Part Of

Lorna Daniel Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

19 - 30 Aug 1955

Accession Number

2020.1.10

Scope and Content

Photograph showing housing for the Alcan Smeltersite

Part Of

Lydia Strecheniuk Collection

Description Level

Series

GMD

graphic material

Accession Number

2022.14.7

Scope and Content

Photographs of early Kitimat and Alcan smelter. Souvenir photobook with five photos.

Townsite with Mount Elizabeth in background. Smoke is visible beyond townsite in the forest. May 15, 1956.

Townsite with sandhill visible in background. May 15, 1956.

Main Road - Motel - Townsite. View of road leading from service centre into town. Kildala area cleared but not much is built. Kitimat River bridge visible at bottom. Aug 1955.

Kitimat Valley. View of Alcan site, hospital beach, and pier. Looking north.

Smeltersite. View of Alcan smelter and smeltersite.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[October 15, 1959]

Accession Number

2005.8.8860

Scope and Content

Photograph showing an unknown man drilling a hole in the sidewalk by the Kitimat Library to improve drainage around the building

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

{September 23, 1954}

Accession Number

2005.8.9386

Scope and Content

Photograph showing Kitimat Constructor's crane swung new clubrooms into position on the graving dock

Part Of

Bud Powell Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1951-1952

Accession Number

2022.22.163

Scope and Content

Black covered book titled "Kitimat Townsite Report". No. A-33 Mr. J.E. Dudley. Contains info about early Kitimat and planning. Inside front cover are some loose pages with town plans.

Part Of

Terry Poirier Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952-1959

Accession Number

2015.114.3

Scope and Content

Photograph of the Delta King viewed from the front at smeltersite. On the left further back are bunkhouses. There is a beach in the foreground with people in swimwear. Some people are in the water.

Part Of

Gisela Mendel fonds

Description Level

File

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1954]

Accession Number

73.20

Scope and Content

Kitimat's first department store.

Part Of

Kitimat Museum Website Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1954

Scope and Content

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.

Part Of

Kitimat Museum Website Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca. 1955

Scope and Content

Photo depicts a worker spotting the loading pallets of ingots as they are hoisted aboard a freighter at the dock at Alcan Kitimat Works.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

{June 4, 1954}

Accession Number

2005.8.9417

Scope and Content

Photograph of the "Sun Karen" that sailed on May 14, 1954 from Port Esquirel, Jamaica with first shipment of Alumina refined from Jamaican bauxite for Kitimat Works.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca.1957

Accession Number

2005.8.8655

Scope and Content

Photograph showing a RCMP boat tied up at the dock with icicles forming on the railings.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Accession Number

78.11.46

Scope and Content

Photo showing a view of the graving dock looking Northeast. Note asphalt barge for paving contractor at left.

Part Of

Gisela Mendel fonds

Description Level

File

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. Oct 1954]

Accession Number

72.6

Scope and Content

Photographs showing Kitimat as well as power transmission lines over a glacier at Kemano-Kildala.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca. 1954

Accession Number

2005.8.8736

Scope and Content

Photograph showing A.C. Turney and a group of unknown people standing on a Pacific Western Airlines dock.

Part Of

Ann Graham Collection

Description Level

Series

GMD

graphic material

Accession Number

2011.25

Scope and Content

Envelopes containing photos from broken down photo album of Kemano 1952/1953. Envelopes name which pages photos came from. Some envelopes have descriptions. Page 2 - Camp 5 Page 3 - Camp V and its destruction Page 4 - Horetsky Camp. Johnny after his helicopter accident - feed Sam Page 6 - The first camp 5 before it burned (tents) Page 7 - The Second Camp V Page 8 - Camp V seen from camp VI Page 11 - To 2600 feet camp Page 12 - Camp V underclouds from camp 2600 feet without clouds Page 15 - Camp 10 Chacha Page 16 - At camp 2600 Page 21 - First party with the nurses Page 23 - The first show all men cast Page 24 - Sam is always hungry Page 25 - Johnny, Marc, Arthur, Wally, John + Bill. Wonderful Times + Memories. Page 26 - Cherjune? Cheyenne, Max, Larry. Page 27 - Paula gentle friend, Gerrard, Max. Page 28 - Waiting for the dining room to open. Page 29 - Johnny + Tom Page 30 - My roommate Anthony Page 37 - Xmas day 1953 Page 40 - Kemano against Kitimat softball. Collection also includes: Envelope with paybills, receipts, clippings, and booklets. Envelope with albun on adhesive sheet pg. 1 Envelope with photgraph with album. Folder containing photcopies of album pages

Part Of

Carol Hamilton Collection

Description Level

Series

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952-1953

Accession Number

2005.3

Scope and Content

Folder containing sketch showing Arrangement of Ten Mile Tunnels, Penstocks, Powerhouse, etc. with attachments - underground workings, powerhouse, Transverse Section, Surface, Geology & Topography of Kemano.

Part Of

Pat Stanyer Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1951-1952

Accession Number

2012.3.5

Scope and Content

Photograph of Kemano Camp. Raymond Stanyer was there as a foreman on the transmission line clearing.

Part Of

Onorio Iacobelli Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952-1955

Accession Number

2022.9.2

Scope and Content

Photograph of Onorio Angelo Iacobelli in Kemano sometime between 1952 and 1955. He is on a tram landing, wearing a hard hat. Tram is in use moving on the slope. Lots of snow. River visible below.

Part Of

Onorio Iacobelli Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952-1955

Accession Number

2022.9.5

Scope and Content

Photograph of Onorio Angelo Iacobelli in Kemano sometime between 1952 and 1955. He is on a skip tram track. He is wearing a cap.

Part Of

Kitimat Heritage Advisory Commission fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca.1959]

Accession Number

2014.14.260

Scope and Content

Photo Kemano Powerhouse - Generator Floor. Shows three workers looking at various pieces of equipment and drawings.