Archive Record
Metadata
Item |
Accrual |
Title |
Brian Buckley Accrual |
Collection |
Brian Buckley fonds |
Catalog Number |
2017.066.001 |
Year Range from |
1911 |
Year Range to |
2000 |
Level of description |
Fonds |
Scope & Content |
This fonds consists of three series: The St. Thomans Anglican Church Series, the St. Johns Baptist Anglican Church Series, and the Red Mountain Mine Series. It includes budgets, floor plan layouts, committee minutes books, photographs, a tour booklet, memoirs, labour force lists, and Women's Auxillary activity reports and member lists. |
Creator |
Buckley, Brian |
Admin/Biographical History |
Brian Buckley was born in 1929 England. He was educated at Stamford Secondary School and graduated from Camborne School of Mines in 1950. He emigrating to Canada the following year. As a professional engineer worked in Ontario,B.C. Coal,Nickel,Zinc,Gold Mines and retired to Sardis, being Anglican his interest turned St.John the Baptist & St.Thomas. St. Thomas Anglican Church was established in 1873. After being relocated from Harrison Lake, the Church was rebuilt and donated by Isaac Kipp at Five Corners and has the distinction of being the first building at the Five Corners intersection. St. John the Baptist Anglican Church was built in response to the surge of settlers in 1910 in order to give Anglicans an additional place to worship other than St. Thomas. It is located a mile south of Sardis. The Red Mountain Mine is a drilled and blasted hardrock gold mine located in the extinct crater of a Jurassic volcano. The mineral rights claim was staked in 1890 and ore was extracted until all mining production ceased in 1929. |
Extent of Description |
7 file folders and 1 scrap book with 14cm of linear textual records and photographs |
Search Terms |
Red Mountain Mine St. John the Divine Anglican Church (Chilliwack, B.C.) St. Thomas Anglican Church (Chilliwack, B.C.) |