Photo depicts a view of Minette Bay scow grid with two barges being unloaded. The left barge is loaded with Johnson Crooks materials and the right barge with Hullah Construction materials.
Photo depicts a view of Minette Bay scow grid with two barges being unloaded. The left barge is loaded with Johnson Crooks materials and the right barge with Hullah Construction materials.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-1061. Alcan Collection 78.11.89
Photo depicts the boardwalk between homes 36 and 32 on Finch Steet in the Nechako neighbourhood. View is north-east looking towards Nalabila Boulevard.
Photo depicts the boardwalk between homes 36 and 32 on Finch Steet in the Nechako neighbourhood. View is north-east looking towards Nalabila Boulevard.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- This house type was called a "chicken coop". -- Photograph taken from Fulmar Street. Alcan Collection 73.3.6.1
Photo depicts Electrician Bill Frahler's family standing beside his truck. Johnson-Crooks houses under construction in Nechako Neighbourhood are in the background.
Photo depicts Electrician Bill Frahler's family standing beside his truck. Johnson-Crooks houses under construction in Nechako Neighbourhood are in the background.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- "Alva and the Boys", Slide No. 95 -- Bill Frahler wired over 2,000 temporary construction and permanent homes between 1954 and 1958, first working for Johnson-Crooks and then Straits Construction. Bill Frahler Collection 2003.32
Photo depicts an aerial view of a portion of the Nechako neighbourhood showing the Hullah prototype area, Pintail and Partridge streets, in the foreground.
Photo depicts an aerial view of a portion of the Nechako neighbourhood showing the Hullah prototype area, Pintail and Partridge streets, in the foreground.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. District of Kitimat Collection
One of the first prize gardens on Starling Street in the annual community competition.
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Nels Klit, his daughter, and wife in the family's garden on Starling Street.
Notes
Other number 45048C. Famed Canadian documentary photographer Malak Karsh was hired in the 1950s by Alcan to take photographs of Arvida and Kitimat. Many were published in Alcan literature and textbooks on Canada. A colourized version of this photograph appears in the “Kitimat: Tomorrow’s City Today”, by B.J. McGuire and Roland Wild, reprint booklet, Canadian Geographical Journal, November 1959. Alcan Collection
Photo depicts an aerial view of Kitimat, seen is land cleared for Neighbourhood "D" and the Whitesail neighbourhood under construction, right foreground. The Alcan smelter and channel are in the background.
Photo depicts an aerial view of Kitimat, seen is land cleared for Neighbourhood "D" and the Whitesail neighbourhood under construction, right foreground. The Alcan smelter and channel are in the background.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Max Patzelt Collection - 1998.1.8351
Photo depicts Mrs. Stackhouse beside her truck holding a fish. Another large fish is displayed hanging by a cord from her driver's side mirror. She is parked outside a home in the Kildala Neighbourhood.
Photo depicts Mrs. Stackhouse beside her truck holding a fish. Another large fish is displayed hanging by a cord from her driver's side mirror. She is parked outside a home in the Kildala Neighbourhood.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Max Patzelt Collection - 956
The Annual Jaycee clean up of the town included the Haisla Look-Out sign, originially presented to the District of Kitimat by the Chamber of Commerce and created in colour by Bill Diesing.
The Annual Jaycee clean up of the town included the Haisla Look-Out sign, originially presented to the District of Kitimat by the Chamber of Commerce and created in colour by Bill Diesing.
Kitimat's first opera, presented by the Canadian Opera Company, November 25, 1961. "Orpheus in the Underworld" was presented courtesy of a Canada Council Grant and the sponsorship of the Kitimat Concert Association.
Kitimat's first opera, presented by the Canadian Opera Company, November 25, 1961. "Orpheus in the Underworld" was presented courtesy of a Canada Council Grant and the sponsorship of the Kitimat Concert Association.
