Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1950s

Accession Number

2005.8.236

Scope and Content

Photo showing The Kenney Dam, also the construction site. The Nechako Reservoir started to fill in October 1952, and with completion of the Kenney Dam in 1954 a 145 mile long expanse of water covering 339 sq. miles was created.

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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

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Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

Ca. 1954

Accession Number

2005.8.9296

Scope and Content

Photograph of guiding construction at Kenney Dam are (left to right) Harry Jomini, resident engineer for Aluminum Company of Canada, Ltd, and "Hak" Nielsen, general superintendent, and J.R. Bremner, project manager, for the contractor, Mannix Ltd, of Vancouver. Mannix Ltd is the sub-contractor for Morrison-Knudsen Company of Canada, Ltd. Sluicing down of dam's rock fill is going on in background.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca. 1954

Accession Number

2005.8.8341

Scope and Content

Photograph of the men in front of Kenney Dam

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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

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Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[July 3, 1963]

Accession Number

2005.8.9112

Scope and Content

Photograph showing an aerial view of Kenney Dam looking Northeast

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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

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Item

GMD

graphic material

Accession Number

2005.8.6656

Scope and Content

Photograph of the Kenney Dam on the Nechako River.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[July 3, 1963]

Accession Number

2005.8.9113

Scope and Content

Photograph showing an aerial view of Kenney Dam looking south at downstream face.

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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[July 3, 1964]

Accession Number

2005.8.9114

Scope and Content

Photograph showing an aerial view of Kenney Dam looking east along downstream face.

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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

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Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

{September 26, 1963}

Accession Number

2005.8.9365

Scope and Content

Photograph showing the site for the Peace River dam

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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

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Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca Sep 10 1974

Accession Number

2005.8.6947

Scope and Content

" 'E.T.Kenney kids got together with nieghboring Clarence Michiel students to hamit up for our cameraman on completing the first week of classes. (John Anderson photo.)''Clarence Miechiel school.'."

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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

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Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

7 January 1975

Accession Number

2005.8.4986

Scope and Content

Photo showing one of many beaver huts seen along the Kitimat-Terrace highway.

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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

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Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

31 July 1968

Accession Number

2005.8.1755

Scope and Content

Photo showing a beaver dam being blown to smitherings. It took 4 blast to completely remove the dam.

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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

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Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

31 July 1968

Accession Number

2005.8.1881

Scope and Content

Photo showing up to 16 of these dynamite sticks were used for each of the explosions it took to blast open the beaver dam. Fuse and cap were inserted at the end of the stick. The fuse burns at the rate of about a foot per minute.

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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

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Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

7 January 1975

Accession Number

2005.8.4985

Scope and Content

Photo showing a beaver dam in the Hot Springs area.