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Albert Warrington interview

CALL NUMBER: T4101:0017 PERIOD COVERED: 1890s-1975 RECORDED: Warfield (B.C.), 1983-08-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Sit down strike in 1938. Joins Mine/Mill. Union history. Steel raid of 1950. Steel blitz. Chairman of grievance committee. Bargaining committee. Arbitration with company over contract. Compulsory check off gained. Steel's opposition to compulsory check off. Joins LPP and CP. MacLean's Pierre Berton story. Berton friend of Ed Benson. Story false. Ran in election as CP candidate in 1950's. LP philosophy. LPP members in Trail. LPP on executive. CCF and union split. Bert Herridge and raid. Canadian autonomy in Mine/Mill. Red baiting in unions. Warrington stopped at border crossing. Steel's complicity and border stopping. How border crossing worked. TRACK 2: Paul Robeson at Peace Arch. Mine/Mill recordings of concerts. Mine/Mill hall opening. Pete Seeger plays. Trail labour centre Building Co. Old Mine/Mill members resist turnover of building. Crown owns building. Tries to form society. Community split over raid. LPP members army. Mine/Mill and compensation. Doctors were company oriented. Dr. Jim Endicott good to union. Compensation system explained. Back injuries. Quit union because of health problems. Morning quit because of merger. Al Reid goes to work for the compensation board. Steel merger vote. Steel and local elections. Warrington at Steel conventions. Autonomy at Steel conventions. Trail resolution on anti-communism. Democracy in Mine/Mill and Steel. Mine/Mill meetings explained. CALL NUMBER: T4101:0017 RECORDED: Warfield (B.C.), 1983-08-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Murphy Days explained. 12 hour shifts. Anecdote about Murphy and Mahoney. Anecdote about Al King and arbitration. Story about Newton's Hole. Anecdote about discipline on the hill. Belenger is fired . Strike not raised. Bluebell strike. Murphy hated wildcats. Wildcat during raid. Three guys fired. [TRACK 2: blank.] CALL NUMBER: T4101:0018 PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1975 RECORDED: Warfield (B.C.), 1983-08-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Involving workers in outside issues. Columbia River treaty. Bill Muir, editor of Commentator, hired to study treaty. Shop stewards demonstrate against E. Davey Fulton signing treaty. Anecdote about E. Davey Fulton and Seaforth Highlanders. Community organising. History of Mine/Mill. 1917 strike. Democracy and merger. 1972 strike. 1974 bargaining. Kever quits. 1973 Cairnaw raid. Cairnaw stance. Spirit of internationalism. Independence within Steel. Warrington retires. Getting hired. Harvey Murphy fights for pensions. Company pension and vesting rights. Supplementary benefit fund. Cominco. Union benefit fund. Combined pension. Harvey Murphy and pensions. CPP, OAS. Murphy remembered. Holidays bargained for. Murphy Days explained. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Alexander Harris interview : [Orchard, 1965]

CALL NUMBER: T0345:0001 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1965-05-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Alexander Harris describes prospecting and mining in the Arrow and Kootenay Lakes area in the 1890s. His father, Joseph Harris, came to Slocan in 1896, established a ranch or farm that supplied vegetables and fruit to the mining camps. Alexander Harris' account includes stories about mining camp life, Orientals, travel on Arrow Lakes, and individual miners: Carpenter, Seighton, Monty; Davis, Martin Fry and Johnny Harris.

TRACK 2: He tells about the naming of mining towns in the area: New Denver, Three Forks, etc. The high school for the area was located on his father's ranch. He describes local culture, social activities, sports, as well as mining techniques, locating ore and equipment.

CALL NUMBER: T0345:0002 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1965-05-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rock drilling techniques and competitions are discussed. Mr. Harris continues his description of mining methods, ore extraction, transportation to the mills, such as aerial trams, use of horses, processing of ore at the mills, shipping and tailings. A Welsh choir on tour in Canada went bankrupt in the Slocan area and the men worked in the mines at Silverton and New Denver area to earn some money.

TRACK 2: This tape continues with discussions of the New Denver town site, buildings, water transportation, early roads, the Japanese evacuation, Slocan Lake, also known as Lucerne, the Valhalla Range, and New Denver's growth. Wildlife was depleted during the early years of these communities. Mr. Harris speaks about an early trip to the Kokanee Glacier, 1919; Theo Rankin, a local teacher; and his father and mother.

