Image depicts an air mail envelope for Queen Charlotte Airlines.
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Title based on content of photograph. -- First air mail service was introduced by Queen Charlotte Airlines in 1952. Previously, mail was carried by the CP steamship Princess Norah. Queen Charlotte Airlines was purchased by Pacific Western Airlines in 1955. Hal Whiting Collection
Photograph of a Kitimat police officer, Constable McDonald, standing on a police patrol vessel at the wharf. The stern of the ship is marked "R.C.M.P. M.L. 15."
Photograph of a Kitimat police officer, Constable McDonald, standing on a police patrol vessel at the wharf. The stern of the ship is marked "R.C.M.P. M.L. 15."
Interior shot of the police station at Kitimat smeltersite, showing a desk with a typewriter, telephone, radio equipment, and more. There is a Hudson Bay Company calendar on the wall and a Columbia Encyclopedia atop a cabinet.
Interior shot of the police station at Kitimat smeltersite, showing a desk with a typewriter, telephone, radio equipment, and more. There is a Hudson Bay Company calendar on the wall and a Columbia Encyclopedia atop a cabinet.
James Smythe was Kitimat's first police officer; Joan Ingram was the daughter of Charles Ingram, superintendant of Kitimat Construction. The two were married in 1953 and moved to New Hazelton shortly afterwards.
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Photograph of Joan Marie Ingram and James Norman Smythe with a dog in a small boat, presumably on the Douglas Channel near Kitimat.