RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-28 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Assembling trips; driving in mine locomotive; mules; timber cracking.;

Amateur film. The town of Ymir and the nearby Yankee Girl gold mine. Mining concentrator building (with aerial tramway) beside the Salmo River. Mine site, high on mountainside; buildings; small electric train of ore cars; dumping tailings on hillside; dumping ore into aerial tramway; tramway buckets descending very steep hillside to concentrator, and emptying into hopper there. B&W: interior shots (some dark): ore on conveyor belt; refining processes [cyanidation and flotation]; etc. COLOUR: bridge across river for ore cars. B&W: interior of assay office; staff with instruments, performing tests, etc. COLOUR: May Day celebrations: baseball game; rock-drilling contest; presentation of prizes; May Queen pageant and crowning; children maypole dancing. Scenery: gravel road, creek, waterfalls. Nelson: general views, streets, buildings, Kootenay Lake. Family group on lawn; members posing for camera. Lake scenes: boat pushing barge; water-skiing (skier passes the sternwheeler "Moyie" at dock); speedboat. Kettle Falls on the Columbia River.

RECORDED: Wellington (B.C.), 1983-05 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: East Wellington mines; East Wellington railroad; bluff; No. 6 Wellington; Ji;ngle Pot railroad; East Wellington; Jingle Pot mine; Maxi Road; powder house; No. 4 Wellington; Millstream; Northfield flood; Dunsmuir farm; Chinese; No. 3 Wellington; Wellington railroad; Bill Loudo;n; soldier's settlement land; Canadian Collieries; Loudon mine; Old Slope; ventilation furnace; Stronach mine; Wellington; railroad station; No. 1 shaft; Keighley's; Departure Bay; Ardoon; Meredith Ro;ad; sawmill. TRACK 2: Bluff; Rosstown; Dunsmuir; company houses; Northfield mine; coal rights; conglomerate; Wellington coal; coal quality; Northfield school; Extension; Somerset; Wellington; hotels; No. 6 Wellington; No. 4 Wellington; Maxi Road; Wellington railway; No. 3 Wellington; Old Slope; No. 5 Wellington; Ardoon; Loudon; Dunsmuir farm; small operations; tunnel stream; ventilation furnace; ;Chinatown; Stronach; Canadian Collieries; cave-in; Simon Leiser; E & N roundhouse.;

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1983-05-02 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Northfield; Northfield railroad; Northfield mines; Dunsmuir discovers coal; ;Diver Lake; East Wellington mines; Maxi Road; No. 4 mine, Wellington; No. 6 mine, Wellington; bluffs; No. 5 mine, Wellington; Old Slope; ventilation furnace; Extension; outcrop coal; coal quality; Dre;w family; East Wellington railroad; sawmill; fish for sale; Millstream; Millstone; Jingle Pot mine; orphan; Brechin Point mine; miners; union; mules; stagecoach; Wellington Road; Wellington; floor; Ro;sstown. TRACK 2: Houses; Rosstown; No. 6 mine, Wellington; Brechin mine; No. 5 mine, Wellington; Jones family; wooden tracks; fish oil lamps; pit lamping; coal allowance; eight hour day; temperature ;in mine; Granby mine; electric lamps; gas; safety lamp; explosion; Wellington cemetery; Chinese; ventilation furnace; hoists; Wellington railroad; No. 1 shaft, Wellington; Departure Bay wharves; steam;ships; 1890-91 strike; Rock City; Robeson family; Departure Bay school.;

Amateur film footage. The Britannia Mine, ore train and mill, Britannia Beach, BC.