The fonds consists of letters patent; correspondence, bylaws and minutes of the Phoenix City Council; vouchers, cashbooks, daybooks and other financial records; assessment rolls and related correspondence; police board minutes, police court proceedings and register; and, minutes of the licence commission and the court of revision.

This series consists of the report and evidence of the Commission on the Administration of Justice in the City of Phoenix, 1904.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-09-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. May McGrane recalls her childhood in Rossland, including descriptions of the town at that time, a description of Phoenix, and entertainment buildings in Rossland. A trip with saddle horses in 1909 to Ootsa Lake, including details about how they did it and who they did it with. A boat trip to Bella Coola, the Bella Coola Trail, a Norwegian log house, more stories about the Bella Cool;a Trail, trading with Indians and characters around Ootsa Lake including Skin Tyee. TRACK 2: Mrs. McGrane discusses social events and stories of Ootsa Lake. Then, Mr. Dick McGrane describes his various jobs, involvement with labour organizations, reasons for going to Ootsa Lake, prospecting and trapping, and a story about a friend named George Sanneford.

The item is a newsreel. Includes items about: Churchill, Manitoba; a BC ghost town (Phoenix); Toronto mounted military band; Quebec City narrow street; New Brunswick "Magnetic Hill"; Ontario Mennonites (horses and buggies); British Columbia/Washington international border; Bay of Fundy tides.

The fonds consists of a typescript of McRae's M.B.A. thesis, as well as photographs and film footage documenting some of the company towns he visited as part of his research.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-19 SUMMARY: Mrs. Ellen Trounsen came to Phoenix in 1909, and took up barbering in 1910 with her husband. She describes the hairstyles of the time. She describes several people who had all sorts of different occupations. She describes twenty-six hotels in Phoenix in 1900, half of them closed by 1911, the flu epidemic of 1918, prohibition, the fact that women never went into the saloons, many deaths in the mines, drinking, pranks and dancing. As well, she describes Greenwood and the three buildings she owned.

The fonds consists of six photo albums created or acquired by F.M. Sylvester while he was Vice-President and General Manager of the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Co. Ltd. between 1912 and 1920.

Industrial film. Mining operations at Phoenix, Jedway and Granisle.

Out-takes. Mining operations at Phoenix, Jedway and Granisle.

The series consists of six photo albums created or acquired by F.M. Sylvester while he was Vice-President and General Manager of the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Co. Ltd. between 1912 and 1920.

The item consists of an audio interview with H.H. Stevens, recorded in 1966.
T0327:0001 summary
Track 1: Mr. Stevens, who came to Vernon in 1894, talks about his early experiences and memories of the Okanagan, including driving the stage from Penticton to Grand Forks in 1897; Camp McKinney; Fairview; Rossland; Phoenix; Greenwood; Grand Forks; Crows Nest Railway; Rock Creek; prospecting and mining and W.R. Meagaw. He describes Vernon; local residents; farms; ranches and the Aberdeen Ranch.
Track 2: Mr. Stevens continues with recollections about the Coldstream Ranch; Okanagan Lake; coming to Vancouver 1901; False Creek; CPR land holdings; real estate boom 1901 to 1912; sawmills and logging; Oppenheimer brothers; local personalities and wholesalers; Victoria wholesalers; North Vancouver ferry; Stewart; and the Dominion Trust Company.

T0327:0002 summary
Track 1: Mr. Stevens speaks about the Dominion Trust Company; the beginning of party politics in BC, 1903; and his election as a federal Conservative MP in 1911. He comments on federal political life; Vancouver in the boom period and depression, from 1911 to 1920; personalities; Alvo von Alvensleben; Hindus; Japanese; wholesalers and the Vancouver Hotel. [Track 2: blank.]

Footage. Shows various communities and activities in southeastern B.C. Several shots of a hydro-electric dam (possibly Bonnington Falls on the Kootenay River). Nakusp lakefront, with the retired sternwheeler "Bonnington" at dock; local residents, streets and buildings (Arrow Lake Hotel, Arrow Lakes Hospital); a sawmill. Brief shot of sternwheeler "Minto" approaching dock. Edgewood General Store. Lake fishing; resort. Parade and sports day in Salmo (joint Dominion Day and Independence Day celebration?), with long sequence showing a performance by a uniformed girls' drill team. Main street of Greenwood, where a baseball team warms up and poses with locals. A nearby mining community (probably Phoenix), with mining operation and many dilapidated buildings; residents and a bearded old timer pose for the camera. Scenery with river and waterfall (possibly Cascade Falls on the Kettle River?). New Denver Fire Hall.

New communities for a new era: The instant town. 1970. vii, 99, [26] leaves: illus. Thesis (M.B.A.) - Simon Fraser University. Bibliography: leaf 100.

Presented by author, 1973.

Out-takes. "Current and projected activities in the field of pollution control and land reclamation . . . a factual presentation of the mining industry's concern for the environment and the methods it adopts to prevent pollution and to reclaim mining areas." Shot at mine sites throughout B.C. These outs include operations of Bethlehem Copper, Brenda Mines, Endako Mines, Giant Mascot, Kaiser, and Lornex, at such locations as Brenda, Granisle, Highland Valley, Ioco, LeRoi mine, Phoenix, Trail, etc.

Footage. A selection of miscellaneous footage from various films produced by Parry for the Mining Association and some of its member companies. Includes footage of Boyles Brothers (manufacture of diamond drills); BC Research labs; Cominco labs and smelter; geological surveys; "Kimberley smelter" (?); Nickel Plate mine at Hedley (abandoned buildings); oil refineries and tank farms; Phoenix mine; Pine Point; Similkameen Mining Company operations; Sullivan Mine; Trail; various unidentified mills and mine operations; Western Canada Rolling Mines (steel mill); Western Mines (construction of mill and other facilities).

The item is an audio interview with Pasquale Capozzi, recorded in 1964.
T0194:0001 track 1: This interview is the story of how an immigrant went from a railway labourer to being a multi-millionaire. Mr. Pasquale 'Cap' Capozzi was born in Italy on July 13 1889. He discusses his family background; how he attended school in Italy and traveled to New York, and from there to Nelson when he was 18 or 19. He worked as a railway labourer for the CPR. He discusses various jobs he held in the BC interior before he eventually settled in Kelowna, where he established the town's second grocery store.

Track 2: Mr. Capozzi describes the conditions in Kelowna around 1920. He married his wife in 1921. He describes the town of Phoenix and the copper mining boom there. He explains the reasons for the success of his store in Kelowna. After a fire burned down his first store he built another one. He discusses how he got involved in the wine business and how he was greatly assisted in this venture by W.A.C. Bennett. He offers his impressions of Mr. Bennett and various aspects of his own business career.

T0194:0002 track 1: Mr. Capozzi discusses a service station which he bought in the Kelowna area, the hotel/motel business, his philosophy on business, what Canada means to him, how he learned to speak English in Nelson, how being an immigrant was never hard for him, how he loves Kelowna, some famous people whom he has met, his sons and how they decided the grocery business was not for them, his future plans and more on his life's philosophy.