Portland Canal Region (B.C.)

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Bridging the Nass

Item consists of one industrial video documenting the Forest Service's Engineering Division creation, from conception to completion, of the bridge that spans the Nass River. The bridge provided a road link between the town of Stewart to the south.

Bush bus #1 : [part 4?]

SUMMARY: Actuality recording, apparently made on a bus travelling through northwestern B.C. Places mentioned include Stewart, Bear River, the United Empire Mine, the Premier Mine, and Bitter Creek, as well as; an old rail line to the Cassiar gold fields.

Chris Anderson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Chris Anderson : Anyox and Alice Arm from 1925 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Chris Anderson recalls coming to Canada in 1921 and to Anyox in 1930. He describes Anyox, mining, fires at Anyox, the 1933 mining strike, the dismantling of Anyox and more descriptions of Anyox in the 1930s. TRACK 2: Anderson describes the Bonanza Mine disaster of 1929, gold mining, the Dolly Varden Mine at Alice Arm in 1925, plans for an Alice Arm Smelter in the early 1950s, current mining in the area, successful and unsuccessful miners.

Fred Lade interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-02-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Fred Lade recalls events of the West Kootenays and Arrow Lakes District. He begins with his recollections of playing music for dances, descriptions of those dances, social events and winter activities. He came from Halifax in 1901 to join his brothers in Beaton (Thompson's Landing) and when he was 15 he drove the stage from Cameron to Beaton. He describes mining activities, freighting, winter transportation, and stamp mills. By 1909, when the area declined he moved onto Stewart and ran pack trains. He provides descriptions of methods of packing, and types of freight carried.

TRACK 2: He continues with packing methods, and types of horses. He recalls the Stewart Boom, Silverado Mine, miners, and the Groundhog. He continued on to Anyox in 1913 as a steam engineer, in 1914 played cornet in a band, and by 1918 came down to Vancouver.

Inge Fiva interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1970 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Alice Arm today (1970) and in the 1920s and 1930s; mining in the Alice Arm area; possiblities for the future of Alice Arm. [TRACK 2: blank.]

James Flynn interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): James Flynn recounts his life in Northern B.C. from 1910 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: James Flynn talks about his experiences in northern B.C. from 1910. He was born in Newfoundland in 1888. He offers his reasons for leaving Newfoundland in 1903, coming out west in 1907; arri;vied in Prince Rupert in 1910, working for the Grand Trunk Railroad and Prince Rupert Waterworks. He describes Price Rupert as it was in 1910, going to Stewart in 1911, working on the telegraph to the; Nass country in 1910-1911, prospecting, starting a farm on Porcher Island, fishing on the Skeena in 1914, logging near Port Clements on the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1914, working on a pile driver and an accident is described in detail, an incident while working on a logging camp, harvest in Alberta, trapping on Nass River. One incident of burning down a telegraph cabin by accident is recalled. TRACK 2: Flynn continues with the incident: rebuilding the cabin, getting injured on the trap line, farming in the Nass, settlement on Porcher Island, settlers at Alice Arm, Captain John Irving's place there, the "Esperanza", life as a prospector near Alice Arm from the mid 1940s to the date of the interview and miscellaneous rambling comments about Alice Arm.

Mitchell Newman interview

RECORDED: Prince George (B.C.), 1981-09-29 SUMMARY: Mitchell Newman was born in Mountain Grove, Ozarks, Missouri, on January 29, 1905, and attended Aspen Grove and New Hazelton one room schools. He received his teacher training at Vancouver Normal School, 1925-26. Schools taught at include: Queen Charlotte City, 1926-30; Pacific (between Hazelton and Prince Rupert), 1930-31; and Premier Mine, 1931-32; from 1932 onward he taught at superior schools.; Newman recalls his boyhood schools, Aspen Grove and then New Hazelton. He could not attend steadily because of distance and the need to work. Chance remark of road foreman spurs him to take correspondence schooling and go to Normal School in Vancouver. Tells of teaching on Queen Charlotte Islands and life there. Joining community occupations of fishing and logging. Enjoyed whole teaching career and never had trouble fitting into a community. Describes difference between teaching at Premier Mine near Stewart, very different types of people from Charlottes and at Pacific. Describes later teaching career.

Northwest B.C. : Atlin, Stikine, Alice Arm, Portland Canal

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews about the history of British Columbia's northwestern regions, including four interviews about the Portland Canal region (Alice Arm and Anyox), 1910-1950s, and one about the Atlin-Wrangell area, 1895-1915.

[Stewart, B.C., and local mines]

Amateur film. Begins with arrival of the CN steamship SS "Prince Rupert" at Stewart and people gathering at the dock. Scenes in town. Views of mining operations, chiefly at the Premier Mines, and the Silverado Mine's Marmot River aerial tramway, running 18 miles (?) to tidewater.

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