Hotel Manager George More is seen with some of the boys around 6 a.m. in the Gordon's main beverage room. Flood waters covered the tiled floor to a depth of several inches. Clean-up crews were on the job before noon and the hotel was back in business the same day, reflecting the swiftness with which the water dropped.
Hotel Manager George More is seen with some of the boys around 6 a.m. in the Gordon's main beverage room. Flood waters covered the tiled floor to a depth of several inches. Clean-up crews were on the job before noon and the hotel was back in business the same day, reflecting the swiftness with which the water dropped.
Photo showing Kildala school Sports Day: Mrs. Mary Connolly, Carol Graham, Susan Stiff, Karen Innhart, Geoff Harris, Donald Major. Bicycle Decorating Competition.
Northern Sentinel Box #3 -(A) Historical (I) School District #80 (a) Elementary Schools (i) Kildala Elementary
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Photo showing Kildala school Sports Day: Mrs. Mary Connolly, Carol Graham, Susan Stiff, Karen Innhart, Geoff Harris, Donald Major. Bicycle Decorating Competition.
Photo depicts an aerial view of a portion of the Nechako neighbourhood showing the Hullah prototype area, Pintail and Partridge streets, in the foreground.
Photo depicts an aerial view of a portion of the Nechako neighbourhood showing the Hullah prototype area, Pintail and Partridge streets, in the foreground.
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Title based on content of photograph. District of Kitimat Collection
Photo depicts flat-top temporary housing lining the hillside up to the Aluminum City Motel at the treeline. View is northwest. Grader on Kuldo Boulevard.
Photo depicts flat-top temporary housing lining the hillside up to the Aluminum City Motel at the treeline. View is northwest. Grader on Kuldo Boulevard.
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Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan Negative No. 29337. -- The circus tent assembly line was erected . 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. 73.3.6.6
Photo depicts Nechako Neighbourhood, swath of land cleared for Neighbourhood "D", and Douglas Channel in the background, smelter on the right.
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Famed Canadian documentary photographer Malak Karsh was hired in the 1950s by Alcan to take photographs of Arvida and Kitimat. Many were published in Alcan literature and textbooks on Canada. A colourized version of this photograph appears on the cover of the Canadian Geographical Journal, November 1959, Vol. LIX No.5. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
Photograph of Kitimat Junior Girls Basketball Team from 1980. Kitimat Junior Girls Basketball Team. Back row (left to right): Gary Maitland, Sheila Hatch, Joanna Galloway, Lisa Knight, Marie Gubbels, Kelly McClelland, Petula Dedish, Donna Rhindress, Karen Bosiak, Tamara Thomson, Ron MacAuley. Front row (left to right): Tracey Stephens, Alison McDonald, Donna Brodie, Jackie Trach, Sharie Reithaug, Janet Meyer and Angie Williams.
Photograph of Kitimat Junior Girls Basketball Team from 1980. Kitimat Junior Girls Basketball Team. Back row (left to right): Gary Maitland, Sheila Hatch, Joanna Galloway, Lisa Knight, Marie Gubbels, Kelly McClelland, Petula Dedish, Donna Rhindress, Karen Bosiak, Tamara Thomson, Ron MacAuley. Front row (left to right): Tracey Stephens, Alison McDonald, Donna Brodie, Jackie Trach, Sharie Reithaug, Janet Meyer and Angie Williams.
Photo depicts students sitting at their desks in class at West Tahtsa Lake School. Smaller students join the teacher at the chalkboard. A cat beside them is peering out the window.
Photo depicts students sitting at their desks in class at West Tahtsa Lake School. Smaller students join the teacher at the chalkboard. A cat beside them is peering out the window.
Photo depicts night school English class held at Nechako Elementary School. From left is Frida Meuser from Germany, Jacob Hadland from Norway, Frank Ginur from Austria, and Crista Mais from Portugal.
Photo depicts night school English class held at Nechako Elementary School. From left is Frida Meuser from Germany, Jacob Hadland from Norway, Frank Ginur from Austria, and Crista Mais from Portugal.
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Title based on content of photograph. Northern Sentinel Press Collection 983.42.8
