Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca. 1950

Accession Number

985.65.397

Scope and Content

Photo showing construction going on at the Alcan Wharf, ship unloading materials into storage yard.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca. 1950

Accession Number

985.65.349

Scope and Content

Photo showing new alcan wharf unloading material from the boat called SunWhite from Fort Alfred, tar to do paving of the Smelter.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952

Accession Number

73.3.3.33

Scope and Content

Photo showing alumina storage bin base

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952

Accession Number

78.11.20

Scope and Content

"S.W. Delta King" beached south of E/W mole. View looking south. Note dredge and pipe lines in background.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

18 December 1952

Accession Number

985.65.131

Scope and Content

Looking North from the P.S. area showing townsite clearing.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

26 March 1953

Accession Number

985.65.185

Scope and Content

Photo showing view looking toward site of Pernament Wharf from south dike of graving dock, dredge and dragon line excavating channel from graving dock to deep water, truck dumping gravel for foundation blanket into bottom dump scow.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

May 1953

Accession Number

985.65.220

Scope and Content

Photo showing night view of Graving Dock and Caissons.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

9 June 1953

Accession Number

985.65.241

Scope and Content

Photo showing view of the temporary wharf area looking southeast, scow grid in front of crane at elft, cement silos centre and transit ware-house at right.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1953

Accession Number

78.11.43

Scope and Content

View looking west along potline building 2B. Note pouring of air duct walls in progress.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

5 August 1953

Accession Number

985.65.275

Scope and Content

Photo showing view looking north across Alumina Storage Building 504, forms being prepared for upper portion of east wall and dragline completing deep excavation at north end of building.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

5 August 1953

Accession Number

985.65.277

Scope and Content

photo showing view looking view behind the wharf caissons looking north showing placing of sand blanket over the rock backfill at right of the outlet of the Dredge Pipe at left.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

13 August 1953

Accession Number

985.65.288

Scope and Content

Photo showing view looking south over Alumina Storage Building, vertical sides of tunnel excavation.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

13 August 1953

Accession Number

985.65.289

Scope and Content

Photo showing view looking south along permanent wharf showing internal fill complete.

Part Of

Jennings-Giles fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1954]

Accession Number

2012.9.20

Scope and Content

Photograph of Alcan Smelter Wharf.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1954

Accession Number

78.11.64

Scope and Content

Looking northeast along Conveyor C2 showing gallery steel erected. Alumina Storage Building #504 at Conveyor C2 Centre.

Part Of

Maclean Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

July 1954

Accession Number

72.2

Scope and Content

First alumina boat to discharge alumina for Alcan Smelter in Kitimat - arrived from Port Esquivel, Jamaica, in July 1954. Ship was named S.S. "Sun Karen".

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

23 September 1954

Accession Number

2005.8.3047

Scope and Content

Photo showing Helge Ronneseth and Kurt Zeiner from Norway. Alcan employees who first heard of Kitimat from an early copy of the Northern Sentinel; arrived as crew members of S.S. Sun Karen

Part Of

Kitimat Heritage Advisory Commission fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

4 Mar 1955

Accession Number

2014.14.33

Scope and Content

Photograph of aerial view looking north showing the excavation for Alumina Storage Silos, and Potline 1 and 2 in background.

Part Of

Harvey Thompson Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1956

Accession Number

72.83.12

Scope and Content

Photo showing smelter site

Part Of

Kitimat Chamber of Commerce Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca. 1964

Accession Number

982.90.2.4

Scope and Content

Photo showing flow chart of how Alumina is made into Aluminum in the smelter process.