Photo depicts three men wearing aluminum hardhats giving the Haisla Look-Out sign a coat of linseed oil. One man holds a ladder steady and the bucket while another on the ladder and the man standing on the left brush the wood log supports of the sign.
Photo depicts three men wearing aluminum hardhats giving the Haisla Look-Out sign a coat of linseed oil. One man holds a ladder steady and the bucket while another on the ladder and the man standing on the left brush the wood log supports of the sign.
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Title based on content of photograph. -- No. 2178.
The Annual Jaycee clean up of the town included the Haisla Look-Out sign, originially presented to the District of Kitimat by the Chamber of Commerce and created in colour by Bill Diesing.
The Annual Jaycee clean up of the town included the Haisla Look-Out sign, originially presented to the District of Kitimat by the Chamber of Commerce and created in colour by Bill Diesing.
Photo depicts an aerial view of a portion of the Nechako neighbourhood showing the Hullah prototype area, Pintail and Partridge streets, in the foreground.
Photo depicts an aerial view of a portion of the Nechako neighbourhood showing the Hullah prototype area, Pintail and Partridge streets, in the foreground.
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Title based on content of photograph. District of Kitimat Collection
Photo depicts flat-top temporary housing lining the hillside up to the Aluminum City Motel at the treeline. View is northwest. Grader on Kuldo Boulevard.
Photo depicts flat-top temporary housing lining the hillside up to the Aluminum City Motel at the treeline. View is northwest. Grader on Kuldo Boulevard.
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Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan Negative No. 29337. -- The circus tent assembly line was erected . Temporary housing destined for Kitimat was assembled at Vancouver Tug and Barge below the Lion's Gate Bridge in three sections, then barged to Kitimat - 10 houses or 30 sections on each barge. -- Electrician Bill Frahler wired approximately 2,000 houses in Kitimat camps and townsite between 1954 and 1958, working first for Johnson-Crooks then Straits Construction, both U.S. contractors. 73.3.6.6
Photo depicts Nechako Neighbourhood, swath of land cleared for Neighbourhood "D", and Douglas Channel in the background, smelter on the right.
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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 on the cover of the Canadian Geographical Journal, November 1959, Vol. LIX No.5. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
A group of people looking at a flowers on display at the Rotary Flower Show. There is an elderly woman wearing gloves and a hat, reaching for flowers? on the table.
A group of people looking at a flowers on display at the Rotary Flower Show. There is an elderly woman wearing gloves and a hat, reaching for flowers? on the table.
Order of the Royal Purple, Kitimat Chapter, held their annual fashion show at the Legion. A model walks down the runway as people seated at tables look on.
Order of the Royal Purple, Kitimat Chapter, held their annual fashion show at the Legion. A model walks down the runway as people seated at tables look on.
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Title based on content of photograph. -- Northern Sentinel article, November 26, 1964. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
A lady in a patterned outfit carrying her handbag with her right arm, and her trophy with both hands. There is a table to the right her with several flowers on display for the show.
A lady in a patterned outfit carrying her handbag with her right arm, and her trophy with both hands. There is a table to the right her with several flowers on display for the show.
Settling In: Highlighting 50 Years of Kitimat's History Exhibition, was shown at the Kitimat Museum and Archives in 2003. "To the youngsters, Kitimat presents a pleasing blend of modern, urban, recreational facilities in a wild-west, wilderness setting. To the adults, it offers physical grandeur, unexcelled hunting and fishing, neighbourliness, dependence, and the genuine friendships of a new community." Canadian Geographical Journal 1959 What makes a town? What makes Kitimat unique? In the final analysis, Kitimat citizens have made the community. This exhibition attempts to show the public face of Kitimat.
Settling In: Highlighting 50 Years of Kitimat's History Exhibition, was shown at the Kitimat Museum and Archives in 2003. "To the youngsters, Kitimat presents a pleasing blend of modern, urban, recreational facilities in a wild-west, wilderness setting. To the adults, it offers physical grandeur, unexcelled hunting and fishing, neighbourliness, dependence, and the genuine friendships of a new community." Canadian Geographical Journal 1959 What makes a town? What makes Kitimat unique? In the final analysis, Kitimat citizens have made the community. This exhibition attempts to show the public face of Kitimat.
