Photograph of little league winning team. Group of boys posing for a photo in baseball gear. Coach behind them and other kids observing on the sides. Baseball fence and forest (Nechako?) behind them.
Malcolm Baxter died in 2020. His father Basil, was very instrumental in the organization of Kitimat in the early years. Basil was married to Cathy Baxter and they had two sons - Malcolm and Michael.
Custodial History
Part of items collected by Malcolm Baxter, former editer of NSP. Brought into the museum by Judith Cullington, Malcolm's sister-in-law.
Scope and Content
Photograph of little league winning team. Group of boys posing for a photo in baseball gear. Coach behind them and other kids observing on the sides. Baseball fence and forest (Nechako?) behind them.
Photo showing Hotel's winning softball play-offs team. Back row: Bill Brown, Reg Frost, Jack Lindeman, Lorne Evans, Roy Houston, Morley Mazurak, Bob Hunter, Cliff Latimer, George Brooks. Front row: Gus Ishida, Jimmy Adams, Boyd Peppar, Val McFadden, George More, Ron McPhee, Kenny Haminishi
Current: 1960s
-Sports
-League Play
-Baseball and Softball
Scope and Content
Photo showing Hotel's winning softball play-offs team. Back row: Bill Brown, Reg Frost, Jack Lindeman, Lorne Evans, Roy Houston, Morley Mazurak, Bob Hunter, Cliff Latimer, George Brooks. Front row: Gus Ishida, Jimmy Adams, Boyd Peppar, Val McFadden, George More, Ron McPhee, Kenny Haminishi
One of the first prize gardens on Starling Street in the annual community competition.
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Nels Klit, his daughter, and wife in the family's garden on Starling Street.
Notes
Other number 45048C. 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. A colourized version of this photograph appears in the “Kitimat: Tomorrow’s City Today”, by B.J. McGuire and Roland Wild, reprint booklet, Canadian Geographical Journal, November 1959. Alcan Collection
Photo showing winning first-aid team of firemen from Kitimat. From left: Warren Banks, Bill McIntosh, Celgar's Cedric Telford, Frank Grogan (team captain), Pete Tkocz, Al Hopkins.
Current: 1960s
-District of Kitimat
-St. John Ambulance
Scope and Content
Photo showing winning first-aid team of firemen from Kitimat. From left: Warren Banks, Bill McIntosh, Celgar's Cedric Telford, Frank Grogan (team captain), Pete Tkocz, Al Hopkins.
Photograph of the winner pitcher in Monday's opening little league game was 12 year old Harold Milne caught by sentinel photographer as he pitched for pharmacy against home gas. Final score of the game was 10-3 in favour of pharmacy.
Photograph of the winner pitcher in Monday's opening little league game was 12 year old Harold Milne caught by sentinel photographer as he pitched for pharmacy against home gas. Final score of the game was 10-3 in favour of pharmacy.
"All ready to hit the streets of Kitimat are Kinsmen wayne Doucet and Albert Vernard to sell tickets for the Kinsmen "Win a Bobcat" raffle. Proceeds from the raffle will go towards aiding the Kinsmen in their community work."
"All ready to hit the streets of Kitimat are Kinsmen wayne Doucet and Albert Vernard to sell tickets for the Kinsmen "Win a Bobcat" raffle. Proceeds from the raffle will go towards aiding the Kinsmen in their community work."
Queen Charlotte Airlines Limited ticket. QCA flew freight, mail, and workers into Kitimat between 1952 and 1955. The company was purchased by Pacific Western Airlines in 1955.
