Photograph depicts Cornel Neronovitch standing by a 'Maple Leaf' Chevrolet truck near the Peden Hill sawmill. Raw logs are stacked and chained on the truck.
Series consists of images pertaining the Collison family, North Coastal First Nations communities, means of transportation along North Coastal British Columbia, and various church structures and religious events.
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".
Six men visible on hillside and wood plank roadway, working together to roll cut logs down the hill and load them onto the truck.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso read: “logs up to 32 feet in length.”
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a switchback, wood plank logging road.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Truck Logging / Giscome BC.”
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a wood plank logging road. Another road under construction is also visible through forest in background.
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.
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".
Fully loaded logging truck driving along a wood plank logging road. Another road under construction is also visible through forest in background.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Logging - Giscome B.C. Plank truck road - also road under construction showing sills & cribbing."
Overview of Giscome, BC showing built and natural landscape.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Bunkhouse & Dining Room / Giscome BC".
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Daily Capacity 100,000 f.b.m. sawmill in foreground planer mill and lumber yard in background.”
An “Indiana” flatbed logging truck releases logs from its load onto a makeshift log slide at the edge of a road.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "unloading logs".
Photograph depicts workers cutting timber with a lomen planer at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts a Fraser River backchannel with logs at Peden Hill sawmill. The jackladder to the sawmill is visible on the bottom right.
Photograph depicts a lomen planer in operation at Peden Hill Sawmill lumber yard. Other workers and stacks of timber are nearby.
Photograph depicts a log jack-ladder up to Nash Sawmill, co-owned by Cornel Neronovitch and Fred Tesluk. This sawmill was steam powered and burnt down in 1941. The sawmill was located on a back-channel of the Fraser River.
Photograph depicts two men felling a tree using a two-man crosscut saw in the Prince George area for processing at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts a loaded logging truck on corduroy log road near Peden Hill sawmill. The truck has three passengers--a man and two women--sitting on top of the loaded logs. The leftmost passenger is Mrs. Fred Tesluk; Fred Tesluk co-owned the Peden Hill mill with Cornel Neronovitch. Cornel Neronovitch stands at the right of the photograph, in front of the truck.
Photograph depicts the lumber yard at Peden Hill sawmill, likely after the fire that burnt down the first mill at that location.
Photograph depicts two men using a gin pole, winch and jammer to load raw logs onto a logging truck, likely near Peden Hill sawmill.
Plan depicts "scheme B" of the proposed 6 stall addition to the roundhouse at Kamloops, BC.
Photograph depicts three men loading raw logs onto a 'Maple Leaf' Chevrolet truck near the Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts the Peden Hill sawmill, after the mill was rebuilt after the first mill burnt down in 1941. The first mill was operated by steam; the second mill was powered by a diesel-powered motor.
Photograph depicts a sawmill with a dry kiln next to a rail line. The location and name of the sawmill is unknown.
Photograph depicts a man standing near a log deck at a sawmill, possibly at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts a man standing next to a log chute bringing logs out of the Fraser River into a backchannel at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts Cornel Neronovitch at a Peden Hill sawmill. Caption on back of photograph states: "Cornel Neronovitch".
Photograph depicts two men on a log deck, possibly at Peden Hill sawmill.
Technical drawing of Kettle Valley Railway depicts trackage and a gradient profile for the line.
Photograph depicts a male worker operating a gin pole, winch and jammer to hoist logs onto a logging truck at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts horse logging.
Photograph depicts a young man sitting at the top of an active sawmill jackladder at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts a log boom in the Fraser River. These logs were waiting to go into jackladder and down the log chute into the Fraser River backchannel at Peden Hill sawmill.
Photograph depicts a man sitting on a truck that is transporting logs at Peden Hill Sawmill.
Photograph depicts group of 15 men posed in formal room. George Washington Smith (President of Bell Mines) sits in centre on left, shaking hands with Alfred Penhale. Bottom, left to right: Mr. Janitsch, Andrew Johnson, G.W. Smith, Alfred Penhale, unknown, Bill Johnson. Top, left to right: unknown, unknown, C.B. Brown, Pierre Marcotte, F.P. Smith, unknown, unknown, Bill Oughtred, Jack Christian.
A collection of 10 photographs of documented exploration in the early 1950s in and around the Cassiar area. Noted locations are Quartz Creek, Mocassin Mines, Blue River Bridge and the Alaska Highway.
Photograph depicts close view of four men in formal attire holding beverages while having a discussion. Left to right: Jack Christian (President Cassiar), Fred Martin Connell (Chairman and Chairman of Conwest Exploration Company Limited), W. Harold Connell (older brother of FM and Director of Conwest), and Charles Rainforth Elliot (Director and President of Conwest Exploration). Framed painting visible on wall in background.
Photograph depicts close view of four men in formal attire holding beverages while having a discussion. Left to right: Jack Christian (President Cassiar), Fred Martin Connell (Chairman and Chairman of Conwest Exploration Company Limited), W. Harold Connell (older brother of FM and Director of Conwest), and Charles Rainforth Elliot (Director and President of Conwest Exploration). Framed painting visible on wall in background.
Photographic overview of the Eagle Lake Sawmill. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “The mill.”
File consists of two ledgers recording sales and expenditures. One ledger includes shipping and sales as well as expenditures, including salaries, from Oct. 1944 to June 1951. The other ledger, with "M + T Journal" on the cover, records logging accounts and payroll from Sept. 1942 to Nov. 1950.
Overview of sawmill situated in valley. Finished lumber visible in distance.
A collection of photographs from the site that Cassiar was being built in the early 50s. Photos depict lumber piles, early camp area, the first buildings, mountains, and the creek.
Along with this collection there are a set of images also from the early Cassiar site mainly depicting a dirt road and various individuals and machinery along it.
This photograph collection consists of 53 photographs featuring primarily Giscome with a few of Prince George. Subjects include the Eagle Lake Sawmill, Eagle Lake, Giscome townsite (including specific buildings and general road perspectives), Giscome School, Division II class photos (1950-51), and the Giscome School teacherage.
Overhead photograph of Giscome with the Eagle Lake Sawmill's beehive burner clearly visible in left foreground. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “Part of our community. school * ”
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.
Photograph depicts crane in Cassiar plant site, steel framework for dry rock storage building in background.
Photograph depicts large dry rock storage building on left, mill in background, dryer building on far right. Road and power poles cross foreground, mountains stand in background. Photo caption next to printed copy of image in 1953 Annual Report: "Completed dry rock storage and dryer buildings."