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Series contains records relating to an application for a Crown grant of coal lands near Nanaimo, B.C., by Ellen Wenborn. Includes correspondence, affidavit and agreement related to Lands file 26911/10.

The fonds consists of photographs showing the construction of a mine complex and "company town" at Cassidy, B.C.

This series contains records of the Government Agent from Cumberland relating to coal and petroleum prospecting licences for lands covered by water opposite the foreshore of Denman Island, Comox harbour, and for other lands in the Sayward and Coast Land Districts. The records consist of correspondence, notices, and plans. These records were filed in a transfer case with the Dept. of Lands on which was noted "Documents from Government Agent, Cumberland, December 18, 1939, to be destroyed under Public Documents Disposal Act. To be retained in this box pending decision of Deputy Minister of Lands."

This series consists of records related to the public hearing held by the Environmental Appeal Board into the effects of the Quinsam Coal Mine on the environment. The hearing was conducted pursuant to the Environmental Management Act (SBC 1981 c. 14).

The records consists of correspondence, reports, maps, publications, legal documents, procedures, newspaper clippings, terms of reference, information on intervenors, intervenor briefs and schedules.

The records were used by the board in its decision on approving permits for the construction and operation of the coal mine.

Transferred under one-time schedule number 870582.

This series contains a copy of a preliminary mining report on the Wellington coal area, near East Wellington: coal rights now owned by John James Grant, prepared by Ronald Campbell Campbell-Johnston, mining and metallurgical engineer in Vancouver, June, 1920. The series also includes miscellaneous correspondence from 1925 and 1930. The preliminary report is bound in a volume with accompanying plans and photographs.

The series consists of various records created by the Provincial Police Force between 1906 and 1914. Box 1 contains a list of special constables sent to the Nanaimo strike in 1913, and oaths of allegiance. Box 2 contains correspondence and reports from December 1913 to January 1914 regarding the Nanaimo strike and reports of operatives in Revelstoke dated May and June 1911. Box 3 contains correspondence and operatives' reports from 1906 regarding the Fernie strike.

The series consists of 17 b&w photographs taken in November 1953 by the Photographic Branch of the Government Travel Bureau. The photographs depict the above ground workings of various defunct mines near Nanaimo BC and include shots of equipment and buildings, the original Wellington Collieries railway and the last coal brought up from Bright Mine in 1953.

The collection consists of oral history interviews with Cumberland residents pertaining to coal mining and community life in Cumberland and area.
The collection contains two sets of audio recordings. The first set, T4260:0001-0023, are audio reel recordings entitled "Cumberland History Project" and are a collection of oral history interviews recorded by students of Cumberland Intermediate School in 1974 and 1975. The focus of the interviews is early Cumberland and the local coal mining industry. The second set, T4260:0024-0026 are three cassette tapes recorded from 1979 to 1985 by Cumberland Museum curator, Dale Reeves, and researchers Sandra Clarke and Dale Lovick. These tapes are also oral history interviews about the Cumberland area and the coal mining industry.