Photo depicts a view of Minette Bay scow grid with two barges being unloaded. The left barge is loaded with Johnson Crooks materials and the right barge with Hullah Construction materials.
Photo depicts a view of Minette Bay scow grid with two barges being unloaded. The left barge is loaded with Johnson Crooks materials and the right barge with Hullah Construction materials.
Photo depicts a view of Minette Bay scow grid with two barges being unloaded. The left barge is loaded with Johnson Crooks materials and the right barge with Hullah Construction materials.
Photo depicts a view of Minette Bay scow grid with two barges being unloaded. The left barge is loaded with Johnson Crooks materials and the right barge with Hullah Construction materials.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-1061. Alcan Collection 78.11.89
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
Photo showing the muck dredged from the wharf area to provide sufficient water space for large ships dumped on these barges by the Clamshell Bucket and towed out into deep water by a small motor boat, the TD-9 dozer goes to work pushing the load off as they move along.
Photo showing the muck dredged from the wharf area to provide sufficient water space for large ships dumped on these barges by the Clamshell Bucket and towed out into deep water by a small motor boat, the TD-9 dozer goes to work pushing the load off as they move along.
Photograph of waste material being loaded out of he Riverlodge area. A large proportion of this waste is ice and snow. Bulldozer visible on mound of debris on left, and another bulldozer on the right is loading material into a dump truck.
Photos belonged to Raymond Stanyer who worked in Kitimat, and were donated by his wife, Pat Stanyer
Scope and Content
Photograph of waste material being loaded out of he Riverlodge area. A large proportion of this waste is ice and snow. Bulldozer visible on mound of debris on left, and another bulldozer on the right is loading material into a dump truck.
9 artifacts and 5 animal bones:
GaTe 5:13 - Granite stone hand maul, Indigenous, ca. 5,500-1,500 YBP (years before present).
GaTe 5:14-15 - 2 basalt stone cores, single flake removed.
GaTe 5:16 - 1 basalt stone core, bipolar reduction (two flakes removed).
GaTe 5:17 - Fragments of ceramic bowl, English, stamped with "Colonial Pottery Stoke England," c. 1891-1920
GaTe 5:18 - Brown glass bottle, stamped with "Made in 2377 W.S.3 Canada," Labatt Pilsner, c. 1890-1909
GaTe 5:19 - Brown glass bottle, stamped with "Made in V-1320 W.S.8 Canada."
GaTe 5:20 - Brown leather boot, upper portion, handmade, likely from Anderson Ranch, c. 1898-1926
GaTe 5:21 - Enamel-granite wear coated steel plate, c. 1890-1900s
2 horse bones (femur and metacarpal)
1 cow bone (metatarsal)
1 great blue heron bone (femur)
1 bald eagle bone (sternum)
9 artifacts and 5 animal bones:
GaTe 5:13 - Granite stone hand maul, Indigenous, ca. 5,500-1,500 YBP (years before present).
GaTe 5:14-15 - 2 basalt stone cores, single flake removed.
GaTe 5:16 - 1 basalt stone core, bipolar reduction (two flakes removed).
GaTe 5:17 - Fragments of ceramic bowl, English, stamped with "Colonial Pottery Stoke England," c. 1891-1920
GaTe 5:18 - Brown glass bottle, stamped with "Made in 2377 W.S.3 Canada," Labatt Pilsner, c. 1890-1909
GaTe 5:19 - Brown glass bottle, stamped with "Made in V-1320 W.S.8 Canada."
GaTe 5:20 - Brown leather boot, upper portion, handmade, likely from Anderson Ranch, c. 1898-1926
GaTe 5:21 - Enamel-granite wear coated steel plate, c. 1890-1900s
2 horse bones (femur and metacarpal)
1 cow bone (metatarsal)
1 great blue heron bone (femur)
1 bald eagle bone (sternum)
