From the years 1953-1958, Mike Kinnear took photos during his school years, until graduation, while working for Fred Ryan Ltd. after school and holidays. Photos for him was a hobby, and he took many photos of the smelter and townsite as it grew around him. Mike also took a number of photos for the Kitimat Northern Sentinel, during the Ken Brumley and Pixie Meldrum years as editors. Mike and his family left Kitimat in 1958, but he spent the best part of 40 years in the photographic field, mainly in the retail/wholesale part of the photo industry.
Custodial History
Donated by Margaret and Mike Kinnear.
Scope and Content
Photograph of a single floor house. Walls look like wood panels. Another house is visible behind on the right.
Photograph of single floor house. Siding looks like wood panelling. Area in front is piles of dirt, and their is a wood board sticking up. Another house is in the background on the right.
From the years 1953-1958, Mike Kinnear took photos during his school years, until graduation, while working for Fred Ryan Ltd. after school and holidays. Photos for him was a hobby, and he took many photos of the smelter and townsite as it grew around him. Mike also took a number of photos for the Kitimat Northern Sentinel, during the Ken Brumley and Pixie Meldrum years as editors. Mike and his family left Kitimat in 1958, but he spent the best part of 40 years in the photographic field, mainly in the retail/wholesale part of the photo industry.
Custodial History
Donated by Margaret and Mike Kinnear.
Scope and Content
Photograph of single floor house. Siding looks like wood panelling. Area in front is piles of dirt, and their is a wood board sticking up. Another house is in the background on the right.
Photograph of a single floor house. Siding looks like wood panels. Grass is starting to grow on ground outside the house. Another house visible in background on the right. Image has a pink tint.
From the years 1953-1958, Mike Kinnear took photos during his school years, until graduation, while working for Fred Ryan Ltd. after school and holidays. Photos for him was a hobby, and he took many photos of the smelter and townsite as it grew around him. Mike also took a number of photos for the Kitimat Northern Sentinel, during the Ken Brumley and Pixie Meldrum years as editors. Mike and his family left Kitimat in 1958, but he spent the best part of 40 years in the photographic field, mainly in the retail/wholesale part of the photo industry.
Custodial History
Donated by Margaret and Mike Kinnear.
Scope and Content
Photograph of a single floor house. Siding looks like wood panels. Grass is starting to grow on ground outside the house. Another house visible in background on the right. Image has a pink tint.
Photograph of the temporary housing site in neighbourhood C-1. Note the sections of the 210 units arriving in the building area. Crane at work on left.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of the temporary housing site in neighbourhood C-1. Note the sections of the 210 units arriving in the building area. Crane at work on left.
Photograph of the construction of a home in the Kitimat townsite. Only framework of the house is built. Men visible working. Other built houses are visible behind it. Snow on the ground. Forest in the background.
From the years 1953-1958, Mike Kinnear took photos during his school years, until graduation, while working for Fred Ryan Ltd. after school and holidays. Photos for him was a hobby, and he took many photos of the smelter and townsite as it grew around him. Mike also took a number of photos for the Kitimat Northern Sentinel, during the Ken Brumley and Pixie Meldrum years as editors. Mike and his family left Kitimat in 1958, but he spent the best part of 40 years in the photographic field, mainly in the retail/wholesale part of the photo industry.
Custodial History
Donated by Margaret and Mike Kinnear.
Scope and Content
Photograph of the construction of a home in the Kitimat townsite. Only framework of the house is built. Men visible working. Other built houses are visible behind it. Snow on the ground. Forest in the background.
Photograph of the Kinnear house on 57 Plover. House is red, with small rock lined garden bed on back/side of the house. Only back/side half of house is visible. There is a black and white Boston Terrier looking dog lying next to the house. Street visible in background on the left, and beyond that is what looks like the construction of Nechako school. Behind that is forest.
From the years 1953-1958, Mike Kinnear took photos during his school years, until graduation, while working for Fred Ryan Ltd. after school and holidays. Photos for him was a hobby, and he took many photos of the smelter and townsite as it grew around him. Mike also took a number of photos for the Kitimat Northern Sentinel, during the Ken Brumley and Pixie Meldrum years as editors. Mike and his family left Kitimat in 1958, but he spent the best part of 40 years in the photographic field, mainly in the retail/wholesale part of the photo industry.
Custodial History
Donated by Margaret and Mike Kinnear.
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Kinnear house on 57 Plover. House is red, with small rock lined garden bed on back/side of the house. Only back/side half of house is visible. There is a black and white Boston Terrier looking dog lying next to the house. Street visible in background on the left, and beyond that is what looks like the construction of Nechako school. Behind that is forest.
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.
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
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.
