Collection consists of Albert Hitchen's pay statements for work in the Northfield Mine (Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Ltd.). Statements show gross wages less deductions for such items as coal, doctor, hospital fund, income tax, national defence tax and union dues.
Fonds consists of records related to the Wellington Colliery Company's operations at the Comox Mines, Cumberland. Fonds is arranged in two series 1) Accounts and 2) Invoices.
Wellington Colliery CompanyCollection consists of a a receipt from E.J. Wilson to Western Fuel Corporation for labour and materials used in the installation of water connection at the Wilson home at 395 Ninth Street, a booklet detailing the agreement between the Corporation and its employees (1927) and a booklet detailing the agreement between corporation employees and Dr. George A.B. Hall (1921). A manuscript annotation on the verso of the booklet reads "Exhibit No. 1 Hall vs. Lane, June 28/22, A. Forrester, Re[g]."
Western Fuel Corporation of CanadaThe fonds consists of photographs of Vancouver Island, the B.C. coast, Puget Sound, and the Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Ltd.
Lowther Ferris (Firm)The fonds consists of notes and sketches of exploration from Quesnel to Salmon River, a journal, letterbooks, diaries, correspondence regarding Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir), Canadian Pacific Railway and surveys.
Hunter, JosephThe collection consists of mining maps and plans (particularly of Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Ltd and Tsable River Mine), subdivision and land use maps of Cumberland and area, photomosaics, and other area maps.