Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine above valley bellow, north east mountain range in background. Photograph was taken from the air, portion of plane visible in top left of image.
Photograph depicts the mine valley in foreground below Cassiar Mine, north east mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine in foreground, north east mountain range in background. Tramline station and crushing plant visible in foreground in front of pit. Photograph was taken from the air, portion of plane visible in top left of image.
Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine in foreground, north east mountain range in background. Tramline station and crushing plant visible in foreground, west of pit. Photograph was taken from the air, portion of plane visible in top left of image.
Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine, switchback road in foreground, mountain range in background. Pit is visible to right of West peak. The new mine garage can be seen on West peak just above "#7 switchback" in centre of image.
Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine in left area of mountain range. The new mine garage can be seen on West peak on far left.
Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine in mountain range. Crushing plant and tramline station visible in foreground, and new mine garage can be seen on West peak on far left.
Photograph depicts the mine road in valley bellow mine. Cassiar plant and tailings pile in foreground. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Oct. 25 / 65 4:25 PM."
Photograph depicts the primary crushing plant in foreground. Mine road can be seen below, and plant is visible in distance. South mountains in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "1961-1962".
Photograph depicts buildings near West Peak of Cassiar mine. Haul trucks parked near old mine garage in background, new mine garage and unknown buildings in foreground. Mine valley crosses midground, expansive western mountain range in background.
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".
Photograph depicts the pit mine, and road in valley below. Town of Cassiar can be seen in distance at foot of south mountain range.
Photograph depicts the town of Cassiar in distance behind pit mine in foreground. South mountain range in background. Photograph was taken from the air, portion of plane visible in top left of image.
Photograph depicts the pit mine, and road in valley below. Town of Cassiar can be seen in distance at foot of south mountain range.
Photograph depicts chute from distance. Annotation on verso of photograph: "CASSIAR ASBESTOS CORP. LTD. MINE AND ORE CHUTE ON McDAMES MOUNTAIN".
Overview of the Giscome sawmill behind road. Lumber yard is visible in foreground while mill stands in background.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Giscome Mill / lumber yard in foreground".
Item is a photograph of a small mill operation.
Man driving a two horse cart in front of beehive burner, cart is full of bark presumably sawed off the logs.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Mill Burner".
File consists of papers and speeches written by Mike Halleran, including "Wilderness Discussion Paper", "In Search of Wilderness" (1983), and "The Politics of Scarcity" (1979).
Item is a photograph of a copy print that has been reproduced as a slide, resulting in low photographic quality. Location of original photograph unknown.
File consists of a photocopy of Levings and Lauzier's paper, "Migration Patterns of Wild and Hatchery-Reared Juvenile Chinook Salmon (oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the Nicola River, British Columbia", from the "Proceeding of the 1988 Northeast Pacific Chinook and Coho Salmon Workshop".
File consists an oral history with Michael Jull recorded by Barbara Coupe. Includes are transcripts and audio recordings.
Annotation on slide: "Summit Lake M. Jull on skid road with advanced regen".
Annotation on slide: "Summit Lk., Mod. vol. removal".
No annotation on slide.
Annotation on slide: "Blowdown due to butt rot (tomentosus), Summit Lake".
Annotation on slide: "Basal scarring on Douglas fir, Summit Lake".
No annotation on slide.
Annotation on slide: "Light residual basal area, Summit Lake, Summer '92, Jull".
Item is a compilation of reproductions titled "Methods Used in B.C. Ungulate Land Inventory".
File consists of a draft copy of an Aluminum Company of Canada Kemano Completion Hydroelectric Development Technical Memorandum by Envirocon entitled "Methods for the Determination of Spawning and Incubation Flow Requirements of Chinook Salmon".
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr. Marked plot reads: "F ^ B, Plot No. 112, North End".
Photograph depicts two men perched on top of a freight truck carrying a load of timber at Peden Hill sawmill.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Photograph depicts workers sitting in the back of a truck at the construction site for the Pacific Northern Gas pipeline from Summit Lake to Kitimat.
Photograph depicts two men on a 'Maple Leaf' Chevrolet truck's running board in an active logging area near Peden Hill sawmill. The truck is hauling raw logs. The man at the right of photograph is Cornel Neronovitch.
Photograph depicts two men on a log deck, possibly at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts three men standing with oars in small boat, forest slash at their feet. More slash lies in foreground behind bushes and plants on swampy shore. Trees in background. These men are believed to be members of the Bourchier forestry crew.
Footage of men fishing from a boat in a river.
Possible locations include the Bella Coola River or the Dean River.
Photograph depicts two men beside the creek below the lake outlet at the proposed site for the hydro power project on Klemtu Lake.
Photograph depicts two men aboard a two horse driven sleigh stopped on a snow covered path. Annotation on recto of photograph states: "The Top of Bald Mountain"
Photograph depicts pipeline construction workers for the Pacific Northern Gas pipeline from Summit Lake to Kitimat with a helicopter on the north end of Prudhomme Lake.
Photograph depicts two men and bulldozer near what appears to be many piles of logs. Unidentified buildings in background.