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
Photo showing up to 16 of these dynamite sticks were used for each of the explosions it took to blast open the beaver dam. Fuse and cap were inserted at the end of the stick. The fuse burns at the rate of about a foot per minute.
Current: 1960s
-District of Kitimat
-Miscellaneous
Scope and Content
Photo showing up to 16 of these dynamite sticks were used for each of the explosions it took to blast open the beaver dam. Fuse and cap were inserted at the end of the stick. The fuse burns at the rate of about a foot per minute.
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.
One red duotang containing typewritten pages. On front of duotang is label 'Caamano's Rocks, Puerto de Gaston (Havitacion De Indios Bravos) by R.E. Wells.
One red duotang containing typewritten pages. On front of duotang is label 'Caamano's Rocks, Puerto de Gaston (Havitacion De Indios Bravos) by R.E. Wells.
