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Albatross and Cormorant Streets

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1954
Scope and Content
Photo depicts an aerial view of Albatross and Cormorant streets, green space, walkways and Cormorant School.
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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
174
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Photographed by Max Patzelt.
Date Range
ca. 1954
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts an aerial view of Albatross and Cormorant streets, green space, walkways and Cormorant School.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. District of Kitimat Collection 2002.16.1
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Barges loaded with flat-top houses

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Accession Number
77.58.10
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two barges moored in Douglas Channel and loaded with flat-top house sections for construction workers and their families.
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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
217
Accession Number
77.58.10
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two barges moored in Douglas Channel and loaded with flat-top house sections for construction workers and their families.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- 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. Pat Jimenez Collection
Subject Access
Construction of Buildings
Housing
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Construction of smelter lines numbers 1 and 2

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1953
Accession Number
987.10.2
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the construction of smelter lines numbers 1 and 2.
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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Creator
Alcan
Description Level
Item
Item Number
145
Accession Number
987.10.2
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the construction of smelter lines numbers 1 and 2.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Photograph taken in the summer. District of Kitimat Collection
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Industry
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Four-plex construction on Gyrfalcon Street

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Scope and Content
Photo depicts four-plex construction on Gyrfalcon Street in Kitimat, Gander and Gannet streets in the background.
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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Item Number
152
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Photo depicts four-plex construction on Gyrfalcon Street in Kitimat, Gander and Gannet streets in the background.
Notes
Title based on content of slide. -- Slide No. 116. Bill Frahler Collection 2003.32
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Kildala Neighbourhood temporary housing

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
July 13, 1955
Scope and Content
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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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
218
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
July 13, 1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
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.
Notes
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
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Kitimat homes and gardens

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Part Of
Max Patzelt fonds
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
June 09, 1961
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Johnson-Crooks homes and their backyard gardens.
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Max Patzelt fonds
Description Level
Item
Item Number
295
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
June 09, 1961
Physical Description
1 digital image : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Johnson-Crooks homes and their backyard gardens.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- No. 444
Subject Access
Houses
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Kitimat homes and gardens

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
June 09, 1961
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Johnson-Crooks homes and their backyard gardens.
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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
295
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
June 09, 1961
Physical Description
1 digital image : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Johnson-Crooks homes and their backyard gardens.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- No. 444
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Houses
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Paving Pintail Street

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 1956
Accession Number
2005.8.960
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the paving of Pintail Street in Kitimat.
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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
178
Accession Number
2005.8.960
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Photographed by Mike Kinnear
Date Range
May 1956
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the paving of Pintail Street in Kitimat.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
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Penstock No. 2 miners

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
July 14, 1955
Scope and Content
Photo depicts miners on the jumbo, holding drills used to drill holes for dowels for support of skid rails in raise.
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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
58
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
July 14, 1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts miners on the jumbo, holding drills used to drill holes for dowels for support of skid rails in raise.
Notes
Alcan ID no. 5793. -- Penstock No. 2 was completed after the smelter had started aluminum production in 1954 with Penstock No. 1. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Tunnels
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Penstock No. 2 unlined rock tunnel

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
June 06, 1955
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the unlined rock tunnel of horizontal penstock No. 2 at Elevation 210'. View is looking at platform at base of 48 degree inclined raise to 1685' Elevation.
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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
60
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
June 06, 1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the unlined rock tunnel of horizontal penstock No. 2 at Elevation 210'. View is looking at platform at base of 48 degree inclined raise to 1685' Elevation.
Notes
Alcan ID no. 2KR-10. -- Penstock No. 2 was completed after the smelter had started aluminum production in 1954 with Penstock No. 1. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Tunnels
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Starling Street Garden

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Found in Collection - Black Binder, Early Community Events
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1957]
Accession Number
2016.4.1
Scope and Content
Photograph of one of the first prize gardens, Starling Street, home of Mr. & Mrs. Nils Klit.
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Found in Collection - Black Binder, Early Community Events
Creator
Malak Karsh
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2016.4.1
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1957]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w ; 25.5 x 20.5cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of one of the first prize gardens, Starling Street, home of Mr. & Mrs. Nils Klit.
Notes
Digital Image P00180. Number on photo - 45048C
Name Access
Klit, Nels
Klit, Mrs. Nels
Subject Access
Neighbourhoods
Storage Location
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Tramway carrying liner for penstock No. 2

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
October 01, 1955
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a worker watching as a 19-ton horizontal penstock liner is transported on an aerial tramway from Camp No. 5 to Camp No. 1600.
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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
63
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
October 01, 1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a worker watching as a 19-ton horizontal penstock liner is transported on an aerial tramway from Camp No. 5 to Camp No. 1600.
Notes
Alcan ID no. 2KR-81. -- This liner was the first and largest of the penstock liners. -- Penstock No. 2 was completed after the smelter had started aluminum production in 1954 with Penstock No. 1. Alcan Collection
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