Photo showing Security Guards; L/R Rex Moore, Jack O'Brian. Mr. Moore & Mr. O'Brian found the safe stolen from the Hudson's Bay Trading Company at Smeltersite (Kitimat Robbery)
Photo showing Security Guards; L/R Rex Moore, Jack O'Brian. Mr. Moore & Mr. O'Brian found the safe stolen from the Hudson's Bay Trading Company at Smeltersite (Kitimat Robbery)
Slide showing Hudson's Bay Company at smeltersite. In front is a white bus, and the slope leading down to the beach. Two people are standing down there. Powerline pole to the left of them. In the background the bunkohouses and other houses are visible.
James McNay was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on January 31, 1907. Between 1951 and 1953, he worked in the payroll department for Alcan. He had to leave his wife Effie and his two young daughters, Margaret and Diane, aged 6 and 5 in 1951, at home in Surrey, B.C., during his 3-4 month stints in Kitimat. To fill some of his free time and show his family where he was and what Kitimat was like, he spent many hours walking in the area with a 35mm Kodak camera. He photographed the scenic beauty of the area and parts of the construction of both the smelters and the town. He died in Surrey on August 7, 1983.
Custodial History
Donated by Margaret McNay. Images were taken by her father and sent to their family in Surrey in the 1950s.
Scope and Content
Slide showing Hudson's Bay Company at smeltersite. In front is a white bus, and the slope leading down to the beach. Two people are standing down there. Powerline pole to the left of them. In the background the bunkohouses and other houses are visible.
Photograph of smeltersite showing road with vehicles and someone walking on the right, and Hudson's Bay building side view with people in front on the left. Alcan buildings in background.
Mike (Miecyszlaw) and Nancy Marciniak lived and worked in Kitimat in the 1950s. Their daughter, Nancy Anne, was born here in 1957.
Scope and Content
Photograph of smeltersite showing road with vehicles and someone walking on the right, and Hudson's Bay building side view with people in front on the left. Alcan buildings in background.
Photo showing "Santa Visits The Bay", Hudson's Bay Trading Company at Smeltersite. L/R Santa, Janice Hallman, daughter Reeve Wilbur Hallman, Marc Dumesnil, Johnny Fortier, son of J.J. Fortier.
Photo showing "Santa Visits The Bay", Hudson's Bay Trading Company at Smeltersite. L/R Santa, Janice Hallman, daughter Reeve Wilbur Hallman, Marc Dumesnil, Johnny Fortier, son of J.J. Fortier.
Jamieson came to Kitimat from Vancouver to work on the Alcan project in 1952. With his first pay cheque he bought a small "Pony Kodak" camera at the local store (Hudson Bay?), and started taking coloured slides of the Kitimat from 1952-1953. Left Kitimat at the end of August 1953 to move to Montreal.
Scope and Content
Slide of smeltersite and Kitimat Bay viewed from top of cement tower.
