Photograph of City Centre showing the lower pedestrian mall being used as haul road. Trucks are driving on the road. Note drilling rig at right of photograph. Lots of water around.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of City Centre showing the lower pedestrian mall being used as haul road. Trucks are driving on the road. Note drilling rig at right of photograph. Lots of water around.
Photograph of excavation for Kelly Douglas supermarket in the City Centre. Commonwealth construction has the contract for this building. There is currently a foundation hole dug. In the foreground is a pile of cinderblocks and a car. Up on the hill in the background, Albatross homes are visible.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of excavation for Kelly Douglas supermarket in the City Centre. Commonwealth construction has the contract for this building. There is currently a foundation hole dug. In the foreground is a pile of cinderblocks and a car. Up on the hill in the background, Albatross homes are visible.
Photograph of aerial photograph taken from over townsite camp looking toward City Centre showing extent of clearing in C-I area. Haisla Blvd. can be seen on left-hand side of the picture. At bottom a single structure can be seen. Some snow is behind it. In the very back Douglas Channel is visible.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of aerial photograph taken from over townsite camp looking toward City Centre showing extent of clearing in C-I area. Haisla Blvd. can be seen on left-hand side of the picture. At bottom a single structure can be seen. Some snow is behind it. In the very back Douglas Channel is visible.
Photo depicts a tent with flat-top house assembly on a production line in West Vancouver for Johnson-Crooks Construction Corporation.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Slide No. 40 -- The circus tent assembly line was erected at Vancouver Tug and Barge below the Lion's Gate Bridge. Temporary housing destined for Kitimat was assembled there in three sections, then barged to Kitimat - 10 houses or 30 sections on each barge. -- Electrician Bill Frahler wired approximately 2,000 houses in Kitimat camps and townsite between 1954 and 1958, working first for Johnson-Crooks then Straits Construction, both U.S. contractors. Bill Frahler Collection 2003.32