23 maps of northwestern British Columbia, from the Seven Sisters westward to Port Essington.
2018.9.1a-b – Seven Sisters / Dorreen
2018.9.2a-c – Usk / Chist Creek
2018.9.3a-c – Lakelse / Terrace
2018.9.4a-b – Alastair Lake
2018.9.5a-b – Salvus, Coast District Range 5
2018.9.6a-d – Ecstall River / Port Essington
2018.9.7a-g – Kitimat Arm, Kildala River, Mt. Aetna, Mount Elizabeth, Mount Davies, private logging roads
Maps were collected and annotated by Gisela Mendel throughout her time in northwest BC and donated to the Museum in 2018.
Scope and Content
23 maps of northwestern British Columbia, from the Seven Sisters westward to Port Essington.
2018.9.1a-b – Seven Sisters / Dorreen
2018.9.2a-c – Usk / Chist Creek
2018.9.3a-c – Lakelse / Terrace
2018.9.4a-b – Alastair Lake
2018.9.5a-b – Salvus, Coast District Range 5
2018.9.6a-d – Ecstall River / Port Essington
2018.9.7a-g – Kitimat Arm, Kildala River, Mt. Aetna, Mount Elizabeth, Mount Davies, private logging roads
Photographs of panorama of smeltersite from water tower. 1 - not quite to pole. 2 - pole to small pole. right hand corner. 3 - some pole at 2 to left one of 2 doubles. 4 - Just beyond. Left of double.
Photographs of panorama of smeltersite from water tower. 1 - not quite to pole. 2 - pole to small pole. right hand corner. 3 - some pole at 2 to left one of 2 doubles. 4 - Just beyond. Left of double.
Photographs consisting of images of men in Kitimat, water depth measuring stick, machinery, offices, buildings, Bank of Montreal, Boy Scouts camp, boy scouts flagpole, canoeing, boats, docks, Alcan construction, Delta King, trailers, Douglas Channel, Smeltersite, Smeltersite Project sign, Moore Creek falls, and Moore Creek bridge.
Photographs consisting of images of men in Kitimat, water depth measuring stick, machinery, offices, buildings, Bank of Montreal, Boy Scouts camp, boy scouts flagpole, canoeing, boats, docks, Alcan construction, Delta King, trailers, Douglas Channel, Smeltersite, Smeltersite Project sign, Moore Creek falls, and Moore Creek bridge.
Folder containing blueprints for Kitimat homes possibily belonging to the Baxter family. First blueprint is a small sheet with a two-bedroom smeltersite home plan (1952). Second is the interior of a single floor townsite home (Mar 2 1956). Third is the exterior of a single floor townsite home (Mar 2 1956).
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
Folder containing blueprints for Kitimat homes possibily belonging to the Baxter family. First blueprint is a small sheet with a two-bedroom smeltersite home plan (1952). Second is the interior of a single floor townsite home (Mar 2 1956). Third is the exterior of a single floor townsite home (Mar 2 1956).
Notes
Townsite home plans from Central Mortgage and Housing Corp. Kitimat Branch 961-965
Time and Place by Timothy Starr, Chief Councillor of Kitamaat Village. From Northern Sentinel 1956 (1 page)
Letter to Mr. Ed Meade, February 5, 1975
Sentinel Hill, Daduk'wilatzi
The Founding of Kitamaat. Speaker: Mr. Jeffrey Legaik (13 pages)
Historic Sign. Info drafted by Grodon Robinson at Gisela's request (2 pages)
Kitimat River Village (1 page)
Letter to Mr. Shakespeare from H, Duker. Re: Kitimat Indian Names (6 pages)
"Historical Inventory of the Kitimat-Stikine Region" compiled by R.K. Kaser, September 1974, for the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, Terrace BC (4 pages)
Krause, Tlingit Indians
Fisheries fact Sheet. Eulachon, Anchovy, and Pilchard
Oolachon Fishing in the Kitimat River. Kitimat Northern Sentinel, April 16, 1957
Casey volume two number six. "The Kitamaat Story" (2 pages)
Collection of materials that Patricia Robertson used for her PhD.
Custodial History
Donated to the museum by Patricia Robertson.
