Photo depicts the pump floor inside the powerhouse. Workers are preparing to lift the Canadian General Electric uppershaft and rotor disks from the assembly platform.
Photo depicts the pump floor inside the powerhouse. Workers are preparing to lift the Canadian General Electric uppershaft and rotor disks from the assembly platform.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. 5793. Alcan Collection
Photo depicts an aerial view of the powerhouse switchyard and entrance up to the 1600' level. The wide clearing on the right is the tram right-of-way. The powerhouse tailrace tunnel and channel and the access tunnel portal are in the centre, and the construction camp is on the left. Alcan Collection
Photo depicts an aerial view of the powerhouse switchyard and entrance up to the 1600' level. The wide clearing on the right is the tram right-of-way. The powerhouse tailrace tunnel and channel and the access tunnel portal are in the centre, and the construction camp is on the left. Alcan Collection
Photograph showing Warren Nesbit, Erich Zeller, John Watt, Doug Gilliland and Arvid Sestrop. The men are standing in the background of a large culvert. Farther in the background is a vehicle and a forest. The men are working on an access road into ski levels on Clague Mountain for the Chamber Commerce. They are rolling a 52", 20 ft long culvert into place.
Photograph showing Warren Nesbit, Erich Zeller, John Watt, Doug Gilliland and Arvid Sestrop. The men are standing in the background of a large culvert. Farther in the background is a vehicle and a forest. The men are working on an access road into ski levels on Clague Mountain for the Chamber Commerce. They are rolling a 52", 20 ft long culvert into place.
Notes
Discussion of the Clague Mountain access road appears in the Northern Sentinel on June 4th. The section on it has the caption "Road Work Starts" One mile of tote road has been cut through from the Mountain, Warren Nesbit, said today.
Work started Monday, Mr Nesbit stated, and volunteer crews have found conditions good for the preliminary work on the road which is planned to provide access to the ski slopes at the 1700 foot level on the mountain.
"It has been mostly cat work all the way so far" Mr Nesbit said. He is the chairman of the civic affair committee of the Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of the project.
Committee member Arv Sestrap has been in two or three times in a jeep. Mr Nesbit said. He added that the volunteers are attempting to get the road in shape so that trucks can haul gravel for the roadbed proper in the next few days.
George Irwin, president of the Kitimat Ski and Alpine Club is in charge of arranging crews for slashing and clearing the right of way. When the road has been built constructions of a ski-tow will be considered. Both will make the area an ideal recreation ground for Kitimat in summer and winter. All work on the project is voluntary.
From the years 1953-1958, Mike Kinnear took photos during his school years, until graduation, while working for Fred Ryan Ltd. after school and holidays. Photos for him was a hobby, and he took many photos of the smelter and townsite as it grew around him. Mike also took a number of photos for the Kitimat Northern Sentinel, during the Ken Brumley and Pixie Meldrum years as editors. Mike and his family left Kitimat in 1958, but he spent the best part of 40 years in the photographic field, mainly in the retail/wholesale part of the photo industry.
Custodial History
Donated by Margaret and Mike Kinnear.
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Kemano Tunnel entrance. There are a few cars parked outside of it.
