Photo depicts workers excavating for the construction of the alumina storage building.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-451. -- Sloping sides avoided cave-ins. -- Hal Whiting was Project Manager, Kitimat Constructors, for smelter and town construction. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.267
Photograph showing coke calcining area looking south. Note completed Kiln piers in background and buildings 509 and 510 foundation work in progress in foreground.
Photograph showing coke calcining area looking south. Note completed Kiln piers in background and buildings 509 and 510 foundation work in progress in foreground.
Looking south on Service Building area. Steel mat for bottom slab Transformer repair pit in foreground. Footings on Columb Lines D to M middleground; pre-cast yard extreme right backyard.
Looking south on Service Building area. Steel mat for bottom slab Transformer repair pit in foreground. Footings on Columb Lines D to M middleground; pre-cast yard extreme right backyard.
Photo showing an Aluminum Company of Canada.smelter tour demonstration guided by Russ Chamberlain (L) and Mervyn Henry (R). The two guides conducting the Plant Tours in 1964 were both third year students from UBC. Mervyn was from Chilliwack and Russ from Penticton.
Photo showing an Aluminum Company of Canada.smelter tour demonstration guided by Russ Chamberlain (L) and Mervyn Henry (R). The two guides conducting the Plant Tours in 1964 were both third year students from UBC. Mervyn was from Chilliwack and Russ from Penticton.
Photo showing view looking north, west half of Storage Building, portion of hydraulic fill area, dyke protecting portion being stripped at right and centre, area in foreground partially stripped.
Photo showing view looking north, west half of Storage Building, portion of hydraulic fill area, dyke protecting portion being stripped at right and centre, area in foreground partially stripped.