Slide showing front end loader filling a dump truck with soil. There is a hole in front from where it has been digging from. Behind there is construction and material visible.
James McNay was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on January 31, 1907. Between 1951 and 1953, he worked in the payroll department for Alcan. He had to leave his wife Effie and his two young daughters, Margaret and Diane, aged 6 and 5 in 1951, at home in Surrey, B.C., during his 3-4 month stints in Kitimat. To fill some of his free time and show his family where he was and what Kitimat was like, he spent many hours walking in the area with a 35mm Kodak camera. He photographed the scenic beauty of the area and parts of the construction of both the smelters and the town. He died in Surrey on August 7, 1983.
Custodial History
Donated by Margaret McNay. Images were taken by her father and sent to their family in Surrey in the 1950s.
Scope and Content
Slide showing front end loader filling a dump truck with soil. There is a hole in front from where it has been digging from. Behind there is construction and material visible.
View of the gravel fill in place for some of the houses being erected by Hullah construction on Swallow Street. Note the prefabricated forms under erection in centre background.
View of the gravel fill in place for some of the houses being erected by Hullah construction on Swallow Street. Note the prefabricated forms under erection in centre background.
Photograph of fill material being placed on Lahakas Blvd. just north of Gyrfalcon St. This is part of the neighbourhood A-II major roads and is a minicipality responsibility. Dump truck dumping fill is on the left, and the driver has the door open and is looking out to the back.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of fill material being placed on Lahakas Blvd. just north of Gyrfalcon St. This is part of the neighbourhood A-II major roads and is a minicipality responsibility. Dump truck dumping fill is on the left, and the driver has the door open and is looking out to the back.