Concert Association president, Mrs. Bee Fossum, high-school principal, Ron Barry and American concert pianist, Marilyn Neeley. Pictured onstage with the new concert grand piano.
"Mrs.Bea Fossum, (left) 1963-1964 president of the Kitimat Concert Association is shown with high-school principal, Ron Barry and American concert pianist, Marilyn Neely, on stage of Mount Elizabeth Secondary school admiring new concert grand piano which Miss Neely was first to use. Association raised $6000 by a community canvass to purchase the insturment for Kitimat, an unusually musical town because of many residents with European background. Artists of the Alaska Music Trail always visit her on annual series of four concerts and say they find audiences knowledgeable and appreciative.
Sentinel Photo.
Februaruy 23, 1964.
Music
Kit Concert Ass'n."
"Mrs.Bea Fossum, (left) 1963-1964 president of the Kitimat Concert Association is shown with high-school principal, Ron Barry and American concert pianist, Marilyn Neely, on stage of Mount Elizabeth Secondary school admiring new concert grand piano which Miss Neely was first to use. Association raised $6000 by a community canvass to purchase the insturment for Kitimat, an unusually musical town because of many residents with European background. Artists of the Alaska Music Trail always visit her on annual series of four concerts and say they find audiences knowledgeable and appreciative.
Sentinel Photo.
Februaruy 23, 1964.
Music
Kit Concert Ass'n."
Chatting with Irwin Hoffman, (Conductor, centre) are (left to right), Mrs. J.A. Currie, Mr. Peter Hopkins, Mrs.Jack Fossum, President of the Kitimat concert Association, Mrs. Hopkins and Mr. Currie."
Photo showing Irene Starr and Bea Fossum. Mrs. Lloyd Starr and Mrs. Bea Fossum (right) in front of smoke at Kitamaat Village 1967. Mrs. Starr hold up a handful of dried eulachons.
Photo showing Irene Starr and Bea Fossum. Mrs. Lloyd Starr and Mrs. Bea Fossum (right) in front of smoke at Kitamaat Village 1967. Mrs. Starr hold up a handful of dried eulachons.
Photograph of Mr. Guy Martin (Saguenay Inn - Arvida), Mr. Georges Carrier (Secretary-Treasurer - Arvida), Mr. K. Gummer, and Mr. Georges Carrier. At dinner with food on plates.
Photograph of Mr. Guy Martin (Saguenay Inn - Arvida), Mr. Georges Carrier (Secretary-Treasurer - Arvida), Mr. K. Gummer, and Mr. Georges Carrier. At dinner with food on plates.
Photo showing young Kitimat artist Martin Fossum, left, exhibits a number of his paintings, drawings, and woodcuts at the YMCA; with Einar Kvary and Luciano Vigano.
Photo showing young Kitimat artist Martin Fossum, left, exhibits a number of his paintings, drawings, and woodcuts at the YMCA; with Einar Kvary and Luciano Vigano.
Kevin Martin arrived in Kitimat in February of 1956. He was hired from Vancouver, came on train to Kitimat, He lived on the Delta King for a while. Then he moved to huts at new townsite - north side of Haisla Boulevard. Four men to a hut - many people from everywhere (it Portugeuse, etc). He left 1 1/2 years later. (see gift agreement form for more information).
Custodial History
Kevin Martin
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of 5 photographs of early Kitimat and Smeltersite.
The Truth Behind KMP cartoon image featuring a hand with fingers being severed by scissors. The severed fingers read Commitments, Permanent Jobs, and Community. There is a torn off thumb reading Broken Relationships too. The remaining finger reads Profits. Paul Henning is on the left side with a Pinocchio nose.
The Truth Behind KMP cartoon image featuring a hand with fingers being severed by scissors. The severed fingers read Commitments, Permanent Jobs, and Community. There is a torn off thumb reading Broken Relationships too. The remaining finger reads Profits. Paul Henning is on the left side with a Pinocchio nose.
Photograph of three men - Frank (surname unknown; left), Michael Nykolaishen (centre), and Martin Notheisz (right) standing outside. Nykolaishen was a worker for Alcan; it is possible that the other two were as well.
Photograph of three men - Frank (surname unknown; left), Michael Nykolaishen (centre), and Martin Notheisz (right) standing outside. Nykolaishen was a worker for Alcan; it is possible that the other two were as well.
Alice Dicker's father, Benard, came to Canada to work in 1955. He was a forman D-shift for Alcan. He married Anna in 1959. Alice and her sister Claudia were born in Kitimat and the family lived here until 1969, at which time they returned to Germany.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Alice, Claudia, and Anna Dicker with some sort of cartoon worm? statue. Fields, forest, and mountain in background behind them.
