Photo showing from left to right: Contractor John Watt, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, unknown, Don Forward owner of Kitimat Builder Supplies and president of Chamber of Commerce.
Photo showing from left to right: Contractor John Watt, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, unknown, Don Forward owner of Kitimat Builder Supplies and president of Chamber of Commerce.
Photo showing the municipal council meeting at the Public Safety Building, from left to right: Allan Sanderson, Harley Robertson, Don Stickney, Art Currie, Sam Lindsay, Betty Whitelaw, Cecil Stockman, unknown, Tom Smith.
Photo showing the municipal council meeting at the Public Safety Building, from left to right: Allan Sanderson, Harley Robertson, Don Stickney, Art Currie, Sam Lindsay, Betty Whitelaw, Cecil Stockman, unknown, Tom Smith.
Photo showing from left to right: Contractor John Watt, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, unknown, and Don Forward the president of the Kitimat Chamber of Commerce.
Photo showing from left to right: Contractor John Watt, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, unknown, and Don Forward the president of the Kitimat Chamber of Commerce.
Photo showing from left to right: Contractor John Watt, unknown, Don Forward owner of Kitimat Builder Supplies and president of Chamber of Commerce, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker,
Photo showing from left to right: Contractor John Watt, unknown, Don Forward owner of Kitimat Builder Supplies and president of Chamber of Commerce, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker,
Photo showing from left to right: Don Stickney, John Watt (seated), Mrs. John Gooding and standing behind from left to right: Governor John Eagan, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
Photo showing from left to right: Don Stickney, John Watt (seated), Mrs. John Gooding and standing behind from left to right: Governor John Eagan, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
Initially a reporter fro the Victoria Times, J. Gordon Smith joined the Colonist and became marine editor of the paper, serving additionally as wire service's foreign correspondent. Smith left the newspaper field in 1912 to join the provincial civil service and aided in the development of the province's tourist industry. He retired after serving the provincial government for over thirty years.
Custodial History
Originally donated to the Campbell Museum by Emily Faak, Black Creek, B.C. in 1998. Photographs originally taken by J. Gordon Smith, and Ms. Faak somehow aquired his collection. Donated to the Kitimat museum by Frances Gundry.
Scope and Content
Photograph of unknown couple standing in front of log home in early Kitimat.