Gold mines and mining--British Columbia

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  • See also: British Columbia--Gold discoveries

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Bonanza Mining Co. records

Correspondence between the secretary-treasurer, E. Bell (Clinton), the government auditor, J. McB. Smith, and B.H. Tyrwhitt Drake, acting on behalf of the company, and shareholders, mining engineers, prospectors, prospective buyers, etc. Included are draft agreements, assessment forms, assay forms, tax forms, receipts and 2 cash books giving names of shareholders. A sketch map of the Bonanza property on Cayoosh Creek, was transferred to Maps.

Bonanza Mining Company

The history of Lucius S. Edelblute

The item is a typescript titled "The history of Lucius S. Edelblute, his life and adventurez in calaforn[i]a & return and brit[is]h columbia and alazka and muntana...", written by Edelblute about his adventures between 1849 and 1873.

Records related to Bullion Mine

  • GR-4196
  • Series
  • 1894-1924

This series consists of records related to Bullion Mine received by Department of Mines staff from 1894-1924. Records relate to mining leases, land tenure or use disputes, the Cariboo Gold Mining Company and the Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company, South Fork Hydraulic Mining Company, and the associated Hopp versus Ward court case. Records include correspondence, indentures, copies of legislation, court documents including exhibits, photos, maps and technical drawings of the mine.

The series also includes records related to 1898 mining report, including feedback and comments from miners.

British Columbia. Dept. of Mines

Colonial Office correspondence with Hudson's Bay Co. with regard to Vancouver Island

This series consists of transcripts of correspondence with the Hudson's Bay Company relating to the conveyance, settlement, and reconveyance of Vancouver Island. Correspondence is arranged chronologically.

Volumes:
Volume 1: 1822-1851
Volume 2: 1852-1856.
Volume 3: 1856-1858
Volume 4: 1858-1860
Volume 5: 1860-1863
Volume 6: 1863-1880

Great Britain. Colonial Office

Mineral claim certificates

  • GR-0236
  • Series
  • 1896-1898

The series consists of certificates of work and records of mineral claims created by the Bridge River Mining Recorder between 1896 and 1898.

British Columbia. Mining Recorder (Bridge River)

Clinton counterfoil book

  • GR-0235
  • Series
  • 1891-1905

The series consists of a counterfoil book record of placer claim (indexed), created by the Clinton Mining Recorder between 1891 and 1905.

British Columbia. Mining Recorder (Clinton)

Cariboo Government Agent correspondence and other material

  • GR-0216
  • Series
  • 1860-1938

The series consists of records created by the Government Agent and the Gold Commissioner of the Cariboo District, between 1860 and 1938. It includes correspondence inward and outward; court, mining, land, financial and administrative records.

British Columbia. Gold Commissioner (Cariboo)

Miscellaneous records

The series consists of various records created by King including reminiscences entitled "Trip to California"; a typewritten transcript of a trip from New Brunswick to Quesnel via Panama, 1863-1864, with a brief account of activities in Quesnel in 1865; pocket diary from 1864 containing accounting entries, and under dates March 16-21, an account of a "Trip from Mouth Quesnelle to Big Bend" dated March 25 to April 12; seven letters addressed to "Willie", from R.W. Carrall dated Barkerville, 1867 and 1868; conveyances to W.C. King of interest in Minnehaha and the United Mining Company by R.W. Carrall, 1868.

Journal

The item is a microfilm copy of a journal kept by King of a trip from New Brunswick to California and British Columbia from 1863 to 1865. It also includes several 1873 journal entries, lists of books read, letters sent, expenses and other notes.

Bennett-Atlin Commission records

  • GR-0004
  • Series
  • 1898-1899

The series consists of records created by the "Bennett-Atlin Commission Act, 1899" to settle disputes as to mining claims in the Bennett Lake and Atlin Lake mining divisions. The records include applications to record claims, petitions of right, applications to the gold commissioner re involved records, calendar of cases, miscellaneous exhibits, decisions and judgements.

British Columbia. Bennett-Atlin Commission

[D.M. Sinclair films]

Amateur film. Travel footage showing places and scenery in British Columbia's southern interior, including the Okanagan, Boundary, Arrow Lakes, Slocan, Shuswap, Nicola and Big Bend regions. Also includes footage showing activities in Zeballos and vicinity during the gold rush there: mining, community celebrations and sports, a flood, and various transport aircraft serving the area. There is also footage showing logging operations, presumably on Vancouver Island.

Phyllis Martin interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-09-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. John Martin tells of her father, Carl Binns, coming to Ucluelet for the first time in 1895, with William Thompson. She recounts how her father rowed to Ucluelet; he found gold in 1899; worked at placer mining and eventually sold his claim returning to Ireland; he later ran boats along the Alberni Canal; and ran the Big Boy Mine at Herbert Arm. Mrs. Martin recalls her early life; growing up in New York and later moving to Ucluelet in 1914. She describes her impressions of Ucluelet; her family life; her mother; social life; politics; early settlers; pre-emptions; funerals; Frenchy's Cove or Spring Cove; the lifeboat station and the telephone system. TRACK 2: Mrs. Martin continues her recollections of early Ucluelet; Long Beach; roads; road work; settlers; beaches; tidal wave; "Carelmapu" wreck in 1915; Gibson family from Ahousat; transportation; CPR boats; HMCS "Givenchy"; dances; and rum-running.

