Negatives showing the Nechako Reservoir, the Kenney Dam, & the Skins Lake Spillway which were built to create hydroelectric power to be used by the Alcan aluminum smelter in Kitimat. Also pictured is Des Lake, Alcan barge Tahtsa II at East Tahtsa, a view of the Entiako River as it enters the Nechako Reservoir, an underwater cutting barge, & Eurocan's logging operation at Andrews Bay on Ootsa Lake.
Negatives showing the Nechako Reservoir, the Kenney Dam, & the Skins Lake Spillway which were built to create hydroelectric power to be used by the Alcan aluminum smelter in Kitimat. Also pictured is Des Lake, Alcan barge Tahtsa II at East Tahtsa, a view of the Entiako River as it enters the Nechako Reservoir, an underwater cutting barge, & Eurocan's logging operation at Andrews Bay on Ootsa Lake.
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
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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.
Photo depicts a unidentified man sitting on the Nechako River bank watching the the activities of construction of the dam at the canyon. Right bank stripping and left bank tunnel haul road shown.
Photo depicts a unidentified man sitting on the Nechako River bank watching the the activities of construction of the dam at the canyon. Right bank stripping and left bank tunnel haul road shown.
Notes
Title based on content of photo. -- A rock dam was chosen for its ability to withstand earthquakes. Morrison-Knudsen Company Collection
Photo showing a TD-24 spreading a layer of alrge stones at the base of Nechako Damn west to the rock fill portion which is laid in first, these layers of various size rock, stone and clay with all slope towards the rock fill at about the degree pitch.
Photo showing a TD-24 spreading a layer of alrge stones at the base of Nechako Damn west to the rock fill portion which is laid in first, these layers of various size rock, stone and clay with all slope towards the rock fill at about the degree pitch.
Photo depicts workers excavating for the construction of the alumina storage building.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-451. -- Sloping sides avoided cave-ins. -- Hal Whiting was Project Manager, Kitimat Constructors, for smelter and town construction. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.267
Photo of four men in suits. One man with his arm raised in greeting, a cigar in his other hand. They are standing on a railcar. Naming ceremony for Kenny Dam.
Left to right: The Honourable Edward T. Kenney, Liberal Minister of the Department of Lands and Forests for the Province of British Columbia, Ron Whyte's father William Alan Whyte, General Freight Agent (Western Division) for the Canadian National Railways and Steamships, Vancouver, BC; McNeely DuBose, Vice-President, Aluminum Company of Canada, Limited; and The Honourable Clarence Wallace, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of British Columbia.
Photo of four men in suits. One man with his arm raised in greeting, a cigar in his other hand. They are standing on a railcar. Naming ceremony for Kenny Dam.
Left to right: The Honourable Edward T. Kenney, Liberal Minister of the Department of Lands and Forests for the Province of British Columbia, Ron Whyte's father William Alan Whyte, General Freight Agent (Western Division) for the Canadian National Railways and Steamships, Vancouver, BC; McNeely DuBose, Vice-President, Aluminum Company of Canada, Limited; and The Honourable Clarence Wallace, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of British Columbia.