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
Time and Place by Timothy Starr, Chief Councillor of Kitamaat Village. From Northern Sentinel 1956 (1 page)
Letter to Mr. Ed Meade, February 5, 1975
Sentinel Hill, Daduk'wilatzi
The Founding of Kitamaat. Speaker: Mr. Jeffrey Legaik (13 pages)
Historic Sign. Info drafted by Grodon Robinson at Gisela's request (2 pages)
Kitimat River Village (1 page)
Letter to Mr. Shakespeare from H, Duker. Re: Kitimat Indian Names (6 pages)
"Historical Inventory of the Kitimat-Stikine Region" compiled by R.K. Kaser, September 1974, for the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, Terrace BC (4 pages)
Krause, Tlingit Indians
Fisheries fact Sheet. Eulachon, Anchovy, and Pilchard
Oolachon Fishing in the Kitimat River. Kitimat Northern Sentinel, April 16, 1957
Casey volume two number six. "The Kitamaat Story" (2 pages)
The Social Organization of the Haisla of British Columbia by R.L. Olsen. Anthropological Vol.2 No.5 pp 169-2000, University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif, 1940 (33 pages)
Collection of materials that Patricia Robertson used for her PhD.
Custodial History
Donated to the museum by Patricia Robertson.
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
The Social Organization of the Haisla of British Columbia by R.L. Olsen. Anthropological Vol.2 No.5 pp 169-2000, University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif, 1940 (33 pages)
Social Life and Religion of the Indians in Kitimat by Wan A. Lopatin. Univ. of Southern California, Social Science Series, No. 26, Univ. of Southern Calif. Press, Los Angeles, 1945 (hand-written, 29 pages)
Collection of materials that Patricia Robertson used for her PhD.
Custodial History
Donated to the museum by Patricia Robertson.
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
Social Life and Religion of the Indians in Kitimat by Wan A. Lopatin. Univ. of Southern California, Social Science Series, No. 26, Univ. of Southern Calif. Press, Los Angeles, 1945 (hand-written, 29 pages)
Some Aspects of the Planning of a Town for the Establishment of a Resource-based Industry in a Remote and Isolated Location by P.E. Radley, 12 Sept 1975. Alcan Museum & Archives (15 pages)
Aluminum Company of Canada, LTD. Staff Training and Research Division, Montreal. Social and Personal Adjustment at Kitimat by E. Luchterhand (47 pages)
The Corporation of the District of Kitimat. Report of the Committee of the Council on Street Naming and Numbering, Nov 24th 1953 (4 pages)
Kitimat Townsite report, April 18, 1952 (14 pages)
Kitimat town planning. Craig Campbell, May 25, 1977 (hand-written, 7 pages)
A Tale of Two Cities by N.H. Richardson. Plan: Volume 4, Number 3, 1963 (8 pages)
The Kitimat Region, Resources for Tomorrow Vol. 1, July 1961 (Kitimat How to Start a City From Scratch . Maclean's Magazine, May 1, 1954 (8 pages)
The New Town of Kitimat, British Columbia Canada, by C. McC. Henderson Municipal Manager of Kitimat, 1958 (5 pages)
Letter to Mr. A. Hutchinson from Rev. G. H. Raley, 2 June 1952 (2 pages)
Kitimat Development Plans All Add Up To Dream Town, Province Sept 9, 1953
Collection of materials that Patricia Robertson used for her PhD.
Custodial History
Donated to the museum by Patricia Robertson.
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
Some Aspects of the Planning of a Town for the Establishment of a Resource-based Industry in a Remote and Isolated Location by P.E. Radley, 12 Sept 1975. Alcan Museum & Archives (15 pages)
Aluminum Company of Canada, LTD. Staff Training and Research Division, Montreal. Social and Personal Adjustment at Kitimat by E. Luchterhand (47 pages)
The Corporation of the District of Kitimat. Report of the Committee of the Council on Street Naming and Numbering, Nov 24th 1953 (4 pages)
Kitimat Townsite report, April 18, 1952 (14 pages)
Kitimat town planning. Craig Campbell, May 25, 1977 (hand-written, 7 pages)
A Tale of Two Cities by N.H. Richardson. Plan: Volume 4, Number 3, 1963 (8 pages)
The Kitimat Region, Resources for Tomorrow Vol. 1, July 1961 (Kitimat How to Start a City From Scratch . Maclean's Magazine, May 1, 1954 (8 pages)
The New Town of Kitimat, British Columbia Canada, by C. McC. Henderson Municipal Manager of Kitimat, 1958 (5 pages)
Letter to Mr. A. Hutchinson from Rev. G. H. Raley, 2 June 1952 (2 pages)
Kitimat Development Plans All Add Up To Dream Town, Province Sept 9, 1953
Kitimat Mayor Likes Planning in 22-year-old 'Instant Town' by Wayne Harding
