Photo depicts a tent with flat-top house assembly on a production line in West Vancouver for Johnson-Crooks Construction Corporation.
Notes
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
Photographs of cedar bark preparation by Clara Bolton (24 Jun 1982), Robert Stewart carving a spoon (3 Jul 1982), and of the museum native plant garden (3 Jul 1982).
7 photograph prints : b&w ; 12.5 x 9cm
4 photograph prints : b&w ; 9 x 12.5cm
Custodial History
Photographs taken by James Tirrul-Jones in his role as museum curator.
Scope and Content
Photographs of cedar bark preparation by Clara Bolton (24 Jun 1982), Robert Stewart carving a spoon (3 Jul 1982), and of the museum native plant garden (3 Jul 1982).
Notes
982.87.2 to 20 (Missing 3 to 10) : R33-2 to R33-20 (Missing R33-3 to R33-10)
Photograph showing two women seated, learning to make Haisla baskets from instructor Clara Bolton, who is standing while holding Kay Starr's unfinished basket. L to R: Freda Ross, Clara Bolton, Kay Grant (nee Starr). The women appear to be in a kitchen and are all very focused on what they are doing.
Photograph showing two women seated, learning to make Haisla baskets from instructor Clara Bolton, who is standing while holding Kay Starr's unfinished basket. L to R: Freda Ross, Clara Bolton, Kay Grant (nee Starr). The women appear to be in a kitchen and are all very focused on what they are doing.
