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Temporary hospital at Alcan Beach

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description203
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Accession Number
77.68.3
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the temporary hospital constructed on the beach at Smeltersite.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
197
Accession Number
77.68.3
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the temporary hospital constructed on the beach at Smeltersite.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Kitimat General Hospital Collection
Subject Access
Hospitals
Construction of Buildings
Images

Kildala Neighbourhood temporary housing

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description224
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
July 13, 1955
Scope and Content
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.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
218
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
July 13, 1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
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
Subject Access
Housing
Construction of Buildings
Images

Temporary buildings B and C, Service Centre

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description212
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 12, 1956
Accession Number
76.66.312
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the completed shopping centre in temporary buildings "B" and "C" in Service Centre. The Bank of Montreal sign is visible.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
206
Accession Number
76.66.312
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 12, 1956
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the completed shopping centre in temporary buildings "B" and "C" in Service Centre. The Bank of Montreal sign is visible.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. J-2-312. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Services
Business
Images
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
October 24, 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a jeep crossing the five-span Dala River Bridge. View is looking south-east.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
125
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
October 24, 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a jeep crossing the five-span Dala River Bridge. View is looking south-east.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. KR-610. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Transmission line
Images

Haisla Bridge Construction

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description160
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952 or 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers constructing Haisla Bridge beside the temporary bridge crossing Kitimat River.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
154
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952 or 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers constructing Haisla Bridge beside the temporary bridge crossing Kitimat River.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Haisla Bridge, Kitimat's first permanent bridge was completed by the end of 1953 and officially opened in 1957. -- The cost was over one million dollars. District of Kitimat Collection. District of Kitimat Collection 987.10.2
Subject Access
Towns
Storage Location
Box 35
Images

Bailey Bridge in access tunnel

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
December 07, 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the Bailey Bridge across the inner end of the access tunnel with form work in the background. View is from a high elevation under the roof looking northwest.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
70
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
December 07, 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the Bailey Bridge across the inner end of the access tunnel with form work in the background. View is from a high elevation under the roof looking northwest.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Powerhouses
Images

Alcan Project management

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description12
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
March 9, 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts six people standing on the Kemano Wharf. From left is Mr. K. Roestad; Mr. Percy E. Radley; Mr. McNeely DuBose; Mrs. McNeely DuBose; Mr. M.K. Madsen, M.K. Assistant Project Manager and Mr. R.E. Reed, M.K. Area Engineer.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
6
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
March 9, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts six people standing on the Kemano Wharf. From left is Mr. K. Roestad; Mr. Percy E. Radley; Mr. McNeely DuBose; Mrs. McNeely DuBose; Mr. M.K. Madsen, M.K. Assistant Project Manager and Mr. R.E. Reed, M.K. Area Engineer.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-780. Alcan Collection
Name Access
Madsen, M.K.
DuBose, McNeely
DuBose, Mrs. McNeely
Radley, Percy E.
Reed, R.E.
Roestad, K.
Subject Access
Kemano
Images

View of Kemano townsite

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description106
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
November 10, 1960
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the permanent Kemano townsite at Camp No. 5. View is looking towards beach. Seen on the left are permanent homes for powerhouse staff. On the right are the temporary buildings known as quonset huts used during the construction years as crew quarters.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
100
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
November 10, 1960
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the permanent Kemano townsite at Camp No. 5. View is looking towards beach. Seen on the left are permanent homes for powerhouse staff. On the right are the temporary buildings known as quonset huts used during the construction years as crew quarters.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. 2KR-298. -- Permanent housing construction began in 1957. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Kemano
Camps
Images

First air mail via PWA

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description204
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two men kneeling beside the first bags of mail to arrive via Pacific Western Airlines. On the right, Captain T. M. Kellough for PWA delivers the bags to on the left, Kitimat Express driver Lloyd Kaberg, at the wharf, Smeltersite. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
198
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two men kneeling beside the first bags of mail to arrive via Pacific Western Airlines. On the right, Captain T. M. Kellough for PWA delivers the bags to on the left, Kitimat Express driver Lloyd Kaberg, at the wharf, Smeltersite. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
Notes
Title based on content of photograph.
Subject Access
Services
Kemano
Airplanes
Images

Alcan Project humorous reprieve certificate

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description19
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca.1952
Scope and Content
Image depicts a humorous reprieve certificate given to employees of the Alcan Project. The content also implies the hardships endured by the Morrison-Knudsen Company workers in Kemano.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
13
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca.1952
Physical Description
1 digital image : col.
Scope and Content
Image depicts a humorous reprieve certificate given to employees of the Alcan Project. The content also implies the hardships endured by the Morrison-Knudsen Company workers in Kemano.
Notes
Title based on contents of text. Ernie Archer Collection
Subject Access
Kemano
Morrison-Knudsen Company
Images

Aerial View of City Centre and Nechako

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description27323
Part Of
Alcan Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1959
Accession Number
78.11.125
Scope and Content
Aerial view of Kitimat General Hospital, City Centre and part of the Nechako neighbourhood
Part Of
Alcan Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
78.11.125
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Alcan Photo
Date Range
1959
Physical Description
1 Photograph : b&w ; 27x21
Scope and Content
Aerial view of Kitimat General Hospital, City Centre and part of the Nechako neighbourhood
Subject Access
Aerial
Kitimat General Hospital
Images

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