Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1955

Accession Number

2005.8.822

Scope and Content

Photo showing laying track on the Kitimat - Terrace CNR line. L/R T. Speechley, R. Rowland of PWA Airlines looking on.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

14 July 1955

Accession Number

2005.8.823

Scope and Content

Photo showing Canadian National Railways 'Official Opening' - S.F. Dingle - Vice-President in charge of CN Operations at the microphone. On the right, seated Percy Radley, Alcan's B.C. Project Manager.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

14 July 1955

Accession Number

2005.8.824

Scope and Content

Photo showing Canadian National Railways 'Official Opening' - Kitimat - Terrace Line. Percy E. Radley - Alcan's B.C. Project Manager at microphone.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1955

Accession Number

2005.8.874

Scope and Content

Photo showing CNR laying track to Kitimat - unloading the track layer.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1955

Accession Number

2005.8.877

Scope and Content

Photo showing CNR laying track to Kitimat - Terrace. Laying steel by hand previous to the track layer coming in. (Note: photo looks like just coming out of Terrace because of the size of the mountain in the background and the closeness).

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

14 January 1955

Accession Number

2005.8.878

Scope and Content

Photo showing CNR - 1st Passenger Train Terrace - Kitimat Line (no names).

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

20 January 1955

Accession Number

2005.8.880

Scope and Content

Photo showing CNR - 1st train over CNR line linking Terrace to Kitimat 14 January 1955. L/R H. Gittigan, Brakeman; Tony Glayer, Fireman; Bob McKenzie, Engineer; Jim Douglas, Conductor; K.T. McKay, Brakeman; Sam Bell, Car Man.

Part Of

Jack Cummer Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca. 1955

Accession Number

2006.20.2

Scope and Content

Photograph of row of partially completd duplex housing

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 24 Oct 1966]

Accession Number

1998.1.8213

Scope and Content

Hotel Manager George More is seen with some of the boys around 6 a.m. in the Gordon's main beverage room. Flood waters covered the tiled floor to a depth of several inches. Clean-up crews were on the job before noon and the hotel was back in business the same day, reflecting the swiftness with which the water dropped.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 24 Oct 1966]

Accession Number

1998.1.8214

Scope and Content

A photo showing the flooding of the Kitimat River. People are moving couches into a truck which is across the road from Alco Auto Sales.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 24 Oct 1966]

Accession Number

1998.1.8215

Scope and Content

A photo showing how high the water got when the Kitimat river flooded - cars are floating/sinking.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 24 Oct 1966]

Accession Number

1998.1.8216

Scope and Content

A man fishing inside the Kitimat Hotel.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 24 Oct 1966]

Accession Number

1998.1.8217

Scope and Content

A photo from a higher view showing the Kitimat river when it had flooded in 1966.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 13 June 1962]

Accession Number

1998.1.8356

Scope and Content

Aerial photo of the Kitimat river estuary showing Kitimat River, Kitimat Harbor, Minette Bay, and the Alcan company smelter site taken from the southwest looking northeast towards the Kitimat City Centre.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 30 July 1964]

Accession Number

1998.1.8506

Scope and Content

View of fishermen on the Kitimat River, upstream from the Haisla Bridge. This photo was also used as a postcard.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 30 July 1964]

Accession Number

1998.1.8507

Scope and Content

View of fishermen on the Kitimat River, upstream from the Haisla Bridge. (This photo was used for a Kitimat Postcard)

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

8 July 1955

Accession Number

2005.8.921

Scope and Content

Photo showing Official Opening 8 July 1955, 'Driving Home the Aluminum Spike' - Canadian National Railway Terrace - Kitimat line. L/R S.F. Dingle, Vice-President, CNR; Major J.L. Charles, Chief Engineer, CNR Western Region; Percy E. Radley, Alcan Project Manager.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 6 June 1980]

Accession Number

2004.16.10

Scope and Content

An aerial photograph showing the buildings at the Ocelot site, and a CN train on the tracks in the back of the photo.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

26 June 1958

Accession Number

2005.8.948

Scope and Content

Photo showing 'under construction' - Kitimat River Bridge (18 miles north of Kitimat); construction of deck of bridge, road link with Terrace, Highway 25, (span near completion). Became Highway 37 in 1975.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

20 January 1955

Accession Number

2005.8.957

Scope and Content

Photo showing Official Party, 1st Passenger train 14 January 1955 - Canadian National Railways. L/R John Magor, Prince Rupert Daily News; T.A. Mainprize, CNR Superintendent of Smithers Division; Kathy & Tommy Frazer, Editor & Publisher of the Terrace Omenica Herald.