Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

5 August 1953

Accession Number

985.65.275

Scope and Content

Photo showing view looking north across Alumina Storage Building 504, forms being prepared for upper portion of east wall and dragline completing deep excavation at north end of building.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

13 August 1953

Accession Number

985.65.288

Scope and Content

Photo showing view looking south over Alumina Storage Building, vertical sides of tunnel excavation.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1954

Accession Number

78.11.64

Scope and Content

Looking northeast along Conveyor C2 showing gallery steel erected. Alumina Storage Building #504 at Conveyor C2 Centre.

Part Of

Meldrum Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1955/56

Accession Number

77.35.16.20

Scope and Content

Aerial View of Alumina storage bins

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

Maclean Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

July 1954

Accession Number

72.2

Scope and Content

First alumina boat to discharge alumina for Alcan Smelter in Kitimat - arrived from Port Esquivel, Jamaica, in July 1954. Ship was named S.S. "Sun Karen".

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

Kitimat Heritage Advisory Commission fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

4 Mar 1955

Accession Number

2014.14.33

Scope and Content

Photograph of aerial view looking north showing the excavation for Alumina Storage Silos, and Potline 1 and 2 in background.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952

Accession Number

73.3.3.33

Scope and Content

Photo showing alumina storage bin base

Part Of

Jennings-Giles fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1954]

Accession Number

2012.9.17

Scope and Content

Photograph of Alcan Aluminum Smelter, mountains in the background.

Part Of

Hal Whiting Fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

4 June 1953

Accession Number

985.65.236

Scope and Content

Photo showing smeltersite looking east showing progress of structural steel and aluminum cladding in potline 2 and concrete footings and pot recess flours in potline 1. Service Building, roofs are completed, substation and precast yard and storage in foreground.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Series

GMD

textual records

Date Range

1956

Accession Number

2021.44

Scope and Content

Book titled "Aluminum Company of Canada, Ltd. Employee Training Division Montreal Trainee Manual", with a dark green cover, and an image of an aluminum ingot in the centre. Includes a letter from P. E. Radley to Mr. W.S. Mosher, explaining that this manual was sent as a sort of "guidebook" for British Columbia Employees, instead of a tour of the Eastern Canada plants.

Part Of

Prince Rupert Daily News fonds.

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

26 Sept. 1991

Accession Number

2010.1.7

Scope and Content

Photograph of bundles of aluminum cylinder ingots.

Part Of

Max Patzelt fonds

Description Level

Series

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1979] - 23 Jul 1984

Accession Number

2004.16

Scope and Content

Negatives showing aerial images of the Alcan aluminum smelter from different distances and angles.

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

Meldrum Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1955

Accession Number

77.35.16.18

Scope and Content

Yacht club basin, alumina storage bins