Part Of

Kitimat Museum Website Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca.1952

Scope and Content

Image depicts a humorous reprieve certificate given to employees of the Alcan Project. The content also implies the hardships endured by the Morrison-Knudsen Company workers in Kemano.

Part Of

Gisela Mendel fonds

Description Level

File

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1959]

Accession Number

71.51

Scope and Content

Delta King's last day in kitimat on Good Friday 1959.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

19 May, 1955

Accession Number

2005.8.8903

Scope and Content

Photograph showing Paul Sofos showing the lodge manager at the Sagimat Lodge, Harry J. Goulet, the dishwashing process in the cafeteria

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[March 24, 1955]

Accession Number

2005.8.8782

Scope and Content

Photograph showing Kitimat Valley Builders' display house on Plover Street.

Part Of

Lorna Daniel Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Accession Number

2020.1.9

Scope and Content

Early housing and landscaping

Part Of

Kitimat Museum Website Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1955

Scope and Content

Photo depicts two men kneeling beside the first bags of mail to arrive via Pacific Western Airlines. On the right, Captain T. M. Kellough for PWA delivers the bags to on the left, Kitimat Express driver Lloyd Kaberg, at the wharf, Smeltersite. Northern Sentinel Press Collection

Part Of

Gisela Mendel fonds

Description Level

File

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1893]

Accession Number

71.7

Scope and Content

Two images of pencil sketches done of the very first original indigenous foot bridge across the Bulkley.

Part Of

Gisela Mendel fonds

Description Level

File

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1954]

Accession Number

73.20

Scope and Content

Kitimat's first department store.

Part Of

James Tirrul-Jones Collection

Description Level

Series

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. Jul 1956]

Accession Number

982.46

Scope and Content

Photographs showing the inside of the Delta King.

Part Of

John Constantine Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1953-1954

Accession Number

999.7

Scope and Content

Red photograph album with black pages, containing images of Kitimat construction in the early 1950's. Contents include -

Early Kingfisher Ave/Construction

Other street areas for home sites

Tote road

Minette Bay

Townsite Camp

Early Haisla Blvd/Construction

Early Lahakas Blvd/Construction

City Centre culverts

Early Albatross Ave/Construction

Flood on River Access Road

Bridge Construction and Damage

Flood in Townsite Camp

First Fifty Houses

Water Line Instalations

Altitude Valve Chamber Fire

Neighbourhood Centre Building Construction

Sewer Installations

Seow Grid

Driving Piles for Seow Grid - Minette Bay

White Truck on Fire

Smeltersite

Early Nalabila Blvd/Construction

Early Gyrfalcon Ave/Construction

Gully and Culvert

Ian Kennedy Panabode House

Kitamaat Village (distance)

Prototype Houses

Kitimat River

Butedale from Air

Water Main Work

Hullah Team vs. Hullah Staff

Anderson Creek Falls

Early Partridge and Plover Streets

Bear in Construction Zone/Getting Fed

Sewer Outfall and Construction

Slide from Albatross

Sandhill (distance)

Slide on Lahakas Blvd

K550 Houses

Pump Houses Water Supply

Interior of Chlorinator House

Kitimat and Smelter Aerials

Various of Kitimat Construction and development Photos

Part Of

John Constantine Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca. 1955

Accession Number

999.7.2

Scope and Content

Loose photos realting to red album under 999.7.1 showing Kitimat construction in the early 1950's. Contents include -

Early Kitimat Homes

Sewer Pipe installation

Kemano camp? buildings in winter

Part Of

Lorna Daniel Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

19-30 Aug 1955

Accession Number

2020.1.5

Scope and Content

Johnson Crooks housing Construction

Part Of

Ann Graham Collection

Description Level

Series

GMD

graphic material

Accession Number

2011.25

Scope and Content

Envelopes containing photos from broken down photo album of Kemano 1952/1953. Envelopes name which pages photos came from. Some envelopes have descriptions. Page 2 - Camp 5 Page 3 - Camp V and its destruction Page 4 - Horetsky Camp. Johnny after his helicopter accident - feed Sam Page 6 - The first camp 5 before it burned (tents) Page 7 - The Second Camp V Page 8 - Camp V seen from camp VI Page 11 - To 2600 feet camp Page 12 - Camp V underclouds from camp 2600 feet without clouds Page 15 - Camp 10 Chacha Page 16 - At camp 2600 Page 21 - First party with the nurses Page 23 - The first show all men cast Page 24 - Sam is always hungry Page 25 - Johnny, Marc, Arthur, Wally, John + Bill. Wonderful Times + Memories. Page 26 - Cherjune? Cheyenne, Max, Larry. Page 27 - Paula gentle friend, Gerrard, Max. Page 28 - Waiting for the dining room to open. Page 29 - Johnny + Tom Page 30 - My roommate Anthony Page 37 - Xmas day 1953 Page 40 - Kemano against Kitimat softball. Collection also includes: Envelope with paybills, receipts, clippings, and booklets. Envelope with albun on adhesive sheet pg. 1 Envelope with photgraph with album. Folder containing photcopies of album pages

Part Of

Pat Stanyer Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1951-1952

Accession Number

2012.3.5

Scope and Content

Photograph of Kemano Camp. Raymond Stanyer was there as a foreman on the transmission line clearing.

Part Of

Kitimat Heritage Advisory Commission fonds

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[ca.1959]

Accession Number

2014.14.260

Scope and Content

Photo Kemano Powerhouse - Generator Floor. Shows three workers looking at various pieces of equipment and drawings.

Part Of

Carol Hamilton Collection

Description Level

Series

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952-1953

Accession Number

2005.3

Scope and Content

Folder containing sketch showing Arrangement of Ten Mile Tunnels, Penstocks, Powerhouse, etc. with attachments - underground workings, powerhouse, Transverse Section, Surface, Geology & Topography of Kemano.

Part Of

Bud Powell Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1951-1952

Accession Number

2022.22.163

Scope and Content

Black covered book titled "Kitimat Townsite Report". No. A-33 Mr. J.E. Dudley. Contains info about early Kitimat and planning. Inside front cover are some loose pages with town plans.

Part Of

Pat Stanyer Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952

Accession Number

2012.3.1

Scope and Content

Photograph of looking down Kitimat Arm. Kitimat River and estuary visible. Winter.

Part Of

MacKinnon Fonds

Description Level

Fonds

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1951-1952

Accession Number

2000.23

Scope and Content

Collection of photographs regarding early Kitimat and Kitimat Constructors. Photo content includes Kitimat Constructors equipment work ares, shops, bunkhouses, and camp, Anderson Creek Mess Hall - smelterite, Inside Delta King, Sports girls and boys basketball, and Hudson's Bay Trading.

Part Of

Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

[March 24, 1955]

Accession Number

2005.8.8783

Scope and Content

Photograph showing the owners and operators of Kitimat Valley Builders working on a new house on Plover Street