Photo showing a truck having it's trailer piggy-backed for a return trip and another load, after having deposited a load of logs at Crown Zellerbach's Minette Bay grounds.
Photo showing a truck having it's trailer piggy-backed for a return trip and another load, after having deposited a load of logs at Crown Zellerbach's Minette Bay grounds.
Photo depicts two barges moored in Douglas Channel and loaded with flat-top house sections for construction workers and their families.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Temporary housing destined for Kitimat was assembled at Vancouver Tug and Barge below the Lion's Gate Bridge 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. Pat Jimenez Collection
Photograph of waste material being loaded out of he Riverlodge area. A large proportion of this waste is ice and snow. Bulldozer visible on mound of debris on left, and another bulldozer on the right is loading material into a dump truck.
Photos belonged to Raymond Stanyer who worked in Kitimat, and were donated by his wife, Pat Stanyer
Scope and Content
Photograph of waste material being loaded out of he Riverlodge area. A large proportion of this waste is ice and snow. Bulldozer visible on mound of debris on left, and another bulldozer on the right is loading material into a dump truck.
Photo depicts a section of Camp No. 5, Kemano, also known as "The Village", looking north-east along one of the streets in the Wachwas trailer camp in winter.
Photo depicts a section of Camp No. 5, Kemano, also known as "The Village", looking north-east along one of the streets in the Wachwas trailer camp in winter.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. KR-702. Alcan Collection