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 showing duplex used for teacher housing on 72 Gannet Street, the left half of this duplex is the teacherage which is fully furnished to house 4 single girls.
1 photograph: col.; 20.5 x 25.5 cm
1 photograph: col. ; 9 x 9 cm
1 negative : col. ; 6 x 6 cm
Scope and Content
Photo showing duplex used for teacher housing on 72 Gannet Street, the left half of this duplex is the teacherage which is fully furnished to house 4 single girls.
