Photo showing presentation ceremony preceding last night's council meeting; Silver Shovel award. Reeve Sam Lindsay, Warren Banks (recipient), Vincent Campbell.
Photo showing presentation ceremony preceding last night's council meeting; Silver Shovel award. Reeve Sam Lindsay, Warren Banks (recipient), Vincent Campbell.
Jamieson came to Kitimat from Vancouver to work on the Alcan project in 1952. With his first pay cheque he bought a small "Pony Kodak" camera at the local store (Hudson Bay?), and started taking coloured slides of the Kitimat from 1952-1953. Left Kitimat at the end of August 1953 to move to Montreal.
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Slide of building H type bunkhouse at the townsite camp. Luke Briggs.
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.
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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.
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
Photo showing members of the Kitimat first aid team, winners of Provincial trophy for first place in the WCB and St. John Ambulance industrial first-aid competition. From left: fireman Reg Longhurst, Frank Grogan, Captain Dave Crawford, Gene Spracklin, Frank Dutton, (missing Henry Tkocz and coach Lieut. Warren Banks).
Current: 1960s
-District of Kitimat
-St. John Ambulance
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Photo showing members of the Kitimat first aid team, winners of Provincial trophy for first place in the WCB and St. John Ambulance industrial first-aid competition. From left: fireman Reg Longhurst, Frank Grogan, Captain Dave Crawford, Gene Spracklin, Frank Dutton, (missing Henry Tkocz and coach Lieut. Warren Banks).
Photo showing winning first-aid team of firemen from Kitimat. From left: Warren Banks, Bill McIntosh, Celgar's Cedric Telford, Frank Grogan (team captain), Pete Tkocz, Al Hopkins.
Current: 1960s
-District of Kitimat
-St. John Ambulance
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Photo showing winning first-aid team of firemen from Kitimat. From left: Warren Banks, Bill McIntosh, Celgar's Cedric Telford, Frank Grogan (team captain), Pete Tkocz, Al Hopkins.
Photo showing Northern Zone Cup retained by Kitimat First-Aid group, from left: Max Patzelt, Warren Banks, Phil Tourner, Norm Harris, Larry Saretsky, Frank Grogan, D. McIver.
Current: 1960s
-District of Kitimat
-St. John Ambulance
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Photo showing Northern Zone Cup retained by Kitimat First-Aid group, from left: Max Patzelt, Warren Banks, Phil Tourner, Norm Harris, Larry Saretsky, Frank Grogan, D. McIver.
Photo showing Kitimat firemen get 2nd place in first-aid camp, from left: Reeve Sam Lindsay, Warren Banks, Aubrey Creed, Norman Harris, Larry Saretsky, Max Patzelt, Frank Grogan.
Current: 1960s
-District of Kitimat
-St. John Ambulance
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Photo showing Kitimat firemen get 2nd place in first-aid camp, from left: Reeve Sam Lindsay, Warren Banks, Aubrey Creed, Norman Harris, Larry Saretsky, Max Patzelt, Frank Grogan.