Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca. 1953

Accession Number

985.65.189

Scope and Content

Photo showing temporary bridge across Kitimat River, Bailey Bridge.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

9 June 1953

Accession Number

985.65.241

Scope and Content

Photo showing view of the temporary wharf area looking southeast, scow grid in front of crane at elft, cement silos centre and transit ware-house at right.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

29 December 1952

Accession Number

985.65.132

Scope and Content

Photo showing temporary covering over number 9 Aluminum Alumina Storage Bin Base looking southeast.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

26 March 1953

Accession Number

985.65.186

Scope and Content

Photo showing view of Kitimat River Bridge looking west, east pier in foreground showing whalers in place with sheet piling driven to grade, in center: pier, and on right: two bearing piles driven to required bearing. On left, sixty foot pile in place for splicing, temporary bridge crew completing placing rock in pier.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1954

Accession Number

73.3.5.1

Scope and Content

View showing railway track laying in progress across the site of potlines 3 and 4 into plant, Moore Creek Bridge in the Background Dec.17, 1954 Alcan Neg. # 28529

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952

Accession Number

78.11.28

Scope and Content

Smelter Site Looking East. Foreground, perforated Concrete Pipe for Ground Master Ditch. Middleground, Pre-cast Concrete Yard with Storage Stacks at right. Structural Steel partially complete in Service Buildings Lines D to M. Footings for Pot Line 2 at right.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 28 Aug 1970]

Accession Number

1998.1.8218

Scope and Content

A professor lecturing Alcan staff.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 31 Aug 1964]

Accession Number

1998.1.8223

Scope and Content

People sitting in the tour bus on the way to the smelter site.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 5 Apr 1961]

Accession Number

1998.1.8224

Scope and Content

Alcan's new power trucks. The logo on the side of each truck was introduced as "Reddy Kilowatt, Power Distribution's newest employee" in 1958.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 15 Aug 1959]

Accession Number

1998.1.8238

Scope and Content

View of the Alcan Aluminum Smelter Site taken from an overlook. Shows administrative buildings, smelter lines and parking lots.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 15 Aug 1959]

Accession Number

1998.1.8242

Scope and Content

View of the conveyer belts, storage facilities and smelters at the Alcan Aluminum Smelter.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 19 Aug 1959]

Accession Number

1998.1.8244

Scope and Content

View of the Alcan Aluminum Smelter Company pot lines, taken from an overlooking hill.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 25 Sept 1962]

Accession Number

1998.1.8414

Scope and Content

View of Alcan smelter, taken from the overlooking hillside.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1973

Accession Number

74.1

Scope and Content

Photo showing aerial view of Alcan dock

Part Of

Hal Williams Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

Sept 12, 1952

Accession Number

79.31.7

Scope and Content

photo showing bulldozers storage area at the smelter

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. Mar 1959]

Accession Number

1998.1.8243

Scope and Content

Frontal view of the Delta King as it is about to be refloated. Taken from the beach. Also shows Alcan and the workers bunkhouses.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 31 Aug 1964]

Accession Number

1998.1.8222

Scope and Content

People leaving a building and getting on a bus that says "plant tour" on it.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 9/12 Sept 1961]

Accession Number

1998.1.8269

Scope and Content

Alcan smelter employees returning to work after layoffs due to a tunnel closure in Kemano. (Rock fall in Kemano tunnel: 65' long, 140' high, 125 cubic yards of material had moved. Tunnel closure caused Alcan plant closure. Took a "dewatering" of tunnel to repair rock fall). Employee Eric Burr first through gate.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 27 May 1963]

Accession Number

1998.1.8435

Scope and Content

View of the Alcan Aluminum Company administration building under construction. Taken from the Anderson Creek falls point.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 12 June 1963]

Accession Number

1998.1.8436

Scope and Content

View of the Alcan Aluminum Company administrative building, taken from the East side.