Allan H. DeWolf films

The series consists of film footage shot by Allan Hatch DeWolf, mainly in the East Kootenay Region of British Columbia. Subjects include: construction and operation of B.C. Spruce Mills' 14-mile-long Moyie River flume near Lumberton, ca.1925; construction of the Mammoth Mine concentrator at Silverton; a portable McKowan Mill cutting Ponderosa pine in the Kamloops or Nelson Forest District, ca.1934; logging sled (colour); tie-cutting operation with portable mill; trucking, unloading and scaling of logs; Cranbrook Dominion Day parade, 1927; family and friends at play, etc. Also includes the four-reel title A BIG GAME HUNT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (1926).

Blaylock films

The item is a reel of film footage consisting of ten short reels of varying length assembled onto one roll. It mainly depicts subjects related to Consolidated Mining staff and operations across Canada. Notes (from original film boxes): 1. Sulphur experiment. 2. Quebec 1933 or 1934. 3. Montreal and Quebec, [19]34 -- "only fair". 4. Flin Flon 1934. 5. Edmonton to Fort Rae by plane -- [19]35 or 36. 6. Trip to Great Bear and back, 1935 or 1936. 7. Vancouver and Big Missouri, 1937. (black & white) 8. Kimberley football and Montgomery's and Lindsay's, 1934. 9. Chemists in Trail; Trail picnic 1937. 10. Ed Montgomery, P. Wetmore in N.S. [Nova Scotia?] -- Bingay's house in Vanc[ouver] -- Tadanac Hall, also Sir Colin Fraser.

Britannia Mining and Smelting Company records

Records of Britannia Mining and Smelting Company and related companies, including annual reports, correspondence, accounting records, exploration reports, engineering plans, leases, contracts and agreements. The related companies include: Britannia Copper Syndicate, Britannia Smelting Company, Chelan Copper Mining Company, El Potosi Mining Company, Howe Sound Company, Howe Sound Exploration Company, Howe Sound Power Company Also included are records of Barbara Theatres and Britannia Beach Community Club.

Bureau of Mines negatives and lantern slides

  • GR-4099
  • Series
  • [ca. 190-] - 1953

The series consists of photographs (lantern slides and a few glass or flexible negatives) created by the offices of the Bureau of Mines and the Dept. of Mines between ca. 1900 and 1953. The photographs depict all aspects of Bureau activities including surveys and inspections. Many of the glass negatives were taken by W.F. Robertson and H.T. Nation of the Bureau of Mines and were often used for annual reports and other publications. The bulk of the photographs are glass lantern slides, either made from Bureau of Mines photographs or copied from other sources. Photographer Edgar Fleming took or copied many of the photographs for the Department. These slides show mines and mining operations and equipment; mining camps, first aid teams, refineries, smelters, coke ovens, concentrators, railways and rail trestles; boats, landscape and terrain features including coast, rivers and mountain ranges and aerial views. There are also a significant number of maps and technical drawings.

Occasionally other photographer initials M.S.H., S.S.H. and W.H.M. are noted on the slides. There are 63 slides of South African mines and general views, 23 slides of the Alcan Kemano project from 1953 and various portraits scattered throughout the series, as well as ca. 115 aerial views from the 1930s, many with their own numbering scheme.

The series also includes an additional 38 glass lantern slides from the 1920s, alienated from the main run of lantern slides and transferred separately. Most of these slides were made of photographs taken by Edgar Fleming for the Bureau of Mines but also include some slides of maps and technical drawings.

British Columbia. Bureau of Mines

Bureau of Mines photograph albums

  • GR-3264
  • Series
  • [188-?]-1936, 1966

The series consists of photographs taken by or collected by the Bureau of Mines, where they were compiled into 30 photograph albums. Some of the albums, or parts of the albums, were compiled at the end of the year's work and were intended by the Provincial Mineralogist to document his annual summer field work throughout the province.

