Photo showing works Superintendent Tom Law of the District examines boards damaged over weekend at Hirsch Creek Park workmen rescued park tables from the creek and then had to replace boards damaged by hatchet. Table tops were all recently refinished in preparation for new season.
Current: 1960s
-District of Kitimat
-Miscellaneous
Scope and Content
Photo showing works Superintendent Tom Law of the District examines boards damaged over weekend at Hirsch Creek Park workmen rescued park tables from the creek and then had to replace boards damaged by hatchet. Table tops were all recently refinished in preparation for new season.
Photo depicts worker Max Audet lifting by hoist lumber at the sawmill at Anderson Creek.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Mill production in 1956 was more than 6,000,000 board feet. -- All lumber used for Saguenay - Kitimat Company (Sagimat) buildings was sawn and dressed at this local mill. Alcan Collection
Photograph of sawmill and burner, looking north-east towards smelter and town sites. Logs piled up on left side. Tree in foreground growing out of centre of round, metal barrier.
Bud Powell is a longtime resident of Kitimat and former smeltersite resident. He worked for Alcan.
Custodial History
Donated by Bud Powell.
Scope and Content
Photograph of sawmill and burner, looking north-east towards smelter and town sites. Logs piled up on left side. Tree in foreground growing out of centre of round, metal barrier.
Photograph of two men on a staircase of a wooden building, possibly Smeltersite Sawmill. On back: green stamp ' Photo Hoetzsch 104 West 2nd St., North Vancouver, BC'.
Photograph of two men on a staircase of a wooden building, possibly Smeltersite Sawmill. On back: green stamp ' Photo Hoetzsch 104 West 2nd St., North Vancouver, BC'.