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The series consists of four distinct parts.

The first part is records of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Limited, dating from 1884 to 1967. Textual records (in boxes 1 to 12) include but are not limited to correspondence, journals, ledgers, indentures, lab reports, records on union-management relations, wage scale information, account books, and general business records. Eleven scrapbooks are contained in boxes 13 to 23; these include newspaper clippings, ca. 1909-1967, and include two on the Doukhobors.

The second part of the series (boxes 24 and 25) consists of correspondence and other business records of Samuel Stewart Fowler, a key figure in the mining industry in the Kootenays in the early 20th century, and at the Bluebell mine in particular, where he worked before it became the property of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company. The records date from 1908-1941 and consist of Fowler's correspondence, inward and outward, with various firms and individuals. Precise reasons for these records forming part of the Cominco fonds are not known. It is conjecture that the records were inherited by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Ltd. when they acquired the Bluebell mine property.

The third part of the series (boxes 26 - 27), consists of 20 cm of records of the West Kootenay Power and Light Company Ltd., dating from 1906-1947. The records consist of miscellaneous correspondence and business records, and includes papers of predecessor and subsidiary companies, including the Rossland Power and Light Company, the East Kootenay Power Company, and South Kootenay Power Company. These records include correspondence with the company from A.D. Fredericks of Waneta, B.C., who regularly reported on the river, climatic conditions, the water level of local creeks and rivers, and general social conditions in the Waneta area.

The fourth part of the series (boxes 28 - 29) consists of 20 cm of correspondence and other records of the Canadian North-eastern Railway Company, including some records created under the company’s original name, the Portland Canal Short Line Railway Company. The records consist of correspondence, and some legal agreements and survey plans, arranged chronologically from 1909 to 1930.