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.
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.
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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.
Photograph of the temporary housing site in neighbourhood C-1. Note the sections of the 210 units arriving in the building area. Crane at work on left.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of the temporary housing site in neighbourhood C-1. Note the sections of the 210 units arriving in the building area. Crane at work on left.
Photograph of view from Haisla Boulevard across the west end of Neighbourhood C-I showing the 200 temporary housing units. Road in foreground with truck at far left. A man is walking in the very front on the right.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of view from Haisla Boulevard across the west end of Neighbourhood C-I showing the 200 temporary housing units. Road in foreground with truck at far left. A man is walking in the very front on the right.
Photograph of view looking northwest across the temporary housing units being constructed in neighbourhood C-1. Crane and other machinery visible working.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of view looking northwest across the temporary housing units being constructed in neighbourhood C-1. Crane and other machinery visible working.
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.
