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).
Photo showing 'Kitmano' docked at Kemano, B.C. (part of the Alcan Project). L/R Bob Ashmore, Dan Hayes (Supt. Wharf Alcan: Kitimat Works); Arv Sestrap (Insurance, Charter Business); Canada Life, Resident, District Rep. Kitimat
Photo showing 'Kitmano' docked at Kemano, B.C. (part of the Alcan Project). L/R Bob Ashmore, Dan Hayes (Supt. Wharf Alcan: Kitimat Works); Arv Sestrap (Insurance, Charter Business); Canada Life, Resident, District Rep. Kitimat
Photograph of the Alcan boat dock. Trucks, cranes, and other various equipment on the wooden dock structure. There is a man behind a pile of sacks in the centre.
Photograph of the Alcan boat dock. Trucks, cranes, and other various equipment on the wooden dock structure. There is a man behind a pile of sacks in the centre.
First alumina boat to discharge alumina for Alcan Smelter in Kitimat - arrived from Port Esquivel, Jamaica, in July 1954. Ship was named S.S. "Sun Karen".
First alumina boat to discharge alumina for Alcan Smelter in Kitimat - arrived from Port Esquivel, Jamaica, in July 1954. Ship was named S.S. "Sun Karen".
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