Photo showing adaptability by this Alpine Helicopter using the abandoned foundation of the former Canadian National Railways freight shed as a launching pad. The machine, a regular visitor to Kitimat's Service Centre, is used by mining prospectors on exploratory sorties into the surrounding areas.
Photo showing adaptability by this Alpine Helicopter using the abandoned foundation of the former Canadian National Railways freight shed as a launching pad. The machine, a regular visitor to Kitimat's Service Centre, is used by mining prospectors on exploratory sorties into the surrounding areas.
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.
Photo depicts Carl Agar looking up at Bill McLeod who is piloting a Sikorsky helicopter.
Notes
Fourteen Sikorsky S-55 helicopters were used as workhorses and load carriers during construction. Carl Agar and his crew with Okanagan Helicopters took men and materials to otherwise inaccessible spots. Without these helicopters, Project engineers would never have maintained the construction schedule. Photographed by Art Hundert. Kitimat Heritage Advisory Commission Collection
Photo showing "Helicopter Canada's" director-cameraman Eugene ("Jeep") Boyko gets a send-off from Canadian Centennial Commission's John Fisher as he starts his record-making, 15,000 mile travels to film the National Film Board's Centennial documentary on Canada.
Photo showing "Helicopter Canada's" director-cameraman Eugene ("Jeep") Boyko gets a send-off from Canadian Centennial Commission's John Fisher as he starts his record-making, 15,000 mile travels to film the National Film Board's Centennial documentary on Canada.
