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Line up at the post office

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description206
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1956
Scope and Content
Photo depicts residents lined up outside the Townsite Camp Post Office.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
200
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1956
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts residents lined up outside the Townsite Camp Post Office.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Alcan Collection 78.11.149
Subject Access
Services
Post offices
Images

Night School English Class

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description269
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1957
Scope and Content
Photo depicts night school English class held at Nechako Elementary School. From left is Frida Meuser from Germany, Jacob Hadland from Norway, Frank Ginur from Austria, and Crista Mais from Portugal.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
263
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1957
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts night school English class held at Nechako Elementary School. From left is Frida Meuser from Germany, Jacob Hadland from Norway, Frank Ginur from Austria, and Crista Mais from Portugal.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Northern Sentinel Press Collection 983.42.8
Name Access
Ginur, Frank
Hadland, Jacob
Mais, Crista
Meuser, Frida
Subject Access
Services
Schools
Images

First air mail via PWA

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description204
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two men kneeling beside the first bags of mail to arrive via Pacific Western Airlines. On the right, Captain T. M. Kellough for PWA delivers the bags to on the left, Kitimat Express driver Lloyd Kaberg, at the wharf, Smeltersite. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
198
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two men kneeling beside the first bags of mail to arrive via Pacific Western Airlines. On the right, Captain T. M. Kellough for PWA delivers the bags to on the left, Kitimat Express driver Lloyd Kaberg, at the wharf, Smeltersite. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
Notes
Title based on content of photograph.
Subject Access
Services
Kemano
Airplanes
Images
GMD
Personal Identification
Object Type
Card, Identification
Material
paper
Accession Number
2020.19.1
Description
Identification card for Safe Driving 1952-53 for A. A. Creed. Beige with blue text.
GMD
Personal Identification
Object Type
Card, Identification
Description
Identification card for Safe Driving 1952-53 for A. A. Creed. Beige with blue text.
Physical Condition
Fair
Material
paper
Condition Remarks
creased and a bit ripped
Height
6.5cm
Length
9.5cm
Accession Number
2020.19.1
Category
Personal Symbols
Location
Bay 2 Shelf 1 Box 3
GMD
Personal Identification
Object Type
Identification Card
Material
paper
Accession Number
2020.12.35
Description
Green Kitimat Curling Club membership card. For S. Dalton.
Title
Kitimat Curling Club
GMD
Personal Identification
Object Type
Identification Card
Description
Green Kitimat Curling Club membership card. For S. Dalton.
Physical Condition
Fair
Material
paper
Condition Remarks
Dirty
Height
5.5cm
Width
8.5cm
Accession Number
2020.12.35
Biographical Notes
Items Collected by Malcom Baxter, former editor of NSP. Malcolm 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. The items were delivered by Judith Cullington - Malcolm's sister-in-law.
Category
Personal Symbols
Location
Bay 2 Shelf 2 Box 4
GMD
Personal Identification
Object Type
Identification Card
Material
paper
Accession Number
2020.12.36
Description
Green Kitimat Curling Club membership card. For B. S. Baxter.
Title
Kitimat Curling Club
GMD
Personal Identification
Object Type
Identification Card
Description
Green Kitimat Curling Club membership card. For B. S. Baxter.
Physical Condition
Fair
Material
paper
Condition Remarks
Dirty
Height
5.5cm
Width
8.5cm
Accession Number
2020.12.36
Biographical Notes
Items Collected by Malcom Baxter, former editor of NSP. Malcolm 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. The items were delivered by Judith Cullington - Malcolm's sister-in-law.
Category
Personal Symbols
Location
Bay 2 Shelf 2 Box 4
Part Of
Chester Steele Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952-1953
Accession Number
2000.32.2
Scope and Content
Photograph of line up outside Kemano Post Office.
Part Of
Chester Steele Collection
Creator
Chester Steele
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2000.32.2
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952-1953
Physical Description
1 photograph print : b&w ; 4 x 5 in
Scope and Content
Photograph of line up outside Kemano Post Office.

Federal Building & Post Office

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description27769
Part Of
Alcan Collection
Description Level
Series
Date Range
[1959]
Accession Number
73.3.8
Scope and Content
Slides of the Federal Building and Post Office.
Part Of
Alcan Collection
Creator
James Tirrul-Jones
Description Level
Series
Series Number
14
Accession Number
73.3.8
Date Range
[1959]
Physical Description
3 slides : colour
Scope and Content
Slides of the Federal Building and Post Office.
Subject Access
Photographs of the Federal Building and the Post Office

Nels Klit award winning garden

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description186
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1959
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Nels Klit, his daughter, and wife in the family's garden on Starling Street.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
180
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Photographed by Malak Karsh
Date Range
1959
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
History / Biographical
One of the first prize gardens on Starling Street in the annual community competition.
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Nels Klit, his daughter, and wife in the family's garden on Starling Street.
Notes
Other number 45048C. Famed Canadian documentary photographer Malak Karsh was hired in the 1950s by Alcan to take photographs of Arvida and Kitimat. Many were published in Alcan literature and textbooks on Canada. A colourized version of this photograph appears in the “Kitimat: Tomorrow’s City Today”, by B.J. McGuire and Roland Wild, reprint booklet, Canadian Geographical Journal, November 1959. Alcan Collection
Name Access
Klit, Nels
Subject Access
Towns
Images

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