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.
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.
Notes
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.