WELLS ARCHIVES
RECORD GROUP 11

 

WRG 11 - Books - Mining

Collection dates, Series #1 of 4 1899 - 1968

Scope and Contents

The books in this Record Group are books that are mainly mine related.

 

Series 1:

Contains periodicals and books pertaining to mining.

 

In this Series:

1. = Industrial Catalogues

 

  

1. INDUSTRIAL CATALOGUES

 

(3)  Marshall-Wells, BC Limited - complete product  late ‘30’s, 1940, 1953,

   line catalogues

   (1)  Grinnell Sales Ltd. - this company carries pipes of 1965

  all kinds as well as heating and air conditioning

  and fire protection systems.

   (1)  C&H Specialties Tools and Equipment for the    1950

  plumbing, heating, electrical and sheet metal trades

  (W.H. Cunningham and Hill, Limited )

   (1)  Clarke & Stuart Co. Ltd., Engineering Division   1964

  Catalogues are mainly  from the Dietzgen Co.

   (1)  JMG Manufacturing Ltd.- mainly carries drills and 1966

  drill parts.

   (1)  Evans, Coleman and Evans Limited - Catalogue   No date

  of general commercial building supplies

   (1)  RAE Industrial Electronics - electrical supplies

   (2)  Boyles Bros. Drilling Company Ltd.  - Diamond    1965

  Drilling Contractors and Manufacturers

  -Price List  1964

   (1)  MSA (Mine Safety Appliances of Canada Ltd.)   1949

  General Catalogue of Safety Equipment  

   (1)  BF Goodrich Rubber Company - Industrial Rubber 1954 

  Products

   (2)  Goodall Rubber Company - Industrial Rubber     1962  Products

Series 2:

This Series contains a continuation of catalogues for mining

In this Series:

1.= Industrial Catalogues

 

1. INDUSTRIAL CATALOGUES

  

   (5)  The Mining Catalogues - Published by McGraw-Hill           1944/45 - 1948

  New York, publishers of Coal Age and Engineering

  and Mining Journal.  “The looking-up place for the

  essential Mining Industries”.  The 1948 one is titled

  Pre-filed Mining Catalogues for Metal and Non-Metal

  Export

   (1)  Wrights’ Ropes (Birmingham) - Wrights’ Canadian Ropes       Copyright 1927   

  Specialist-Constructors of Highest Quality Steel Ropes

  in Keystone Strand, Oval Strand, Flattened Strand, Locked

  Coil and other Special constructions for Mining, Engineering

  and Marine Purposes

   (3)  Blue Strand Wire Rope Price List - British Ropes 1953

  Canadian Factory (1963) Ltd.

   (1)  Canadian Liquid Air Company - Welding Equipment 1962

  and Supplies

   (2)  Canox - Canadian Oxygen Limited  1964

   (1)  Ethicon - Descriptive Suture Catalogue   1957

  Ethicon is a division of Johnson and Johnson

   (1)  Sullivan - Michigan City, Indianna          1945-46

  Builders of  Quality Machinery

   (1)  Fawcett - Sackville, New Brunswick  1958

  Enamel and Heating Products Ltd.

   (1)  Johns-Manville Engineers’ Handbook on Power Products    1944

  Selected Data Sheets describing JM Materials and giving

  information for specific applications

   (1)  British Columbia Classified Buyers’ Guide - Published    1937

  by Sun Directories Ltd., Vancouver, BC

   (1)  Catalogue of Barnhary’s Steam Shovels - manufactured    1899

  by the Marion Steam Shovel Company, Marion , Ohio

   (1)  J.T. Baker Chemical Company - Phillipsburg, New Jersey

  Specific Catalogue and Price List for laboratory Chemicals

   (1)  The Slater Catalogue, No. 55 - Hamilton, Ontario               Copyright 1956  Pole line Hardware, cutouts, fuse links

   (1)  The L.S. Starrett Company - Athol, Mass.       Copyright 1938

  Precision tools, steel tapes, dial indicators, hack saws

  Distributed by Gordon & Belyea, Ltd.

   (1)  Card Rope Haulage Equipment - Denver, Colorado

  Sheaves, rollers Etc.

