Photo depicts Electrician Bill Frahler's family standing beside his truck. Johnson-Crooks houses under construction in Nechako Neighbourhood are in the background.
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
Photo depicts a tent with flat-top house assembly on a production line in West Vancouver for Johnson-Crooks Construction Corporation.
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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
Photograph of Cormorant Elementary School Division 2 Grade 5/6 class. Back L to R: Shelley Rowatt, Andrea Szametz, Chris Deane Florea, Shawna Anweiler, Susan Allen, Leslie Austin, Dona Egami, Rosemary Mason. 2nd row: George Teves, Gordon Birch, Don Butterworth, Mike Neskit, Hans Kaufeld, Richard Bode, Brian Donaldson, Mervyn Mosher, Terry Kozakewich, Gordon Burnett. Front: Chris Bode, Veronika Beck, Eva Tooth, Hilary Knight, Irene Godfrey, Sylvia Bors, Caroline Southcott, Peter Theocharis.
Photograph of Cormorant Elementary School Division 2 Grade 5/6 class. Back L to R: Shelley Rowatt, Andrea Szametz, Chris Deane Florea, Shawna Anweiler, Susan Allen, Leslie Austin, Dona Egami, Rosemary Mason. 2nd row: George Teves, Gordon Birch, Don Butterworth, Mike Neskit, Hans Kaufeld, Richard Bode, Brian Donaldson, Mervyn Mosher, Terry Kozakewich, Gordon Burnett. Front: Chris Bode, Veronika Beck, Eva Tooth, Hilary Knight, Irene Godfrey, Sylvia Bors, Caroline Southcott, Peter Theocharis.
Electrician Bill Frahler wired approximately 2000 houses in Kitimat camps and townsite between 1954 and 1958, working first for Johnson-Crooks then Straits Construction, both U.S.contractors.