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
Photograph of the farewell party for the first bank manager of Kitimat, Permiter (left). Don, Forward retiring president of Kitimat Chamber of Commerce presents Mr. Parmiter with pen and pencil set.
Photograph of the farewell party for the first bank manager of Kitimat, Permiter (left). Don, Forward retiring president of Kitimat Chamber of Commerce presents Mr. Parmiter with pen and pencil set.
Photo showing Mrs. Barry Blix, evidently pleased during registration for night school courses, helping with the registration. Marilyn Westby, smiling at the far end of the table, signed up for Interior Design and Yvonne Lee, beside her, will be taking Bookkeeping.
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Photo showing Mrs. Barry Blix, evidently pleased during registration for night school courses, helping with the registration. Marilyn Westby, smiling at the far end of the table, signed up for Interior Design and Yvonne Lee, beside her, will be taking Bookkeeping.
