Photo depicts the exterior of the newly completed Nechako Centre in Kitimat, Shop Easy at the end of the complex. A bulldozer compacts the gravel - site preparation for the parking lot.
Photo depicts the exterior of the newly completed Nechako Centre in Kitimat, Shop Easy at the end of the complex. A bulldozer compacts the gravel - site preparation for the parking lot.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Part of Board of School Trustees Collection 982.91
Title based on content of photograph. -- Haisla Bridge, Kitimat's first permanent bridge was completed by the end of 1953 and officially opened in 1957. -- The cost was over one million dollars. District of Kitimat Collection. District of Kitimat Collection 987.10.2
Photo depicts Philip ("Flying Phil") Gaglardi, B.C. Minister of Highways at the Hirsch Creek section, during construction of Highway No. 25, Terrace to Kitimat. View is looking towards Terrace.
Photo depicts Philip ("Flying Phil") Gaglardi, B.C. Minister of Highways at the Hirsch Creek section, during construction of Highway No. 25, Terrace to Kitimat. View is looking towards Terrace.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Photograph appeared in the Northern Sentinel, August 24, 1956. Northern Sentinel Press Collection No. 2005.8.695.
Construction happening at city centre with a huge hole beside the Bank of Commerce. There is also a lot of construction equipment. The area in front of City Centre mall is boarded off and out of limits. City Centre Mall expansion construction.
1 photograph : b&w ; 10.4 x 12.6 cm
1 negative : b&w ; 9.9 x 12.5 cm
Scope and Content
Construction happening at city centre with a huge hole beside the Bank of Commerce. There is also a lot of construction equipment. The area in front of City Centre mall is boarded off and out of limits. City Centre Mall expansion construction.
Photo depicts the extent of scaffolding for the beam and column construction along the upstream wall or "A-line". View is looking north from the inner end of the access tunnel.
Photo depicts the extent of scaffolding for the beam and column construction along the upstream wall or "A-line". View is looking north from the inner end of the access tunnel.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. KR-1160. Alcan Collection
Photo showing contruction of Kildala wading pool, constructiong concrete forms. In Background: Mrs. Bill Norman, Mrs. Walter Zet, Mrs. Minori Nishi, Mrs. W.B Patton. In Foreground: Archie Beyerstein, Bill Patton, Jim Ditomassi, Norm Handford, Minori Nishi, Walter Zet, Frank Gulpers.
Northern Sentinel Box #3-(A) Historical (I) Service club (a) Lions Club
Scope and Content
Photo showing contruction of Kildala wading pool, constructiong concrete forms. In Background: Mrs. Bill Norman, Mrs. Walter Zet, Mrs. Minori Nishi, Mrs. W.B Patton. In Foreground: Archie Beyerstein, Bill Patton, Jim Ditomassi, Norm Handford, Minori Nishi, Walter Zet, Frank Gulpers.
Photo depicts an International TD-24 crawler dozing tunnel muck at the 2600' camp above the Kemano Valley.
Notes
ID No. C 6098. -- Title based on content of photo. -- The International Harvester Company, manufacturers of construction equipment such as this crawler purchased for the Project. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.75
Photo depicts two barges moored in Douglas Channel and loaded with flat-top house sections for construction workers and their families.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- 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. Pat Jimenez Collection
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
Title based on content of photograph. -- 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. 73.3.6.6
Photo depicts two workers looking on as a Sikorsky S-55 helicopter brings in a load of supplies to the transmission line camp atop Kildala Pass.
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Photographed by the International Harverster Company, manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.82
Kitimat was the place to be in North America in the 1950s. The massive Alcan project in the northwest British Columbia was completed in just five years - dam, tunnel, powerhouse, Kemano, transmission line, smelter, and Kitimat. Browse through Kitimat history with these project images - a BC digital collection. The project was one of the most photographed and filmed construction jobs in BC history.
Kitimat was the place to be in North America in the 1950s. The massive Alcan project in the northwest British Columbia was completed in just five years - dam, tunnel, powerhouse, Kemano, transmission line, smelter, and Kitimat. Browse through Kitimat history with these project images - a BC digital collection. The project was one of the most photographed and filmed construction jobs in BC history.
