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Carl Agar and Bill McLeod with Sikorsky helicopter

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950s]
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Carl Agar looking up at Bill McLeod who is piloting a Sikorsky helicopter.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
7
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950s]
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Carl Agar looking up at Bill McLeod who is piloting a Sikorsky helicopter.
Notes
Fourteen Sikorsky S-55 helicopters were used as workhorses and load carriers during construction. Carl Agar and his crew with Okanagan Helicopters took men and materials to otherwise inaccessible spots. Without these helicopters, Project engineers would never have maintained the construction schedule. Photographed by Art Hundert. Kitimat Heritage Advisory Commission Collection
Name Access
Agar, Carl
McLeod, Bill
Subject Access
Okanagan Helicopters
Images

Bill Frahler's truck and family

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description176
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Electrician Bill Frahler's family standing beside his truck. Johnson-Crooks houses under construction in Nechako Neighbourhood are in the background.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Item Number
170
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Bill Frahler
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Electrician Bill Frahler's family standing beside his truck. Johnson-Crooks houses under construction in Nechako Neighbourhood are in the background.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- "Alva and the Boys", Slide No. 95 -- Bill Frahler wired over 2,000 temporary construction and permanent homes between 1954 and 1958, first working for Johnson-Crooks and then Straits Construction. Bill Frahler Collection 2003.32
Name Access
Frahler, Bill
Subject Access
Towns
Images
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
June 1955
Scope and Content
Photo depicts four dignitaries standing around a 49-lb. spring salmon prepared for the Board of Trade dinner in Kitimat by chefs for Crawley McCracken. From left are Ralph C. Pybus, Vancouver Board of Trade, Wilbur Hallman, Kitimat Reeve, George C. Bradley, Tour Chairman, Vancouver Board of Trade, and A.C. Turney, Kitimat Aluminum Company Works Manager.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
237
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
June 1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts four dignitaries standing around a 49-lb. spring salmon prepared for the Board of Trade dinner in Kitimat by chefs for Crawley McCracken. From left are Ralph C. Pybus, Vancouver Board of Trade, Wilbur Hallman, Kitimat Reeve, George C. Bradley, Tour Chairman, Vancouver Board of Trade, and A.C. Turney, Kitimat Aluminum Company Works Manager.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Northern Sentinel Press article, June 09, 1955. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
Name Access
Bradley, George C.
Hallman, Wilbur
Pybus, Ralph. C
Turney, A.C.
Subject Access
Officials
Images