Photograph of the smelter site ; possibily taken from in the kangaroo crane looking over the smelter site ; various industrial buildings and structures.
Photographs taken by Gordon Lee donated to the museum by his daughter Michelle Simeoni.
Scope and Content
Photograph of the smelter site ; possibily taken from in the kangaroo crane looking over the smelter site ; various industrial buildings and structures.
Photogtaph of men working on the smelter site in a building ; men are to the left of the photo ; one man in a fork lift ; stacks of something to the far right ; a door to the far left.
Photographs taken by Gordon Lee donated to the museum by his daughter Michelle Simeoni.
Scope and Content
Photogtaph of men working on the smelter site in a building ; men are to the left of the photo ; one man in a fork lift ; stacks of something to the far right ; a door to the far left.
Photograph of three men standing in a building at alcal ; one of them to the far right is wearing a hat ; the other two both in long jackets; there is a ladder behind the man on the right.
Photographs taken by Gordon Lee donated to the museum by his daughter Michelle Simeoni.
Scope and Content
Photograph of three men standing in a building at alcal ; one of them to the far right is wearing a hat ; the other two both in long jackets; there is a ladder behind the man on the right.
James McNay was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on January 31, 1907. Between 1951 and 1953, he worked in the payroll department for Alcan. He had to leave his wife Effie and his two young daughters, Margaret and Diane, aged 6 and 5 in 1951, at home in Surrey, B.C., during his 3-4 month stints in Kitimat. To fill some of his free time and show his family where he was and what Kitimat was like, he spent many hours walking in the area with a 35mm Kodak camera. He photographed the scenic beauty of the area and parts of the construction of both the smelters and the town. He died in Surrey on August 7, 1983.
Custodial History
Donated by Margaret McNay. Images were taken by her father and sent to their family in Surrey in the 1950s.
Scope and Content
Slide showing opening to the Kitimat Yacht Club basin. Sailboats and the Alcan dock in the distance.