Photo showing 'Official Opening' of the Public Safety Bldg. September 3, 1956. L/R Cyril Henderson, Municipal Manager; Aubrey Creed, Fire Chief; E.J. Applewhaite, Wilbur Hallman, ?, Timothy Starr, Percy E. Radley,(Alcan)
Photo showing 'Official Opening' of the Public Safety Bldg. September 3, 1956. L/R Cyril Henderson, Municipal Manager; Aubrey Creed, Fire Chief; E.J. Applewhaite, Wilbur Hallman, ?, Timothy Starr, Percy E. Radley,(Alcan)
The exterior of the new Kitimat Public Library at Nechako Centre, Mount Elizabeth in the background.
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Title based on content of photograph. -- Famed Canadian documentary photographer Malak Karsh was hired in the 1950s by Alcan to take photographs of Arvida and Kitimat. Many were published in Alcan literature and textbooks on Canada. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
Photo depicts workers excavating for the construction of the alumina storage building.
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Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-451. -- Sloping sides avoided cave-ins. -- Hal Whiting was Project Manager, Kitimat Constructors, for smelter and town construction. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.267
Photo depicts a tent with flat-top house assembly on a production line in West Vancouver for Johnson-Crooks Construction Corporation.
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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
