PHOTO GALLERY

LIBRARY & ARCHIVES CANADA

This is a small selection, from a much larger collection held at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) in Ottawa, of photos featuring Bell Island. Beneath each picture, I give the LAC description in quotation marks. Remarks not in quotation marks are my own observations. If you have any information to add regarding any of these photos, please email me at [email protected]. n.d.=no date attached to the photo.
LAC description: "MIKAN 3305227, House for Office Staff, Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Co., Wabana, Nfld. n.d." This is actually the Scotia Company's Manager's house at Scotia Pier. The first manager, Robert E. Chambers, had this house built for himself in 1899 when the "new" Scotia Pier was built. (What then became the Dominion Pier had been the first Scotia Pier.) The longest resident of this house was C.B. Archibald, who was manager from 1919-1948.
LAC description: "MIKAN 3372804, Wabana Mines Looking East From No. 1 Mine, 1916."
LAC description: "MIKAN 3372805, No. 1 Mine and Stock Pile at Wabana, 1916."
LAC description: "MIKAN 3372806, Ore Loading Dock and Coal Discharging Pier, Wabana, 1916."
LAC description: "MIKAN 3372894, Staff of Dominion Iron & Steel Co. Wabana, n.d."
LAC description: "MIKAN 3372895, Dockhead at No. 1 Slope, Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Co. [Wabana, Nfld.] n.d." Dockhead should be deckhead. ​This same photograph, labelled "The Forge & Tressel, Scotia Company," is in a photo album held at the Bell Island Community Museum that is dated 1902-03. Below is a lightened version of it:
LAC description: "MIKAN 3372896, View of Piers of NSS&CCo. and DISCo. n.d." Dominion Pier is in foreground with the Scotia Pier in the distance. This same photograph is in a photo album held at the Bell Island Community Museum that is dated 1902-03.
LAC description: "MIKAN 3372897, Compressor House, Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Co. n.d."​ This same photograph, labelled "Air Compressor House" is in a photo album held at the Bell Island Community Museum that is dated 1902-03.
LAC description: "MIKAN 3372898, Open Cut Mining, Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Co. [Wabana, Nfld.] n.d." 
LAC description: "MIKAN 3375267, Entrance to No. 3 Mine, Wabana, Bell Island, Nfld., Sept. 1951."
LAC description: "MIKAN 3375332, Deck Head No. 3 Mine, Wabana Iron Mines, BelleIsle, Nfld., 1951."
LAC description: "MIKAN 4948445, A diagram of mine shaft locations in Bell Island, 1955."