Many of the photographs were published each year in Department bulletins and in the Annual Report of the Minister of Mines. There is a coding in the albums which indicates that a photograph was used in the Annual Report. For example, “R1925 - A182” signifies that the photograph was used in the 1925 Annual Report of the Minister of Mines on page A182. Each Annual Report of the Minister contains narrative descriptions of the field trips taken by the Provincial Mineralogist and other Bureau of Mines staff, so it is possible to trace the relationship each year between these field trip narratives and the photographs.

W. Fleet Robertson (Provincial Mineralogist from 1898 to 1925) took some of the photographs. Beginning ca. 1906, Harold T. Nation was an assistant to the Provincial Mineralogist, and travelled with him on his summer field trips, taking photographs, compiling many of the photo albums and indexing them. Exceptions were the years 1914-1917, when Nation served in the military in Europe, after which he returned to his former position. Others from the Bureau of Mines who contributed to the creation of the albums include: W.A. Carlyle, (W. Fleet Robertson's predecessor as Provincial Mineralogist); J.D. Galloway (Robertson's successor); Herbert Carmichael (an Assistant Mineralogist); and Newton W. Emmens. They took photographs or directed that photos be taken to document their work in the field. Many photographs are labeled “B.C. Bureau of Mines” but the photographer is not identified.

Some of the albums, or parts of albums, appear to have been compiled, not an annual basis, but at a later date, and were labeled “miscellaneous.” They relate to the mining industry, geology, mineralogy, and local culture, but are not related to the annual field trips. The Provincial Mineralogist's office collected some of these from private sources including mining companies and miners. Professional photographers whose work is found in the albums include: R.J. Hughes (Trail, BC), Hughes Bros. (Trail, BC), Joseph F. Spalding (Fernie, BC), Carpenter & Co. (Rossland, BC), Carpenter & Millar (Rossland, BC), The Dominion Photo Company (Vancouver), Richard H. Trueman (R.H. Trueman & Co., Vancouver), E.F. Tucker, and Leonard Frank. There are a small number of photos taken by Charles Camsell of the Geological Survey of Canada, 1911, so it is possible others were taken by federal government employees.

Subjects include a very wide range of industrial and cultural activities and geographic features. These include: mines and mining operations and equipment; mining camps, prospectors, miners' houses, powder magazines, first aid teams, fire brigades, mine rescue squads and stations; immigrant workers; refineries, smelters, coke ovens, concentrators, brickyards, slag dumps and tailings; railways and rail trestles; boats, scows, ships, and dredging; landscape and terrain features including rivers and mountain ranges; mining industry towns, schools, hospitals, hotels, churches, government offices and wireless offices; First Nations activities and culture, including totem poles, grave sites, and villages; whaling and whaling stations; horse pack trains, Hudson's Bay Company posts; and conferences and congresses attended by Bureau of Mines staff.

Many of the photos are annotated with directions for the printing/publication process. Many are pieced together to create panoramas. Some albums have accompanying individual indexes and some have been indexed in the master alphabetical index.

Container No. Photograph Album
001302-0001 -- Bureau of Mines photographs miscellaneous album, H.T. Nation [album misc. B] ca. 188-?-1919
001302-0002 -- Bureau of Mines D : photographs ca. 189-?-1917
001302-0003 -- B.C. Bureau of Mines [E] miscellaneous photographs compiled from October 1927
001302-0004 -- 1895 Bureau of Mines
001302-0005 -- 1896 Bureau of Mines
001302-0006 -- Bureau of Mines, 1897-1898
001302-0007 -- Bureau of Mines photos 1898, 1899, 1900
001302-0008 -- Dept. of Mines, 1901, 1899-1901
001302-0009 -- Bureau of Mines 1902
001302-0010 -- Bureau of Mines, 1903, Victoria, B.C., 1903-1904
001302-0011 -- Photographs : 1905
001302-0012 -- Peace River and other trips in 1906 by W.F. Robertson and H. Carmichael, 1906
001302-0013 -- 1907 Bureau of Mines, Victoria B.C., 1906-1907
001302-0014 -- 1908 photos by Bureau of Mines, Victoria B.C., 1908-1909
001205-0001 -- Bureau of Mines photos collected during 1909
001302-0015 -- Odd photos collected in the Provincial Mineralogist's office, entered Nov. 1910
001302-0016 -- Summer trip of the Provincial Mineralogist to the Bulkley and Telkwa Rivers and the Slocan Mining Division, 1911; 1934
001302-0017 -- Provincial Mineralogist trip to Cassiar, 1912, 1911-1912
001302-0018 -- Photos for 1913 report, taken by W.F. Robertson, B.G. Forbes, W.M. Brewer, J.D. Galloway
001302-0019 -- Photographs taken in 1914
001302-0020 -- Dept. of Mines album 1915
001302-0021 -- Photographs : Dept. of Mines album 1916
001302-0022 -- Photographs : Bureau of Mines 1917-1918-1919
001302-0023 -- Photographs : Bureau of Mines 1920-21
001302-0024 -- Photos received at the Bureau of Mines during 1921 & 1922, compiled by Harold T. Nation
001302-0025 -- 1923 current photos, Bureau of Mines, 1920-1925
001302-0026 -- Dept. of Mines album : photos 1925 continued, 1926, 1925-1926
001302-0027 -- Bureau of Mines photographs 1926 (continued), 1927, 1922-1928
001302-0028 -- Bureau of Mines, Victoria, B.C. misc. photos, compiled by Harold T. Nation, 1927 [misc. album C], 1895-1927
001302-0029 -- Bureau of Mines photographs, 1926-1930, 1966
001302-0030 -- Dept. of Mines album 1930, [ca. 1930-1936]

