Slide showing a men playing a game of baseball at smeltersite. Large crowd of people are watching them. Behind them is a cleared out slope with some buildings. Mountains beyond.
James McNay was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on January 31, 1907. Between 1951 and 1953, he worked in the payroll department for Alcan. He had to leave his wife Effie and his two young daughters, Margaret and Diane, aged 6 and 5 in 1951, at home in Surrey, B.C., during his 3-4 month stints in Kitimat. To fill some of his free time and show his family where he was and what Kitimat was like, he spent many hours walking in the area with a 35mm Kodak camera. He photographed the scenic beauty of the area and parts of the construction of both the smelters and the town. He died in Surrey on August 7, 1983.
Custodial History
Donated by Margaret McNay. Images were taken by her father and sent to their family in Surrey in the 1950s.
Scope and Content
Slide showing a men playing a game of baseball at smeltersite. Large crowd of people are watching them. Behind them is a cleared out slope with some buildings. Mountains beyond.
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.
Photograph of little league winning team. Group of boys posing for a photo in baseball gear. Coach behind them and other kids observing on the sides. Baseball fence and forest (Nechako?) behind them.
Malcolm Baxter died in 2020. His father Basil, was very instrumental in the organization of Kitimat in the early years. Basil was married to Cathy Baxter and they had two sons - Malcolm and Michael.
Custodial History
Part of items collected by Malcolm Baxter, former editer of NSP. Brought into the museum by Judith Cullington, Malcolm's sister-in-law.
Scope and Content
Photograph of little league winning team. Group of boys posing for a photo in baseball gear. Coach behind them and other kids observing on the sides. Baseball fence and forest (Nechako?) behind them.
Malcolm Baxter died in 2020. His father Basil, was very instrumental in the organization of Kitimat in the early years. Basil was married to Cathy Baxter and they had two sons - Malcolm and Michael.
Custodial History
Part of items collected by Malcolm Baxter, former editer of NSP. Brought into the museum by Judith Cullington, Malcolm's sister-in-law.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Little League Park. Boys playing baseball. One is batting, and others are sitting on the bench. Nechako forest behind them.
Malcolm Baxter died in 2020. His father Basil, was very instrumental in the organization of Kitimat in the early years. Basil was married to Cathy Baxter and they had two sons - Malcolm and Michael.
Custodial History
Part of items collected by Malcolm Baxter, former editer of NSP. Brought into the museum by Judith Cullington, Malcolm's sister-in-law.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Little League Park. Boys playing baseball. One is batting, and there are spectators in stands behind him. Nechako School in background.
Photo showing Baseball at Smeltersite Park, in the background are Bunkhouses, Homes, from left is the Steam Plant Operation for the whole of Smeltersite.
Photo showing Baseball at Smeltersite Park, in the background are Bunkhouses, Homes, from left is the Steam Plant Operation for the whole of Smeltersite.
Photograph of the Pony League play off baseball game. Smeltersite? Batter is batting in the centre. Crowd on bleachers behind. Logged looking area on slope behind.
From the years 1953-1958, Mike Kinnear took photos during his school years, until graduation, while working for Fred Ryan Ltd. after school and holidays. Photos for him was a hobby, and he took many photos of the smelter and townsite as it grew around him. Mike also took a number of photos for the Kitimat Northern Sentinel, during the Ken Brumley and Pixie Meldrum years as editors. Mike and his family left Kitimat in 1958, but he spent the best part of 40 years in the photographic field, mainly in the retail/wholesale part of the photo industry.
Custodial History
Donated by Margaret and Mike Kinnear.
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Pony League play off baseball game. Smeltersite? Batter is batting in the centre. Crowd on bleachers behind. Logged looking area on slope behind.
Photo showing Baseball at Smeltersite - Bunkhouses, Home, Whitehall (Girls Dorm), in the background. Baseball score Monador's 8 vs Bay 3. All baseball personnel would be construction people
Photo showing Baseball at Smeltersite - Bunkhouses, Home, Whitehall (Girls Dorm), in the background. Baseball score Monador's 8 vs Bay 3. All baseball personnel would be construction people
Photo showing The Champs of the 1955 Pony League - Montador's - proudly lined up for Sunday's photograph with their sponsor and coaches. Front Row: Mike Fletcher, Johnny Fortier, Doug Hobbs, Stanley Cooper, Terry Shupe, Bill Forward. Back Row: Lloyd Smith, Ted Gofers, Kim Creed, Paul McEwen, Dennis McLellan, Paul Jefferies. Third Row: George Boston, R.E. Montador, J.I. McGowan, John Fortier. The team, some of whom were absent from Kitimat, had just been presented with their new crested sweaters.
Photo showing The Champs of the 1955 Pony League - Montador's - proudly lined up for Sunday's photograph with their sponsor and coaches. Front Row: Mike Fletcher, Johnny Fortier, Doug Hobbs, Stanley Cooper, Terry Shupe, Bill Forward. Back Row: Lloyd Smith, Ted Gofers, Kim Creed, Paul McEwen, Dennis McLellan, Paul Jefferies. Third Row: George Boston, R.E. Montador, J.I. McGowan, John Fortier. The team, some of whom were absent from Kitimat, had just been presented with their new crested sweaters.
Photo showing Curling Champions in Grand Challenge Bonspiel - won Hudson's Bay Trophy. From left: Jack Mitchell - skip; Fred McKeown; Jack Mitchell Senior; John Springer.
Photo showing Curling Champions in Grand Challenge Bonspiel - won Hudson's Bay Trophy. From left: Jack Mitchell - skip; Fred McKeown; Jack Mitchell Senior; John Springer.
