Photograph of foundation for Anglican Christ Church at the corner of Kingfisher and Gyrfalcon Avenues. The Rectory in the background is almost ready for occupancy. Other houses visible in background too.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of foundation for Anglican Christ Church at the corner of Kingfisher and Gyrfalcon Avenues. The Rectory in the background is almost ready for occupancy. Other houses visible in background too.
Photograph of walkway through underpass from Nechako Centre to neighbourhood A-III. View looking down sidewalk into tunnel. People are walking. Anglican Church is in the background on the right.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of walkway through underpass from Nechako Centre to neighbourhood A-III. View looking down sidewalk into tunnel. People are walking. Anglican Church is in the background on the right.
Photo showing barge beached near the mouth of Moore Creek after a bad storm during the night of 8-9 December, no damage was done to the scow or load of housing material for the townsite.
Photo showing barge beached near the mouth of Moore Creek after a bad storm during the night of 8-9 December, no damage was done to the scow or load of housing material for the townsite.
Photograph of aerial view of Kitimat townsite, 1975. Nechako, Kildala, and in progress Whitesail, and neighbourhood D clearing sites visible. Alcan and Eurcan sites also visible on right side.
Photos donated by Joan Smith for Anglican Church 50th Anniversary. Donated in April 2003.
Scope and Content
Photograph of aerial view of Kitimat townsite, 1975. Nechako, Kildala, and in progress Whitesail, and neighbourhood D clearing sites visible. Alcan and Eurcan sites also visible on right side.
Photo depicts two barges moored in Douglas Channel and loaded with flat-top house sections for construction workers and their families.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Temporary housing destined for Kitimat was assembled at Vancouver Tug and Barge below the Lion's Gate Bridge 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. Pat Jimenez Collection
Photo depicts flat-top temporary housing lining the hillside up to the Aluminum City Motel at the treeline. View is northwest. Grader on Kuldo Boulevard.
Photo depicts flat-top temporary housing lining the hillside up to the Aluminum City Motel at the treeline. View is northwest. Grader on Kuldo Boulevard.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan Negative No. 29337. -- The circus tent assembly line was erected . Temporary housing destined for Kitimat was assembled at Vancouver Tug and Barge below the Lion's Gate Bridge 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. 73.3.6.6