British Columbia. Dept. of Mines

Cariboo adventure : [Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine]

SUMMARY: Interviews with Bob McElhaney, Mine Surveyor for Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine, and Bob Willen, drill sharpener for Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine, by John Barnes, about: industry, mining, gold; natural resources, gold, mining process; including sounds from mining process with ore trains, drilling, and sharpening of drills.

Cariboo adventure : [Island Mountain Mine]

SUMMARY: Interview with Eric Johnson, Mill Superintendent of Island Mountain Mine, by John Barnes, about: industry, gold, description of refining process; natural resources, gold, including sounds from operation of mining process with crusher, noon whistle, "grizzly", scoop of ball mill, top of ball mill, swish of return to mill of oversize, general noise, clatter from under ball mill, water coming out of mill, overall sound from door.

Challenge in the rock

The item consists of an industrial film made by Lew Parry Productions in 1966 for the Mining Association of British Columbia. It contains an overview of the mining industry of British Columbia and the Yukon. Sequences include: prospecting; claim staking; the use of helicopters; core sampling; construction of mine access roads; planning the mining of an ore body; lead-zinc mining operations in the Sullivan Mine; processing of ore by crushers, ball mills and flotation cells; residential scenes in mining towns (Fraser Lake, Pine Point, Ashcroft); Cominco smelter at Trail; contribution to steel industry (pig iron and coke); training of mining technicians at BCIT; role of the BC & Yukon Chamber of Mines, including its Prospectors' Mining School; Vancouver and Port Moody dockside scenes showing concentrates, coal and ingots being loaded.

Challenge in the rock

The item is a composite print of an industrial film from 1966. It consists of an overview of the mining industry of British Columbia and the Yukon. Sequences include: prospecting; claim staking; the use of helicopters; core sampling; construction of mine access roads; planning the mining of an ore body; lead-zinc mining operations in the Sullivan Mine; processing of ore by crushers, ball mills and flotation cells; residential scenes in mining towns (Fraser Lake, Pine Point, Ashcroft); Cominco smelter at Trail; contribution to steel industry (pig iron and coke); training of mining technicians at BCIT; role of the BC & Yukon Chamber of Mines, including its Prospectors' Mining School; Vancouver and Port Moody dockside scenes showing concentrates, coal and ingots being loaded.

Challenge in the rock

The item is a print of an industrial film by Lew Parry. It contains an overview of the mining industry of British Columbia and the Yukon. Sequences include: prospecting; claim staking; the use of helicopters; core sampling; construction of mine access roads; planning the mining of an ore body; lead-zinc mining operations in the Sullivan Mine; processing of ore by crushers, ball mills and flotation cells; residential scenes in mining towns (Fraser Lake, Pine Point, Ashcroft); Cominco smelter at Trail; contribution to steel industry (pig iron and coke); training of mining technicians at BCIT; role of the BC & Yukon Chamber of Mines, including its Prospectors' Mining School; Vancouver and Port Moody dockside scenes showing concentrates, coal and ingots being loaded.

