Fonds includes a cash book, exam booklet, and a number of books. Books include “Sheahan’s Telegraph Cipher Code,” “B. of L.E. Funeral Service,” “The Compound Locomotive” and “Ritual of the Grand International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.”
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was founded in Michigan on May 8, 1863 as a trade organization for railroad workers. The first Canadian chapter was established soon after in Toronto in 1865. Although little documentation of the Brotherhood exists in the fonds, presumably the local branch was established in the Bulkley Valley at approximately the same time as the completion of Grand Trunk Pacific railway in 1914.
Scope and Content
Fonds includes a cash book, exam booklet, and a number of books. Books include “Sheahan’s Telegraph Cipher Code,” “B. of L.E. Funeral Service,” “The Compound Locomotive” and “Ritual of the Grand International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.”
Katie Chapman (nee Hamilton, born 1886) married Charles (Charlie) Alexander Chapman (born 1872) on May 6, 1918. Charlie Chapman was a pioneering member of the Valley and was primarily involved in prospecting, mining and agriculture. Notably, he worked for James Cronin as a foreman. Charlie Chapman died in 1931 and Katie Chapman died in 1974.
Scope and Content
Fonds includes a license, a poem, diaries, and photographs. The fonds is arranged into one series titled Diaries.
Arrangement
Records were rearranged intellectually in October 2016 by Manda Haligowski to better reflect archival standards and to improve accessibility.
Related Material
Cronin Family fonds (PF11) includes correspondence written by Charles Chapman while working as a foreman for the Babine Bonanza Mining & Milling Co.
Fonds contains records relating to the operations of Bot’s chicken farm. Records include sale receipts, promotional materials, egg inspection reports, licenses and a burning permit.
Cornelius Bot was born October 29, 1910. He operated a chicken farm, producing and selling eggs in Smithers, B.C. Bot died December 2, 1998.
Custodial History
Records were created and collected by Cornelius Bot during the daily operations of his chicken farm.
Scope and Content
Fonds contains records relating to the operations of Bot’s chicken farm. Records include sale receipts, promotional materials, egg inspection reports, licenses and a burning permit.
