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Exterior of the Hudson's Bay Company

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description208
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

Anderson Hill Camp buildings

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description220
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Accession Number
999.4.4
Scope and Content
Photo depicts buildings at Anderson Hill Camp. Trailers and wash houses are in the foreground. The men's bunkhouses of Anderson Creek Camp are in the background.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
214
Accession Number
999.4.4
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts buildings at Anderson Hill Camp. Trailers and wash houses are in the foreground. The men's bunkhouses of Anderson Creek Camp are in the background.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. John Manders Collection
Subject Access
Camps
Images

Barges loaded with flat-top houses

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description223
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