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Fonds · [ca. 1850-2001]

The collection consists of photographs of scenes, events, industry and people in the Maple Ridge area, including the communities of Whonnock, Hammond, Haney, Port Haney, Yennadon, Websters Corner, Ruskin, Albion, and The Ridge.

Fonds · 1942-1991

The fonds consists of records created by MacMillan Bloedel Alberni Plywoods Division and its predecessor bodies, including MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River Ltd. Alberni Plywoods Division, MacMillan and Bloedel Ltd. Alberni Plywoods Division, and Alberni Plywoods Ltd. Records include balance sheets, statements of account, Receivables and Payables, Special maintenance records, Taylor fire, and supplier catalogues.

MacMillan Bloedel. Alberni Plywoods Division
McLean family fonds
CA FFG P996.3 · Fonds · 1928-1950

The fonds consists of photographs depicting the style and types equipment used during a logging and saw milling operations, a planning mill, flat cars for transportation; horse teams; horse skidding; scows used; logging trucks; McLean Sawmill Ltd. at Mile 134; Shelly Sawmill Ltd.; McLean Lumber Co. Ltd.; Horseshoe Hill; Giscome Rapids; family members and sawmill operators depict this colourful history of sawmill life in the Northern Interior of British Columbia.

McLean (family)
CA LMA MS 6 · Fonds · 1969

The fonds consists of the records of the Lytton and District Board of Trade for 1969. Includes correspondence, to and from the Board and the Minister of Lands and Forests in regards to the extension of timber rights for a local logging operation and mill, the Spatsum Lumber Company. Accompanying the correspondence is a copy of the official petition sent to the Minister, listing the signatures and occupations of all local residents in favour of this action. The letters and petition were the outcome of a severe economic downturn, in that if the local lumber mill was not recognized as an 'established licensee' and allotted crown timber rights, it could no longer survive.

Lytton and District Board of Trade
CA KLA 988.194 · Fonds · 1897-1912

The fonds consists of minutes, share certificates, receipts, legal agreement, and correspondence.

London Hill Development and Mining Company
Leask Lumber Company fonds
Fonds · 1905-1908

The fonds consists of day books, journals, ledgers, and stock certificate book of the Leask Lumber Company.

Leask & Johnson Lumber Company
Leary family fonds
CA DMA CR-54 · Fonds · 1897-[196-?]

Textual records consist of legal records belonging to A.R. Leary including land deeds, mortgage papers, and fire insurance policies. The fonds also includes British Columbia history and geography textbooks, newspaper clippings, a June 3, 1948 issue of the Ladner Optimist, school certificates, a short history of Vancouver, May Day raffle tickets, rules and regulations of the Grand Black Chapter of Ireland, programs, receipts, notebooks, correspondence, etc. It also contains genealogical notes on the Leary family compiled by Mabel MacNamara and Laura Miller. The fonds includes photographs of men during the gold rush, Knickerbocker's Barber Shop, schools and students, Ladner Ferry, World War I tanks, logging, canneries, ferries, etc. as well as photographs of various members of the Leary family.

Leary (family)
CA KMA 75.40 · Fonds · 1919-1937

The fonds consists of cash books for the Laminated Material Company.

Laminated Material Company
CA KSM MG11 · Fonds · 1987-1992

The fonds consists of maps, notes, photographs & negatives, survey files, a manuscript and a heritage inventory.

Lake Cowichan (B.C.). Heritage Advisory Committee
L.M. Carlson fonds
CA HED 988.137 · Fonds · 1937-1938

The fonds consists of photographs depicting views of Hedley and of the Nickel Plate Mine.

Carlson, L.M.
Fonds · 1890-1991

The collection consists of forestry, geological, mining, mineral claim, road and railway maps, and architectural drawings of various sites and structures in the Kaslo-Ainsworth areas, including the S.S. Moyie. Collection includes mine site and townsite plans for Kaslo and area.

CA KLA 988.17 · Fonds · 1939-1943

The fonds consists of personnel records, accounts, correspondence, and records relating to unemployment insurance and worker's compensation.

Kootenay Belle Gold Mines
King Studio fonds
CA VPL 70189-71265 · Fonds · 1921-1947

The fonds consists of photographs depicting companies, buildings, and industrial sites in Vancouver and area as well as advertising and display photographs. Fonds includes photographs taken by the W.J. Moore Company.

