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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.
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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
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Boat at Alcan Dock

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Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
{June 4, 1954}
Accession Number
2005.8.9417
Scope and Content
Photograph of the "Sun Karen" that sailed on May 14, 1954 from Port Esquirel, Jamaica with first shipment of Alumina refined from Jamaican bauxite for Kitimat Works.
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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2005.8.9417
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
{June 4, 1954}
Physical Description
1 photograph : b & w ; 24 x 16 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the "Sun Karen" that sailed on May 14, 1954 from Port Esquirel, Jamaica with first shipment of Alumina refined from Jamaican bauxite for Kitimat Works.
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Group of People on Pacific Western Airlines Dock.

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Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1954
Accession Number
2005.8.8736
Scope and Content
Photograph showing A.C. Turney and a group of unknown people standing on a Pacific Western Airlines dock.
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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2005.8.8736
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1954
Physical Description
1 photograph : b & w ; 16 x 20 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph showing A.C. Turney and a group of unknown people standing on a Pacific Western Airlines dock.
Name Access
Turney, A.C.
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Loading Bell helicopter

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952 or 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two men loading supplies for construction of the transmission line into a Bell helicopter. The transmission line right-of-way is seen in the background.
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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
108
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952 or 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two men loading supplies for construction of the transmission line into a Bell helicopter. The transmission line right-of-way is seen in the background.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Kitimat Heritage Advisory Commission Collection
Subject Access
Transmission line
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Loading ingots at the dock

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1955
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a worker spotting the loading pallets of ingots as they are hoisted aboard a freighter at the dock at Alcan Kitimat Works.
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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
150
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a worker spotting the loading pallets of ingots as they are hoisted aboard a freighter at the dock at Alcan Kitimat Works.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
Subject Access
Smelters
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Materials Loaded on to Barges

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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
{May 31, 1956]
Accession Number
2005.8.8859
Scope and Content
Photograph showing equipment and material being loaded on to barges in North Vancouver
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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2005.8.8859
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
{May 31, 1956]
Physical Description
1 photograph : b & w : 20 x 25 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph showing equipment and material being loaded on to barges in North Vancouver
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People Looking at Art Exhibition

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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
{Ca. 1956}
Accession Number
2005.8.9352
Scope and Content
Photograph showing people looking at an outdoor exhibition of oil paintings by local artists in Nechako Centre
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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
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Item
Accession Number
2005.8.9352
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
{Ca. 1956}
Physical Description
1 photograph : b & w ; 25 x 20 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph showing people looking at an outdoor exhibition of oil paintings by local artists in Nechako Centre
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Power Shovel loading Dumptruck at Sandhill

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Part Of
Feliks Rewers Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1950-1953
Accession Number
2002.44.34
Scope and Content
Photograph of Kitimat Constructors. Bucyrus-Erie power shovel loading Euclid dumptruck at sandhill.
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Part Of
Feliks Rewers Collection
Creator
Feliks Rewers
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2002.44.34
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1950-1953
Physical Description
1 photograph print : b&w ; 3.5 x 5 in
Custodial History
Wanda Rewers
Scope and Content
Photograph of Kitimat Constructors. Bucyrus-Erie power shovel loading Euclid dumptruck at sandhill.
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Power Shovel loading Dumptruck at Sandhill

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Part Of
Feliks Rewers Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1950-1953
Accession Number
2002.44.35
Scope and Content
Photograph of Bucyrus-Erie power shovel loading Euclid dumptruck at sandhill.
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Part Of
Feliks Rewers Collection
Creator
Feliks Rewers
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2002.44.35
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1950-1953
Physical Description
1 photograph print : b&w ; 3.5 x 5 in
Custodial History
Wanda Rewers
Scope and Content
Photograph of Bucyrus-Erie power shovel loading Euclid dumptruck at sandhill.
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Powershovel Loading Dumptruck

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Part Of
Feliks Rewers Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1950-1953
Accession Number
2002.44.41
Scope and Content
Photograph of powershovel loading Euclid dumptruck. Smelter construction.
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Part Of
Feliks Rewers Collection
Creator
Feliks Rewers
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2002.44.41
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1950-1953
Physical Description
1 photograph print : b&w ; 3.5 x 5 in
Custodial History
Wanda Rewers
Scope and Content
Photograph of powershovel loading Euclid dumptruck. Smelter construction.
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RCMP Boat at the Dock

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Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca.1957
Accession Number
2005.8.8655
Scope and Content
Photograph showing a RCMP boat tied up at the dock with icicles forming on the railings.
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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2005.8.8655
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca.1957
Physical Description
1 photograph : b & w ; 12.5 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph showing a RCMP boat tied up at the dock with icicles forming on the railings.
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Sending Off First People to Travel From Kitimat to Montreal by Rail

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Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
[January 20, 1955]
Accession Number
2005.8.8738
Scope and Content
Photograph showing Alcan's Manager of Power Operations, J.T. Madill sending A.W. Whitaker off as he and his wife become the first people to cover the entire Kitimat to Montreal distance by rail.
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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2005.8.8738
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
[January 20, 1955]
Physical Description
1 photograph : b & w ; 18 x 15.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph showing Alcan's Manager of Power Operations, J.T. Madill sending A.W. Whitaker off as he and his wife become the first people to cover the entire Kitimat to Montreal distance by rail.
Name Access
Madill, J.t
Whitaker, A.W.
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Three People Looking at Student Art Show

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Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
{March 26, 1959}
Accession Number
2005.8.9341
Scope and Content
Photograph showing Mrs. Roy Shupe, Mrs. Don Forward, and Margaret Forward examining some of the paintings at the Student's Art Show.
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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2005.8.9341
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
{March 26, 1959}
Physical Description
1 photograph : b & w ; 14.5 x 15 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph showing Mrs. Roy Shupe, Mrs. Don Forward, and Margaret Forward examining some of the paintings at the Student's Art Show.
Name Access
Shupe, Mrs. Roy
Forward, Mrs. Don
Forward, Margaret
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