The series consists of records created by the Atlin Gold Commissioner between 1898 and 1945. Records include correspondence inward and outward, mining and water records, and gold commissioner's court records.

CALL NUMBER: T4132:0001 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-03-22 SUMMARY: Childhood at Jingle Pot Mine. Chinese workers. Hostile tongs. Shifts. Mine horses and mules. Good treatment of mine animals. Nanaimo Harbour. Balls and concerts in Nanaimo. Miner's picnics on Newcastle Island. Protection Island -- dances, picnics, Chinese settlement near pithead. Tugboat whistles. CPR boats. Coal fossils. Undersea mine adits. Swamping of Kanaka Bay adit. No. 1 mine. Fossils at Protection island. No. 1 tunnel. Beauty of coal. Spontaneous combustion in coal dust. Use of carbide lamps and candles. Open oil lamps in early mines; later, carbide or battery lamps.

CALL NUMBER: T4132:0002 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-03-22 SUMMARY: Various homes after Nanaimo. Estevan; mine strike. Ann Buller's hypnotic effect. Estevan strikers' march and shooting, 1931; RCMP blamed for deaths. Mobs dreadful. Buller and her brother persuasive. Ann Buller's rhetorical technique. People "poor and helpless". Mrs. Stannard always a rebel; unusual parents and childhood. Her mother [musician Elizabeth Inez Martell] still alive and playing piano. Mother's youth. Return to Nanaimo. Father (Harry Freeman) was a civil engineer. Island projects during World War II. Injured in Suquash Mine; led to blindness. Father's father's background. Grandparents reached Nanaimo in 1880s by CPR train and stagecoach. Harry Freeman's education and work as an engineer and manager.

CALL NUMBER: T4132:0003 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-03-22 SUMMARY: Suquash coal. Return to Nanaimo. Origin of name "Jingle Pot". Baron Alvo von Alvensleben, owned Vancouver Nanaimo Coal Company, but left mine management to Harry Freeman; disappeared in World War I [sic]. Mrs. Stannard doesn't believe he was a German spy. Harry Freeman mediated during 1912 coal strike -- prevented bloodshed. Frank Farrington and Ginger Goodwin -- two different types of UMWA organizers. Suffering during strike -- Thomas Stockett caught between miners and had courage of convictions. Nanaimo miners slow to strike. Hatred of Chinese from 1880s. Goodwin a nice person, joked, danced well. Her father was upset when Goodwin was shot. Some scabs arrived for job and found they were strikebreakers. Rehired strikers. Jingle Pot miners had good relations with her father. Dangers of mines; too gassy to reopen today. Nanaimo's core population and long memory. Actor Mr. Stevens from Nanaimo. Only one murderer hanged. Fraser Street brothels well organized, useful service, interesting madames.

News item. Premier Bill Bennett talks with the press about the preservation of B.C.'s natural resources. There is to be a seven-year "blanket" moratorium on uranium mining and exploration, for the sake of safety. He says that it is not economically necessary to develop B.C.'s uranium resources, and that nuclear power is not part of the government's energy strategy. Dr. Bates' report on uranium mining will be ready in three months. Finance Minister Evan Wolfe says that the inquiry has cost $2 million to date. Uranium mining interests will receive "fair" treatment, but not necessarily financial compensation. Health Minister Bob McClelland backs up the Premier's points.

SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating fr;om different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. In this episode, "Ghost Towns", Jurgen Hesse explores three British Columbia ghost towns: Sandon, Quesnel Forks and Bralorne. Recolle;ctions and reminiscences are recounted by former residents of these mining towns.;

SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating fr;om different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. In this episode, "Ghost Towns", Jurgen Hesse explores three British Columbia ghost towns: Sandon, Quesnel Forks and Bralorne. Recolle;ctions and reminiscences are recounted by former residents of these mining towns.;

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0073 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: Confederation and economic conditions -- Financial Times interview RECORDED: London (England), 1977-08-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Premier Bill Bennett talks with Financial Times reporter John Griffiths in London. Bennett discusses confederation and says that Canada, as presently constituted, will survive. Calls for greater power for the provinces; says the major issue in Canada is the economy; unemployment and inflation; calls for common federal/provincial national economic policy; talks about problems facing BC and western Canada; need for secondary industry; tariff policy; transportation policy; discusses the Social Credit policy to balance the books; says creation of new jobs and capital investment is up; says BC's economy is strongest in Canada; says best potential for economic growth in the province lies in the forest industry and the mining industry, especially thermal and metallurgical coal; Northeast; coal; Alcan pipeline. TRACK 2: Bennett says oil and gas exploration are up; discusses implication of the Alcan pipeline. 26 August 1977.

