One image of the outside opening of a ventilation shaft at Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario.
One film of the Township of Falconbridge, Ontario.
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00:00 Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited – Mining
00:11 The Office
00:15 All work is planned and laid out and the results recorded so that each operation will dovetail with all others in orderly sequence.
00:31 Drafting
01:10 Planimeter calculates areas of excavation
01:38 Calculations are rapidly made on comptometer.
01:55 Plans are easily reduced or enlarged to any desired scale by a pantograph.
02:11 All plans are indexed and filed
02:29 When the plans have been delivered to the shops, work is started upon the equipment required
02:40 Carpenter Shop
02:44 Timber being framed
03:12 Band saw
03:40 Machine Shop
03:45 Shearing machine
04:16 Cutting with acetylene torch.
04:43 Forging hammer
05:12 Drill press
05:42 Riveting
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06:12 Falconbridge Town shots
06:27 Edison Club
06:38 Craig family residence
06:56 Flowers
07:26 Various Falconbridge houses alongside a wooden sidewalk
08:05 Flowers
08:17 Edison Club
08:28 The main office building located beside the main gate into Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited property.
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08:36 Barbara Craig cross-country skiing
08:59 Outside skating rink
09:09 Falconbridge hockey players
09:53 Badminton match at the Falconbridge Community Hall
10:34 Shuffle board in the basement of the Falconbridge Community Hall
11:33 Basketball game at the Falconbridge Community Hall
12:11 Barbara Craig (right) with a man and two dogs in the back yard of the Craig family home.
12:12 Soccer game
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12:42 Barbara Craig with a man and a dog in the back yard of the Craig family home.
12:54 Trapeze artists
13:40 Baseball game
14:16 Gill family residence.
14:42 Community Rock Garden located between the Gill family and Craig family houses.
14:48 Craig family residence.
14:50 Outdoor Tennis match
14:56 End
One image of various tools resting on a trimming collar in a ventilation shaft at Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario.
One image of reinforced concrete and a wooden walkway in a ventilation shaft at Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario.
One print of three images of miners surveying the underground elevation at Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario. The first image on the top left includes a miner holding a measuring stick in front of a door. The second image (top right) depicts a miner holding up a measuring stick to the top of the drift. The third image (bottom left) includes two miners standing on the tracks, one miner is holding a measuring stick while the second miner is using a track liner to align the tracks.
One print of four images of the surveyers checking their lines at Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario. The first image on the top left includes a surveyor checking his line with his camera of the raise from below. The second image (top right) depicts a surveyor with his camera while another miner descends a ladder. The third image (bottom left) shows a surveyor's camera on a tripod positioned in a raise. The fourth image (bottom right) includes a surveyor with his camera to take pictures of the raise.
One print of four images of the surveying of raises at Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario. The first image on the top left includes a surveyor with his camera to take pictures of the raise. The second image (top right) depicts a surveyor standing on a ladder using a camera to take pictures of the raise below him. The third image (bottom left) includes two surveyors ascending a ladder within the raise and the fourth image (bottom right) includes a surveyor using his camera to take pictures looking up the raise.
One image of a miner adjusting the ventilation heating unit at Falconbridge Nickel Mines #5 shaft in Falconbridge, Ontario.
One image of miners working on an exhaust shaft outside Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario.
One image of two miners working on an exhaust fan located on a ventilation shaft outside Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario.
One image of a miner raising the grill cover of a manway at Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario.
One image of two closed blast and ventilation doors in a mine at Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario.
One image of a miner adjusting the ventilation heating unit at Falconbridge Nickel Mines #5 shaft in Falconbridge, Ontario.
One image of miners constructing a ventilation shaft at Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario.