laid against mountain wall on high elevation of construction site. A retaining structure made with wood planks and rebar separates mountainside dirt from cement forms. A front end loader can be seen in midground, near unidentified building. Mountain range in background.

Photograph depicts the Cassiar townsite in foreground. Mill, dry rock storage building, and tailings pile can be seen in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "1958 [1961 crossed through]."

Photograph depicts the mine road in valley below bulldozer parked on edge of mountain. Cassiar plant and town visible in distance, south mountains behind them in background. Photo also depicts what appears to be a cloud rising from the tailings pile in plantsite.

Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine after extensive strip mining. It is believed that the North and South peak stand in background, and the West peak in foreground. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "1971".

Photograph depicts exposed asbestos fibre in talus and outcrop.

Photograph depicts shovel loading Kenworth haul truck in mine. Unknown man stands on left, mountain range in background.

Photograph depicts dump truck under power lines and tramlines on gravel road. Buckets hang on line, mountains in background.

Photograph depicts a man in work clothes and hard hat standing with hands placed on the first of many tram buckets hanging in a line. Steel beam framework of station building rises above him. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "[F1?] LOADING STATION EL. 5800". Photograph was glued to cardboard backing with the annotation: "1962".

Photograph depicts red truck dumping waste at what is believed to be the tailings pile at the Cassiar plant. Small building and unidentified individual in bottom left foreground, valley and mountains in background. Photo caption next to printed copy of image in 1953 Annual Report: "Stockpile of 80,000 tons of Ore at Mill."

Photograph depicts large dry rock storage building in foreground on left, mill in background, dryer building in right midground. Miscellaneous supplies in far right foreground, mountains visible in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Sept 1954". This photograph was originally stored inside duotang labeled "CASSIAR ASBESTOS CORPORATION LIMITED PHOTOGRAPHS 1954"; photo caption beneath this image: "40,000 Ton Dry Storage Building / Mill / Dryer Building".

Photograph depicts the large bearing cups of one of the Ruston Hornsby diesel engines that turned the generators in the power house on the Cassiar plant. Engine believed to be under repair. Electric panels and unidentified individual in background.

Photograph of two workers in background working on the Mill Modification program in 1970. This photo is part of larger collection of 71 photographs of this program, compiled into a report in 1978.

Photograph depicts the inside of a mill.

Photograph depicts buildings at various locations in mine: crushing plant (centre?) and what is believed to be the original tramline loading station on left. Mine road featured in center, blasthole drill visible near dump truck in midground. Mine valley in background. Photo believed to have been taken from mine's South Peak. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "1961".

Photograph depicts an Atlas Copco Drillmaster (blasthole drill) near the mine road, mountainside in background. This is a precision hammer drill which had its own power source. It is believed that this photo was taken on the North ridge, near the cirque dump. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "1961".

Photograph depicts a man wearing a hard hat preparing explosive material, mountains in background. Dog stands near edge in midground, large bags of Ammonium Nitrate in right foreground. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "1961".

Photograph depicts explosion, part of the bench-mining process employed at Cassiar. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "1961".

Photograph depicts crawler cable shovel, bucket over box of Kenworth truck in excavation area of mine. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "1961".