Kitimat is 20 years old and showing the strain. The Vancouver Sun Aug 20, 1973
20 Years Later Kitimat Shows Some Tarnish. Victoria TIme Sept 15, 1973
Kitimat-Klemtu Area. Regional Index of British Columbia, Jan 1966 (3 pages)
Alcan's tax bill will rise Jamaica wants more for bauxit, Terrace Library Vertical File
Alcan in British Columbia brochure
Alcan facts 1970
Outwest Magazine, vol. 1 no. 1, Sept 1975. The Port and History
Instant towns mirage fades. Province March 15, 1975
Copper Smelter Mooted by Pat O'Donaghy Special Correspondent (3 pages)
How frontier areas are fighting staff turnover by John Schreiner
Kitimat and Kemano neighbourhood photos (2 pages)
Alcan Aluminum Limited infographic
First Baptist + Mennonite Merger note, 1967 (hand-written)
City of Kitimat 'Dream Come True' by Ed Moyer article. April 17, 1957
Kitimat's Downtown Soon to Shape Up. News herald Dec 28, 1956
Kitimat Revival. Daily Colonist, May 19, 1962
First Train Puffs Into Kitimat article
Kitimat-1957 a Lusty Infant, Its townspeople love or hate it. The Province, April 17, 1957
Power, and a passion to go, but- Kitimat Forgot Its Clotheslines by Al Fotherinham . Aug 15, 1964
$11 Million Job Done, Kitimat's Trap-line Train Ready to Carry Aluminum/Kitimat Receives First Shipment of ALumina/First Alcan Ingots Here articles
North Enters New Era With First Kitimat Train by R.J Moore. The Vancouver Province, Jan 15, 1955
180 Ride Over 43-mile Line. First Passenger Train Rolls Into KLitimat From Terrace. News herald, Jan 15, 1955
Before an after count of history. Vancouver Times, Sept 16 1964
Smelter town's morale is high, New Industry Still Shuns Kitimat by Dick Dolman
Statistical Information on Kitimat to December 31, 1966 as prepared by the Kitimat Chamber of Commerce (3 pages)
Industrial British Columbia - Kitimat. Port facilities attract industry pamphlet
The Boom Years: Getting Started/The Lean Years of Curtailment; Stability Attained/Catious Optimisim During 60's; Orderly Expansion Becomes Theme. Kitimat Ingot, April 26, 1961
Map of City Centre Businisses. From "Our Town" Programme of Exhibition. May 17,18+20, 1957
Collection of materials that Patricia Robertson used for her PhD.
Custodial History
Donated to the museum by Patricia Robertson.
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
Kitimat British Columbia booklet
Kitimat Mayor Likes Planning in 22-year-old 'Instant Town' by Wayne Harding
Kitimat is 20 years old and showing the strain. The Vancouver Sun Aug 20, 1973
20 Years Later Kitimat Shows Some Tarnish. Victoria TIme Sept 15, 1973
Kitimat-Klemtu Area. Regional Index of British Columbia, Jan 1966 (3 pages)
Alcan's tax bill will rise Jamaica wants more for bauxit, Terrace Library Vertical File
Alcan in British Columbia brochure
Alcan facts 1970
Outwest Magazine, vol. 1 no. 1, Sept 1975. The Port and History
Instant towns mirage fades. Province March 15, 1975
Copper Smelter Mooted by Pat O'Donaghy Special Correspondent (3 pages)
How frontier areas are fighting staff turnover by John Schreiner
Kitimat and Kemano neighbourhood photos (2 pages)
Alcan Aluminum Limited infographic
First Baptist + Mennonite Merger note, 1967 (hand-written)
City of Kitimat 'Dream Come True' by Ed Moyer article. April 17, 1957
Kitimat's Downtown Soon to Shape Up. News herald Dec 28, 1956
Kitimat Revival. Daily Colonist, May 19, 1962
First Train Puffs Into Kitimat article
Kitimat-1957 a Lusty Infant, Its townspeople love or hate it. The Province, April 17, 1957
Power, and a passion to go, but- Kitimat Forgot Its Clotheslines by Al Fotherinham . Aug 15, 1964
$11 Million Job Done, Kitimat's Trap-line Train Ready to Carry Aluminum/Kitimat Receives First Shipment of ALumina/First Alcan Ingots Here articles
North Enters New Era With First Kitimat Train by R.J Moore. The Vancouver Province, Jan 15, 1955
180 Ride Over 43-mile Line. First Passenger Train Rolls Into KLitimat From Terrace. News herald, Jan 15, 1955
Before an after count of history. Vancouver Times, Sept 16 1964
Smelter town's morale is high, New Industry Still Shuns Kitimat by Dick Dolman
Statistical Information on Kitimat to December 31, 1966 as prepared by the Kitimat Chamber of Commerce (3 pages)
Industrial British Columbia - Kitimat. Port facilities attract industry pamphlet
The Boom Years: Getting Started/The Lean Years of Curtailment; Stability Attained/Catious Optimisim During 60's; Orderly Expansion Becomes Theme. Kitimat Ingot, April 26, 1961
Map of City Centre Businisses. From "Our Town" Programme of Exhibition. May 17,18+20, 1957