Object: 986.15.01
Tin for Black Blasting Powder
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Description:
Inscription reads “Black Blasting Powder” and “Canada Explosives Limited.” This a metal tin, not rusted, that once contained black powder. G. Walker found the can on the Cariboo Road. Possibly the Royal Engineers left it. Black Blasting powder pre-dated Dynamite. Many other of these cans, reported along McDonalds cut, were left during P.G.E. construction.
Source:
Walker, George Raymond
Date of Object:
ca. 1940
Dimensions:
23 cm Dia., 28 cm H
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Accession #:
986.15.01
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