Photo depicts the powerhouse's Unit No. 4 showing screeds set and resteel installed for concrete pour No. 1 to Elevation 184.0'. The tailrace channel is seen top right.
Photo depicts the powerhouse's Unit No. 4 showing screeds set and resteel installed for concrete pour No. 1 to Elevation 184.0'. The tailrace channel is seen top right.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. 5793. Alcan Collection
Photo depicts three men standing beside the scroll case for Unit No. 4, which is awaiting transport into the powerhouse. View is from the portal entrance looking towards Mt. Powell.
Photo depicts three men standing beside the scroll case for Unit No. 4, which is awaiting transport into the powerhouse. View is from the portal entrance looking towards Mt. Powell.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. 5793. Alcan Collection
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
Photo depicts flat-top temporary housing lining the hillside up to the Aluminum City Motel at the treeline. View is northwest. Grader on Kuldo Boulevard.
Photo depicts flat-top temporary housing lining the hillside up to the Aluminum City Motel at the treeline. View is northwest. Grader on Kuldo Boulevard.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan Negative No. 29337. -- The circus tent assembly line was erected . 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. 73.3.6.6
Photo showing Miss Kitimat of 1965 contestants, George Thom president of the Kitimat Kiwanis Club at speaker while contestants sit behind him on stage on July 1st. Molly Edwards was selected as Miss Kitimat.
Photo showing Miss Kitimat of 1965 contestants, George Thom president of the Kitimat Kiwanis Club at speaker while contestants sit behind him on stage on July 1st. Molly Edwards was selected as Miss Kitimat.
Kitimat Council 1966, from left: Edith Angle, Hugh Gresham, Don Stickney. Facing camera are Art Currie, Reeve Sam Lindsay, and Linda Shepherd. At right: Tom Smith, Joe Banyay, Paul Asikainen.
Kitimat Council 1966, from left: Edith Angle, Hugh Gresham, Don Stickney. Facing camera are Art Currie, Reeve Sam Lindsay, and Linda Shepherd. At right: Tom Smith, Joe Banyay, Paul Asikainen.
Photo showing Columbia Bridge is coming down and will be out of service for about another month according to the municipal engineering department. The old stringers are to be removed Friday and following that the main culvert will be installed and the cavity filled and eventually paved. Kuldo Bridge is to get the same treatment once Columbia is back in use.
Current: 1960s
-District of Kitimat
-Miscellaneous
Scope and Content
Photo showing Columbia Bridge is coming down and will be out of service for about another month according to the municipal engineering department. The old stringers are to be removed Friday and following that the main culvert will be installed and the cavity filled and eventually paved. Kuldo Bridge is to get the same treatment once Columbia is back in use.
