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
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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 guiding construction at Kenney Dam are (left to right) Harry Jomini, resident engineer for Aluminum Company of Canada, Ltd, and "Hak" Nielsen, general superintendent, and J.R. Bremner, project manager, for the contractor, Mannix Ltd, of Vancouver. Mannix Ltd is the sub-contractor for Morrison-Knudsen Company of Canada, Ltd. Sluicing down of dam's rock fill is going on in background.
Photograph of guiding construction at Kenney Dam are (left to right) Harry Jomini, resident engineer for Aluminum Company of Canada, Ltd, and "Hak" Nielsen, general superintendent, and J.R. Bremner, project manager, for the contractor, Mannix Ltd, of Vancouver. Mannix Ltd is the sub-contractor for Morrison-Knudsen Company of Canada, Ltd. Sluicing down of dam's rock fill is going on in background.