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Collection consists of records regarding the Kemano Completion Project collected by four scientists that were involved in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans review of Alcan’s project. The majority of the material consists of copies of publications related to the scientists’ research and activities, many of which were written or annotated by them, such as reprints of journal articles, draft scientific reports, government publications, and newspaper clippings. Original scientific research records comprise raw data, field notes, memoranda, and draft reports. Includes correspondence regarding the Nechako River court action between DFO, Alcan, and the province and scientific reports that were created in anticipation of the case. Also includes significant material emanating from the British Columbia Utilities Commission Kemano Completion Project Public Review, such as correspondence, BCUC newsletters and news releases, exhibits and evidence submitted to the review panel, documents produced for the hearings, and final reports. In addition, includes records and publications relating to various other groups affected by the Kemano Completion Project or arising because of it, such as the Cheslatta Carrier Nation, the Rivers Defense Coalition, the Nechako Fisheries Conservation Program, the Nechako Watershed Council, the Nechako Environmental Enhancement Fund, and the Nechako River Alliance.

Photograph depicts large square model of the new mill building that was built at the Cassiar plant site in 1970. Model is displayed on green material set on a platform in snowy area. Machinery modeled inside the structure is colour-coded. Mountain in background.

File contains photographs documenting the construction of Cassiar's new mill building. Photos depict early excavation, foundations, framework, construction of all seven stories, sheeting, siding, and roof tarring. Also included are photos depicting the large model of the mill, as well as construction work done on the tramline. Photos taken inside the mill depict flooring work, and milling machinery including feed chutes, screens, fans, wheelabrators, control panels, electrical panels, conveyor systems, vacuum systems, and the fan-driven air system that transported the fiber. Many photos depict construction workers, building supplies, worksites, and equipment including cranes, bulldozers, tractors, hauling trucks and trailer flatbeds. Some photos depict aerial views from the new mill and feature the plantsite, tramline, mine road, mountains, and valley.

Photographs depict different construction projects at separate locations in Cassiar. Photographs were originally housed in envelopes with the following annotations: "POLICE STATION. July 15, 1977."; "Aggregates and Concrete (PERMASTEEL)"; "Fibre Storage and Handling"; "Powerhouse Expansion"; "Sewage Collection Plant."; "Sewage Treatment Plant"; "Single Person Accommodations - Site Work."; "Outside Work - Camp Nos. 1,2,3." Photos generally feature the work sites, supplies, vehicles, machinery, and work in progress at each location.

Additional photographs integrated into file include maintenance project on lining of tubes, lining of aspiration hood, and lining of willow fiberizer. Also five photographs of maintenance in the townsite to fix in ground piping.

File contains set of images taken in Faro, Y.T. Annotation on photo envelope reads: “Visit to / CYPRUS ANVIL / FARO Y.T. / SEPT 1975 / BY DALE CARIN / R. WILSON.” Images depict the pit mine operated by Cyprus Anvil Corporation, including a grader, ore hauling truck (likely a Wabco), an explosives transport truck, and unidentified equipment including an electrical utility box and some type of rotating wheel in the mill building.

File includes six aggregations of photographs which have been assembled in this file in order to maintain the integrity of each group by keeping the photos arranged together, though each group features operations pertaining to multiple files in this subseries. Includes groups featuring photos from 1961, 1965 1971, a helicopter trip, a community album, and a workplace album. Photographs depict images pertaining to the following operations at Cassiar, B.C.: mining, milling, maintenance, labratory tests, and tramline and town operations. Images featuring operations of the company town include the grocery store, bank, churches, school, library, lounge, pool, theater, community center, outdoor recreation, hospital, dentist, cafeteria, bus route, residences, air strip, firehall, laundromat, park, police, and newspaper.

File contains 4 sheets of microfiche depicting a parts and service manual, wiring diagrams and schematics for a GAF Print Vac 190 printing machine that was used in the Engineering Department.

This file contains various aspects of the underground mine.

