- CA JMABC A.1995.003-004-MI-2
- Item
- [ca. 1940]
Film depicts dog sledding, men gold panning and mining, shots of caribou, shots of the Yukon (likely Dawson City) and shots of a miniature train set.
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Film depicts dog sledding, men gold panning and mining, shots of caribou, shots of the Yukon (likely Dawson City) and shots of a miniature train set.
Film depicts the Dawson ice break up in May, a picnic, a softball game, various shots of ships and planes. The film also has shots of the sun at midnight over Dawson in June, and people mining.
Colour Ektachrome 35mm slide depicts dredge walkers, a mining operation in Forty Mile, Yukon.
Note: Colour adjusted on JPEG.
Dredging mining operation with Irving Snider and other unidentified men
Colour Ektachrome 35mm slide depicts a dredging mining operation with Irving Snider and other unidentified men.
Note: Colour adjusted on JPEG.
Dredging mining operationwhere sediments are picked up and disposed of at a different location
Colour Ektachrome 35mm slide depicts a dredging mining operation where sediments are picked up and disposed of at a different location.
Note: Colour adjusted on JPEG.
Equipment, Texada Mine, Texada Island, British Columbia
Photograph depicts Texada Mines Ltd. Texada Mines Ltd. was located on Texada Island, the largest of the Northern Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia. In 1876, a whaler discovered iron ore on the island and mining began. Texada Mines was open from 1952 to 1977.
Close up shot of equipment in the mechanical room of Texada Mines Ltd; equipment consists of what appears to be some sort of belt and drills or turbines.
Part of JHSBC Oral History Collection
Oral history interview with Eva Prentice who was born in Hungary in 1911. The family emigrated to Canada because of the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 while they had been in Palestine for a chess tournament. Therefore they spent time in Zurich waiting to emigrate rather than return to Vienna. Eva's husband John owned a veneer plant in New Westminster but was converted to plywood to build Mosquito bombers after 1939. This became Canadian Forest Products, now known as CanFor
Flying into Whitehorse, shipyards, skiing, Ed Barker Day, Snider Film 1
Film depicts footage of a plane flying into Whitehorse, shipyards, skiing, men logging, Ed Barker Day, dinner parties, people taking a ship called the Princess Norah. The film also shows shots of San Francisco, Oregon, and Los Angeles markets, and well as Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles) at night.
Part of Cyril E. Leonoff fonds
An Interview with Sam Heller, who is associated with Pacific Pine Company Ltd.
Leonard Frank Photos studio fonds
The fonds consists of records from three distinct sources: the Leonard Frank Photos studio, the Frank family , and the Landauer family. The records of Leonard Frank Photos studio constitute those that remained after the closure of the business in 1983. They consist of photographs and textual records. The photographs cover many significant events and developments in British Columbia's history. Their major subject areas include logging, lumbering, mining, shipping, fishing and transportation; the construction of bridges and buildings in the Vancouver area; famous people; aboriginal peoples; and scenic views of mountainous, coastal, and urban areas. The photographs were taken by Leonard Frank and Otto Landauer. The textual records consist of photographic FindingAids, business correspondence, financial records, and historical and reference material. The records of the Frank family consist of the personal papers of Leonard and Bernard Frank. The records of the Landauer family consist of the personal papers of Otto Landauer and members of his family.
Frank, Leonard