   (1)  S.C. Johnson and Son Ltd. - Brantford, Ontario

  How to Care for Your Floors

   (1)  McLennan, McFeely & Prior, Steel from Stock 1939

  Vancouver, BC

   (1)  Motor-vehicle Drivers Manual - Victoria BC    1952

   (1)  Pacific Coast Plumbing & Heating Price List   1944

   (1)  Anthes-Tait Foundry Ltd. - Vancouver, BC  1942

  Soil Pipe and Fittings

   (1)  Mineralight - Manufactured by Ultra-violet             Copyright 1943

  Products Inc., Los Angeles California

  For mining minerology and laboratories

   (1)  The British Drug Houses (Canada) Ltd. - Toronto,    No date

  Canada, Catalogue of BDH Indicators and

  accessories for the determination of Hydrogen ion

  concentration

   (1)  Autolite Spark Plugs distributed by Fred Walls          No date

  & Son Ltd. “Want book” blank pages

   (1)  Canadian SKF Company Ltd. -

   (1)  Canadian SKF Company - Catalogue No. 275     Copyright 1953   

  Bearings

   (1)  Hendryx Cyanide Machinery Company No date

  “Descriptive of Apparatus for Cyaniding of Gold and

  Silver Ores and the Treatment of Copper Ores”

   (2)  Valdura Improved Asphalt Paint - Chicago   No date

  -3-fold pamphlet with colour chips

  Machinery and Floor Enamel

  -5-fold pamphlet with colour chips

   (1)  Canadian Tube and Steel Products - Montreal  No date

  Manufacturers of Nipples and Couplings

   (2)  The A.R. Williams Machinery Company - Vancouver   No date

  Machinery and Supplies - Catalogues 48 and 50

   (1)  CIL Price List - No. 63, High Explosives, Blasting Agents 1958

   (1)  Fagersta Steels Ltd., Vancouver, BC    1966

   (1)  Karvin Industrial Supply Ltd., Montrreal, Quebec

   (1)  General Electric , Hot Tips on the Use and Maintaince

  of GE Calrod Soldering Irons

   (1)  Dominion Bridge Warehouse Division, Nanaimo, BC 1965

   (1)  Hard Metals (Canada) Ltd., Percussion Carbide Specialists,   1961

  Clarkson, Ontario

   (1)  McLennan, McFeely & Prior Ltd., Hand Tools Section  1965

   (1)  Edward Lipsett Ltd., Industrial Supplies   1960

 

 

Series 3:

This Series contains industrial catalogues

 

In this Series:

1. = Industrial Catalogues

 

1. INDUSTRIAL CATALOGUES

 

   (2)  Northern Electric - a national electrical service  No date

  Electrical Supplies

  Illumination Manual (Northern Electric)- first 42 pages describes    1936

  lighting and tecniques for finding appropriate lighting

   (1)  Crane - Montreal, Canada  No date

  Valves, Fittings, Pipe and Fabricated Piping

   (1)  Canadian General Electric Company Limited - Toronto     Copyright 1937

  Wiring Materials - Catalogue 37W

   (1)  BC Equipment Co. Ltd. -Vancouver and Prince George, BC    No date

  “Complete Outfitters for Contractors, Mines, Railways, Logging

  and Industrial Plants”

   (2)  The Engineering Catalogue -    Published annually by Canadian  1940 and 1953

  Engineering Publications - Montreal, Canada

   (1)  The Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Company Limited -    No date

  Machinery, Tools, Supplies, Catalogue No. 36

   (1)  Crouse-Hinds Products - Toronto, Ontario - Condulets, Groundulets,   1929

  Plugs and Receptacles, Catalogue 2200

   (1)  Jenkins Valves and Mechanical Rubber Goods  Copyright 1936

  Catalogue No. 10

   (1)  Engineers Small Tools - The Brooke Tool Mfg. Co. Ltd.    1928

  Birmingham, England - Catalogue of Engineers small Tools

   (3)  Jones Tent and Awning (Pioneer Brand), Vancouver   1965, 1967

   (1)  Skil, Power Tools  1960

   (1)  Foster, Track Materials and Accessories 

   (1)  The Mine and Smelter Supply Co., Assay Laboratory Supplies   

   (2)  Fleck Bros. Ltd., Bolt and Nut Price List, Safety and Fire Equipment    1957, 1965

   (1)  Galbraith and Sulley Ltd., Elevating and Conveying Hoists 1961

   (1)  Wolf, Electric Tools, Toronto, Ontario    1963

   (2)  Pacific Plastics of Canada Ltd., Vancouver, BC  1962, 1965

   (1)  Skookum Blocks and Forgings, Portland, Oregon  

   (1)  Micro Switch, a division of Honeywell, Toronto, Ontario

   (1)  Black & Decker, Quality Power Tools 1962

   (1)  Hazet, Chrom-vanadium Tools   1958

   (1)  Canada Sand Papers Limited, Scott-Foster, Vancouver   

   (1)  Martindale Equipment (Electric) Co.,   1966

 

 

Series 3A -     ***Not packed in Acid-Free boxes***

This Series contains the remainder of the mining industrial catalogues.