King Studio
Fonds · [ca. 1917-1989]

The collection consists of photographs of Kimberley and area, including Marysville, the Sullivan Mine, and Chapman Camp, depicting individuals, families, and community groups; personnel, facilities, and operations of the Sullivan Mine; community events and activities; sports activities in the area (including curling, skiing, and ice hockey); and, general scenes. The collection includes photographs created and accumulated by Cominco's Sullivan Mine (earlier the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada) and by local professional photographers Peter Faulkner and Charles Wormington.

Fonds · 1905-1967

The collection consists of fire insurance maps of Kimberley, Chapman Camp, Marysville, and the Sullivan Mine and townsite; townsite plan of Marysville; geological survey maps; and, other maps of Kimberley and district. Collection includes maps of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada's Sullivan Mine operation.

Kenneth Bendall fonds
CA EMA V990.27 · Fonds · [ca. 1925-1935]

The fonds consists of photographs of Pioneer Street village and Esquimalt Road (Esquimalt, B.C.) depicting dockyards, the harbour, the Bendall family and general street scenes.

Bendall, Kenneth Darrell
Ken Richmond fonds
CA EMA 993.1 · Fonds · 1914-1922, 1967

The fonds consists of Richmond's school photographs of Lampson Street School in Esquimalt along with photographs of scenes and industry in Esquimalt.

Richmond, Ken
CA HED 991.10 · Fonds · [ca. 1930-1958]

The fonds consists of medical certificates, employment applications, inventories, copies of crown grants, correspondence, contracts, collective bargaining agreements, and technical reference material of the Nickle Plate Mine operation at Hedley. Fonds includes plans of various sections of the mine and of water pipelines serving Hedley. Fonds also includes inventory of machinery (1930) of the Hedley Gold Mining Company.

Kelowna Exploration Company. Nickel Plate Mine
Fonds · 1827-1981

The collection consists of cartographic material relating to Kamloops and district, the Nicola Valley, the North Thompson area, the Shuswap area, the Similkameen Valley, the Fraser Canyon, the Lillooet district, and the West Kootenays. Material includes survey maps, townsite plans, mineral rights maps, subdivision plans, road maps, and fire insurance maps.

Fonds · [ca. 1920]-1994

The collection consists of photographs depicting people, families, community scenes and events, buildings, schools, natural scenery, and industry (particularly logging, sawmill operations, and mining) in the Cowichan Lake area and western Cowichan Valley.

Josiah F. Gosse fonds
CA MMB L378;L836 · Fonds · 1898-1900

The fonds consists of partial log book from the SS Tees (1899-1900), signed by J. Gosse as master, and account ledger for payment of crew and outfitting of hunters for the sealing schooner Otto for 1898.

Gosse, Josiah F.
Joseph B. Clearihue fonds
CA MMB L2040a-c;L2041a-k · Fonds · 1905, [ca. 1916]

The fonds consists of documents relating to the stranding, floating and subsequent sale of the sealing schooner Florence M. Munsie of Victoria, B.C. (1905), including correspondence between Hans Blakstad, owner William Munsie and Lloyd's Insurance Agents. Fonds also contains documents relating to the 1916 Royal Commission on the claims made by Pelagic sealers.

Clearihue, Joseph Badenoch
John A. Pybus fonds
Fonds · 1881-1924

The fonds consists of Pybus' accounts (1881-1914) and correspondence (1884-1924), including correspondence relating to his appointments as Medical Health Officer and Coroner for the Alberni Mining District.

Pybus, John A.
James Vanslyk fonds
CA VAL 999.98 · Fonds · 1942-1961

The fonds consists of personal and business correspondence relating to Vanslyk's mining and art interests, records of mining claims, army records, reference maps of Valemount and area used by Vanslyk, and Vanslyk's drawings depicting scenes, buildings, industry and prospecting activities in the Canoe River area, the Robson Valley, Valemount and area, and Barkerville and area.

Vanslyk, James
James S. Clark fonds
CA MMB L29.1-5 · Fonds · 1882-[ca. 1905]

The fonds consists of plans for a new type of lifeboat (which won the Anthony Pollock Prize, 1900) and for a cargo ship, plans for launching Spanish cruisers (1905), yacht hull plans, principal dimension sheets for 13 ships built by Barrow Shipbuilding Company, and a book of plans of ships built between 1880 and 1905 by Barrow Shipbuilding, Vea Marquia Cadiz, and Mitsabishi Shipbuilding (Japan).

Clark, James Stewart