Photo depicts two barges moored in Douglas Channel and loaded with flat-top house sections for construction workers and their families.
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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
A cabin at the top of the new ski hill. There is a sign hanging with the letters K.S.C on it, and there is a pile of two-by-fours stacked up against the side of the cabin. There wood piles in the front, and a man standing in the doorway wearing a shirt and tie.
A cabin at the top of the new ski hill. There is a sign hanging with the letters K.S.C on it, and there is a pile of two-by-fours stacked up against the side of the cabin. There wood piles in the front, and a man standing in the doorway wearing a shirt and tie.
Photograph of Claudia and Alice Dicker standing on top of a tree stump. They are on their way downtown via the Haisla Hill sidewalk. Haisla Boulevard behind them.
Alice Dicker's father, Benard, came to Canada to work in 1955. He was a forman D-shift for Alcan. He married Anna in 1959. Alice and her sister Claudia were born in Kitimat and the family lived here until 1969, at which time they returned to Germany.
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Photograph of Claudia and Alice Dicker standing on top of a tree stump. They are on their way downtown via the Haisla Hill sidewalk. Haisla Boulevard behind them.
Students from Terrace, B.C. arriving at the Kitimat C.N. train depot. They were here to see the Victoria Symphony performance. Note the CN train car in the background.
1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 8.9 cm
1 negative : b&w ; 6.1 x 6.7 cm
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Students from Terrace, B.C. arriving at the Kitimat C.N. train depot. They were here to see the Victoria Symphony performance. Note the CN train car in the background.
Ken Armstrong, Principal of Nechako Elementary School, putting up posters announcing the performance of the opera Women Are Like That by the Canadian Opera Co., at the Mount Elizabeth Secondary School.
1 photograph : b&w ; 25.4 x 20.3 cm
1 negative : b&w ; 12.5 x 10 cm
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Ken Armstrong, Principal of Nechako Elementary School, putting up posters announcing the performance of the opera Women Are Like That by the Canadian Opera Co., at the Mount Elizabeth Secondary School.
Jamieson came to Kitimat from Vancouver to work on the Alcan project in 1952. With his first pay cheque he bought a small "Pony Kodak" camera at the local store (Hudson Bay?), and started taking coloured slides of the Kitimat from 1952-1953. Left Kitimat at the end of August 1953 to move to Montreal.
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Slide of view concrete batch plant from top of sandhill. Kitimat.
Photo showing Edna Mosley rink of Prince Rupert who topped in "D" event during the Kitimat Ladies Curling Club Bonspiel. Left to right: Jean Haugan, lead; Chris Currie, second; Irene Flaten, third; skip Edna Mosley.
Photo showing Edna Mosley rink of Prince Rupert who topped in "D" event during the Kitimat Ladies Curling Club Bonspiel. Left to right: Jean Haugan, lead; Chris Currie, second; Irene Flaten, third; skip Edna Mosley.
