Photo showing ceremony at the Kitimat cemetery dedicating the memorial marker cross, officially accepted by Reeve Sam Lindsay for the municipality. The large wood and aluminum marker was to a large extent the work of Ewald Truhn, assisted by a number of others, including Ron Baumeister.
Photo showing ceremony at the Kitimat cemetery dedicating the memorial marker cross, officially accepted by Reeve Sam Lindsay for the municipality. The large wood and aluminum marker was to a large extent the work of Ewald Truhn, assisted by a number of others, including Ron Baumeister.
Photo depicts Electrician Bill Frahler's family standing beside his truck. Johnson-Crooks houses under construction in Nechako Neighbourhood are in the background.
Photo depicts Electrician Bill Frahler's family standing beside his truck. Johnson-Crooks houses under construction in Nechako Neighbourhood are in the background.
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Title based on content of photograph. -- "Alva and the Boys", Slide No. 95 -- Bill Frahler wired over 2,000 temporary construction and permanent homes between 1954 and 1958, first working for Johnson-Crooks and then Straits Construction. Bill Frahler Collection 2003.32
Photo depicts a tent with flat-top house assembly on a production line in West Vancouver for Johnson-Crooks Construction Corporation.
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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 the winner of the first prize by unanimous decision of the three judges in Alcan's Christmas lightng contest this year was the R.D. Baumeister home at 52 Egret.The striking display features a choir and organ in the foreground and three more choir boys off to the right as well as beautifully decortaed windows. The family will recieve 700 kilowatt hours of power free each month next year.
Photograph of the winner of the first prize by unanimous decision of the three judges in Alcan's Christmas lightng contest this year was the R.D. Baumeister home at 52 Egret.The striking display features a choir and organ in the foreground and three more choir boys off to the right as well as beautifully decortaed windows. The family will recieve 700 kilowatt hours of power free each month next year.
Photograph of a group standing in front of the Giant Spruce Park entrance. From left to right the people are Joanne Monaghan, James Tirrul-Jones, John Lesage, E. Germuth, and Ron Baumeister. Bottom right corner of photo has a gold Max Patzelt embossment.
Photograph of a group standing in front of the Giant Spruce Park entrance. From left to right the people are Joanne Monaghan, James Tirrul-Jones, John Lesage, E. Germuth, and Ron Baumeister. Bottom right corner of photo has a gold Max Patzelt embossment.
