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
Photograph of top soil being placed on the lots on Swan Street. The homes are Johnson-Crooks houses. They are 2-family units - each side having bedrooms on the lower floor, a living room, kitchen + bathroom upstairs. $14,000 each half. Men visible working. On left is a man walking, three in centre are near a wheelbarrow, and on the right another man is driving a mini bulldozer.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of top soil being placed on the lots on Swan Street. The homes are Johnson-Crooks houses. They are 2-family units - each side having bedrooms on the lower floor, a living room, kitchen + bathroom upstairs. $14,000 each half. Men visible working. On left is a man walking, three in centre are near a wheelbarrow, and on the right another man is driving a mini bulldozer.