Challenge in the rock

Industrial film. An overview of the mining industry of British Columbia and the Yukon. Sequences include: prospecting; claim staking; the use of helicopters; core sampling; construction of mine access roads; planning the mining of an ore body; lead-zinc mining operations in the Sullivan Mine; processing of ore by crushers, ball mills and flotation cells; residential scenes in mining towns (Fraser Lake, Pine Point, Ashcroft); Cominco smelter at Trail; contribution to steel industry (pig iron and coke); training of mining technicians at BCIT; role of the BC & Yukon Chamber of Mines, including its Prospectors' Mining School; Vancouver and Port Moody dockside scenes showing concentrates, coal and ingots being loaded.

Chris Hansen interview

RECORDED: Salmo (B.C.), 1980-07-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Father (who had exact same name) came into country in 1895 and 1896. Originally from Copenhagen, Denmark. Mined in Greenland and came to the U.S. in 1885-86; Philadelphia, then Minnesota, then mined in Idaho. Came to Lardeau region via Rossland and the Slocan. Mining interest near Argenta. Memories of Poplar Creek, Gerrard, and Lardeau people. Argenta Mine and abandoned equipment there. TRACK 2: Getting to the mine. Clint Creek. Prospector Jean Brochet and his pet martens. At the Argenta Mine, some of the ore was mined and sacked but never shipped. Hansen's experiences prospecting and developing mines. Childhood in Poplar Creek and Argenta. Local railroads. More about the history of the mine.

Claire Richard Billingsley interview

CALL NUMBER: T4101:0011 PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1967 RECORDED: Trail (B.C.), 1983-08-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical. Discrimination in hiring. Lead dust. Working conditions. Meet Arthur Evans. Favouritism in promotion. Workmen's Committee grievance. Theory of cooperation. Blaylock story. signing up in the Mine/Mill union. 1917 strike. Becoming a shop steward. Organizing on the job. Hired as international representative. Voluntary check off help in organising. Trouble in organising. Sheep Creek gold mines. organizing tactics at small mine. Company opposition to union. Voluntary check off and door to door organizing. First bargaining with Blaylock. First contract not very good. Harvey Murphy talks about contract. Foremen react to contract. Gets fired as organizer. Communism in Mine/Mill. Billingsley runs for president of Local 480. TRACK 2: John Goyden hired to replace Claire Goyden. Collecting Communist party dues while organising. Local secretary of small union couldn't read or write. Trouble in organising small unions. Communists on Local 480 executive. Communists were shop stewards. Changes grievance procedure. Bosses learn to live with contract. One hundred and twenty-five communists in Local. Murphy ties labour to Communism. Communists are good workers. Reasons for split. Never had any money in Local. Poor research department in Mine/Mill. Murphy on pork chops. Union meeting in Spokane. Communists were refused entry into the United States. Future of Reid Robinson decided. Reasons for union split. Kimberly executive is split. Murphy and poker. Murphy and organising. CALL NUMBER: T4101:0012 PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1983 RECORDED: Trail (B.C.), 1983-08-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Merger terms. Anecdote about merger. Kimberly joins Local 480 to stall 1950 Steel vote. Anecdote about Murphy. Quits at Cominco. Automation at Cominco. Gets hired at Provident Investment. Union split and resentment. Business support for Communists. Cominco's attitude during split. Maurice Travis comes to Trail. Travis sent back to States. Wife goes to Vancouver during split. Ladies Auxiliary. Communist cells in Trail. "White" cells set up by Billingsley. Tactics used by Communists and Billingsley. Meeting of C.P. members in Trail. Billingsley being recruited to C.P. Local 480 strike fund. Anecdote about Fred Henne using strike fund. Communists are good workers. Can take control of unions. Communists want to control economy. Anecdote about Murphy and strikes. Car sabotaged by Communists. TRACK 2: Local 480 agrees to repair his car. Literature for split printed ahead of time. Billingsley runs for president of BC District Union. Vote thrown out and new election called. Communists finance new campaign. Communists use of Mine/Mill paper. USWA organisers and tactics. Murphy gets Billingsley's help after split. Difference between organising today and during the 1940s.

