"B" Mill Machine Room low bay lighting looking S.
Unloading steel for #2 Turbo-Generator building looking N.W.
Lime Kiln Piers from track #14 looking N.W.
"B" Mill Machine Room from N-S road looking N.E.
"B" Mill Machine Room from N.W. Corner looking S.E.
"B" Mill Machine Room from near Locker Room looking N.E.
"B" Mill Pulping Group from S.W. Corner looking N.E.
"B" Mill Pulping Group from N-S road looking N.E.
Roof beams for "B" Mill Pulping Group looking N.W.
"B" Mill Pulping Group from track #9 looking N.W.
"B" Mill Machine Room from W. road looking South East.
"B" Mill Pulping Group from near Woods Div. Bldg. looking South E.
Weather protection cover for welding digester sections.
"B" Mill Power Group looking South West.
Soap Skimming and Storage Tanks from F.O. Day Tank dyke looking S.W.
Capacitor room from N.E. corner looking South West.
"B" Mill Machine Room from near Locker Room looking North East.
Lime Kiln Piers from N. end looking South West.
Lime Kiln Section looking South East.
"B" Mill Pulping Group from Track #14 looking North West.
42" 0 FRP Lagoon Inlet Pipe at Splitter Box End looking S.E.
Roof of weather protection enclosure for welding up digester sec.
"B" Mill Pulping Group looking North East.
"B" Mill Pulping Group looking North West.
Dennis Matson, Member of Expansion Team and Technical Superintendent, stands beside a row of washer drums.
Bob Rinaldi inside the new digester building.
The Pulpmill expansion of the digester tower.
The construction of the digester tower during the expansion of the pulpmill.
An aerial of Northwood Pulp Mill during the expansion.
An aerial of Northwood Pulp Mill during the expansion with the digester towers in the background and the mill complex in the foreground.
An aerial of Northwood Pulp Mill during the expansion with the construction occurring in the foreground.
An aerial of Northwood Pulp Mill during the expansion with the mill in the background and the parking lot in the foreground.
The newly constructed chip silos.
The new digester building next to the old digester building.
The new digester building.
The new digester building under construction.
Several new buildings, such as the digester tower and the hi-density storage tanks, are constructed during the pulpmill expansion.
An unidentified pipe is put into place during the pulpmill expansion.
The construction of the new digester tower.
A helicopter attaches a pipe to the side of the digester.
A helicopter attaches a pipe to the side of the digester.
An aerial view of the Northwood Corporate office, with a forested area and a road in the background, the office in the midground and the parking lot in the background. Photographer of this oversized photograph is believed to be Bill Theessen.
An aerial view of Rustad Bros. Sawmill with the beehive burner, mill complex and log yard in the background and the lumber yard in the foreground. Photographer of this oversize photograph believed to be Bill Theessen.
This fonds consits of the administrative and business papers of Mr. Adam Zimmerman during his tenure as a senior level executive with Noranda Inc., Noranda Mines Ltd, and Macmillan Bloedel Ltd., particularly in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia with the majority of these records relating to the senior level operations of these companies. It includes textual records relate to the creation and development of Northwood Pulp & Timber Ltd. in Prince George including all aspects of its regional operations throughout Northcentral BC). The fonds also includes records related to Noranda Inc.’s successful and unsuccessful attempts at business acquisitions in both forestry and mining operations internationally, particularly in Mexico, Brazil, the Netherlands and Tasmania.
The fonds also contains textual records generated by Zimmerman in his directorship and chairman positions on various forest industry association boards. It includes his notes, general correspondence, minutes, as well as booklets and brochures notably from the Canadian Forest Industries Council, the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, the Forest Sector Advisory Council and other similar industry associations. Much of this material relates to the issue of the softwood lumber dispute and Zimmerman’s involvement in the lobbying efforts regarding Canada/U.S. Free Trade issues and includes bound reports, agreements, and publications as well as correspondence to/from Zimmerman and his handwritten notes within the files. The fonds also includes general business information (annual reports, brochures, publications) pertaining to other Canadian forestry and mining companies.
The fonds also contains Adam Zimmerman’s speeches and correspondence related to his involvement in numerous charities, foundations and corporate fundraising initiatives with numerous Canadian educational institutions, non-profit societies and federal election campaigns.
Business records of Noranda Inc. are extensive and include administrative, business, personnel, financial and legal records. Record types include correspondence, memos, handwritten notes, business proposals and meeting notes, merger proposals and notes, prospectuses, board meeting agendas and minutes, annual reports, financial statements, resumes, portfolios, printed brochures, publications and other ephemera related to the business operations of Noranda Inc., Noranda Mines and MacMillan Bloedel [during Noranda Mines take-over of MB] all during Zimmerman’s tenure as Chair and/or CEO. The fonds includes correspondence, financial reports, legal testimony transcripts resulting from the Gaspe Copper Mine labour strike in Quebec in 1957 and the subsequent Gaspe Law Suit of 1960 between Noranda and the United Steel Workers of America. The fonds also includes extensive correspondence between Zimmerman and various levels of government regarding the lobbying of government on forestry policy and correspondence with various environmental lobbying groups in the 1980s including correspondence with well-known environmentalist David Suzuki.
Subjects include all facets of business operations pertaining to Canadian forestry and mining sectors including labour issues, environmental impacts of industrial developments, industry and effects on the Canadian economy, the free trade debate, the softwood lumber issue etc.
The fonds provides a detailed archival record of Mr. Zimmerman’s contribution to the building of Noranda Forest in Canada, Northwood Pulp & Timber in BC and Noranda Inc. as a resource-based conglomerate. Many records were utilized by Mr. Zimmerman in the writing of his book, Who’s in Charge Here, Anyway?: reflections from a life in business, (Don Mills, Ontario: Stoddart; Distributed in Canada by General Distribution Services), 1997.
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