File consists of Christmas cards, invitations, ribbons, programmes and other memorabilia collected by Bea Dezell while her husband was mayor of Prince George.
File consists of materials related to official events and invitations for Mayor Garvin Dezell of Prince George. File includes correspondence, invitations, event schedules, and two photographs: one of a local dinner with RCMP and the other of Winnipeg CFL Grey Cup win celebration.
File consists of letters and notes to or on behalf of Mayor Garvin Dezell of Prince George.
File consists of newspaper clippings on "Welfare protest halts legislature" (Sun Victoria Bureau) and "Gallery protest fails to stop House passing welfare bill (Province Victoria Bureau).
File consists of:
- Letter and copy of 1936 presentation sent to Bridget Moran from Betty Rutherford (Nov. 2, 1978)
- Letter of thanks from the Ron Brent staff
- Copy of newspaper clippings from the Citizen
- Fax from Clelie Rich to Bridget Moran wishing her luck upon her resignation from the Board [CNC?] (July 1998)
- Fax from Mavis M. Gillie to Bridget Moran re: support for the finalization of the Nisga'a Agreement (Jan. 16, 1999)
- Generic letter to Bridget Moran from Mavis M. Gillie re: the Friends of the Nisga'a Committee. (Jan. 18, 1999).
File consists of a report on "Dual Allegiance: the history of wood buffalo national park, 1929-1965" by Barry Potyondi, reproduced on microfiche by Environment Canada.
File consists of a publication on the species classification of wood bison, William Rowan correspondence related to the Wood Buffalo Controversy, an edited article by Ainley and Tina Crossfield entitled, "Scientists vs. Government Experts: The Wood Buffalo Controversy, 1920-1991," photocopies of transcripts of House of Commons proceedings from the 1920s related to a plan for wood and plains buffalo conservation, articles on the species classification of wood bison and plans to decrease the number of bison as a result of an outbreak of disease among the bison in the 1990s, a table on the decrease in numbers of wood bison, and Ainley's research notes.
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 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.
This file includes two major photographic collections concerning the construction and development of the underground mine at Cassiar, title the McDame Project.
The first collection includes fifteen monthly progress reports documenting the development from July 1988 to December 1989. The progress reports are authored by G. Verret, and were distributed to the executives of Cassiar Asbestos in Vancouver as well officials of the B.C. Government and other creditors of the Corporation. Most images are annotated and dated. Many of the loose photographs are accompanied by an inventory sheet.
Subjects depicted include: the staging area prior to mine development, the initial development of the “Vent Portal”, a jumbo drill working on the mine face, the working face marked for drilling and wired with fuses, a Caterpillar dozer clearing snow after an avalanche, scene of a fire in winter time, complete conveyor sump decline, mining vehicle parked on the “Lay-Down Area” presumably near the portal, the working face of the mine at various stages of development, 1563 portal being slashed, the removal of the overburden for the tramline loading station site, the construction of the transfer tower(s), construction of the stockpile area, the construction of a sedimentation pond, a presumed cave in, construction of footings for the conveyor, construction of the tramline loading terminal station, construction of the crusher building, a slash titled “Breakthrough in Access Ramp”, storage of powder and fuses, a washout in conveyor decline, fog at the portal in -30 degrees Celsius, the 1290 junction flooded, a slab of shotcrete which fell on and injured a miner while shotcreting, shotcrete blasted off walls for repairs, images of the “Hilti-test”, shots showing grade of drift, and structural failures in the 1350 adit.
Locations and structure within the underground mine depicted include: yellow ventilation ducting, ground support including steel screen and shotcrete, steel cables bolted unto ground support, puddles in the adits, the access road to the lay-down area, the exhaust drift, “Fans and Heaters in the 1415 adit”, the 1350 sump, the access ramp to the 1320, the exhaust ramp safety bay, the conveyor decline, the ventilation adit, the 1563 portal, the temporary repair shop at the 1415 portal, junctions of various drifts, the ”Fresh Water Pump & Pumphouse on lower Creek”, the “Ventilation Raise/1563 Platform”, a “Diamond Drill Station” at 6066 North in the underground mine, the “Bridge to the Gravel Pit”, the “Crushing and Screening Plant” in the gravel pit, the ventilation bulkhead in the conveyor decline, and the “Powder Magazine”.
