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 barge at dock in Kemano. The barge is unloading what looks like housing material. Photograph is taken from a ship - rigging in foreground.
Photograph showing barge at dock in Kemano. The barge is unloading what looks like housing material. Photograph is taken from a ship - rigging in foreground.
"Indicating the size of cargo area (below) are the containers already aboard. On either side of the barge are coment hoppers for carrying cement in bulk."
"Indicating the size of cargo area (below) are the containers already aboard. On either side of the barge are coment hoppers for carrying cement in bulk."