Photograph of an aerial of the Alcan Plant and Kitimat River Facility. Alcan Plant is visible above and Kitimat River delta is below.
Notes
Back of photo has 2 dates, Jan 23 1985 and Jan 23 1986. The 1986 date is a sticker add on, while the 1985 date is stamped on. The 1985 date is believed to be correct.
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
Photograph of burning and loading logs for mill at Kemano. A crane in the middle is lifting a log up. More logs on the ground, as well as stumps. Men can be seen around working.
Kemano Timber Limited photos. The President and CEO was Ernest G. McCorkell.
Custodial History
Photos donated by James (Jim) Stewart.
Scope and Content
Photograph of burning and loading logs for mill at Kemano. A crane in the middle is lifting a log up. More logs on the ground, as well as stumps. Men can be seen around working.
Entirely black. Black, truncated and cone-like bucket. Contains a shovel (988.11.2) as well. A coal scuttle is used to hold an intermediate amount of coal so as to be a convenient supply to an indoor coal-fed fire.
Entirely black. Black, truncated and cone-like bucket. Contains a shovel (988.11.2) as well. A coal scuttle is used to hold an intermediate amount of coal so as to be a convenient supply to an indoor coal-fed fire.