• Photos depicting damage to the underground mine such as fallen rocks, cracked shotcrete, twisted rock bolts and metal mesh, exposed and damaged steel structural frames, and repairs underway.
• Steel cables, chains, support arches, and custom welded rebar frames used in the structural reinforcement of the underground mine.
• Several engineering tests related to the structural damages are depicted.
• Two sets of images show a Porta Power hydraulic tool with a ready rod attached, a hand pump, as well as images of a technician testing the holding power of a rock bolt.
• Set of images documents a technician drilling cores and installing extensometer anchors, as well as grouting the anchors and connecting an extensometer. Technicians are shown inspecting damages with a ruler and rockhammer for scale.
• A set of images showcase the threaded rebar, nuts, and face plates used for rockbolts.
• Utility vehicles, yellow vent ducting, and utility pipes are visible in several images.
• Also include is an image of a man in office space, foggy night scene with a telephone pole, office desk, stack of supplies including concrete, steel cable, and spray paint, and several images of a broken piece of ore and concrete outside the mine portal.
• Several images depict miners working in the bucket of a scoop tram.
• Photos of the stramler feeder breakers, which was used in the underground mine.
• Images of ground support verifications where the deficiency of the exhaust ramp was investigated. This collection has various annotations explaining the broken shotcrete and the wire mesh installed.
• A collection of photographs depicting tunnel shotcrete failures. Each photograph has an accompanied textual annotation.
• Photos of MMD #750 Sizer equipment - assumed used in Underground Mine.
• Photos of pump used in 1335 level, wheel fan for ventilation removed from 1350 level,
• A collection of ground fall event 29 March 1989 - with annotations depicting damage

Photograph depicts colour-coded model of mine in display case. Legend partially legible in image: "TALUS / VOLCANICS / WASTE SERPENTINE / AAA ORE / AA ORE". Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Cassiar B.C. June 1970 by Tom Kiefer".

File consists of miscellaneous reports, research material, memoranda and correspondence related to Total Gas Pressure (TGP) research and/or flow analysis research. Includes copies of the following reports: "Effect of Elevated Water Temperatures on Infectious Diseases of Salmonids, Particularly Chinook Salmon" by G.R. Bell; and "Experience in Michigan with Gas Supersaturation" by Harry Westers.

File consists of a published copy of the Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 1386, entitled "Assessment of the Influence of Gas Supersaturation on Salmonids in the Nechako River in Relation to Kemano Completion" written by Alderdice and Jensen of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Also includes final drafts of the work and memoranda related to its publication.

File consists of copies of Department of Fisheries and Oceans correspondence and memoranda regarding the Nechako River court action with Alcan. Also includes copies of the "Amended Statement of Defence to Amended Counterclaim" for the Attorney General of Canada v. Alcan case.

File consists of a copy of "A Report of the Kemano Task Force: Review of the Environmental Studies Report Submitted by Alcan in Support of the Kemano Completion Proposal in Relation to Continued Fish Production from the Rivers Involved" and an accompanying memorandum. Report has been annotated by Alderdice.

File consists of a copy of the 'Notice of Motion' for the case between the Save the Bulkley Society, Nechako Neyenkut Society, United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union, BC Wildlife Federation, Steelhead Society of British Columbia, and Canadian Association of Smelter and Allied Workers v. the Minister of the Enivornment, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and Minister of Transport. Includes Nancy Morgan, Don Alderdice, and Patricia Moss' affidavits for the case. Also includes clippings, Alderdice's notes, and correspondence.

File consists of a copy of "Restructuring Research: Survival of the Fittest", an address to Royal Society Members at the University of Alberta on March 25, 1994.

File consists of copy of "British Columbia Utilities Commission Kemano Completion Project Review - Final Argument Phase V: Rivers Defense Coalition" sent to Don Alderdice from Andrew Thompson.

File consists of a copy of the "Conceptual Alternatives for a Release Facility at Kenney Dam: An Interim Report of the Kenney Dam Release Facility Working Group", related figures and notes by Alderdice, and a letter to David Lane of the T. Buck Suzuki Foundation regarding the Interim Report.

File consists of a copy of letter from J. Harold Mundie to George Baker, the Chair of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans in the House of Commons. Includes a post-it note from Harold to Don regarding the letter.

Series consists of Mundie’s records and collected material related to the Kemano Completion Project. Mainly includes copies of publications related to Mundie’s research and activities, such as reprints of journal articles, scientific reports, and government publications. Also includes a small portion of correspondence and internal DFO memoranda regarding the Nechako River court action.

