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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.

Cause book and other material

  • GR-2893
  • Series
  • 1926-1960

Cause book, July 1926 - June 1928 (pp. 2-76); record book, 1930-1940; 1951-1960 (pp. 80-150) and pages from a ease file Stewart Hi-Way Services vs. Terminal Taxi, December 1960.

British Columbia. Small Debts Court (Stewart)

Correspondence, clippings and reports

Files kept by J.C. Goodfellow, secretary of the British Columbia Conference Historical Committee ca. 1930 containing correspondence, newspaper clippings and reports relating to the history of the United Church in the Prince Rupert Presbytery of British Columbia.

John C. Goodfellow was a United Church minister and a historian. He wrote many articles on the history of the Similkameen area and on other topics.

This microfilm is a copy of the files Goodfellow kept which relate to the history of the United Church in the Prince Rupert Presbytery. The files contain correspondence, clippings and reports relating to the history of the communities and the churches in the communities. The files are in alphabetical order by place name.

Frances Sandy interview

RECORDED: Charlie Lake (B.C.), 1975-11-29 SUMMARY: Francis Sandy is a well-known painter of Peace River country landscapes. "The first white child born in Princeton." Trained at St. Joseph's Hospital. Met husband (Ray Sandy) in Stewart, and moved to Fort St. John in 1937. Dr. Kearney. The Sandys open a restaurant in Fort St. John, 1941, followed by a drug store. Muddy streets. "Ghost town" prophecy unfulfilled. Daughter delivered newspapers with a dog team. Painting landscapes. Chicken ranch. Medical problems -- wheelchair and cataracts. Isolation. Cooking for oil-rig crew. Social life. Taylor, B.C. Ma Murray and the Alaska Highway News; worked as social editor for the paper.

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.

Ozzie Hutchings fonds

  • PR-2385
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1917]-1974

The fonds consists of records created or acquired by Ozzie Hutchings which document his activities in Anyox and Stewart B.C. The fonds includes two memoirs written by Hutchings, one about the history of Anyox, written in 1966 and one about the history of Stewart, written in 1972.

There are also 63 black and white photographs created or acquired by Hutchings in the 1920s and 1930s which mainly document the 1936 Skeena flood and its impact on Anyox and Terrace as well as snow slides photographs from the 1930s. In addition there are 27 black and white copy prints loaned by Hutchings for copying by the Provincial Archives in 1972. These prints show the town site of Anyox including the dam, the smelter and various fires.

Hutchings, Ozzie

Records relating to lot sales in Stewart, B.C., and to mining in the vicinity

Records relating to lot sales in Stewart, B.C., and to mining in the vicinity which were with the J. Stewart Hagar Collection of photographs transferred to Visual Records by the Victoria City Archives. The records consist of two printed lists of lot prices; 2 bills of sale (1910) for fractional claims from Wm. Piggott to A.H. Douglas; a list of shareholders, Dunwell and Palmer claim; sketch of mine.

Register and index to Bills of Sale and Chattel Mortgages

  • GR-2383
  • Series
  • 1908-1954

Register and index to Bills of Sale and Chattel Mortgages. Volume 1, the register, Nos. 1-3773, 1908-1954, is arranged chronologically and shows the names, place of residence, occupation, date of registration renewal and satisfaction as well as the nature of instrument (Bill of Sale, Chattel Mortgage, or Assignment). Inside the front cover is a sample of the authority for Chattel Mortgages and Bills of Sale. Volume 2 is the index to volume 1, arranged alphabetically. Case files from 1909-1921, to which these volumes apply are found in GR-2518.

British Columbia. County Court (Prince Rupert)

Stewart Police Court record books

  • GR-1856
  • Series
  • 1938-1973

Record books. Vol. 1: July 1938 - June 1960; vol. 2: July 1960 - Aug 1973.

British Columbia. Police Court (Stewart)

Stewart townsite auctioneers agreements

  • GR-2601
  • Series
  • 1910

The series consists of records created by the Department of Lands in 1910. It contains a volume of Cassiar Land District auctioneers agreements of sale for Stewart townsite lots 1-232, subdivided from District Lots 466 and 468. Information in the certificates may include the date of sale, name and address of highest bidder, amount bid, deposit, and terms of sale. The certificates are arranged randomly and no index is available.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands

[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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