Clifford York interview

PERIOD COVERED: ;1940;-;1977 RECORDED: Waneta Junction (B.C.), 1983-08-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rand formula increases union membership. Became a shop steward in 1947. Joined union because workers needed a voice. Never belonged to a union before. Worked with a man who was on the Workmen's Committee. Bonuses (sic) would drop after Christmas bonus was given out. Shop steward for eight years. Anecdote about Murphy. Murphy was dedicated. Union didn't come easy to Trail. Was not a regular meeting attendee. Working conditions. People fired easily. Wages were never a big point. Steady paycheque. Company built on people with little education. Equality of pay a big point. Anecdote about pay difference. 1950 Steel raid. Shop steward on crew was Steel organiser. Was ridiculed and hurt for it. Mine/Mill called a Red union. Only a dozen Communists in Trail. Writers from Commentator refused access to U.S.A. Merger with Steel. Pensions for leaders. Mine/mill was getting weaker. Building used in Steel raids. Trail labour centre building company; contract, raises and social improvements. Forty-four hour week. Pension. Company good for town and workers. TRACK 2: Biographical information.

Dept. of Mines press releases and other material

  • GR-4195
  • Series
  • 1932-1943

This series consists of press releases, articles, speeches and other public reports created from 1932-1943. The majority of the records were created by the Minister of Mines and Deputy Minister of Mines. The records relate to all aspects of the departments work and mining in BC generally. This includes: statistical reports on provincial mining production outputs, particularly coal; the history of mining in BC; the history of the Dept. of Mines; announcements and comments on the opening or closure of mines; biographical information of department executive; considerations on the future of mining in BC; and the discussion of various issues impacting the mining industry.

British Columbia. Dept. of Mines

Donald McLeod interview

CALL NUMBER: T4003:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Workers' Compensation Board of BC : silicosis prevention (tape 1) PERIOD COVERED: 1937-1962 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1978-02-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Education. Begins employment Hollinger Mines, Ontario. Background to silicosis becoming recognized as an industrial disease. Methods for measuring dust concentrations. Dust control methods. First dust survey in BC. Circumstances of becoming inspector for WCB of BC. Relations with Department of Mines, methods of dust control in BC mines. TRACK 2: Incident regarding recalcitrant mining company. Description of equipment and routine of inspection work. Travel and working conditions. Relations with mining companies. Recruitment of additional silicosis-prevention inspectors.

CALL NUMBER: T4003:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Workers' Compensation Board of BC : silicosis prevention (tape 2) PERIOD COVERED: 1937-1962 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1978-02-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dust concentrations reduced. Dust control requires co-operation of mining companies. Dust control responsibility transferred to Department of Mines. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Dr. Harry Warren interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-02-18 SUMMARY: Derek Allen interviews geologist Dr. Harry Warren, who recently retired after more than 40 years at UBC. He discusses the development of the mining idustry in British Columbia.

Francis Devito interview

PERIOD COVERED: ;1917;-;1967 RECORDED: Fruitvale (B.C.), 1983-08-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information. WWII helped get 175 houses built the Legion for Trail veterans. Al King on Legion committee. King told him about Labour. Blames Steel raid on the Cold War. Reasons for raid. No membership meetings called by the executive. King asked him to be International Representative. Caused trouble because he never worked on the Hill. Korean war broke out at the same time at Steel raid. Steel lost right to vote on the Hill because their jurisdiction was wrong. Steel amended their constitution to reflect new jurisdiction. Community split with Union/Mine. Mill members bought house from Andrew Waldie. Legion would not rent to Mine/Mill. Catholic priests involved in split. Waldie new Ginger Goodwin. Waldie worked on hill during the 1917 strike. Trail Labour Centre Building Co. Devito on city council in 1955/56. Goes to Sudbury as publicity officer during 1962 raid. 1950 raid all over BC. Reasons for raid. Devito just about kicked out of Legion. Friend of Endicott. Anecdotes about Murphy. TRACK 2: Discrimination against immigrants. Murphy Anecdotes. Mine/Mill and community involvement. Ladies auxiliary. Al King remembered. Racism and red baiting used by Steel. Tim Buck comes to Trail. Communism and Mine/Mill policies. Father worked on the CPR. working conditions before WWII. Bill Melvin local steel worker. Most people now dead. Devito didn't have much to do with union after merger. Blacks on Mine/Mill. Executive Ashton Halbury stopped at border crossing.

