Photo depicts Philip ("Flying Phil") Gaglardi, B.C. Minister of Highways, doing the honors at the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the opening of Highway No. 25, Terrace to Kitimat. A crowd of smiling people look on from the background.
Photo depicts Philip ("Flying Phil") Gaglardi, B.C. Minister of Highways, doing the honors at the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the opening of Highway No. 25, Terrace to Kitimat. A crowd of smiling people look on from the background.
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Title based on content of photograph. -- Photograph appears in the Northern Sentinel, November 28, 1957. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
Photo showing the "Big Boss" of B.C Highways Hon. Phil Gaglardi (foreground at right) surveying the construction work being done on the highway. Bulldozer in middleground and tractor in background.
-Construction of Hwy 25
-Opened 28 November 1957
Photo showing the "Big Boss" of B.C Highways Hon. Phil Gaglardi (foreground at right) surveying the construction work being done on the highway. Bulldozer in middleground and tractor in background.
-Construction of Hwy 25
-Opened 28 November 1957
Photo showing Department of Highways Personnel arriving at Kitimat Works - Smeltersite, on a float plane, on the Alcan Beach - Douglas Channel. Company was Pacific Western Airlines. L/R Philip A. Gaglardi, Minister of Highways(Socreds - BC); Mrs. H.A. Shirreff, Hugh A. Shirreff, David O.Hill.
Photo showing Department of Highways Personnel arriving at Kitimat Works - Smeltersite, on a float plane, on the Alcan Beach - Douglas Channel. Company was Pacific Western Airlines. L/R Philip A. Gaglardi, Minister of Highways(Socreds - BC); Mrs. H.A. Shirreff, Hugh A. Shirreff, David O.Hill.
Photograph of southpaw P. A. Gaglardi, highway opener deluxe, added another new rode to his collection Thursday. With shiny scissors, he snipped red ribbion across Bailey Bridge at Kitimat River to open three and a half millions new highway to Terrace- and otter space.
Photograph of southpaw P. A. Gaglardi, highway opener deluxe, added another new rode to his collection Thursday. With shiny scissors, he snipped red ribbion across Bailey Bridge at Kitimat River to open three and a half millions new highway to Terrace- and otter space.