One image of miners constructing a ventilation shaft 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 two closed blast and ventilation doors in a mine at 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 miners working on an exhaust fan located on a ventilation shaft outside Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario.
One image of miners working on an exhaust shaft outside 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 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 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 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 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 film of the Township of Falconbridge, Ontario.
Black & White
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
Colour
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.
Black & White
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 the outside opening of a ventilation shaft at Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario.
Part two of a two part film of the 2nd Battalion, Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury Regiment (Reserve) in training at Minnow Lake in Sudbury, Ontario.
00:00 A parade in Sudbury
00:51 The firing point
01:16 Inspection of targets
01:31 Five rounds rapid!
02:12 The trenches
03:22 The Bren in action
04:47 A sham battle in the open
06:22 An attack at dawn
06:46 Shell bursts
07:08 The advance is signaled.
07:19 The first objective is taken.
08:40 As daylight dawns, the pursuit continues.
09:06 A sniper
09:21 A mine clears the way
09:50 The staff reviews the action.
10:24 General inspection
10:42 The General arrives
11:04 General Constantine reviews the troops.
11:23 Those rifles were good
12:00 Companys [sic] in line
12:20 The bands
12:28 The General addresses the troops.
12:44 The march past
13:43 We must be free or die, who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spake – the faith and morals hold which Milton held. – Wordsworth –
13:58 End
Part one of a two part film of the 2nd Battalion, Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury Regiment (Reserve) in training at Minnow Lake in Sudbury, Ontario.
00:00 The 2nd Battalion, S.S.M. & S. Regt. (Reserve) in training at Sudbury. In the year 1942, the people of The Sudbury district had become accustomed to the idea that the production of nickel was all important to the war endeavours of the United Nations. There were some too who realized that supplies of nickel could only go forward so long as no enemy action would interfere with the production plants. These men sought to contribute their share to the safety of the district and the country through the medium of the reserve army. Here they absorbed the lesson that directed organization and knowledge of weapons can make men into a power for defence. To satisfy the industrial effort, the customary schedule of two weeks in a summer military camp was sacrificed and the same training carried out in a local camp without disturbance to the men’s working shifts. This innovation in training methods was a complete success and has set a precedent for the war years. Added to the camp training, weekend tactical schemes were performed throughout the training year. The net result has been an infantry unit as inured to actual battle conditions as men engaged in industrial pursuits can be made.
01:53 Minnow Lake Camp: And the first grey of morning filled the east. And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all the Tartar camp along the stream Was hush’d and still the men were plunged in sleep. – Arnold –
02:45 In the lines
03:16 A soldier’s tent
03:31 The pipe band will play the troops to the parade ground
03:51 “Markers!”
04:09 “Outwards Turn!”
04:26 “On Parade!”
04:57 “Markers, Fall in!”
05:11 “Parade, Steady!”
05:17 “Slope Arms!”
05:34 “All present and correct Sir!”
05:54 “Carry on with the syllabus!”
06:21 Pile arms
06:39 Bombing Practice
07:28 Respirator drill
08:19 Loading and unloading by numbers.
09:31 In Out! In Out! Pass through
09:58 The controlled charge
10:27 Over the obstacles
10:42 Bren Gun instruction
11:14 Preparing for parade
11:31 Too many Vitamines [sic]
11:48 That eager look when cookhouse sounds
12:27 Officers Mess
12:55 “All night long the brose was going and the pipes changing hands.” – Stevenson –
13:28 Some of the visiting staff.
13:43 Part 2 to follow.
13:47 End.
One image of square set timbering and broken muck at Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario.
One print of four images of surveyors setting their lines at Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario. The first image on the top left includes a metal barrel sitting on top of lumber over the shaft. The second image (top right) depicts a surveyor's camera on a tripod in front of the shaft. The third image (bottom left) includes two surveyors using their camera to take pictures of the shaft and the fourth image (bottom right) includes two surveyors looking down the shaft.
One image of a development miner installing a square set timbering post at Falconbridge Nickel Mines in Falconbridge, Ontario.
File contains two film reels of the 2nd Battalion, Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury Regiment (Reserve) in training at Minnow Lake in Sudbury, Ontario.