Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

April 1953

Accession Number

985.65.204

Scope and Content

Photo showing construction of the Graving Dock

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

April 1953

Accession Number

985.65.205

Scope and Content

Photo showing construction of the Graving Dock

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

April 1953

Accession Number

985.65.206

Scope and Content

Photo showing construction of the Graving Dock.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

19 february 1953

Accession Number

985.65.155

Scope and Content

Photo showing graving dock looking south east, east caisson and system used for pouring A panels.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

12 February 1953

Accession Number

985.65.153

Scope and Content

Photo showing graving dock, looking south east, east and west caissons being prepared for first pour.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

5 January 1953

Accession Number

985.65.135

Scope and Content

Photo shwoing view looking east of Interior Graving Dock.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

22 January 1953

Accession Number

985.65.140

Scope and Content

Photo showing graving dock looking east showing excavation of side ditches, toe piling, south dike and dock bottom.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 9 or 12 Sept 1961]

Accession Number

1998.1.8270

Scope and Content

Alcan smelter employees returning to work after layoffs due to plant shut down caused by a rock slide in Kemano tunnel. (Rock Fall in the Kemano Power tunnel 65' long, 140' high, and 125 cubic yards of material) cut off power to Kitimat plant. Only after a dewatering of the tunnel, was power restored.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

7 May 1953

Accession Number

985.65.209

Scope and Content

Photo showing view north across graving dock, bulkheads are complete and final grading to elevation minus four.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Accession Number

985.65.191

Scope and Content

Photo showing aerial view of the graving dock looking north showing caisson contruction nearing its final stages, the smelter site is in the background.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 9/12 Sept 1961]

Accession Number

1998.1.8269

Scope and Content

Alcan smelter employees returning to work after layoffs due to a tunnel closure in Kemano. (Rock fall in Kemano tunnel: 65' long, 140' high, 125 cubic yards of material had moved. Tunnel closure caused Alcan plant closure. Took a "dewatering" of tunnel to repair rock fall). Employee Eric Burr first through gate.

Part Of

Hal Williams Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

04,1953,01

Accession Number

79.31.9

Scope and Content

photo showing aerial view of graving dock at Alcan

Part Of

Hal Williams Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

02,1952,10

Accession Number

79.31.11

Scope and Content

photo showing hydraulic fill for alcan graving dock

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 13 June 1962]

Accession Number

1998.1.8352

Scope and Content

Aerial photo of Haisla Blvd leading into the Alcan industrial site, with Douglas Channel in the background. Taken from the north looking south.

Part Of

Jim Freeman fonds

Description Level

Fonds

Accession Number

2004.10

Scope and Content

30 black & white photographs-Alcan construction, caison fill, Haisla Bridge

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952

Accession Number

78.5.8

Scope and Content

Kemano 1952. Alcan personnel office, first aid building, bunkhouses, and the road Main Portal in 1952.

Part Of

John Constantine Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1953-1954

Accession Number

999.7

Scope and Content

Red photograph album with black pages, containing images of Kitimat construction in the early 1950's. Contents include -

Early Kingfisher Ave/Construction

Other street areas for home sites

Tote road

Minette Bay

Townsite Camp

Early Haisla Blvd/Construction

Early Lahakas Blvd/Construction

City Centre culverts

Early Albatross Ave/Construction

Flood on River Access Road

Bridge Construction and Damage

Flood in Townsite Camp

First Fifty Houses

Water Line Instalations

Altitude Valve Chamber Fire

Neighbourhood Centre Building Construction

Sewer Installations

Seow Grid

Driving Piles for Seow Grid - Minette Bay

White Truck on Fire

Smeltersite

Early Nalabila Blvd/Construction

Early Gyrfalcon Ave/Construction

Gully and Culvert

Ian Kennedy Panabode House

Kitamaat Village (distance)

Prototype Houses

Kitimat River

Butedale from Air

Water Main Work

Hullah Team vs. Hullah Staff

Anderson Creek Falls

Early Partridge and Plover Streets

Bear in Construction Zone/Getting Fed

Sewer Outfall and Construction

Slide from Albatross

Sandhill (distance)

Slide on Lahakas Blvd

K550 Houses

Pump Houses Water Supply

Interior of Chlorinator House

Kitimat and Smelter Aerials

Various of Kitimat Construction and development Photos