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Smeltersite sawmill and burner

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description139
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
September 15, 1951
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the sawmill burner, looking northeast towards the proposed smelter and town sites.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
133
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
September 15, 1951
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the sawmill burner, looking northeast towards the proposed smelter and town sites.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Alcan Collection 73.3.2.28
Subject Access
Smelters
Images

International Crawler at Kemano Valley

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description18
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts an International TD-24 crawler dozing tunnel muck at the 2600' camp above the Kemano Valley.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
12
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts an International TD-24 crawler dozing tunnel muck at the 2600' camp above the Kemano Valley.
Notes
ID No. C 6098. -- Title based on content of photo. -- The International Harvester Company, manufacturers of construction equipment such as this crawler purchased for the Project. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.75
Subject Access
Construction
Transmission line
Images

Aerial view of smeltersite

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description140
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts an aerial view of the smeltersite main camp showing married quarters, sternwheeler Delta King, hydraulic fill in progress, recreation building, hospital, power plant, sawmill and water tank.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
134
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts an aerial view of the smeltersite main camp showing married quarters, sternwheeler Delta King, hydraulic fill in progress, recreation building, hospital, power plant, sawmill and water tank.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID Numbers BC-2-243 and ACM-24311. Alcan Collection 78.11.32
Subject Access
Smelters
Images
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Accession Number
2000.23.45
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the interior of the main cafeteria at Smeltersite in the Hudson's Bay Trading Company building, second floor.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
203
Accession Number
2000.23.45
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the interior of the main cafeteria at Smeltersite in the Hudson's Bay Trading Company building, second floor.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Ken & Joyce MacKinnon Collection.
Subject Access
Stores
Storage Location
Curator Bay 1 Shelf 2 Box 15
Images
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
June 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a unidentified man sitting on the Nechako River bank watching the the activities of construction of the dam at the canyon. Right bank stripping and left bank tunnel haul road shown.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
15
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
June 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a unidentified man sitting on the Nechako River bank watching the the activities of construction of the dam at the canyon. Right bank stripping and left bank tunnel haul road shown.
Notes
Title based on content of photo. -- A rock dam was chosen for its ability to withstand earthquakes. Morrison-Knudsen Company Collection
Subject Access
Dams
Construction
Images

Sewer and water line construction at Smeltersite

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description213
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
July 04, 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a BE 22 trench hoe digging the trench for the sewer and water lines to the married quarters. View is looking north.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
207
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
July 04, 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a BE 22 trench hoe digging the trench for the sewer and water lines to the married quarters. View is looking north.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-151. Alcan Collection 78.11.23
Subject Access
Construction of Buildings
Images

Smeltersite school construction

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description194
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
August 22, 1952
Accession Number
75.66
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the construction of Smeltersite school.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
188
Accession Number
75.66
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
August 22, 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the construction of Smeltersite school.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-191. District of Kitimat Collection
Subject Access
Construction of Buildings
Schools
Images

Kenney Dam Construction

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description22
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
October 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Kenney Dam during its construction.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Creator
Alcan
Description Level
Item
Item Number
16
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
October 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Kenney Dam during its construction.
Notes
Title based on content of photo. A rock dam was chosen for its ability to withstand earthquakes. District of Kitimat Collection Accession no. 987.10.2
Subject Access
Construction
Dams
Images
Part Of
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.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
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
Subject Access
Camps
Transmission line
Construction
Images

Permanent wharf construction site

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description300
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
March 26, 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the dredge and dragline excavating the channel from the dock to deep water, a truck dumping gravel for the foundation blanket into the bottom of a dump scow. The view looks toward the construction site for the permanent wharf from the south dike of the graving dock, crew bunkhouses of Smeltersite in the background.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
294
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
March 26, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the dredge and dragline excavating the channel from the dock to deep water, a truck dumping gravel for the foundation blanket into the bottom of a dump scow. The view looks toward the construction site for the permanent wharf from the south dike of the graving dock, crew bunkhouses of Smeltersite in the background.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-320. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.211
Subject Access
Construction
Wharves
Images

Pan-Abode house construction

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description192
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 07, 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the construction of a Pan-Abode house on the beach at Smeltersite.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
186
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 07, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the construction of a Pan-Abode house on the beach at Smeltersite.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-349. Hal Whiting Collection
Subject Access
Construction of Buildings
Images

