Film footage taken by Harry Lewis, employee of the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation (YCGC), a gold mining company. Film footage taken at Bear Creek, a community approximately 8 miles up the Klondike Valley from the mouth of Dawson, and home to the Lewis family beginning in 1937. Included are shots of a staking party sent out by YCGC to stake claims up Bonanza Creek in the winter of 1939; building a new dredge at the mouth of Bonanza Creek to replace number 4 dredge; a crane used to move heavy equipment; caulking the deck; Claude Kidd; the stern gantry being lifted into place; shots taken from a bridge at Bear Creek of a bulldozer building up a wall to secure pond water and ensure sufficient water supply for Bear Creek camp in winter; a bulldozer flattening down a tailing pipe to fill up a dredge pond where they anticipate building a new gold room; the new gold room; inside the gold room and melting gold; dumping gold dust from a pan, a gold brick being turned out; Benny Gladwin who was in charge of the gold room; gold dust; panning for gold; and Benny Gladwin with Jack Scott and Gus who are helping to size the gold.
Source: Library and Archives Canada. H. Lewis fonds, 1975-0252. IDC: 346954.
Негізгі бет [Yukon, Part 5 : home movie] (1939)
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