Photograph of Boyles Brothers setting up their drilling equipment in the City Centre. A hundred foot test hole is to be placed in this location. There are four men visible working. A crane is in the background on the right.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Boyles Brothers setting up their drilling equipment in the City Centre. A hundred foot test hole is to be placed in this location. There are four men visible working. A crane is in the background on the right.
River Training Work: View downstream showing rock groyne on left (60% of total length), Drill rig at location of proposed direct intake in centre and dredging program on right.
River Training Work: View downstream showing rock groyne on left (60% of total length), Drill rig at location of proposed direct intake in centre and dredging program on right.
Photograph of drill rig no.3 moving into position for dock drilling. E/W mole in left background. Rigs No.1 and 2 and water scow in position, right background. One right there are two bulldozers visible, as well as some workers.
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 drill rig no.3 moving into position for dock drilling. E/W mole in left background. Rigs No.1 and 2 and water scow in position, right background. One right there are two bulldozers visible, as well as some workers.
Slide showing what appears to be a wooden drilling structure at the smeltersite construction area. Men working around with one with a crank? And others appear to be tightening a pole into place. Drilling? A tank the reads "gas" is visible on the left.
James McNay was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on January 31, 1907. Between 1951 and 1953, he worked in the payroll department for Alcan. He had to leave his wife Effie and his two young daughters, Margaret and Diane, aged 6 and 5 in 1951, at home in Surrey, B.C., during his 3-4 month stints in Kitimat. To fill some of his free time and show his family where he was and what Kitimat was like, he spent many hours walking in the area with a 35mm Kodak camera. He photographed the scenic beauty of the area and parts of the construction of both the smelters and the town. He died in Surrey on August 7, 1983.
Custodial History
Donated by Margaret McNay. Images were taken by her father and sent to their family in Surrey in the 1950s.
Scope and Content
Slide showing what appears to be a wooden drilling structure at the smeltersite construction area. Men working around with one with a crank? And others appear to be tightening a pole into place. Drilling? A tank the reads "gas" is visible on the left.
HIKERS and other outdoorsmen who have been down the Kildala dike road lately may have seen the drilling rig pictured above. The Sentinel spotted it and began to ask questions. The answers led not to oil or gold but to Eurocan Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. A spokesman in Vancouver disclosed that although engineering and economic studies had been completed on the proposed Emsley Cove site down the channel the economic feasibility of other possible sites were also being throughly investigated. Eurocan personnel, together with the Vancouver firm of Ribley, Klohn and Leonoss Ltd., have been doing seismic and other tests on the site where the rig is shown, above, between Kildala neighborhood and Minette Bay,
--Patzelt Photo."
HIKERS and other outdoorsmen who have been down the Kildala dike road lately may have seen the drilling rig pictured above. The Sentinel spotted it and began to ask questions. The answers led not to oil or gold but to Eurocan Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. A spokesman in Vancouver disclosed that although engineering and economic studies had been completed on the proposed Emsley Cove site down the channel the economic feasibility of other possible sites were also being throughly investigated. Eurocan personnel, together with the Vancouver firm of Ribley, Klohn and Leonoss Ltd., have been doing seismic and other tests on the site where the rig is shown, above, between Kildala neighborhood and Minette Bay,
--Patzelt Photo."
