Photo depicts a tent with flat-top house assembly on a production line in West Vancouver for Johnson-Crooks Construction Corporation.
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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 showing a group from the Eliz Long Home and pioneers aboard Bob Wrights boat going for a picnic, from left to right in top row: Frank Hallet, Exilda Mitchell, Elise Fleming (first teacher for pioneer school at Anderson farm), Bob Wright and right to left on bottom: Rudolph Braun, Eilzabeth Anderson, Ida Clark (matron), Martha Anderson, Barney McLonkey, Sarah Alton, and Margaret Butcher (another teacher).
Photo showing a group from the Eliz Long Home and pioneers aboard Bob Wrights boat going for a picnic, from left to right in top row: Frank Hallet, Exilda Mitchell, Elise Fleming (first teacher for pioneer school at Anderson farm), Bob Wright and right to left on bottom: Rudolph Braun, Eilzabeth Anderson, Ida Clark (matron), Martha Anderson, Barney McLonkey, Sarah Alton, and Margaret Butcher (another teacher).
