Photograph of the Kitimat Gyro float featuring Miss Kitimats. Women visible in the front row of the float are Gorett Nunes, Miss Overwaitea, Robin Vennard, Miss Kinsmen, Irene Sousa, Miss KWSA, Jola Drabik, Miss Kiwanis, and Grace ?, Miss Luso ?. Float is running through Haisla Boulevard Tsimshian intersection. People watching visible in foreground and behind. The Price Busters store in background.
Photograph of the Kitimat Gyro float featuring Miss Kitimats. Women visible in the front row of the float are Gorett Nunes, Miss Overwaitea, Robin Vennard, Miss Kinsmen, Irene Sousa, Miss KWSA, Jola Drabik, Miss Kiwanis, and Grace ?, Miss Luso ?. Float is running through Haisla Boulevard Tsimshian intersection. People watching visible in foreground and behind. The Price Busters store in background.
Photos were taken by John Stokes, a Federal Fisheries employee who visited Kitimat for work purposes. Likely taken from a floatplane while landing in the area.
Custodial History
Donated by George Stokes in April 2023.
Scope and Content
Three aerial images of Kitimat neighbourhoods (Nechako area) in 1956.
A Map of the District Municipality of Kitimat British Columbia. Drawn by G.V. Laurenson for the Hudson's Bay Company. 1st edition. Scale: 40 chains or 1/2 mile to an inch. Map shows Kitimat area map on one side, and close up sections including Service Center, City Centre, Nechako Centre, and Nechako Neighbourhood on the other.
A Map of the District Municipality of Kitimat British Columbia. Drawn by G.V. Laurenson for the Hudson's Bay Company. 1st edition. Scale: 40 chains or 1/2 mile to an inch. Map shows Kitimat area map on one side, and close up sections including Service Center, City Centre, Nechako Centre, and Nechako Neighbourhood on the other.
Two issues of British Columbia History featurning article "Transportation In Moving Men, Machines, and Materials on the Kitimat Project" by Louise Avery, and one Kitimat Centennial Museum brochure
British Columbia History. Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation
Spring 2010
Vol. 43 No.1
Summer 2010
Vol. 43 No.2
Kitimat Centennial Museum brochure. At Our community museum you can... (1997)
Two issues of British Columbia History featurning article "Transportation In Moving Men, Machines, and Materials on the Kitimat Project" by Louise Avery, and one Kitimat Centennial Museum brochure
British Columbia History. Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation
Spring 2010
Vol. 43 No.1
Summer 2010
Vol. 43 No.2
Kitimat Centennial Museum brochure. At Our community museum you can... (1997)
Photograph of a float featuring names of various Kitimat businesses at the July 1st parade. Business names on float include Husky, WholeLife Health Foods, Inside Out, and Unique Flowers. People visible watching in either side of road. The Price Busters store in background.
Photograph of a float featuring names of various Kitimat businesses at the July 1st parade. Business names on float include Husky, WholeLife Health Foods, Inside Out, and Unique Flowers. People visible watching in either side of road. The Price Busters store in background.