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West Tahtsa Lake tent camp

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
September 13, 1951
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers walking down the boardwalk between tents at West Tahtsa Lake Camp.
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Item
Item Number
28
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
September 13, 1951
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers walking down the boardwalk between tents at West Tahtsa Lake Camp.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-26. Alcan Collection
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Tent with flat-top house assembly

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1956
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a tent with flat-top house assembly on a production line in West Vancouver for Johnson-Crooks Construction Corporation.
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Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Item Number
216
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1956
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a tent with flat-top house assembly on a production line in West Vancouver for Johnson-Crooks Construction Corporation.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Slide No. 40 -- The circus tent assembly line was erected at Vancouver Tug and Barge below the Lion's Gate Bridge. Temporary housing destined for Kitimat was assembled there 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. Bill Frahler Collection 2003.32
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Swing shift at Camp No. 2600

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
November 22, 1955
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the swing shift at Camp No. 2600 prior to lowering the first liner down upper raise penstock No. 2.
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Description Level
Item
Item Number
59
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
November 22, 1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the swing shift at Camp No. 2600 prior to lowering the first liner down upper raise penstock No. 2.
Notes
Alcan ID no. 5793. -- Penstock No. 2 was completed after the smelter had started aluminum production in 1954 with Penstock No. 1. Alcan Collection
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Horetzky Creek Camp

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1951
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two men standing beside the aluminum-sided quounset huts at Horetzky Creek Camp.
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Item
Item Number
33
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Photographed by the International Harvester Company, manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project.
Date Range
ca. 1951
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two men standing beside the aluminum-sided quounset huts at Horetzky Creek Camp.
Notes
Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.71
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Camp No. 10 tents and cook

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 12, 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the "main street" of Camp No. 10 partially cleared. A cook stands beside one of several new tents that have been erected.
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Item
Item Number
117
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
May 12, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the "main street" of Camp No. 10 partially cleared. A cook stands beside one of several new tents that have been erected.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. KR-922. Alcan Collection
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Transmission line
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New stairway at Camp No. 2600

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
June 17, 1955
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the new stairway leading up a bank to crew quarters at Camp No. 2600.
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Item
Item Number
62
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
June 17, 1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the new stairway leading up a bank to crew quarters at Camp No. 2600.
Notes
Alcan ID no. 5793. Alcan Collection
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West Tahtsa Lake camp and intake

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
September 26, 1951
Accession Number
73.3.9.10
Scope and Content
Photo depicts West Tahtsa camp and intake.
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Item
Item Number
27
Accession Number
73.3.9.10
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
September 26, 1951
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 4" x 3"
Scope and Content
Photo depicts West Tahtsa camp and intake.
Notes
Alcan Collection
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Horetzky Camp quonset hut construction

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
September 21, 1951
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Horetzky Camp's many aluminum-sided quounset huts during construction. The camp is situated at the foot of Mt. Horetzky.
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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Creator
Morrison-Knudsen Company
Description Level
Item
Item Number
32
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
September 21, 1951
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Horetzky Camp's many aluminum-sided quounset huts during construction. The camp is situated at the foot of Mt. Horetzky.
Notes
Alcan Collection
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Camp at Kildala Pass

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca.1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two workers looking on as a Sikorsky S-55 helicopter brings in a load of supplies to the transmission line camp atop Kildala Pass.
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Item
Item Number
11
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca.1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two workers looking on as a Sikorsky S-55 helicopter brings in a load of supplies to the transmission line camp atop Kildala Pass.
Notes
Photographed by the International Harverster Company, manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.82
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Supply Junker at West Tahtsa Lake Camp

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
January 26, 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts men towing supplies over the snow on a [sled], that were brought in by a junker seen here to West Tahtsa Lake Camp. Other unidentified men are gathered around the airplane.
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Item
Item Number
30
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
January 26, 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts men towing supplies over the snow on a [sled], that were brought in by a junker seen here to West Tahtsa Lake Camp. Other unidentified men are gathered around the airplane.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-128. Alcan Collection
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Memories of the Project

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Material Type
Virtual Exhibit
Description
Kitimat was the place to be in North America in the 1950s. The massive Alcan project in the northwest British Columbia was completed in just five years - dam, tunnel, powerhouse, Kemano, transmission line, smelter, and Kitimat. Browse through Kitimat history with these project images - a BC digital collection. The project was one of the most photographed and filmed construction jobs in BC history.
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Material Type
Virtual Exhibit
Description
Kitimat was the place to be in North America in the 1950s. The massive Alcan project in the northwest British Columbia was completed in just five years - dam, tunnel, powerhouse, Kemano, transmission line, smelter, and Kitimat. Browse through Kitimat history with these project images - a BC digital collection. The project was one of the most photographed and filmed construction jobs in BC history.
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Anderson Creek Bowling Alley construction

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
August 04, 1955
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the Anderson Creek Bowling Alley under construction.
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Description Level
Item
Item Number
185
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
August 04, 1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the Anderson Creek Bowling Alley under construction.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
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Construction - Paving - Heritage Files

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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
24 May 1956
Accession Number
2005.8.960
Scope and Content
Photo showing paving (probably Osprey, Oriole Streets).
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Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Creator
Photographer: Mike Kinnear
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2005.8.960
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Mike Kinnear
Date Range
24 May 1956
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 7" x 4"
Custodial History
#2 Northern Sentinel: Box #2: Heritage - Construction - Paving
Scope and Content
Photo showing paving (probably Osprey, Oriole Streets).
Notes
P00178 on Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Subject Access
Construction
Storage Location
Artifact Storage
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Men and machines Copco drill set-up

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
March 18, 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the placing of men and machines in a typical "Copco" drilling set-up on the West Tahtsa main bore jumbo.
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Description Level
Item
Item Number
35
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
March 18, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the placing of men and machines in a typical "Copco" drilling set-up on the West Tahtsa main bore jumbo.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-789. -- The lowest platform folds to allow the passage of muck cars. Alcan Collection
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Mucking penstock with loader

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
March 31, 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts men mucking in No. 2 penstock using an overhead loader.
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Description Level
Item
Item Number
36
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
March 31, 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts men mucking in No. 2 penstock using an overhead loader.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-236. Alcan Collection
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Worker using diamond drill

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
March 31, 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts an unidentified worker using a diamond drill set-up in Slot No. 1.
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Description Level
Item
Item Number
37
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
March 31, 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts an unidentified worker using a diamond drill set-up in Slot No. 1.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-238. Alcan Collection
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Drill doctor's shop

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
October 01, 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts three men inside the underground drill doctor's shop.
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Description Level
Item
Item Number
38
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
October 01, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts three men inside the underground drill doctor's shop.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-1304. Alcan Collection
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Mucking at the face

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 28, 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers mucking at the face inside the tunnel at Station 28 plus 75 at West Tahtsa.
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Description Level
Item
Item Number
39
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
May 28, 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers mucking at the face inside the tunnel at Station 28 plus 75 at West Tahtsa.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-354. -- The heavy timbering seen lining the tunnel prevented loose rock from falling on miners' heads. Alcan Collection
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Drilling off the face

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
November 24, 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers drilling off another round at the tunnel face.
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Description Level
Item
Item Number
40
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
November 24, 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers drilling off another round at the tunnel face.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-676. Alcan Collection
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Afternoon shift

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Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
June 25, 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers from the afternoon shift exiting the Horetzky adit.
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Description Level
Item
Item Number
41
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
June 25, 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers from the afternoon shift exiting the Horetzky adit.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-396. Alcan Collection
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