Stan Carr interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Stan Carr talks about the Tete Jaune/Valemount area: old timers and the gold rush; how WWI affected the country; his own history; Dr. Alan Mosley of Tete Jaune Cache; guiding and packing; a story about a Grizzly bear; Mount Robson; the Fraser and Thompson Rivers; and miscellaneous comments. [TRACK 2: blank?];

Rhoda White and Dr. W.F. Shaw interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Rhoda M. White discusses her father, W.W. Shaw, who came from Ontario to the west, settled at Salmon Arm, sold his farm after ten years, and moved to Heffley Creek; became a ranch manager at Tranquille; the ranch at Heffley Creek in 1914; the first Christmas on the ranch; automobiles; Bill and Jane Fortune; Kamloops as a health resort; ranch horses; her father's character; her mother's character; the appearance of the area in the early days. TRACK 2: Mrs. White tells the story about a man and his mother; she discusses isolation; early schools; social life; changes after WWI; settlers at Lewis Creek 1906 to 1908; how her father burned out about 1900; her father took over Circle Bar Ranch; her grandfather and the Iroquois; her fathers first experiences at Heffley Creek and Tranquille. Then Dr. W.F. Shaw describes his family's ranch at Shaw Springs; gold in the Thompson River; hardships of pioneers; early characters -- Stage Billy, Tommy Spence, Murray the Trader. Then she discusses marmots and snakes; apples and other produce; other settlers and early conditions; and a ghost story.

Leah Shaw interview

CALL NUMBER: T0303:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Leah Shaw describes her father, William Hugh Shaw, as a contractor for the railway with McKenzie and Mann when they built the first 100 miles from Gladstone to Dauphin [Manitoba] in 1896; eventually settled in Spences Bridge; kids went to school in Kamloops; how Shaw Springs was named, she describes how her father got involved in the railway business; his life; how her grandfather, Hunter Shaw, came to Canada from Scotland, how the Great Northern Pacific Railway was started by two Shaw brothers in Winnipeg; General Stuart; Shaw Springs; gold mining, how Spences Bridge was covered; by a landslide; Thompson River wagon tracks; Clapperton Trail. TRACK 2: Shaw continues by describing horse brigades; Lytton slide; road building; Spences Bridge known as Cook's Ferry, a murder by two Indians of a miner; the highway construction in 1921; Death Canyon and several whirlpools there, which killed many people; the Thompson River; local old timers, Johnny Moberly and Ned Stout; Chines;e in the area; jade; Spence's Bridge.

CALL NUMBER: T0303:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Shaw continues by describing the Leboudais family who documented historical incidents; anecdotes about incidents in the area; stage coach stories; cleaning camps on Saturday mornings. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Willie Campbell interview : [Ball, 1963]

The item consists of an oral history interview with Willie Campbell and family, recorded in 1963.
It includes general chatter; Willie tells tall tales beginning with reasons for names of different species of salmon. Other stories included about 1898 gold rush, Stikine region trails, etc. Fiddle tunes.

Willie Campbell interview

The item consists of an oral history with Willie Campbell recorded in 1970.
T4238:0001 summary:
TRACK 1: Early Stikine region. First white man. Buck Choquette's birth place. Gold discovery on Dease Lake, etc. TRACK 2: Early road houses. Wilson (?); Meadow, etc.

T4238:0002 summary:
Stories of 1898. Dease Trail. Road houses. Murders. Chief Nanook.

[Stikine River placer mining and travel, 1930s -- parts 1 to 4]

Amateur film. Mainly shows trip(s) up the Stikine by riverboat and placer mining activity on the river. Includes: waterfront view of Wrangell, Alaska; views of and from riverboat "Hazel B No. 2" going upriver; the Three Sisters (islands in the river); riverboat at Telegraph Creek and barge at Dease Lake, and local activity; forest fire & fire-fighting; shots of a Fokker F-11AHB flying boat designated CF-AUV (at dock and taking off) and a Fairchild floatplane; aerial shots in the vicinity; wreckage of aircraft CF-AUV (which crashed at McDame Lake, 13 July1935); general scenery and wildlife. The placer mining footage, which is interspersed, includes shots of a small mining camp, sluice works, panning, hydraulic monitor operation, jerry-built mining equipment in use, etc.

Rupert Duck interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Rupert Duck discusses his grandfather's brother, Jacob Duck, who went out to Monte Creek to mine gold in 1862, and bought the deeds to some land; he was the first one in the family to co;me to Canada; Rupert's father came out in 1883; the suspected origins of Monte Creek; more on Jacob Duck, including details on his character and his ranch; other families that came to the area, includ;ing the Harper brothers; his father, who was Albert William Duck, and details about his coming to Canada to work for his cousin; several anecdotes about characters, including one about a remittance ma;n; then evolution of the town at Grand Prairie into Westwold; more on Westwold, including people who lived there; a man named Whittaker who bought most of the land at Westwold around WWI; more characters in the area; details about Bill Miner from his own memory, including his recollections the trial and the holdup. TRACK 2: Mr. Duck continues with more on the arrest of Bill Miner; details on the holdup from two years later near Monte Creek after Miner's jailbreak; what life was like in these days; more on ranches in the area; sections which he has written for ranching books about the area; details about Mr. Bostock; other characters and anecdotes; a woman named Edith Morley.

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