Fonds consists of over 200 photograph slides and photograph negatives from 1952 & 1953. Images are of Caisson dock construction, wharf and smeltersite construction.
Approximately 200 photograph slides and photographs
History / Biographical
Fred DeLory was an engineer on the Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd. smeltersite construction project f rom 1952 to 1953. He worked in an office that was located uphill from where the first pot lines were located. He went on to become a professor of civil engineering at the University of Toronto.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of over 200 photograph slides and photograph negatives from 1952 & 1953. Images are of Caisson dock construction, wharf and smeltersite construction.
Photo depicts a worker with a double-headed axe on the Alcan Project posed at a waterfall located in the Kemano area.
Notes
Photographed by the International Harvester Company, manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.76
Photo depicts a surveyor on the Alcan Project surveying and posed beside a waterfall located in the Kemano area.
Notes
Photographed by the International Harvester Company, manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project. -- ID No. C6067. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.79
Malcolm Baxter died in 2020. His father Basil, was very instrumental in the organization of Kitimat in the early years. Basil was married to Cathy Baxter and they had two sons - Malcolm and Michael.
Custodial History
Part of items collected by Malcolm Baxter, former editer of NSP. Brought into the museum by Judith Cullington, Malcolm's sister-in-law.
Scope and Content
Photograph of bare and stripped section of woods in Nechako. Just a few standing tree trunks left. Winter. Homes and mountains visible in background.
Alice Dicker's father, Benard, came to Canada to work in 1955. He was a forman D-shift for Alcan. He married Anna in 1959. Alice and her sister Claudia were born in Kitimat and the family lived here until 1969, at which time they returned to Germany.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Nechako Centre. Shop-Easy store sign visible, and there are cars in parking lot. Tennis court is in front.