Description
Photos and containing envelope. Unclear if photos in the folder are in the same order the owner originally arranged them in. Subjects include: "The Craig Bit Co LTD.", "Equipment for Mining, Construction and Industry", a factory, machinery, factory workers, "UNIROC", administrative staffer (owner? manager? executive?), jovial crowds downtown, "office", 1951 expansion, "Elliot Lake".
021.01.121: "brazing process".
021.01.122: "Photo of Cecil Knight in tie on far left". "Forging".
021.01.123: "Amy Matthews".
021.01.125-127: "Striking bar".
021.01.128: "Stud remover".
021.01.129: Photo of crowd cheering on two men in a wheelbarrow downtown. "'Hockey bet', in the wheelbarrow", "H.W. 'Buss' day machinist", "Gerry Sweet Machine shop (perhaps) foreman", "1940's", "* Now across from deluxe Tay!", "Craig Bit Bowling Leagues (upstairs at old Arcadian Grill)".
021.01.130: Crowd cheering on wheelbarrow.
021.01.131: Crowd, men, bantering in downtown. "Lou Rude (second from left)". "Kenwood Coats", "Victory Bonds" sign?
021.01.132: "Gerry Sweet in original toll room in machine shop ( now part of paint shop) in early 1940's."
021.01.133: "Original plant", "small office, reception in front", "Margaret Beaton".
021.01.135: "first heat treat for rods", "plant before in mid 1940's (plant expansion was not complete)".
021.01.137: "Steel racker in 1950's".
021.01.139: "Amy Metthew Nov", "gauge grinding copper head bits", "biggest in proven in bits".
021.01.140: "' Old bit shop'", "after 1945", "in original structure", " change in structure".
021.01.141-142: Wheelbarrow bet between Bert Knight and Herman LaPorte."Paying Your Bets", "54%", "Laporte (left)", "Doorway Gerry Gurtzan", "Amy Matthew (bucket)", "Bart Knight (now deceased)", "Joke Shop", "now engineers office", "Armand Laporte at Longyear doing the pushing", "1950's", "Right", "Armand Laplante".
See Nugget article "Ride for a Winner". April 12, 1962.
021.01.145-148: 1951 plant expansion.
021.01.145: "Old machine shop in background", "1943", "* originally built to ar cutilator room for cutting the shells", "trolley went up to builders with forged tips", "July 25/49", "ravine", "boiler room", "burvel".
021.01.146: "lean to on old machine shop", "war", "'a shaker'", "1950's".
021.01.148: "July 25/49", "ravine", "hole for boilers", "Art used to dump 'grindings, steel cuttings from bit shop'".
021.01.149: "Originally 'dry + lunchroom'", "1 - now engineering", "2 - now office - it was moved by", "3 - Original - plant", "Power in middle - gone".
021.01.151: "Richardson building in background", "* view - back of office looking towards Memorial Drive."
021.01.152: "Art, helper haul rails to move building".
021.01.153: "jacked up and winched by horse".
021.01.157: "close to later", "(former garage with pit, now office sits on spot)", "Art used to keep his car in there".Date(s) of Creation
1943 - 1985
