Photo depicts the dredge and dragline excavating the channel from the dock to deep water, a truck dumping gravel for the foundation blanket into the bottom of a dump scow. The view looks toward the construction site for the permanent wharf from the south dike of the graving dock, crew bunkhouses of Smeltersite in the background.
Photo depicts the dredge and dragline excavating the channel from the dock to deep water, a truck dumping gravel for the foundation blanket into the bottom of a dump scow. The view looks toward the construction site for the permanent wharf from the south dike of the graving dock, crew bunkhouses of Smeltersite in the background.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-320. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.211
Jamieson came to Kitimat from Vancouver to work on the Alcan project in 1952. With his first pay cheque he bought a small "Pony Kodak" camera at the local store (Hudson Bay?), and started taking coloured slides of the Kitimat from 1952-1953. Left Kitimat at the end of August 1953 to move to Montreal.
Scope and Content
Slide of Kitimat permanent dock and rec hall from bunkhouse #8.
Permanent Camp, 5 bunkhouses and cafeteria. Drill rig on green coke storage hole. Area in foreground to be hydraulic filled. North-South Mole at elev. 21.5 awash in immediate foreground. Taken from North-South Mole.
Permanent Camp, 5 bunkhouses and cafeteria. Drill rig on green coke storage hole. Area in foreground to be hydraulic filled. North-South Mole at elev. 21.5 awash in immediate foreground. Taken from North-South Mole.
Photo showing heavy machine work on permanent softball field by volunteer labour: George Barnes, Val McFadden, Peter Worbets, Fraser McQuarrie, Bill Weir, Les Godfrey. Second Row: Gordon Leslie, Ken Barnes, Harry McKee, Craig Ulledahl, acting-Reeve Ron Freeman. Above: Don Elmer
Current: 1960s
-Sports
-League Play
-Baseball and Softball
Scope and Content
Photo showing heavy machine work on permanent softball field by volunteer labour: George Barnes, Val McFadden, Peter Worbets, Fraser McQuarrie, Bill Weir, Les Godfrey. Second Row: Gordon Leslie, Ken Barnes, Harry McKee, Craig Ulledahl, acting-Reeve Ron Freeman. Above: Don Elmer
Photo showing softball league's volunteer job to construct permanent ball field: George Barnes, Fred Misfeldt, Harold Dennill, Bill Weir, Ed Hunt, Ted Beitz, Lloyd Gammel, Delmer Lufkin, Tom Newlove, Derek Meade, George Lawson, Steve Basaraba, Ted Shaw, Craig Ulledahl, Garnet Fortner, Lucien Trudeau, Maurice Fortner, Kenneth Kuhn
Current: 1960s
-Sports
-League Play
-Baseball and Softball
Scope and Content
Photo showing softball league's volunteer job to construct permanent ball field: George Barnes, Fred Misfeldt, Harold Dennill, Bill Weir, Ed Hunt, Ted Beitz, Lloyd Gammel, Delmer Lufkin, Tom Newlove, Derek Meade, George Lawson, Steve Basaraba, Ted Shaw, Craig Ulledahl, Garnet Fortner, Lucien Trudeau, Maurice Fortner, Kenneth Kuhn