Garfield Belenger interview

CALL NUMBER: T4101:0003 PERIOD COVERED: 1929-[no date] RECORDED: Kaslo (B.C.), 1983-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Started work for Cominco in 1929 on company docks. Went to Trail in 1930. Laid off in 1931 with other single men. Took freight across Canada; married in North Battleford and took wife on freights to Trail. Got work in 1932 as he was married. Met underground union people. Underground union formed into cells of about five men each. Man named MacDonald paid Evans to come to Trail. About 100 people were in the underground union. Evans had a couple of meetings and people decided to form a real union. Met in co-op garage. Organised on the job. Wore CIO button to break down fear. Relations with Italian workers. Company town. Old WFM men on hill. Anecdote about WFM organizer. Anecdote about Murphy. Observer at first negotiations. Was fired in 1949 for passing out leaflets about Ginger Goodwin's death. TRACK 2: Lost arbitration over firing. Blacklisted from work in Trail. Gets job at Reese-MacDonald mine. Anecdote about men threatening to go on strike if he is fired. Church prints leaflet to discourage Italians from joining Mine/Mill. Assessment of people working for union. Was demoted for organizing. Anecdote about discussion politics with General Manager. Called to general office; from bringing union papers on job. Communists in the Union. Red baiting on the job. Communists didn't hurt organizing. Communists resign thinking to help organizing drive; doesn't work. CALL NUMBER: T4101:0004 PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1983 RECORDED: Kaslo (B.C.), 1983-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Impression of Arthur Evans. Belenger talked to judge who sentence Evans. Burning of car. Belenger and Evans harassed by police. Burning Evans' car. Workmen's Committee implicated. Ladies Auxiliary organised as an appendage to the union. Impressions of Harvey Murphy. Impressions of Murphy. Organisation of Union Paper. Blaylock and Cominco; Blaylock's drive to dominate everything. Steel raid of 1950. Right wing for Steel. Mine/Mill and democracy. Mine/Mill workers elected to Workmen's Committee. Company gave pay raises to stop union organising. Downtown people talked about company benefits. Pollution in Trail. Company town and paternalism of the company. Anti-Mine/Mill people joined steel analysis of merger. TRACK 2: Steel fighting Mine/Mill/Steel arguments during raid. Strikes won by hearts and guts. Communist party and union decision. Murphy got in trouble once for making a decision without executive. Learned about unions by doing. Process of forming Local 480. Organizers knew about putting out leaflets and papers. Knew how to attack problems. Could see issues clearer than workers, i.e. health and safety. Some men had lead tests done in Spokane. Conditions on the hill. Dr. Endicott was a union sympathizer. Company doctors were not trusted. Company always looking out for shareholders. Workers never start battles (CIO) Evans car smashed. Company propaganda provoked fights. Took a long time for overcome company influence. Trail workers now give largest strike mandate in BC. Company store shuts down. Trail changed physically over time as did the workers.

George Bishop interview

PERIOD COVERED: ;1937;-;1983 RECORDED: Trail (B.C.), [1983-08?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information. Started in 1937. Came from Medicine Hat. Bag piper was hired ahead of him - took grievance to WCC but they could not deal with it. Independent Smelter Workers Union (ISWU). Power passed to ISWU. Fought of first Mine/Mill vote. Lost on second vote. Kimberly went Mine/Mill first. Affiliation with Amalgamated Unions of Canada. Couldn't make any headway organizing other Canadian unions. Mine/Mill and communists. Animosity drummed up against Mine/Mill over "Red" issue. ISWU contract better than Mine/Mill's. ISWU falling apart. Difficulty in collecting dues. Bishop joins Mine/Mill, put on various union committees. Union was involved in various community organizations. Communists in Mine/Mill. Communist tactics. Support for Seaman's Union. Communists were dedicated. Invited to meet Don Dunkley and Bert Gargroves, Steel organizers in hotel room. Building house in Trail. Pension fund loaned him money. Whole executive was supposed to resign by only he did. Murphy rigs election. TRACK 2: Billingsly-Smith election declared illegal. Steel cards not ready for split. No impact on communities. Door to door Steel campaign. Anecdotes about Murphy. Murphy stories. Joined Steel workers after election. President of ISWU's son becomes Steel president. Keneway President of ISWU. Ladies auxiliary fighters. Communist tactics and followers. Belenger and meetings. One meeting ends in a riot. Press was anti-union. Type of people involved in unions.

