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Bear Creek Contracting ntracting Lakelse AAir
Ltd
Construction Engineering Helicopter taxi an and heavy lift charter
General construction contracting ting Helicopter pad bu building and set up
Road construction, activation, n, deactivation Helicopter hydrau hydraulic accessories
Expediting services by air, road oad and water R 44 – 3 passeng passengers or 700 lbs
Support for mining, oil and gas exploration Bell 206B3 – 4 passengers pa or 900 lbs
Drilling /Blasting for road, seism eismic c or other MD500D – 4 pas passengers or 1200 lbs
Camp set up, logistics and cost ost control Bell 206LR – 5passengers
or 1300 lbs
Full phase logging and forestry engineering AS350B1 – 5 passengers or 2000 lbs
Mechanical shop / welding, fabrication / repairs AS350D2 – 6 passengers or 2200 lbs
Trucking – low bedding 6, 7 and 8 axle Bell 204C – 9 passengers or 3500 lbs
Fuel trucks, tankers and barges
Marine division, fuel / equipment / accommodation
Kaman K-max 6000 lbs external cargo
Rob Findlay – General Manager
250-615-9981
rfi ndlay@bearcreekcont.ca
Thompson River, and miners began to
come in from Washington and Oregon.
In 1858 the metal was found along the
Fraser. That led, as everyone knows, to
a huge influx of American prospectors.
On August 2, 1858 Governor James
Douglas – alarmed by all those Yankees –
proclaimed that the British Columbia
mainland was now a British colony, soon to
be united with the colony of Vancouver
Island. Gold had created a province.
A historical sidelight: in 1858 a man
named Alfred Waddington arrived in
the area, attracted by gold fever. He
thought there was still lots of gold to be
found on and around the river, even
though miners were beginning to abandon
their apparently worked-out claims,
and produced a book called The Fraser
Mines Vindicated. We mention it because
this was the first book published in
British Columbia. A little book published
100 years later, entitled Mining in
Focus, by the late Bruce Ramsey, is subtitled
An Illustrated History of Mining in
British Columbia. In it, Ramsey writes
that many Chinese immigrants “moved
to the Cariboo to become miners or set
up businesses such as laundries and
Ian Munson – President
250-638-6806
imunson@bearcreekcont.ca
3752 Highway 16 East
Terrace, B.C. V8G 5J3 250-635-3245
www.bearcreekcont.ca www.lakelseair.bc.ca
36 SUMMER 2010
John Burns – General Manager
250-830-8025
jburns@lakelseair.bc.ca