Photo showing sign Welcome to Kitimat BC, Aluminum Company of Canada LTD. Smeltersite Project, and all eight companies, greeting all people coming into the Kitimat project as they came off boats.
1 photograph: b&w; 25 x 21.5 cm
1 photograph: b&w; 9 x 6 in
Scope and Content
Photo showing sign Welcome to Kitimat BC, Aluminum Company of Canada LTD. Smeltersite Project, and all eight companies, greeting all people coming into the Kitimat project as they came off boats.
Notes
photograph marked with white pen C6054. Photo 9 x 6 in in red album
Photo depicts the welcome sign for Kitimat on the wharf that greeted all workers to the Kitimat Project upon their arrival by boat.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Hal Whiting was Project Manager, Kitimat Constructors, for smelter and town construction. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.113
Photo depicts a worker looking up at a sign above the entrance to the recreation hall that reads, "Tunnel target, give them both barrels Tahtsa." The sign was a target date for the two ends of the tunnel to meet September 1st.
Photo depicts a worker looking up at a sign above the entrance to the recreation hall that reads, "Tunnel target, give them both barrels Tahtsa." The sign was a target date for the two ends of the tunnel to meet September 1st.
Brown cover book. Building Permit Register July 2, 1954 to Novemeber 5, 1965. Contains info about property construction and modifications for these years.
Brown cover book. Building Permit Register July 2, 1954 to Novemeber 5, 1965. Contains info about property construction and modifications for these years.
Alice Dicker's father, Benard, came to Canada to work in 1955. He was a forman D-shift for Alcan. He married Anna in 1959. Alice and her sister Claudia were born in Kitimat and the family lived here until 1969, at which time they returned to Germany.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Ben Dicker standing in front of a building with a Kitimat Welcome sign. Sign also lists industries and organizations.
Photo showing officers of H.M.C.S Cordova entertained by Alcan executives, Captain - Lieutenant Commander A.F. Rowland, CD RCN (to the right of) A.C. Turney (Works manager), on extreme right is R.S.S. Wilson and R.C.M.P. Inspector Tom Taylor, nearest to camera is J.G. Campbell, production superintendent.
Northern Sentinel - (A)Historical
(1)Royal Canadian Navy
(a)Personnel
(b)Visits
Scope and Content
Photo showing officers of H.M.C.S Cordova entertained by Alcan executives, Captain - Lieutenant Commander A.F. Rowland, CD RCN (to the right of) A.C. Turney (Works manager), on extreme right is R.S.S. Wilson and R.C.M.P. Inspector Tom Taylor, nearest to camera is J.G. Campbell, production superintendent.
Photo showing Mrs. J. Peel, daughter Louise and Jill Gregory, daughter of Sergeant and Mrs. J. F. Gregory. They are three of almost 4,000 Kitimatians who called on H.M.C.S. Crescent when she was in port on the weekend. Here Mrs. Peel and the two girls are caught by the Sentinel camera, checking one of the many complex, strange things used to equip a vessel of the destroyer escort class.
Northern Sentinel - (A)Historical
(1)Royal Canadian Navy
(a)Personnel
(b)Visits
Scope and Content
Photo showing Mrs. J. Peel, daughter Louise and Jill Gregory, daughter of Sergeant and Mrs. J. F. Gregory. They are three of almost 4,000 Kitimatians who called on H.M.C.S. Crescent when she was in port on the weekend. Here Mrs. Peel and the two girls are caught by the Sentinel camera, checking one of the many complex, strange things used to equip a vessel of the destroyer escort class.
Photograph of the signing on the dated line in Aluminum company employee Fred Farr
Notes
Signing on the dotted line is Aluminum Company employee Fred Farr, one of the first to purchase a 12TH series Canada Savings Bond here. Norah Jacobson looks on. Coming week will give Sagimat employees an opportunity to invest in the bonds.
Photo showing two 1,700 ton frigates of the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Fore as they reach HMC Dockyard at Esquimalt for a two day visit. At left is JDS Harukaze; nearing the jetty is JDS Uranami. It marked the first time in 25 years that Japanese warships had visited British Columbia.
Photo showing two 1,700 ton frigates of the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Fore as they reach HMC Dockyard at Esquimalt for a two day visit. At left is JDS Harukaze; nearing the jetty is JDS Uranami. It marked the first time in 25 years that Japanese warships had visited British Columbia.