Caisson launching operation group

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description148
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 15, 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a group of men concerned with the caisson dock construction. From left is Messrs., Cam Jenkinson, George Malby, McCallum, Hal Whiting, J. B. Whitton, S. T. Wynne-Jones, Van Houten and Dick Hermann. View is of three floating caissons that were being towed into position for sinking, creating the smelter dock.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
142
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 15, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a group of men concerned with the caisson dock construction. From left is Messrs., Cam Jenkinson, George Malby, McCallum, Hal Whiting, J. B. Whitton, S. T. Wynne-Jones, Van Houten and Dick Hermann. View is of three floating caissons that were being towed into position for sinking, creating the smelter dock.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-362. -- Messrs. Jenkinson, Wynne-Jones, and Hermann all work for Alcan Engineering under the Resident Engineer George Malby. Messrs. J.B. Whitton and Van Houten work for the consulting firm of Frederick R. Harris & Co. of New York, N.Y. Hal Whiting was Project Manager, Kitimat Constructors, for smelter and town construction. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.212
Name Access
Hermann, Dick
Jenkinson, Cam
Malby, George
McCallum, Mr.
Van Houten, Mr.
Whiting, Hal
Whitton, J. B.
Wynne-Jones, Mr.
Subject Access
Smeltersite
Alcan Smelters & Chemicals Ltd.
Images

Pan-Abode House Construction

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description193
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
August 13, 1953
Scope and Content
Photograph depicts the completed and occupied Pan-Abode home on the beach at Smeltersite.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
187
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
August 13, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photograph depicts the completed and occupied Pan-Abode home on the beach at Smeltersite.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-474. Hal Whiting Collection. P00187
Subject Access
Construction of Buildings
Images
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the Hullah houses, prefabricated and assembled on site.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
171
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Photographer Fred Ryan.
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the Hullah houses, prefabricated and assembled on site.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. School District No. 80 Collection 982.91.23
Subject Access
Hullah Construction
Townsite
Images

Temporary hospital at Alcan Beach

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Accession Number
77.68.3
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the temporary hospital constructed on the beach at Smeltersite.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
197
Accession Number
77.68.3
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the temporary hospital constructed on the beach at Smeltersite.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Kitimat General Hospital Collection
Subject Access
Hospitals
Construction of Buildings
Images

Nechako Centre completed

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description260
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the exterior of the newly completed Nechako Centre in Kitimat, Shop Easy at the end of the complex. A bulldozer compacts the gravel - site preparation for the parking lot.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
254
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 28 x 22 cm
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the exterior of the newly completed Nechako Centre in Kitimat, Shop Easy at the end of the complex. A bulldozer compacts the gravel - site preparation for the parking lot.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Part of Board of School Trustees Collection 982.91
Subject Access
Construction of Buildings
Images

Smeltersite trailer camp

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description218
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1955
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the trailer camp at Smeltersite. The smelter dock and its crane are in the background.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Item Number
212
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1955
Physical Description
1 slide : col
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the trailer camp at Smeltersite. The smelter dock and its crane are in the background.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Slide No. 115. Bill Frahler Collection 2003.32
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

Proposed City Centre commercial building

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description254
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 05, 1955
Scope and Content
Illustration of the commercial building proposed by Alcan's architects for Kitimat's City Centre shopping area.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Creator
Semmens & Simpson, Architects
Description Level
Item
Item Number
248
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Alcan
Date Range
May 05, 1955
Physical Description
1 illustration : b&w
Scope and Content
Illustration of the commercial building proposed by Alcan's architects for Kitimat's City Centre shopping area.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Northern Sentinel Press Collection
Subject Access
Construction of Buildings
Images

Kildala Neighbourhood temporary housing

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description224
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
July 13, 1955
Scope and Content
Photo depicts flat-top temporary housing lining the hillside up to the Aluminum City Motel at the treeline. View is northwest. Grader on Kuldo Boulevard.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
218
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
July 13, 1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts flat-top temporary housing lining the hillside up to the Aluminum City Motel at the treeline. View is northwest. Grader on Kuldo Boulevard.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan Negative No. 29337. -- The circus tent assembly line was erected . 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. 73.3.6.6
Subject Access
Housing
Construction of Buildings
Images

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