Photo depicts a tent with flat-top house assembly on a production line in West Vancouver for Johnson-Crooks Construction Corporation.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Slide No. 40 -- The circus tent assembly line was erected at Vancouver Tug and Barge below the Lion's Gate Bridge. Temporary housing destined for Kitimat was assembled there 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. Bill Frahler Collection 2003.32
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
Photograph showing the Duke of Edinburgh standing outside the plant with George P. Melrose, A.C. Turney, Nathaniel Davis, President of Aluminium Ltd, C.D. Howe, Percy E. Radley, Alcan's B.C. Project Manager, R.E. Powell, President of Aluminium Co. of Canada and Whitaker, Vice President and General Manager of Aluminium Co.
Photograph showing the Duke of Edinburgh standing outside the plant with George P. Melrose, A.C. Turney, Nathaniel Davis, President of Aluminium Ltd, C.D. Howe, Percy E. Radley, Alcan's B.C. Project Manager, R.E. Powell, President of Aluminium Co. of Canada and Whitaker, Vice President and General Manager of Aluminium Co.
