Photo depicts Auguste Buteau, Alcan Conductor Division Inspector, stamping his initials into a completed joint for the transmission line to mark it as O.K.
Photo depicts Auguste Buteau, Alcan Conductor Division Inspector, stamping his initials into a completed joint for the transmission line to mark it as O.K.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. KR-1143. -- Mr. Buteau was from the Isle Maligne in Quebec. Each joint in the transmission line had to be inspected and stamped. Alcan Collection
Photograph of Huge drums of cable for new hydro line linking Kitimat, Terrace, and Prince Rupert, stretch into the distance along the CNR siding behind service centre, dwarfing a car park nearby.
Photograph of Huge drums of cable for new hydro line linking Kitimat, Terrace, and Prince Rupert, stretch into the distance along the CNR siding behind service centre, dwarfing a car park nearby.
Photograph showing a group of 11 people standing on a dirt road in cable car. One of the people, a young girl is on a horse. Another person an older gentleman has a German Shepard on a leash. There is a boy holding a clear umbrella with a knit coat. One of the men is wearing a hard hat. The dirt road they're standing on is very wet and has lots of puddles.
Photograph showing a group of 11 people standing on a dirt road in cable car. One of the people, a young girl is on a horse. Another person an older gentleman has a German Shepard on a leash. There is a boy holding a clear umbrella with a knit coat. One of the men is wearing a hard hat. The dirt road they're standing on is very wet and has lots of puddles.
Photograph of linemen stringing cable on road 2 in neighbourhood A-II. Two men are working below and two other men are up on the pole. Another man is on the ground to the right. There are houses around, and a machine on the left.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of linemen stringing cable on road 2 in neighbourhood A-II. Two men are working below and two other men are up on the pole. Another man is on the ground to the right. There are houses around, and a machine on the left.
Photograph of B.C. Telephone crew spinning cable to messengers along road M. in neighbourhood C. One man is up on the pole, and the rest of the crew are down below. Three men are holding the cable from below. There is a truck behind them with the cable roll.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of B.C. Telephone crew spinning cable to messengers along road M. in neighbourhood C. One man is up on the pole, and the rest of the crew are down below. Three men are holding the cable from below. There is a truck behind them with the cable roll.
Jamieson came to Kitimat from Vancouver to work on the Alcan project in 1952. With his first pay cheque he bought a small "Pony Kodak" camera at the local store (Hudson Bay?), and started taking coloured slides of the Kitimat from 1952-1953. Left Kitimat at the end of August 1953 to move to Montreal.
Scope and Content
Slide of steel footings. Disposal ramp in background.
Photograph of steel framework of the Curling Club buiding being erected just east of the Kitimat River Bridge, Rod and Gun Association club in the background.
Photograph of steel framework of the Curling Club buiding being erected just east of the Kitimat River Bridge, Rod and Gun Association club in the background.
Two male steel workers posing with their hand on their hips. The man on the left is wearing his jacket fully zipped up, and the man on the right has his jacket open, and is wearing a plaid shirt underneath.
Two male steel workers posing with their hand on their hips. The man on the left is wearing his jacket fully zipped up, and the man on the right has his jacket open, and is wearing a plaid shirt underneath.
Photo showing view looking north west showing progress of steel erection for the Carbon Paste Plant, with foundations for standby diesel plant at right foreground and boiler buildings at left centre.
Photo showing view looking north west showing progress of steel erection for the Carbon Paste Plant, with foundations for standby diesel plant at right foreground and boiler buildings at left centre.
Jamieson came to Kitimat from Vancouver to work on the Alcan project in 1952. With his first pay cheque he bought a small "Pony Kodak" camera at the local store (Hudson Bay?), and started taking coloured slides of the Kitimat from 1952-1953. Left Kitimat at the end of August 1953 to move to Montreal.
Jamieson came to Kitimat from Vancouver to work on the Alcan project in 1952. With his first pay cheque he bought a small "Pony Kodak" camera at the local store (Hudson Bay?), and started taking coloured slides of the Kitimat from 1952-1953. Left Kitimat at the end of August 1953 to move to Montreal.
Scope and Content
Slide of steel footings for potrooms 1 smeltersite.
