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Aerial of Nechako neighbourhood

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1954
Accession Number
2002.16.29
Scope and Content
Photo depicts an aerial view of a portion of the Nechako neighbourhood showing the Hullah prototype area, Pintail and Partridge streets, in the foreground.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
175
Accession Number
2002.16.29
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Photographed by Fred Ryan.
Date Range
ca. 1954
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts an aerial view of a portion of the Nechako neighbourhood showing the Hullah prototype area, Pintail and Partridge streets, in the foreground.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. District of Kitimat Collection
Subject Access
Towns
Images

Aerial view of smeltersite

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts an aerial view of the smeltersite main camp showing married quarters, sternwheeler Delta King, hydraulic fill in progress, recreation building, hospital, power plant, sawmill and water tank.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
134
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts an aerial view of the smeltersite main camp showing married quarters, sternwheeler Delta King, hydraulic fill in progress, recreation building, hospital, power plant, sawmill and water tank.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID Numbers BC-2-243 and ACM-24311. Alcan Collection 78.11.32
Subject Access
Smelters
Images

Alcan Project humorous reprieve certificate

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca.1952
Scope and Content
Image depicts a humorous reprieve certificate given to employees of the Alcan Project. The content also implies the hardships endured by the Morrison-Knudsen Company workers in Kemano.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
13
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca.1952
Physical Description
1 digital image : col.
Scope and Content
Image depicts a humorous reprieve certificate given to employees of the Alcan Project. The content also implies the hardships endured by the Morrison-Knudsen Company workers in Kemano.
Notes
Title based on contents of text. Ernie Archer Collection
Subject Access
Kemano
Morrison-Knudsen Company
Images

Barges loaded with flat-top houses

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Accession Number
77.58.10
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two barges moored in Douglas Channel and loaded with flat-top house sections for construction workers and their families.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
217
Accession Number
77.58.10
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
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
Subject Access
Construction of Buildings
Housing
Images
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca.1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two workers looking on as a Sikorsky S-55 helicopter brings in a load of supplies to the transmission line camp atop Kildala Pass.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
11
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca.1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two workers looking on as a Sikorsky S-55 helicopter brings in a load of supplies to the transmission line camp atop Kildala Pass.
Notes
Photographed by the International Harverster Company, manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.82
Subject Access
Camps
Transmission line
Construction
Images

Century House, City Centre

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1959
Accession Number
78.11.126
Scope and Content
Aerial of Kitimat's office building in the downtown area. The Royal Bank of Canada occupied the main floor, and Property and Power Operations for the Aluminum Company of Canada occupied an upper floor. Kildala Neighbourhood is shown in the background.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
253
Accession Number
78.11.126
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1959
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w 1 negative : b&w ; 6x7.5cm
Scope and Content
Aerial of Kitimat's office building in the downtown area. The Royal Bank of Canada occupied the main floor, and Property and Power Operations for the Aluminum Company of Canada occupied an upper floor. Kildala Neighbourhood is shown in the background.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Alcan Collection. Negative found in 2014.14 collection.
Subject Access
commerce
Images

Exterior of the Hudson's Bay Company

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Accession Number
2000.23.40
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the exterior of the Hudson's Bay Trading Company building at Smeltersite
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
202
Accession Number
2000.23.40
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the exterior of the Hudson's Bay Trading Company building at Smeltersite
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Ken & Joyce MacKinnon Collection
Subject Access
Stores
Storage Location
Curator Bay 1 Shelf 2 Box 15
Images

First air mail via PWA

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two men kneeling beside the first bags of mail to arrive via Pacific Western Airlines. On the right, Captain T. M. Kellough for PWA delivers the bags to on the left, Kitimat Express driver Lloyd Kaberg, at the wharf, Smeltersite. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
198
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two men kneeling beside the first bags of mail to arrive via Pacific Western Airlines. On the right, Captain T. M. Kellough for PWA delivers the bags to on the left, Kitimat Express driver Lloyd Kaberg, at the wharf, Smeltersite. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
Notes
Title based on content of photograph.
Subject Access
Services
Kemano
Airplanes
Images
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the Hullah houses, prefabricated and assembled on site.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
171
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Photographer Fred Ryan.
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the Hullah houses, prefabricated and assembled on site.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. School District No. 80 Collection 982.91.23
Subject Access
Hullah Construction
Townsite
Images

International Crawler at Kemano Valley

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts an International TD-24 crawler dozing tunnel muck at the 2600' camp above the Kemano Valley.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
12
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts an International TD-24 crawler dozing tunnel muck at the 2600' camp above the Kemano Valley.
Notes
ID No. C 6098. -- Title based on content of photo. -- The International Harvester Company, manufacturers of construction equipment such as this crawler purchased for the Project. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.75
Subject Access
Construction
Transmission line
Images

Nechako Centre completed

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the exterior of the newly completed Nechako Centre in Kitimat, Shop Easy at the end of the complex. A bulldozer compacts the gravel - site preparation for the parking lot.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
254
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 28 x 22 cm
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the exterior of the newly completed Nechako Centre in Kitimat, Shop Easy at the end of the complex. A bulldozer compacts the gravel - site preparation for the parking lot.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Part of Board of School Trustees Collection 982.91
Subject Access
Construction of Buildings
Images

Temporary hospital at Alcan Beach

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Accession Number
77.68.3
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the temporary hospital constructed on the beach at Smeltersite.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
197
Accession Number
77.68.3
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the temporary hospital constructed on the beach at Smeltersite.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Kitimat General Hospital Collection
Subject Access
Hospitals
Construction of Buildings
Images

Tent with flat-top house assembly

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1956
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a tent with flat-top house assembly on a production line in West Vancouver for Johnson-Crooks Construction Corporation.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Item Number
216
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1956
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a tent with flat-top house assembly on a production line in West Vancouver for Johnson-Crooks Construction Corporation.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Slide No. 40 -- The circus tent assembly line was erected at Vancouver Tug and Barge below the Lion's Gate Bridge. Temporary housing destined for Kitimat was assembled there 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. Bill Frahler Collection 2003.32
Subject Access
Construction of Buildings
Images
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955 or 1956
Scope and Content
Photo depicts White Hall, the women's residence at Smeltersite.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
213
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955 or 1956
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts White Hall, the women's residence at Smeltersite.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Evelyn Harris Collection Accession # 70.30.1
Subject Access
Construction of Buildings
Images

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