Photo depicts Kitimat Constructors Project Manager Hal Whiting on right, standing beside a unidentified man. Both watch the construction activity occurring down on the tidal flats in front of them, site for the smelter.
Photo depicts Kitimat Constructors Project Manager Hal Whiting on right, standing beside a unidentified man. Both watch the construction activity occurring down on the tidal flats in front of them, site for the smelter.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Photographed by the International Harvester Company, manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.99
Photo depicts workers excavating for the construction of the alumina storage building.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-451. -- Sloping sides avoided cave-ins. -- Hal Whiting was Project Manager, Kitimat Constructors, for smelter and town construction. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.267
Photograph of inside of lounge of the Alcan Guest House No.1 on Albatross Avenue. Visible inside the lounge is a stone fireplace, chairs, tables, and a lamp. In the back on the right there are stairs leading up.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of inside of lounge of the Alcan Guest House No.1 on Albatross Avenue. Visible inside the lounge is a stone fireplace, chairs, tables, and a lamp. In the back on the right there are stairs leading up.
Photo depicts the welcome sign for Kitimat on the wharf that greeted all workers to the Kitimat Project upon their arrival by boat.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Hal Whiting was Project Manager, Kitimat Constructors, for smelter and town construction. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.113
Photograph of entrance hall in guest house no. 1. On right there is a table and chair. Table has a phone and book on it. A curtain covers a doorway near it. Behind, there is a staircase going up on the right, and a stone wall in the centre that is part of the fireplace for the room at the left.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of entrance hall in guest house no. 1. On right there is a table and chair. Table has a phone and book on it. A curtain covers a doorway near it. Behind, there is a staircase going up on the right, and a stone wall in the centre that is part of the fireplace for the room at the left.
Photograph of sittingroom of upstairs suite in Guest House No. 1. Room contains a couch, chairs, tables, a lamp, and a brick fireplace. Door exiting the room is on the left.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of sittingroom of upstairs suite in Guest House No. 1. Room contains a couch, chairs, tables, a lamp, and a brick fireplace. Door exiting the room is on the left.
Photograph of #1 Guest House showing amdeck roofing in place. Two men are working on the roof, and two men are working on another structure on the left. Building material is laid on the ground around.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of #1 Guest House showing amdeck roofing in place. Two men are working on the roof, and two men are working on another structure on the left. Building material is laid on the ground around.
Photograph of showing the framing almost completed in Guest House No.2. Two men are visible working on it. Apartments visible behind, and townsite camp is to the left.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of showing the framing almost completed in Guest House No.2. Two men are visible working on it. Apartments visible behind, and townsite camp is to the left.
Photograph of smeltersite looking northeast, showing service buildings at left, rectifier building #102 and potline #2, pre-cast concrete yard in foreground.
Bud Powell is a longtime resident of Kitimat and former smeltersite resident. He worked for Alcan.
Custodial History
Donated by Bud Powell.
Scope and Content
Photograph of smeltersite looking northeast, showing service buildings at left, rectifier building #102 and potline #2, pre-cast concrete yard in foreground.
Photograph of view looking north-east over initial area cleared for smelter service building construction. Light area has been gravel filled, dark area overburden to be stripped. Trucks and machinery visible at work.
Bud Powell is a longtime resident of Kitimat and former smeltersite resident. He worked for Alcan.
Custodial History
Donated by Bud Powell.
Scope and Content
Photograph of view looking north-east over initial area cleared for smelter service building construction. Light area has been gravel filled, dark area overburden to be stripped. Trucks and machinery visible at work.
Photograph of aerial of hauling, levelling, and compacting of the fill in the smelter area. Looking South. Trucks and machines visible along with wheel tracks in the dirt.
Bud Powell is a longtime resident of Kitimat and former smeltersite resident. He worked for Alcan.
Custodial History
Donated by Bud Powell.
Scope and Content
Photograph of aerial of hauling, levelling, and compacting of the fill in the smelter area. Looking South. Trucks and machines visible along with wheel tracks in the dirt.