Photograph of Haisla lacrosse team, Raley's Warriors posing for a picture in front of a dugout canoe given to Reverend Raley at the Community Hall at the Kitamaat Mission, BC.
Photograph of Haisla lacrosse team, Raley's Warriors posing for a picture in front of a dugout canoe given to Reverend Raley at the Community Hall at the Kitamaat Mission, BC.
Photo showing Haisla Astronomers Basketball Team in front of Recreation Hall, Front row left to right: John Shaw, Tom Robinson, Harry Amos, Edwin Smith, Second row left to right: James green, Gordon Robinson, Walter Bolton, Back row left to right: Manager Tim Starr, Rod Bolton, Wilred Wilson and Coach Stan Shaw.
Photo showing Haisla Astronomers Basketball Team in front of Recreation Hall, Front row left to right: John Shaw, Tom Robinson, Harry Amos, Edwin Smith, Second row left to right: James green, Gordon Robinson, Walter Bolton, Back row left to right: Manager Tim Starr, Rod Bolton, Wilred Wilson and Coach Stan Shaw.
Photo showing Haisla First Nations Astronomers Basketball Team, front row left to right: John Shaw, Tom Robinson, Harry Amos, Edwin Smith, Middle row left to right: James Green, Gordon Robinson, Walter Bolton, Back row left to right: Manager Tim Starr, Rod Bolton, Wilfred Wilson, and Coach Stan Shaw.
Photo showing Haisla First Nations Astronomers Basketball Team, front row left to right: John Shaw, Tom Robinson, Harry Amos, Edwin Smith, Middle row left to right: James Green, Gordon Robinson, Walter Bolton, Back row left to right: Manager Tim Starr, Rod Bolton, Wilfred Wilson, and Coach Stan Shaw.
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.
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 Miss Kitimat Edna Webb sitting on a padded purple stool in a living room. There is a purple armchair behind her, as well as other furnature.
Edna Nicolay (Webb) was the former Miss Kitimat in 1955. Her and her family moved to Kitimat on April 8, 1955.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Miss Kitimat Edna Webb sitting on a padded purple stool in a living room. There is a purple armchair behind her, as well as other furnature.
Photo showing erection crew of the bleachers at Smeltersite Park by the Kitimat Softball League. L/R back row: John Konst, Andy Maas, U. Minici; front row: B. Gunderson, John Schible, Vic Schmidt
Photo showing erection crew of the bleachers at Smeltersite Park by the Kitimat Softball League. L/R back row: John Konst, Andy Maas, U. Minici; front row: B. Gunderson, John Schible, Vic Schmidt
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 Shoe Horn Trophy Softball Championship 1955: Johnson Crooks team leaders were presented the trophy at the annual Softball Association dance in the Recreation Hall - Smeltersite. From left: Al Baldwin - vice-president of Softball League; Joe Swityk - trophy donor; "Lefty": Scott - Johnson-Crooks team captain; Stan Schmidt - Johnson-Crooks manager; George Gorlig - Johnson-Crooks sponsor; Earl Melbourne - Comstock team, most valuable player of the year; Wally Schumanski - Comstock captain. Johnson-Crooks were housebuilders on the Alcan Project; Canadian Comstock (Mtl) were major players in the Power Operations of the Alcan Project.
Photo showing Shoe Horn Trophy Softball Championship 1955: Johnson Crooks team leaders were presented the trophy at the annual Softball Association dance in the Recreation Hall - Smeltersite. From left: Al Baldwin - vice-president of Softball League; Joe Swityk - trophy donor; "Lefty": Scott - Johnson-Crooks team captain; Stan Schmidt - Johnson-Crooks manager; George Gorlig - Johnson-Crooks sponsor; Earl Melbourne - Comstock team, most valuable player of the year; Wally Schumanski - Comstock captain. Johnson-Crooks were housebuilders on the Alcan Project; Canadian Comstock (Mtl) were major players in the Power Operations of the Alcan Project.