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0074 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: News conference RECORDED: Brussels (Belgium), 1977-09-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: At a Brussels news conference, Premier Bill Bennett discusses current and future BC development in the areas of energy and industry, 16 September 1977. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T3859:0012 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett : On proposed MacMillan Bloedel takeover RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-01-09 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett discusses CPR's proposed takeover of MacMillan Bloedel.; CALL NUMBER: T3859:0013 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett : Speech to truck loggers RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-01-17 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett addresses truck loggers.; CALL NUMBER: T3859:0014 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett : Bill Bennett : Speech to Chamber of Mines RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-01-19 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett's speech to Chamber of Mines. NOTE: Transcript on file.; CALL NUMBER: T3859:0015 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett : Press conference and speech RECORDED: Duncan (B.C.), 1979-01-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Press conference. NOTE: Transcript on file. TRACK 2: Premier Bill Bennett speech. NOTE: Transcript on file.; CALL NUMBER: T3859:0016 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett : Speech to truck loggers RECORDED: Powell River (B.C.), 1979-01-21 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett speech. NOTE: Transcript on file.; CALL NUMBER: T3859:0017 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett : Vancouver Board of Trade address RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-01-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Premier Bill Bennett addresses Board of Trade. NOTE: Transcript on file. TRACK 2: Premier Bill Bennett addresses Vancouver Board of Trade. NOTE: Transcript on file.; CALL NUMBER: T3859:0018 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alex Fraser RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-01-24 SUMMARY: Alex Fraser speaks [topic unidentified].; CALL NUMBER: T3859:0019 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ombudsman announcement RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-01-30 SUMMARY: Ombudsman announcement.; CALL NUMBER: T3859:0020 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett : Interview RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-01-31 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett interview. NOTE: Transcript on file.;

This series consists of a brief of the Mining Association of British Columbia to the premier and cabinet.

The records consist of general office files, personnel files, correspondence of the Chairman of the Board and Board of Directors of the Institute, unpublished research papers prepared by the staff of the Institute, conference papers and reference works pertinent to the research of the Institute's staff. A copy of the last annual report (March 1976) is in the hard copy finding aid of MS-0515 in the BC Archives reference room.

Item consists of one audio cassette of public hearings relating to uranium mining. The location of the recording is not known, however community hearings were held in the southern interior of British Columbia.

Item consists of one audio cassette (tape 2) of public hearings relating to uranium mining. The location of the recording is not known, however community hearings were held in the southern interior of British Columbia.

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.

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]

The series consists of photographs (negatives and a small number of prints) created by the offices of the Bureau of Mines and the Mineral Survey between 1895 and 1937, and by the Mineralogical Branch between 1937 and 1945.

The series includes a 1938 memo which indicates that selected photographs were to be used or had been used in the department's published bulletins and in its Annual Report of the Minister of Mines. Photographers include the following government mineralogists, geologists, and mining engineers (followed with dates of photographs): William Fleet Robertson, Provincial Mineralogist, (photos 1898-1908); Herbert Carmichael, Assistant Mineralogist (1901-1904); F.W. Valleau, Gold Commissioner and Mining Recorder in the Omineca Mining District (photo 1901); Harold T. Nation (photos 1903-1926); Newton W. Emmens (1914); Joseph T. Mandy, provincial government resident mining engineer for the Atlin district (photos 1926-1945); Douglas Lay, Resident Mining Engineer (photos 1906-1940); Matthew S. Hedley (photos 1936-1939); Stuart S. Holland (photos 1939-1941); J.S. Stevenson (photos 1938-1942); H.S. Sargent (photos 1936-1941); R. Maconachie (1938-1940) and John D. Galloway, Provincial Mineralogist.

A small number of photographs were collected from private sources, including professional photographers. Some are attributed to the British Columbia Provincial Police. Approximately 50 per cent of the photographs are not attributed to a photographer.

Subjects include: mines, collieries, quarries, mineral veins and specimens; mining crews, equipment and operations; prospectors and placer mining activities; coke ovens, mills, smelters, concentrators and cement works; towns, modes of transportation; topographic features such as mountains, lakes, rivers, creeks. The photographers also captured a very wide range of subjects concerning British Columbia cultural and social history. Examples of this are First Nations activities and culture, including graveyards and bridges built by First Nations. The numbering system runs from 1 to 993. A single number may represent a series of photos on the same subject (for example: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d).

The item is a video recording of a CTV interview with BC cabinet minister Bob McClelland in 1981. In it , McClelland discusses the purchase of Petrofina by Petro Canada, and the coal deal between B.C. and Japan.

Reports (not printed) to the Minister of Justice, including abstracts from evidence. (Henderson No. 91).

Purchased from Micro Media, Toronto.

The item consists of an industrial film made by Lew Parry Film Productions for the Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources in 1971 It contains an overview of the training and career opportunities in mining and related industries in British Columbia. It shows mining students at UBC and BCIT, plus various mining, smelting and research facilities throughout BC.

Out-takes. An overview of the training and career opportunities in mining and related industries. Shows mining students at UBC and BCIT, plus various mining, smelting and research facilities throughout BC.

The series consists of records created by the Cassiar Gold Commissioner between 1873 and 1931. It includes correspondence outward, mining and water records and photocopies of gold commissioner's court records originally created 1876-1888.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two volumes of news clipping books, the first from 1941-1943 arranged chronologically; the second, from 1947-1951 arranged alphabetically, mainly by settlement or location, but occasionally by subject. The clippings cover most aspects of mining, including petroleum and coal, such as exploration, operation, demand, labour relations, taxation, war effort and production.

The series consists of 14 volumes of clipping books created by the Dept. of Mines and Petroleum Resources, and its predecessor bodies, between 1910 and 1966 (with gaps).

The volumes contain newspaper clippings regarding mining legislation, exploration and companies and are partially indexed.

Indexed clippings regarding mining legislation, exploration and companies.

Series consists of correspondence; receipt for fee paid for mining location; reminiscences of the working of a mining claim on the Big Bend of the Columbia River.

Anderson was a miner and manager of the Rail Road House Hotel in Yale which he co-owned with Arthur Churton, Victoria soap manufacturer. Unit contains correspondence from Churton re the hotel, various accounts, receipts, contracts and agreements, pockets notebooks as well as notes and recipes re soap manufacture. Also includes Free Miner's certificates, assay report (1864, Rising Sun Company).