Photograph of Gov't and Services ; Provincial ; Land Survey ; Personeel ; Far Left - Bowbyes (Drowned In Local River) ; Survey ; McMinn Survey 1949 ; Personnel
Photograph of Gov't and Services ; Provincial ; Land Survey ; Personeel ; Far Left - Bowbyes (Drowned In Local River) ; Survey ; McMinn Survey 1949 ; Personnel
Inscribed in pen: Survey Truck and me the stories I could tell on that canopy on back of truck they vould give me lumber - nails. Build one so I swipea A piano case - The Only one. R25-16
Slide showing sandhill viewed from opposite side of river. Truck is visible in foreground, and people or on the left. Beyond the river, some equipment is visible, and sandhill appears very flattened and carved down from the side.
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 sandhill viewed from opposite side of river. Truck is visible in foreground, and people or on the left. Beyond the river, some equipment is visible, and sandhill appears very flattened and carved down from the side.
