Photo showing Early Fashion Show - L/R Mrs. Graham Wright, Mrs. Bill Hatch (nee Mary Helen); ?? R.N. Smeltersite Hospital; Mrs. Iona Burnett - Iona's Clothes, Opened store 1955 (Smeltersite); Iona's Dress Shoppe opened Nechako Centre 1 April 1955.
Photo showing Early Fashion Show - L/R Mrs. Graham Wright, Mrs. Bill Hatch (nee Mary Helen); ?? R.N. Smeltersite Hospital; Mrs. Iona Burnett - Iona's Clothes, Opened store 1955 (Smeltersite); Iona's Dress Shoppe opened Nechako Centre 1 April 1955.
Photo showing Iona's Dress Shoppe "Opening" in Nechako Centre - 1 April 1955. L/R Terry Coghlin, Miss Kitimat 1954 (her parents opened Coghlin Hardware in the Nechako Centre); Mrs. Iona Burnett, Owner, Iona's Dress Shoppe (Women's Fashions).
Photo showing Iona's Dress Shoppe "Opening" in Nechako Centre - 1 April 1955. L/R Terry Coghlin, Miss Kitimat 1954 (her parents opened Coghlin Hardware in the Nechako Centre); Mrs. Iona Burnett, Owner, Iona's Dress Shoppe (Women's Fashions).
Photo showing Mrs. Lyla Johnson, centre, and Mrs. Wayne Ashley, right, are shown with Mrs. Iona Burnett, choosing hats to model at the hat fashion show, as part of the First United Church Women's annual Mad Hatter Tea Party.
Photo showing Mrs. Lyla Johnson, centre, and Mrs. Wayne Ashley, right, are shown with Mrs. Iona Burnett, choosing hats to model at the hat fashion show, as part of the First United Church Women's annual Mad Hatter Tea Party.
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.
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 Anglican Women's Auxiliary fashion show, from left: Iona Burnett, W.B. Johnson, S. Dalton, G. Hirtle, C. Mayo, Margaret Annill, A.O.L. Murray (seated).
Photo showing Anglican Women's Auxiliary fashion show, from left: Iona Burnett, W.B. Johnson, S. Dalton, G. Hirtle, C. Mayo, Margaret Annill, A.O.L. Murray (seated).
Photo showing fashion show at Rec Hall, from left: Youla Fulton, Terry Coghlin, Molly Hilton, Liesel Pansegrau. Fashions from Iona Burnett's Dress Shop.
Northern Sentinel Box #3 - (A)Historical
(1)Women's Fashions
(a)Kitimat's First Fashion Show
Scope and Content
Photo showing fashion show at Rec Hall, from left: Youla Fulton, Terry Coghlin, Molly Hilton, Liesel Pansegrau. Fashions from Iona Burnett's Dress Shop.
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.