People depicted include Rose Gay and R. Tyne on a tour of the underground mine, a geologist with a rockhammer, a miner identified as A. Jacobs working, contract miners Bruno and Marbel from Canadian Mine Development, and unidentified miners rockbolting, shotcreting, and drilling using jackleg drills.
Vehicle and mining equipment depicted include jeeps, pickup trucks, a front end loader, an unidentified a small unmanned tracked machine with a long arm, scoop trams, a land cruiser, an ore truck with a flat tire, the cone crusher, a “scissor lift”, a mobile shotcrete machine, a new grout pump, a new Boart Jumbo Drill, and a detached bucket half of a 413 ore truck.
The second collection depicts the McDame Project construction in 1986 and 1987.
Content of these photographs includes: various machinery used for excavating and drilling, underground progress of tunneling, supports, wire meshing, rock formations in mine, and exposed asbestos. There are no annotations regarding this photographs.
File consists of correspondence, contracts, and drafts relating to the Women in Power project. Includes:
- Memorandum to Iona Campagnolo and other authors involved in the Women in Power project, from Maureen McTeer re: progress report, August 15, 1991
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Maureen McTeer re: publication contract and difficulties therein, August 20, 1991
- Fax correspondence to Maureen McTeer from Iona Campagnolo re: thank you, and providing an update on current activities, August 21, 1991
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Noona Barlow, Managing Editor, Random House of Canada Ltd. re: cancellation of Women in Power book project, September 3, 1991
File consists of correspondence, contracts, and drafts relating to the Women in Power project. Includes:
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Maureen McTeer, re: payment for manuscript, March 25, 1992
File consists of correspondence relating to the Women in Power project. Includes:
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo, Associate Director, McMaster International, from Maureen McTeer, November 14, 1989
- Section of original file folder with handwritten label: Women & Power book project, unrealized because publisher wanted ‘personal feelings’
File consists of correspondence, contracts and drafts relating to the Women in Power project. Includes:
- Fax of handwritten letter to Iona Campagnolo from Maureen McTeer re: publisher for Women in Power publication, January 18, 1990
- Letter to The Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé from Iona Campagnolo re: potential involvement with the Women in Power publication, February 6, 1990
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Ellen (Fairclough?) re: copy of manuscript, March 1, 1990
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from The Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé re: request for more information on the Women in Power publication and requirements, March 2, 1990
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Maureen McTeer re: payment, book signing, French contract, April 9, 1990 (includes copy of letter to Noona Barlow, Rights Department, Random House of Canada, Ltd. from Maureen McTeer re: contract revisions, March 8, 1990)
- Letter to Maureen McTeer from Iona Campagnolo re: details of project and contact information, April 18, 1990
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Noona Barlow, Rights Department, Random House Canada, Ltd. re: contract for All of Us: Women in Canadian Power and Politics, May 23, 1990 (includes contract and annotated versions)
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Maureen McTeer re: chapter revisions, December 4, 1990
- “Some of Us: Women and Political Power in Canada” text for the Hon. Ellen Fairclough, draft chapter for Women in Power (?)
File consists of records relating to the Women in Power project. Includes:
- Four page submission to: Random House of Canada Ltd., chapter written by Iona Campagnolo ( 2 copies)
- ‘Page 2’ of an unidentified section of text, re: Iona Campagnolo’s election to the office of School Trustee in 1966 and then to City Alder‘man’
File consists of records relating to the Women in Power project. Includes:
- Twenty-two page unidentified chapter presumed to be written as part of the Women in Power project. Speculated that this chapter was written by Maureen McTeer.
