Collection of photographs regarding early Kitimat and Kitimat Constructors. Photo content includes Kitimat Constructors equipment work ares, shops, bunkhouses, and camp, Anderson Creek Mess Hall - smelterite, Inside Delta King, Sports girls and boys basketball, and Hudson's Bay Trading.
Collection of photographs regarding early Kitimat and Kitimat Constructors. Photo content includes Kitimat Constructors equipment work ares, shops, bunkhouses, and camp, Anderson Creek Mess Hall - smelterite, Inside Delta King, Sports girls and boys basketball, and Hudson's Bay Trading.
Photocopies of documents from John McLachlan's early years with Alcan. Includes Offer of Employment, Letter of Acceptance, Personnel Introduction Form, Decaration of Regular Employment, and Job Description.
John McLachlan arrived in Kitimat in 1953 and went on to work at Alcan's Property Engineering Department for almost 40 years. He started out as a land surveyor and cartographer in the town's early years and ended his career as a Senior Legal Draftsmen.
Scope and Content
Photocopies of documents from John McLachlan's early years with Alcan. Includes Offer of Employment, Letter of Acceptance, Personnel Introduction Form, Decaration of Regular Employment, and Job Description.
Collection of meeting minutes, scrapbooks, and Tamitiks from Mount Elizabeth Secondary School.
1- Minutes of School Government Meetings 1964-1965, 1965-1966, and 1966-1967.
2-Kitimat High School P.T.A. 1957-58
3- Archives- Scrapbook. Mt. Elizabeth Secondary School 1957-60
4-Scrapbook- Mt. Elizabeth Sec. 1964
5- Secondary Mt. Elizabeth Sec. 1965
6- Scrapbook Mt. Elizabeth Sec. 1966
7- Scrapbook Mt. Elizabeth Sec. 1967
8- Scrapbook Mt. Elizabeth Sec. 1968
9- Record book of the P. T. A. May 16/57. April 7/59 Tamitik duplicates for the following accession numbers P. J. A group
74-55-3: 4 copies of 1956 Tamitik
74-55-6: 2 copies of 1959 Tamitik
74-55-4: 4 duplicates of 1957
78-10-3:3 duplicates of 1958 yearbook
78-10-6: 1 duplicates of 1967 Tamitik
78-10-7:1 duplicates of 1967 Tamitik
78-10-8: 1 duplicates of 1969
78-10-9: 8 duplicates of 1970 Tamitik
74-55-4: 4 duplicates of 1957 yearbook
78-10-3: 3 duplicates of 1958 yearbook
78-10-6: 1 duplicates of 1967 Tamitik
78-10-7: 1 duplicate of 1969 Tamitik
78-10-8 1 duplicate 1969
78-10-9 8 duplicates of 1970 Tamitik
Collection of meeting minutes, scrapbooks, and Tamitiks from Mount Elizabeth Secondary School.
1- Minutes of School Government Meetings 1964-1965, 1965-1966, and 1966-1967.
2-Kitimat High School P.T.A. 1957-58
3- Archives- Scrapbook. Mt. Elizabeth Secondary School 1957-60
4-Scrapbook- Mt. Elizabeth Sec. 1964
5- Secondary Mt. Elizabeth Sec. 1965
6- Scrapbook Mt. Elizabeth Sec. 1966
7- Scrapbook Mt. Elizabeth Sec. 1967
8- Scrapbook Mt. Elizabeth Sec. 1968
9- Record book of the P. T. A. May 16/57. April 7/59 Tamitik duplicates for the following accession numbers P. J. A group
74-55-3: 4 copies of 1956 Tamitik
74-55-6: 2 copies of 1959 Tamitik
74-55-4: 4 duplicates of 1957
78-10-3:3 duplicates of 1958 yearbook
78-10-6: 1 duplicates of 1967 Tamitik
78-10-7:1 duplicates of 1967 Tamitik
78-10-8: 1 duplicates of 1969
78-10-9: 8 duplicates of 1970 Tamitik
74-55-4: 4 duplicates of 1957 yearbook
78-10-3: 3 duplicates of 1958 yearbook
78-10-6: 1 duplicates of 1967 Tamitik
78-10-7: 1 duplicate of 1969 Tamitik
78-10-8 1 duplicate 1969
78-10-9 8 duplicates of 1970 Tamitik
Storage Location
Archives Bay 4 Shelf 2 Box 84
Archives Bay 4 Shelf 5 Box 93
Photo depicts the welcome sign for Kitimat on the wharf that greeted all workers to the Kitimat Project upon their arrival by boat.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Hal Whiting was Project Manager, Kitimat Constructors, for smelter and town construction. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.113
Photo depicts Kitimat Constructors Project Manager Hal Whiting on right, standing beside a unidentified man. Both watch the construction activity occurring down on the tidal flats in front of them, site for the smelter.
Photo depicts Kitimat Constructors Project Manager Hal Whiting on right, standing beside a unidentified man. Both watch the construction activity occurring down on the tidal flats in front of them, site for the smelter.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Photographed by the International Harvester Company, manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.99
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
Photo depicts a barge loaded with muck dredged from the wharf area. The International TD-9 dozer boat on the barge was there to push loads off as the barge was moved along.
Photo depicts a barge loaded with muck dredged from the wharf area. The International TD-9 dozer boat on the barge was there to push loads off as the barge was moved along.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- International Harvester Company ID No. C 6039. International Harvester Company manufacturerd construction equipment purchased for the Project. -- Dredging at the wharf area provided sufficient water space for large ships to dock. Muck was dumped onto these barges by the clamshell bucket and towed out to deep water. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.123
Photo depicts the newly constructed dock, Terminal Wharf No. 1. View looking south-west from a point on the graving dock. Hydraulic fill dredge pipeline in the foreground running along at water level.
Photo depicts the newly constructed dock, Terminal Wharf No. 1. View looking south-west from a point on the graving dock. Hydraulic fill dredge pipeline in the foreground running along at water level.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-846. -- Note progress of conveyor gallery steel, kangaroo crane and pneumatic unloading equipment. Alcan Collection 78.11.68
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