This item is part of a large collection of photographs from Prince Rupert Daily News that was first transfered to the Prince Rupert City & Regional Archives. Images pertaining to Kitimat/Kemano were subsequently transfered to our repository
Negatives showing the Nechako Reservoir, the Kenney Dam, & the Skins Lake Spillway which were built to create hydroelectric power to be used by the Alcan aluminum smelter in Kitimat. Also pictured is Des Lake, Alcan barge Tahtsa II at East Tahtsa, a view of the Entiako River as it enters the Nechako Reservoir, an underwater cutting barge, & Eurocan's logging operation at Andrews Bay on Ootsa Lake.
Negatives showing the Nechako Reservoir, the Kenney Dam, & the Skins Lake Spillway which were built to create hydroelectric power to be used by the Alcan aluminum smelter in Kitimat. Also pictured is Des Lake, Alcan barge Tahtsa II at East Tahtsa, a view of the Entiako River as it enters the Nechako Reservoir, an underwater cutting barge, & Eurocan's logging operation at Andrews Bay on Ootsa Lake.
Illustration depicts the extent of the Project, from the Kenney Dam and reservoir area to the transmission line and smelter. The future tunnel or the Kemano Completion Project is also included.
Illustration depicts the extent of the Project, from the Kenney Dam and reservoir area to the transmission line and smelter. The future tunnel or the Kemano Completion Project is also included.
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Illustration from Alcan's publication "Kitimat-Kemano, Five Years of Operation, 1954-1959". Alcan Collection
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.
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.
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.
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.
Photo of four men in suits. One man with his arm raised in greeting, a cigar in his other hand. They are standing on a railcar. Naming ceremony for Kenny Dam.
Left to right: The Honourable Edward T. Kenney, Liberal Minister of the Department of Lands and Forests for the Province of British Columbia, Ron Whyte's father William Alan Whyte, General Freight Agent (Western Division) for the Canadian National Railways and Steamships, Vancouver, BC; McNeely DuBose, Vice-President, Aluminum Company of Canada, Limited; and The Honourable Clarence Wallace, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of British Columbia.
Photo of four men in suits. One man with his arm raised in greeting, a cigar in his other hand. They are standing on a railcar. Naming ceremony for Kenny Dam.
Left to right: The Honourable Edward T. Kenney, Liberal Minister of the Department of Lands and Forests for the Province of British Columbia, Ron Whyte's father William Alan Whyte, General Freight Agent (Western Division) for the Canadian National Railways and Steamships, Vancouver, BC; McNeely DuBose, Vice-President, Aluminum Company of Canada, Limited; and The Honourable Clarence Wallace, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of British Columbia.
Photo of people standing in front of large area of cleared land with a winding dirt road. Euclids and other machinery visible on road. Gathering is for the Kenney Dam naming ceremony and the crowd is overlooking the dam site.
Photo of people standing in front of large area of cleared land with a winding dirt road. Euclids and other machinery visible on road. Gathering is for the Kenney Dam naming ceremony and the crowd is overlooking the dam site.
Photo showing a TD-24 spreading a layer of alrge stones at the base of Nechako Damn west to the rock fill portion which is laid in first, these layers of various size rock, stone and clay with all slope towards the rock fill at about the degree pitch.
Photo showing a TD-24 spreading a layer of alrge stones at the base of Nechako Damn west to the rock fill portion which is laid in first, these layers of various size rock, stone and clay with all slope towards the rock fill at about the degree pitch.