File consists of Weller's review of the book by James Johnston, "The Party's Over", which appeared in L.U.R. Vol. V, No. 2 (Fall 1972), pp 143-144. This file was originally numbered to correspond with book review number 1 listed in Weller's CV.
File consists of 1 VHS tape entitled "Vote of Confidence: Politics in the Central Interior" one of a five part series on Prince George's Past, Present and Future entitled Forum 2000 produced by Prince George Millennium Committee. This video recording looks at the issue of regional politics with following panelists: Mayor Colin Kinsley, former Mayor John Backhouse, Regional District Chair Bob Headrick, and broadcaster and former city councilor Bob Harkins.
File consists of one video-recording of 2 interviews by Bob Harkins with BC politician Dave Barrett.
File consists of correspondence, an article titled "Trading in the Future," and Weller's review of this publication.
File consists of correspondence and review by Geoffrey Weller "Reforming Health Care in Nova Scotia: The Political Uses of Devolved Authority."
File consists of several articles pertaining to economic issues in the Circumpolar North printed from the UNBC website. The file includes an article by Weller titled "Economic Diversification in the North" and other material related to this article.
File consists of correspondence and Weller's review of "The Crisis of Legitimacy in the North."
File consists of Weller's review of "The Impacts of Knowledge and Values on Perceptions of Environmental Risk to the Great Lakes" and related correspondence.
File consists of correspondence, a review sheet, and a manuscript titled "Resource Conflicts and International Property Rights."
File consists of an application for a research grant, Weller's review of the application, and related correspondence.
Files consists of correspondence and Weller's review of "An Assessment of Ontario's Health Strategy."
File consists of correspondence between Geoffrey Weller and Society and Natural Resources: An International Journal, Weller was on the editorial board of this journal.
File consists of study group paper by Pranlal Manga, Ian McDowell, Allan Best, and Weller titled "Health Services Research: Next Steps for OUCHR."
File consists of correspondence and Weller's review of "Resolution of Wilderness vs. Logging Conflicts in BC" by Jeremy Wilson.
File consists of correspondence and copy of a manuscript titled "The Extra-Billing Issue in Canada: The Dynamics and Limits of Symbolic Politics" (author not stated).
File consists of Weller's review of "Health and Change in the Subarctic." by T Kue Young and related correspondence.
File consists of Weller's review of "The Politics of Pensions" by Ann Orloff and correspondence.
File consists of an article published in the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal which quotes Weller's publication "Resource Development in Northern Ontario: A Case Study in Hinterland Politics."
File consists of newspaper clippings of letters to the editor by Weller and related correspondence.
File consists of a paper by Weller titled "Health and the Policy Process in Canada."
File consists of correspondence and a bibliography by Weller.
File consists of handwritten notes, a list of medical professionals and organizations, and correspondence.
File consists of newspaper clippings, notes, and a draft.
File consists handwritten notes and correspondence regarding Weller's research for his doctoral dissertation at McGill University as well as a list titled "Challenging Interests."
File consists of correspondence and a list of groups titled "repressed interests."
File consists of a newspaper clipping, correspondence, interview notes, and list of politicians.
File consists of correspondence concerning health care in Ontario.
File consists of lists of academics and their biographies, interview notes, and correspondence.
File consists of newspaper clippings, a questionnaire, and notes related to the questionnaire.
File consists of handwritten notes, an NDP discussion paper, a paper titled "Health Care in Canada" by Weller, and "Chapter 13 Ontario-Federal Intergovernmental Health Care Relations."
File consists of lists of bureaucrats, persons in the ministry of health, interview notes, and correspondence.
File consists of a draft titled "The Problem of Health Care Costs" and notes on health care statistics.
File consists of notes and draft of a chapter titled "The Parameters of State Intervention."
File consists of notes and a paper by Weller titled "The Executive, the Legislature and the Health Policy Process: The Case of Ontario," along with newspaper clippings.