Giant Mascot

Industrial film. The growth and development of Giant Mascot Mines Ltd. -- especially the Giant Mascot Mine near Hope, which re-opened in 1971 after a serious fire. Includes mine and concentrator operations, lab tests, planning of future work, etc. Also shows the company's geological survey and test drilling operations in the area and in the Northwest Territories. Vancouver scenes include shots inside the Vancouver Stock Exchange.

Giant Mascot : [out-takes]

Out-takes. The growth and development of Giant Mascot Mines Ltd. -- especially the Giant Mascot Mine near Hope, which re-opened in 1971 after a serious fire. Includes mine and concentrator operations, lab tests, planning of future work, etc. Also shows the company's geological survey and test drilling operations in the area and in the Northwest Territories. Vancouver scenes include shots inside the Vancouver Stock Exchange.

Gibraltar Mines : mine operations & official opening

The item is an industrial film of Gibraltar Mines activities made 1971-1972. It shows various ground and aerial shots of a mine operation. tour groups and the interior of processing plant. Pan of Cariboo-Chilcotin-like countryside. explosion, zoom-in, shovel and truck loading earth, loading ore into railway or track hoppers with front-scoop vehicle, light airplane takes off and flies around mine area. Includes footage of the official opening of Gibraltar Mines Ltd. (N.P.L.) on June 13, 1972, near Williams Lake, BC.

Gordon Kincade interview : [Specht, 1979]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Workers' Compensation Board of BC history : silicosis PERIOD COVERED: 1937-1974 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1978-03-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Kincade's medical training and experience. Provincial Health Department agrees to have traveling tuberculosis clinic examine and certify miners. Symptoms and disability due to silicosis. Board certification policies. Work sources of silicosis. Description of conditions of traveling clinic. Medical Referee responsibilities. Measuring disability. difference between pathological and statutory silicosis. Cure of TB removes much of silicosis problem. Silicosis problem reduced through dust control Origins of aluminum dust therapy. Examination of other lung diseases. TRACK 2: Dr. Vrooman's contribution. Board medical directors discussed. E.S.H. Winn an excellent chairman. Trend toward allowance of claims on "possibility".

Jim Chabot : [press conference, 1977]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jim Chabot ; On smelting incentives and changes to the Mines and Petroleum Resources Act RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-04-04 & 06-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Minister of Mines and Petroleum Resources Jim Chabot announces new incentives for copper smelting in BC, 4 April 1977. TRACK 2: Chabot explains changes in the Department of Mines and Petro;leum Resources Act, 14 June 1977.;

John Kelly interview

PERIOD COVERED: ;1929;-;1953 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-06-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Where the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Worker's Union came from. Birth date. Work on provincial relief road camp. Worked in federal relief camp. Anecdote about a relief camp strike and march into Nelson. More relief camp strike. Dealing with police; end of strike. Relief camp conditions; clothing; another walk out and arrest of men. Reasons for protests. Communist in relief camps; beginning of 15 and 5 at Cominco. WWII gearing up in 1934 and Cominco hires over 1000 people. Kelly gets elected to Workmen's Cooperative Committee; Kelly's feelings about workmen's Cooperative Committee; why Kelly joined the committee. TRACK 2: Kelly was on Workmen's Committee when CIO started to organize. Cominco was short of workers during war - explaining how Workmen's Committee worked . Workmen's Committee grievance anecdote. Workmen's Committee asks for raise and gets turned down. Explanation of wage structure and Cominco. Blaylock's philosophy of wages. Kelly goes too war. Demobilized in Vancouver in 1946. Reason Kelly joins TUMMSW; soon elected to shop steward. Steelworkers raid IUMMSW; raid lasts for three years; jurisdiction vote in 1953 which Mine/Mill wins.

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