Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting, HudBay Minerals

One of the two strikes at the Flin Flon mine (1934 and 1973) caused a major disruption to operations and people's lives as were many other less known labour disputes over the years

When the mine was under construction there were about a dozen bunkhouses (Later made into apartement houses for middle level management) and also detached homes for the management and also a staff house for upper level employees who did not have familly or were transient Cook houses at various locations served the bunk house redidents There was a large dining room in what became the Jubilee Hall and later a Cafeteria

HBM&S Electrical department

HBM&S main office house many of the administrative and technical and professional support services

The mill department of HBM&S was a critical part of the mining and smelting operations

This important department of the HBM&S was capable of taking waste heat from the something operations and turning it into electricity, steam and compressed air needed to heat and light the operations and provide compressed air for underground and surface operations

Finally closed in 2011, this department turned copper concentrate into gold and copper bars

This department of HBM&S was responsible for a wide variety of operations

Another large metal produced by HBM&S was the Zinc plant that saw many changes over the years

News Articles, Technical Papers and Reports, and Articles related to the Operation of the Mine.

Prospecting, electro magnetic surveys, line cutting

The main reason for being in the area Mining, by the HBM&S nobody does it better

Construction of the mine

The ware house stored and distributed supplies to all the companies departments

Includes Assays and testing

A subsidiary of Hudson Bay Exploration and Development Company Limited, was chartered in 1930 to supply air transportation for prospecting operations.

Large, detailed photos in .pdf format that features user selectable magnification. It is unusual to see highly detailed panoramic photos - and these were taken in 1929-30!
Thanks to Beatrice Walker for discovering this long-lost pictorial mine construction history.

Machining Metal Forming and Machine Repair

Personnel Department and Related Employee Organizations such as Unions , Trades Organizations and Welfare Committees

The HBM&S Company had a staff of uniformed guards who patrolled the plant area and had stations at the entry/exit gates of the fence surrounding the plant.

A program of training for young persons with grade 10 was implimented. Apprentices recieved schooling and specific training in a trade.

HBM&S maintained an office in Winnipeg in the Royal Bank Tower on Main Street.

After the 1934 Strike Channing realized that 'his men' had lefitimate concerns and that some sort of emplyee represtaton was required. Having defeated the Union he decided to form an in huse grup to represent the employees and added the unusual task of concerning itself not just with wages bu also the welafare and happiness of the members

In 1929 The Pas Chamber of Commerce with intent to promote the ecomomy of the North organized a visit by m embers of the Manitoba Legislature to Northern Manitoba including the mining districts and Flin Flon and the Hudson Bay Railway