Photograph of Heavy Mail. If you haven't mailed by now, you aren't going to get that card to the family. However if you had foresight, could be your cards and letters are in this pile of mail bags in truck at Kitimat post office.
Photograph of Heavy Mail. If you haven't mailed by now, you aren't going to get that card to the family. However if you had foresight, could be your cards and letters are in this pile of mail bags in truck at Kitimat post office.
Photo showing the S.S. Washington Mail, the fastest commercial ship in the Pacific flying a blue broom signifying she has swept the Pacific Record. She docked in Kitimat for a short time before leaving with aluminum ingots to the Orient.
Northern Sentinel - (A)Historical
(1)Transportation
(a)Ships and Boats
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Photo showing the S.S. Washington Mail, the fastest commercial ship in the Pacific flying a blue broom signifying she has swept the Pacific Record. She docked in Kitimat for a short time before leaving with aluminum ingots to the Orient.
Image depicts an air mail envelope for Queen Charlotte Airlines.
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Title based on content of photograph. -- First air mail service was introduced by Queen Charlotte Airlines in 1952. Previously, mail was carried by the CP steamship Princess Norah. Queen Charlotte Airlines was purchased by Pacific Western Airlines in 1955. Hal Whiting Collection
Photo showing a representation of the 400 bags of Christmas cards and mail recieved by the Kitimat Post Office, a total of 20, 000 outgoing letters and cards were handled by M. O'neil on left and M. Matheson on right on Monday and Tuesday.
Photo showing a representation of the 400 bags of Christmas cards and mail recieved by the Kitimat Post Office, a total of 20, 000 outgoing letters and cards were handled by M. O'neil on left and M. Matheson on right on Monday and Tuesday.
Photo showing postal employees M. O'Neill on left and M. Matheson on right with a few of the 400 bags of Christmas cards and letters that came in on Wednesday, after handling 20,000 outgoing on Monday and Tuesday.
Photo showing postal employees M. O'Neill on left and M. Matheson on right with a few of the 400 bags of Christmas cards and letters that came in on Wednesday, after handling 20,000 outgoing on Monday and Tuesday.
Photo depicts two men kneeling beside the first bags of mail to arrive via Pacific Western Airlines. On the right, Captain T. M. Kellough for PWA delivers the bags to on the left, Kitimat Express driver Lloyd Kaberg, at the wharf, Smeltersite. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
Photo depicts two men kneeling beside the first bags of mail to arrive via Pacific Western Airlines. On the right, Captain T. M. Kellough for PWA delivers the bags to on the left, Kitimat Express driver Lloyd Kaberg, at the wharf, Smeltersite. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
Mail was taken from Kitamaat Post Office to settlements on Skeena by dog sled during winter. Mail team on Skeena River - Grand Trunk Pacific Right of Way - Cedarvale, BC.
Mail was taken from Kitamaat Post Office to settlements on Skeena by dog sled during winter. Mail team on Skeena River - Grand Trunk Pacific Right of Way - Cedarvale, BC.
Barney Mulvaney's dog team with mail from Kitimat nearing Hazelton 1910 see too :Kitselas white settlement.
The fabulous Barney Mulvany renowned throughout the north country, now living in retirement at Burns Lake, began his experiences on the Skeena when he carried Her Majesty's mail by dog team and on his back from Kitamat to Hazelton. His was a roving character and in his own words "my first ambition was to start at the mouth of every river in B.C. and go to the head of it to see what was on the other side of the summit". This he claims to have accomplished, but the Skeena was his first love and his wanderings always brought him back to its banks. Like years have been occupied with recording his experiences in prose and verse. His ballad of "Kitselas" recounts a legend of the Skeena doubtless gleaned as he camped with his Indigenous friends along the trail from Kitselas to Hazelton.
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Barney Mulvaney's dog team with mail from Kitimat nearing Hazelton 1910 see too :Kitselas white settlement.
The fabulous Barney Mulvany renowned throughout the north country, now living in retirement at Burns Lake, began his experiences on the Skeena when he carried Her Majesty's mail by dog team and on his back from Kitamat to Hazelton. His was a roving character and in his own words "my first ambition was to start at the mouth of every river in B.C. and go to the head of it to see what was on the other side of the summit". This he claims to have accomplished, but the Skeena was his first love and his wanderings always brought him back to its banks. Like years have been occupied with recording his experiences in prose and verse. His ballad of "Kitselas" recounts a legend of the Skeena doubtless gleaned as he camped with his Indigenous friends along the trail from Kitselas to Hazelton.
