Photo showing Morrison Braves Lacrosse Team posing on steps at Village Recreation hall, in foreground Presentation Canoe given to Captain E. Raley. In front left to right: Art Cross, Dixon Grant, George Stewart, Albert Walker, Solomon McKay, Middle left to right: James Green, Wilfred Wilson, Gordon Robinson, Harry Amos, and in Back left to right: Coach Stan Shaw, and Manager Tim Starr.
Photo showing Morrison Braves Lacrosse Team posing on steps at Village Recreation hall, in foreground Presentation Canoe given to Captain E. Raley. In front left to right: Art Cross, Dixon Grant, George Stewart, Albert Walker, Solomon McKay, Middle left to right: James Green, Wilfred Wilson, Gordon Robinson, Harry Amos, and in Back left to right: Coach Stan Shaw, and Manager Tim Starr.
Photo showing Raley's Warriors Lacrosse Team behind a dugout canoe that was sent to the honorary Haisla Chief, Emsley Raley, front row left to right: Walter Bolton, Harry Amos, Wilfred Wilson, Goalie Charlie Williams, Tom Robinson, and Solomon McKay, back row left to right: Coach Stan Shaw, Samson Ross, Rod Sr. Bolton, Edward Smith, Clarance Shaw, and Manager Tim Starr.
1 photograph: b&w; 6.3 x 11.3
1 photograph: b&w; 12.1 x 17.4 cm
Scope and Content
Photo showing Raley's Warriors Lacrosse Team behind a dugout canoe that was sent to the honorary Haisla Chief, Emsley Raley, front row left to right: Walter Bolton, Harry Amos, Wilfred Wilson, Goalie Charlie Williams, Tom Robinson, and Solomon McKay, back row left to right: Coach Stan Shaw, Samson Ross, Rod Sr. Bolton, Edward Smith, Clarance Shaw, and Manager Tim Starr.
Slide showing a men playing a game of baseball at smeltersite. Large crowd of people are watching them. Behind them is a cleared out slope with some buildings. Mountains beyond.
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 a men playing a game of baseball at smeltersite. Large crowd of people are watching them. Behind them is a cleared out slope with some buildings. Mountains beyond.
Jamieson came to Kitimat from Vancouver to work on the Alcan project in 1952. With his first pay cheque he bought a small "Pony Kodak" camera at the local store (Hudson Bay?), and started taking coloured slides of the Kitimat from 1952-1953. Left Kitimat at the end of August 1953 to move to Montreal.
Photo showing play The Night Before Christmas as presented by the pupils of Grade 1 and 2 of Kitimat School at the Kitimat School Concert in December in Kitimat Recreation Hall. Children sitting in chairs before the stage, lady taking a picture of a group of children on a raised platform and children on stage.
Photo showing play The Night Before Christmas as presented by the pupils of Grade 1 and 2 of Kitimat School at the Kitimat School Concert in December in Kitimat Recreation Hall. Children sitting in chairs before the stage, lady taking a picture of a group of children on a raised platform and children on stage.
Photograph of Kitimat Builders Supplies Ltd. building under construction, in relation to the access road and was taken from the junction of the railroad grade and the road.
Photograph of Kitimat Builders Supplies Ltd. building under construction, in relation to the access road and was taken from the junction of the railroad grade and the road.
From the years 1953-1958, Mike Kinnear took photos during his school years, until graduation, while working for Fred Ryan Ltd. after school and holidays. Photos for him was a hobby, and he took many photos of the smelter and townsite as it grew around him. Mike also took a number of photos for the Kitimat Northern Sentinel, during the Ken Brumley and Pixie Meldrum years as editors. Mike and his family left Kitimat in 1958, but he spent the best part of 40 years in the photographic field, mainly in the retail/wholesale part of the photo industry.
Custodial History
Donated by Margaret and Mike Kinnear.
Scope and Content
Photograph of houses being constructed in the townsite. Cleared area and material in foreground. Cloudy mountains in background.
Showing steel framework of Kitimat's first curling club building being erected just East of the Kitimat River Bridge, Rod and Gun Association clubhouse is in the background.
Showing steel framework of Kitimat's first curling club building being erected just East of the Kitimat River Bridge, Rod and Gun Association clubhouse is in the background.
