Photo depicts a tent with flat-top house assembly on a production line in West Vancouver for Johnson-Crooks Construction Corporation.
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Title based on content of photograph. -- Slide No. 40 -- The circus tent assembly line was erected at Vancouver Tug and Barge below the Lion's Gate Bridge. Temporary housing destined for Kitimat was assembled there 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. Bill Frahler Collection 2003.32
Photograph of Aerial View of Nechaco Neighborhood ; Kildala Neighborhood ; Whitesail Neighborhood ; Hirsch Creek ; Kitimat General Hospital ; Mt. Elizabeth Secondary School ; Water Tower ; City Centre ; Highway 25
Photograph of Aerial View of Nechaco Neighborhood ; Kildala Neighborhood ; Whitesail Neighborhood ; Hirsch Creek ; Kitimat General Hospital ; Mt. Elizabeth Secondary School ; Water Tower ; City Centre ; Highway 25
Photo showing shack built from shingles from Anderson Farm house.
Anderson's Farm, the only remaining shack 1951 with two surveyors Percy Marsh, instrument man, died of lung cancer 1953 after graduation from U.B.C. and Ole Pederson, logger, surveyed for 6 weeks during logging closure because of fire hazard in Summer 1951. Copied from Mrs. Hallman's photo.
Photo showing shack built from shingles from Anderson Farm house.
Anderson's Farm, the only remaining shack 1951 with two surveyors Percy Marsh, instrument man, died of lung cancer 1953 after graduation from U.B.C. and Ole Pederson, logger, surveyed for 6 weeks during logging closure because of fire hazard in Summer 1951. Copied from Mrs. Hallman's photo.
A photograph of students from Kitimat at the Coqualeetza residential school in Sardis : (R-L) (Top) Grant, Donald ; Shaw, Stanley ; (bottom) Wilson, Richard ; Nelson, Bertie ;
A photograph of students from Kitimat at the Coqualeetza residential school in Sardis : (R-L) (Top) Grant, Donald ; Shaw, Stanley ; (bottom) Wilson, Richard ; Nelson, Bertie ;
Photograph of Aerial ; Nechako Neighborhood ; Whitesail Neighborhood ; Kildala Neighborhood ; Mt. Elizabeth Secondary School ; City Centre ; Water Tower
Photograph of Aerial ; Nechako Neighborhood ; Whitesail Neighborhood ; Kildala Neighborhood ; Mt. Elizabeth Secondary School ; City Centre ; Water Tower
Photograph of Aerial View of Kildala Neighborhood ; Nechako Neighborhood ; City Centre ; Haisla Bridge ; Kitimat River ; Riverlodge Camp ; Parks and Campgrounds ; Municipal ; Radley Park
Photograph of Aerial View of Nechako Neighborhood ; Whitesail Ares (Clearing) City Centre ; Haisla Bridge ; Kitimat River ; Riverlodge Camp ; Parks and Campgrounds ; Municipal ; Radley Park
Photograph of Aerial View of Nechako Neighborhood ; Whitesail Ares (Clearing) City Centre ; Haisla Bridge ; Kitimat River ; Riverlodge Camp ; Parks and Campgrounds ; Municipal ; Radley Park
Photograph of Aerial View of Nechako ; Kildala Neighborhoods ; (Cleared Area) Whitesail Neighborhood ; Hirsch Creek Bridge ; Water Tower ; Highway 25/37 ; Minette Bay Road ; Parks and Campgrounds ; Municipal ; Hirsch Creek Park
Photograph of Aerial View of Nechako ; Kildala Neighborhoods ; (Cleared Area) Whitesail Neighborhood ; Hirsch Creek Bridge ; Water Tower ; Highway 25/37 ; Minette Bay Road ; Parks and Campgrounds ; Municipal ; Hirsch Creek Park