 

In this Series:

1. = Industrial Catalogues

 

1. catalogues

 

   (1)  Grinnell Company, Piping Supplies 1926

   (1)  Crane, Valves and Fittings 1923

   (1)  Donald, Prelubricated Wire Rope,    1943

   (1)  British Ropes (Canadian Factory) Ltd., (Name inside, S.J. Lawrence)    1955

   (2)  Butterfield, Union Twist Drill Co., The Better Tools  No. 22 (name 1939

  inside, Pont Johnson, March 15, 1939), No. 23   

   (1)  Pratt & Whitney, Small Tools No. 12 (name inside:  Pont Johnson   No date

  Series 55, Wells, BC

   (1)  Supplies Canada Co.,Distributors of Industrial, Electrical, Machanical  1967

  and Institutional Supplies, No. 7

   (1)  The Lidgerwood Mfg. Co.Cableway, for hoisting and conveying   1900

   (1)  Canada Wire and Cable Co. Ltd., Wire Rope and Fittings    1930

   (1)  Dietzgen, Surveying Equipment, No. 775 1958

   (2)  Hughes-Owens, No. 52, and No. 58    1955, 1958

  

 

 

 

 

Series 4:

This Series contains various mining periodicals from 1920’s to 1960’s.  They are mostly Canadian in origin.

In this Series:

1. = Mining Periodicals

 

1. MINING PERIODICALS

 

   (14)    Oil Bulletin - Los Angeles, California              Apr., 1928 - Jan., 1931

  Vol. XlV - 3,4,5,7,11; XV - 1,2,4,5; Xvl -

  1,2,3,(2 copies); Xvll - 1 

  natural gas, and allied industries.devoted

  to the services of the oil

   (5)  The Miner( later changed to Western Miner)     1934 - 1961

  Vancouver, BC  

  Vol. 7, No. 8; Vol. 10, No. 3; Vol. 11, No. 8;

  Vol. 12, No. 9; Vol. 15, No. 11; Vol. 17, No. 12;

  Vol. 18, No. 1,4,5; Vol. 33, No. 9; Vol. 34, No. 7;

  Recognized Organ of the Western Mineral Industries

   (11)    Mining in Canada - Don Mills Ontario 1967

  January - November, 1967 - The national monthly

  for Canada’s mining industries.

   (3)  Engineering and Mining Journal     Jan., 1945 - Apr. 1945

  Vol. 146, No. 1,2,4

  An international publication

   (4)  Canadian Copper - Toronto, Ontario        1966 - 1968

  No. 27, 31, 32, 35

  Quarterly bulletin of the Canadian Copper and Brass

  Development Association

   (1)  5th British Columbia Natural Resources Conference 1952

  Published by the BC Natural Resources Conference

  Victoria, BC

   (2)  World Mining - San Francisco California May, 1953

  Mining World (Engineering and Mining World)   January 1930

  On the business reply card for this periodical it is

  addressed to Mining World - World Mining so

  perhaps these books have evolved from each other.

   (12)    The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin      July, 1936 - Aug., 1942

  Vol. 291, 292, 294, 295, 318,326, 329, 359,

  361, 362, 364 (2 issues).

  Published by:  The Canadian Institute of

  Mining and Metallurgy

   (24)    Explosives Bulletin published by the Explosives              Mar., 1927 - Oct. 1933

  Leather bound cover with copies of Explosive  Mar. 1927 - July 1933

  Bulletins inside.  Name on outside of cover

  is R.R. Rose

   (1)  Mines and Methods - Salt Lake City, Utah   Feb., 1910

  Vol. 1, No. 6

   (1)  Mining and Industrial Record   - Vancouver, BC Nov. 1928

  Formerly the Mining and Engineering Record

   (1)  Canadian Mining Journal - Gardenvale, Quebec   Sept., 1935

   (1)  The Mining Library - McGraw-Hill, New York Copyright 1909, 1910

  Volume 9 by James Ralph Findlay

  Entitled “The Cost of Mining”

   (1)  The BC Mining Exchange and Engineering News    Dec. 1910

  Vancouver, BC, Vol. Xll, No. 12

   (1)  Notes on Placer Mining in British Columbia   Copyright 1958

  Bulletin No. 21

 

Series 6:

 

In this Series:

Annual Reports to do with Departments of Mining, Labour, Game and Marine

 

1. = Annual Reports

 

1. Annual reports

  

   1.1  (8 books)Annual Report of the Minister of Mines   1923 (2 copies), 1926,     1931, 1932 (2 copies),

  1934, 1950

   1.2  (1)  Preliminary Report “The Barkerville Gold Belt  1937

on Island Mountain” by N.F.G. Davis

   1.3  (2)  Official Proceedings of the 48th Convention of the  1952, 1960

International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers

   1.4  (1)  Provincial Mining Association - 2nd Annual Convention  1904

   1.5  (1)  Annual Officers’ Report - International  Union of  1960

Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers

   1.6  (1)  Annual Report on Wage Rates and Hours of Labour  1949

   1.7  (2)  Labour Relations Board    1950, 1951

   1.8  (1)  Provincial Game Commission    1942

   1.9  (1)  Department of Marine 1890