Part Of

Jennings-Giles fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1954]

Accession Number

2012.9.20

Scope and Content

Photograph of Alcan Smelter Wharf.

Part Of

Ocelot Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

27 Jan 1981

Accession Number

982.66.17

Scope and Content

Dredging for Ocelot Wharf - Alcan Smelter

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

no date

Accession Number

2005.8.194

Scope and Content

Photo showing Wharf Fire (Kitimat Wharf) which belongs to Alcan. The part that had the fire was a storage bldg. used when the boats docked with supplies for both Kitimat/Kemano. Also, part of the wharf was taken and both the wharf and storage bldg. where not replaced.1960s

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

5 August 1953

Accession Number

985.65.277

Scope and Content

photo showing view looking view behind the wharf caissons looking north showing placing of sand blanket over the rock backfill at right of the outlet of the Dredge Pipe at left.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

13 August 1953

Accession Number

985.65.289

Scope and Content

Photo showing view looking south along permanent wharf showing internal fill complete.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

9 June 1953

Accession Number

985.65.241

Scope and Content

Photo showing view of the temporary wharf area looking southeast, scow grid in front of crane at elft, cement silos centre and transit ware-house at right.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca. 1950

Accession Number

985.65.397

Scope and Content

Photo showing construction going on at the Alcan Wharf, ship unloading materials into storage yard.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca. 1950

Accession Number

985.65.349

Scope and Content

Photo showing new alcan wharf unloading material from the boat called SunWhite from Fort Alfred, tar to do paving of the Smelter.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

26 March 1953

Accession Number

985.65.185

Scope and Content

Photo showing view looking toward site of Pernament Wharf from south dike of graving dock, dredge and dragon line excavating channel from graving dock to deep water, truck dumping gravel for foundation blanket into bottom dump scow.

Part Of

Maclean Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

July 1954

Accession Number

72.2

Scope and Content

First alumina boat to discharge alumina for Alcan Smelter in Kitimat - arrived from Port Esquivel, Jamaica, in July 1954. Ship was named S.S. "Sun Karen".

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

16 Sep 1957

Accession Number

2005.8.3394

Scope and Content

A photograph of Reverand Raley, a woman and a man on a boat in the channel with Alcan in the background

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1980s?

Accession Number

2003.29.4

Scope and Content

Photograph of an aerial of the Alcan smelter wharf area. Wharf area is in the front, and vehicles are parked there. Alcan beach is further back. The smelter is in the background. Gold Max Patzelt embossment is on the bottom right corner.

Part Of

Jennings-Giles fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1954]

Accession Number

2012.9.25

Scope and Content

Photograph of Alcan Smeltersite Construction from private wharf.

Part Of

Kitimat Chamber of Commerce Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1964

Accession Number

982.90.2.9

Scope and Content

Loading Alcan Ingots

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 13 June 1962]

Accession Number

1998.1.8352

Scope and Content

Aerial photo of Haisla Blvd leading into the Alcan industrial site, with Douglas Channel in the background. Taken from the north looking south.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952

Accession Number

78.5.8

Scope and Content

Kemano 1952. Alcan personnel office, first aid building, bunkhouses, and the road Main Portal in 1952.

Part Of

John Constantine Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1953-1954

Accession Number

999.7

Scope and Content

Red photograph album with black pages, containing images of Kitimat construction in the early 1950's. Contents include -

Early Kingfisher Ave/Construction

Other street areas for home sites

Tote road

Minette Bay

Townsite Camp

Early Haisla Blvd/Construction

Early Lahakas Blvd/Construction

City Centre culverts

Early Albatross Ave/Construction

Flood on River Access Road

Bridge Construction and Damage

Flood in Townsite Camp

First Fifty Houses

Water Line Instalations

Altitude Valve Chamber Fire

Neighbourhood Centre Building Construction

Sewer Installations

Seow Grid

Driving Piles for Seow Grid - Minette Bay

White Truck on Fire

Smeltersite

Early Nalabila Blvd/Construction

Early Gyrfalcon Ave/Construction

Gully and Culvert

Ian Kennedy Panabode House

Kitamaat Village (distance)

Prototype Houses

Kitimat River

Butedale from Air

Water Main Work

Hullah Team vs. Hullah Staff

Anderson Creek Falls

Early Partridge and Plover Streets

Bear in Construction Zone/Getting Fed

Sewer Outfall and Construction

Slide from Albatross

Sandhill (distance)

Slide on Lahakas Blvd

K550 Houses

Pump Houses Water Supply

Interior of Chlorinator House

Kitimat and Smelter Aerials

Various of Kitimat Construction and development Photos