File consists of a photocopy of chapter 11 of "Pacific Salmon: Management for People", edited by Derek Ellis and published by the University of Victoria in 1977. The excerpted chapter, written by J.H. Mundie, is entitled "Concluding Remarks: The Problem in its Setting".

File consists of a copy of a memorandum from Fretwell to Levings, Healey and Shirvell regarding "Nechako Court Action - Possible Remedial Measures to Maintain Productivity at Low Flows". Includes two attached documents entitled "Proposed Nechako River Monitoring and Remedial Measures" and "Summary of Remedial Measures Options".

File consists of "Report on the Fisheries Problems Created by the Development of Power in the Nechako-Kemano-Nanika River Systems - Supplement No. 1: Temperature Changes in the Nechako River and Their Effects on the Salmon Populations". The report was prepared by the Department of Fisheries of Canada and the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission.

File consists of "Salmon Studies Associated with the Potential Kemano II Hydroelectric Development - Volume 3: Chinook Salmon Studies on the Nechako River". Annotated by Gordon Hartman.

File consists of "Salmon Studies Associated with the Potential Kemano II Hydroelectric Development - Volume 7: The Economic and Social Impact of the Kemano II Hydroelectric Project on British Columbia's Fisheries Resources" by William Sinclair.

File consists of "Assessment of the Impact of the Kemano II Proposal on the Fish and Wildlife Resources of the Nanika-Kidprice and Morice Systems". Includes appendices to the report with raw data.

File consists of a paper written by W.G. Hazelwood entitled "Alcan Environmental Baseline Studies: A Critique".

File consists of report prepared by Mike Morrell for Save The Bulkley entitled "Impacts of Alcan's Kemano Project and the Federal-Provincial-Alcan Agreement on Salmon Populations of the Nechako and Fraser Rivers".

File consists of the second final draft of the "A Report of the Kemano Task Force: Review of the Environmental Studies Report Submitted by Alcan in Support of the Kemano Completion Proposal in Relation to Continued Fish Production from the Rivers Involved". The first final draft of this report was released in August 1987, a second final draft was released in April 1990, and a third final draft in 1994. The Report of the Kemano Task Force was never officially published, although it was made available upon request to the public after 1994. This copy annotated in depth by Hartman.

File consists of Hartman's copy of his paper with Alderdice entitled "The Alcan-Federal-Provincial Nechako River Controversy: A Case History of Why People Lose Faith in the Political Process". Annotated by Hartman.

File consists of copy of data published in unknown source. Includes daily discharge and water level data for Nechako and Fraser Rivers.

File consists predominantly of copied and faxed Department of Fisheries and Oceans memoranda and correspondence from 1990-1993, likely obtained through an Access to Information request from the Cheslatta Carrier Nation. Also includes correspondence regarding the British Columbia Utilities Commission Kemano Completion Project Review.

File consists of correspondence and memoranda from the Cheslatta Band and Carrier Sekani Tribal Council relating to the British Columbia Utilities Commission Kemano Completion Project Review of 1994. Includes copied and faxed correspondence and informational material.

File consists of an original Klohn Leonoff report prepared for Alcan entitled "Kemano Completion Project: Nechako Reservoir Flood Forecasting and Operating Study".

File consists of Rankin and Finlay report entitled "Alcan's Kemano Project: Options and Recommendations". Annotated by Dr. Gordon Hartman and/or John Hummel, Cheslatta Band researcher.

File consists of a paper by Michael Bradford entitled "Trends in the Abundance of Chinook Salmon of the Nechako River, British Columbia".

File consists of copied papers by Dennis Ableson, Fisheries Biologist, faxed from the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council and Cheslatta Band Offices to Hartman. Includes "The Nechako River: A River in Crisis - Summary Impacts of the Proposed Kemano Completion Project", a presentation that Ablseon made to the American Fisheries Society at the Aboriginal Fisheries Conference.

File consists of a 1994 copy of a report from 1952 entitled "Kemano River Survey - 1950: Biological Investigations". Authorship is attributed to an unknown Department of Fisheries biologist.

File consists of a 1994 re-working of Lyons and Larkin's original 1952 Fisheries Management Report entitled "The Effects on Sport Fisheries of the Aluminum Company of Canada Limited Development in the Nechako Drainage". The report was retyped and pictures were added for the British Columbia Utilities Commission Public Review of the Kemano Completion Project.