Photo showing a massive A-Frame towering over Crown Zellerbach's Minette Bay booming ground. The hoist picks up truckloads and dumps them into the bay where they are manouvered into booms for towing down to company mills down the coast.
Photo showing a massive A-Frame towering over Crown Zellerbach's Minette Bay booming ground. The hoist picks up truckloads and dumps them into the bay where they are manouvered into booms for towing down to company mills down the coast.
Photograph showing barge at dock in Kemano. The barge is unloading what looks like housing material. Photograph is taken from a ship - rigging in foreground.
Photograph showing barge at dock in Kemano. The barge is unloading what looks like housing material. Photograph is taken from a ship - rigging in foreground.
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 depicts a view of Minette Bay scow grid with two barges being unloaded. The left barge is loaded with Johnson Crooks materials and the right barge with Hullah Construction materials.
Photo depicts a view of Minette Bay scow grid with two barges being unloaded. The left barge is loaded with Johnson Crooks materials and the right barge with Hullah Construction materials.
