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.
Northern Sentinel: Box #4: (A) Historical (1) District of Kitimat (a) Town Planning (i) Mayer, Whittlesey and Glass, New York (ii) Resident Planning Engineer
Scope and Content
Photo showing (Municipal) map of area of the corporation of the District of Kitimat.
Printed map of Kitimat from 1959. The old hospital is in place but the Museum isn't. Angle St. is identified as Alger St., and Gwyn St. is Faraday St. Riverlodge Camp is still in place.
Pat Lean was the Provincial Government Agent in Kitimat from Dec 1 1969 to April 1 1970.
Scope and Content
Printed map of Kitimat from 1959. The old hospital is in place but the Museum isn't. Angle St. is identified as Alger St., and Gwyn St. is Faraday St. Riverlodge Camp is still in place.
Photograph showing two women looking at a map. One of the women is wearing a scarf over her hair and a coat, the other woman is wearing a knit button up sweater. Both of them are wearing glasses. In the foreground of the women, there is a projector sitting on a table. Part of the Loggers Supplement 1972.
Photograph showing two women looking at a map. One of the women is wearing a scarf over her hair and a coat, the other woman is wearing a knit button up sweater. Both of them are wearing glasses. In the foreground of the women, there is a projector sitting on a table. Part of the Loggers Supplement 1972.
Northern Sentinel: Box #4: (A) Historical (1) District of Kitimat (a) Town Planning (i) Mayer, Whittlesey and Glass, New York (ii) Resident Planning Engineer
Photocopy of The Plan That Shaped the Town: Kitimat, British Columbia - Implications for Resource Frontier Towns. Gives an overview of the modern (1950s onward) history of Kitimat, the planning, development, and creation of the town, and issues facing the community as of the mid-1970s. Includes introductory correspondence between Wiesman and the University of British Columbia.
Written by Brahm Wiesman of Vancouver and two graduate students, Marie Lauzier and Robert Friesen, after having spent the summer of 1974 living in and researching Kitimat.
Custodial History
Donated by Maria Knight.
Scope and Content
Photocopy of The Plan That Shaped the Town: Kitimat, British Columbia - Implications for Resource Frontier Towns. Gives an overview of the modern (1950s onward) history of Kitimat, the planning, development, and creation of the town, and issues facing the community as of the mid-1970s. Includes introductory correspondence between Wiesman and the University of British Columbia.
