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Kootenay district (B.C.) File
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The Miner's Boy in the Lardeau Gold Rush

The file consists of a photocopy of "The Miner's Boy in the Lardeau Gold Rush" [reminiscences of life in the Lardeau, and in Stewart and Anyox] told by Fred Lade and written by Ina B. Rawson Lade.

Adolph family notes

The file consists of the reminiscences of Frederick William Adolph who operated a lumber mill at Baynes Lake in the Kootenay district in the early twentieth century; photocopy of marriage certificate, 1861, of Frederick Adolph and Margaret Lamont, parents of F.W. Adolph and genealogical notes by Valerie Adolph.

Presented by Valerie Adolph, Delta, 1979.

British Columbia : of their doings their by one of them

The item is a large, illustrated volume titled "British Columbia: of their doings there by one of them" by Frederick D. Williams. The volume contains a manuscript account of a journey from London, England to Vancouver B.C. and back between August 28 and October 6, 1897. Williams landed in New York and travelled by train through Chicago and Spokane to Nelson where he and his party took the Kootenay Lake steamer to Kaslo and the train to Sandon and then on up to Nakusp and Revelstoke, Kamloops and Vancouver.

The volume has been illustrated by glued in photographs, magazine prints, maps, menus, passenger lists and programs.

"Nothing Down": stories of hardrock mining / Cyprian Douglas N. Taylor

The file contains "Nothing Down": stories of hardrock mining. It is a collection of articles based on author Cyprian Douglas Taylor's experiences as a miner, mining engineer, and mine manager in B.C., the Yukon and Ontario.
1-6, "Nothing Down: the story of hardrock mining in the 1920s and 1930s
7, A contract leasing system for mining properties
8, A history of mining development in the Dawson Range
9, The saga of Jack Meloy
10, The construction of mining camps in the North
11, Kennecott, Alaska, a guide to high grade copper deposits
12, report on the Kootenay Florence Mine. Illustrated with photographs and with paintings by Margaret Taylor (Mrs. C.D.N. Taylor).

A revised version of parts II and III, with letters from Ralph Perry and Ralph Diamond, testifying to the accuracy of the stories was presented by the author in January 1986, and is included as folder 2.

Leaves from my diary: two years with the Canadian Pacific Railroad survey, Rocky Mountain Division / Robert M. Rylatt

The file contains a typescript copy of an account by Robert M. Rylatt titled "Leaves from my diary: two years with the Canadian Pacific Railroad survey, Rocky Mountain Division." It consists of an account of the author's experiences with "S" party, C.P.R. survey, under Walter Moberly, summer 1871 to summer 1873, in vicinity of Howse and Yellowhead Passes.

Articles by H.E. Richardson

The file consists of typescript articles by Mr. Richardson on Windermere district where he grew up: "Back to Windermere in search of employment" about his experiences as a graderman on the highway through Kootenay Park in the 1930s; "Windermere's only author" about Arthur Murray Chisholm; and "Pioneering family history in British Columbia" written in response to a Provincial Museum/National Museum of Man request for information on day to day activities in the home, 1900-1930; two short articles, on Christmas and on a steamboat excursion, Golden to Sam's Landing.

Report of the Royal Flush group of mineral claims

The file contains mining engineer Charles Moore's examination and report of the Royal Flush group of mineral claims (Telegraph, Royal Flush, Anaconda and the United Verde mineral claims) in the Nelson Mining Division of the West Kootenay District of British Columbia (original and copy).

Social impacts of large scale development projects. Case study: Hugh Keenleyside dam construction / Stuart Bruce Backerman

The item is a copy of a 1976 thesis on microfiche by Stuart Bruce Backerman. It is called "Social impacts of large scale development projects. Case study: Hugh Keenleyside dam construction. 1975." ix, 91 leaves: maps, tables. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1975. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 75-78. Canadian theses on microfiche, 25097.

Letters regarding the McBride cup

The file contains a letter to W.D. MacDonald from T.A. Love, 1954 re the McBride Cup, instituted in 1913 for the interior hockey championship. It also includes a letter from W.D. MacDonald, 1985, presenting the T.A. Love letter to the Provincial Archives of British Columbia and giving additional information on the McBride cup and on his own family background.

Nation Family. England.

"Extracts from letters written home from British Columbia, 1900-1907", by Harold T. Nation from Cranbrook and Fort Steele where he worked at various jobs including surveying. Edited transcripts made by his son, Philip Nation.

Typescript loaned for copying by Lt. Colonel Philip Nation, Kingston, Ontario, 1980.

Nation Family. England

Records relating to Nakusp

Collected for the 1958 Centennial, this material consists of typescripts, newspaper clippings, photographs and signatures. The collection addresses most aspects of early life at Nakusp and district including railway construction and maintenance, recreation, sawmills, steamboats and church history. The focus is on the people of the district with lists of residents and thumbnail sketches of individuals and families.

Nakusp, B.C.

British Columbia Southern Railway Co.

Draft of general instructions to the Chief of party on British Columbia Southern Railway Company explorations and surveys, issued by the Chief Timber Ranger. Typescript with amendments handwritten in red ink.

Donated to BC Forest Service Museum in 1953 by A.J. Ross, BCFS Ranger at Creston; received by Provincial Archives of British COlumbia [now B.C. Archives] from Project 87 in 1982.

British Columbia Southern Railway Co.

Yoho National Park.

"A history of Yoho National Park, Field, B.C."

Loaned for copying by F.M. Woodward, Special Collections, University of British Columbia, 1976.

Yoho National Park