Aerial view of the Kitimat River Bridge site looking south showing falsework for steel erection. The building at lower left is the Club House of the Kitimat Rod and Gun Club.
Aerial view of the Kitimat River Bridge site looking south showing falsework for steel erection. The building at lower left is the Club House of the Kitimat Rod and Gun Club.
Photograph of Onorio Angelo Iacobelli in Kemano sometime between 1952 and 1955. He is standing high up near possible road construction. He has one leg up on a stump. Drainage culverts visible a bit below him on the mountainside. Beyond that is a steep slope. Forest, valley, and mountains visible behind.
Donated by Onorio Iacobelli's granddaughter, Francesca Iacobelli.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Onorio Angelo Iacobelli in Kemano sometime between 1952 and 1955. He is standing high up near possible road construction. He has one leg up on a stump. Drainage culverts visible a bit below him on the mountainside. Beyond that is a steep slope. Forest, valley, and mountains visible behind.
Photo depicts an aerial view of the smeltersite main camp showing married quarters, sternwheeler Delta King, hydraulic fill in progress, recreation building, hospital, power plant, sawmill and water tank.
Photo depicts an aerial view of the smeltersite main camp showing married quarters, sternwheeler Delta King, hydraulic fill in progress, recreation building, hospital, power plant, sawmill and water tank.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID Numbers BC-2-243 and ACM-24311. Alcan Collection 78.11.32
Photograph of the constrution of "Anchor Tires Sales Ltd." building with a business truck parked outside with two tires sitting in the bed of the truck
Photograph of the constrution of "Anchor Tires Sales Ltd." building with a business truck parked outside with two tires sitting in the bed of the truck
Photo depicts a tent with flat-top house assembly on a production line in West Vancouver for Johnson-Crooks Construction Corporation.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Slide No. 40 -- The circus tent assembly line was erected at Vancouver Tug and Barge below the Lion's Gate Bridge. Temporary housing destined for Kitimat was assembled there in three sections, then barged to Kitimat - 10 houses or 30 sections on each barge. -- Electrician Bill Frahler wired approximately 2,000 houses in Kitimat camps and townsite between 1954 and 1958, working first for Johnson-Crooks then Straits Construction, both U.S. contractors. Bill Frahler Collection 2003.32
