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.
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.
Notes
Title based on contents of text. Ernie Archer Collection
Photo depicts six people standing on the Kemano Wharf. From left is Mr. K. Roestad; Mr. Percy E. Radley; Mr. McNeely DuBose; Mrs. McNeely DuBose; Mr. M.K. Madsen, M.K. Assistant Project Manager and Mr. R.E. Reed, M.K. Area Engineer.
Photo depicts six people standing on the Kemano Wharf. From left is Mr. K. Roestad; Mr. Percy E. Radley; Mr. McNeely DuBose; Mrs. McNeely DuBose; Mr. M.K. Madsen, M.K. Assistant Project Manager and Mr. R.E. Reed, M.K. Area Engineer.
Photo depicts two barges moored in Douglas Channel and loaded with flat-top house sections for construction workers and their families.
Notes
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
Photo depicts two workers looking on as a Sikorsky S-55 helicopter brings in a load of supplies to the transmission line camp atop Kildala Pass.
Notes
Photographed by the International Harverster Company, manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.82
Photo showing Columbia Bridge is coming down and will be out of service for about another month according to the municipal engineering department. The old stringers are to be removed Friday and following that the main culvert will be installed and the cavity filled and eventually paved. Kuldo Bridge is to get the same treatment once Columbia is back in use.
Current: 1960s
-District of Kitimat
-Miscellaneous
Scope and Content
Photo showing Columbia Bridge is coming down and will be out of service for about another month according to the municipal engineering department. The old stringers are to be removed Friday and following that the main culvert will be installed and the cavity filled and eventually paved. Kuldo Bridge is to get the same treatment once Columbia is back in use.
Photo showing the "Big Boss" of B.C Highways Hon. Phil Gaglardi (foreground at right) surveying the construction work being done on the highway. Bulldozer in middleground and tractor in background.
-Construction of Hwy 25
-Opened 28 November 1957
Photo showing the "Big Boss" of B.C Highways Hon. Phil Gaglardi (foreground at right) surveying the construction work being done on the highway. Bulldozer in middleground and tractor in background.
-Construction of Hwy 25
-Opened 28 November 1957
Photo depicts a unidentified man sitting on the Nechako River bank watching the the activities of construction of the dam at the canyon. Right bank stripping and left bank tunnel haul road shown.
Photo depicts a unidentified man sitting on the Nechako River bank watching the the activities of construction of the dam at the canyon. Right bank stripping and left bank tunnel haul road shown.
Notes
Title based on content of photo. -- A rock dam was chosen for its ability to withstand earthquakes. Morrison-Knudsen Company Collection
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
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
Photo showing power distribution crew is shown above erecting new double-arm aluminum light standards along the centre island at the Haisla-Kuldo intersection. The standards, some double, others single, all equipped with mercury vapor lamps will light Haisla from the intersection to the bridge, Commercial for its full length and Kuldo from Haisla to Columbia. Bases for the standards were installed in late November but the poles, which were made elsewhere, did not arrive in Kitimat until last week.
Current: 1960s
-District of Kitimat
-Miscellaneous
Scope and Content
Photo showing power distribution crew is shown above erecting new double-arm aluminum light standards along the centre island at the Haisla-Kuldo intersection. The standards, some double, others single, all equipped with mercury vapor lamps will light Haisla from the intersection to the bridge, Commercial for its full length and Kuldo from Haisla to Columbia. Bases for the standards were installed in late November but the poles, which were made elsewhere, did not arrive in Kitimat until last week.
Photo depicts an International TD-24 crawler dozing tunnel muck at the 2600' camp above the Kemano Valley.
Notes
ID No. C 6098. -- Title based on content of photo. -- The International Harvester Company, manufacturers of construction equipment such as this crawler purchased for the Project. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.75
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
Title based on content of photograph. -- 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. 73.3.6.6
Kitimat Council 1966, from left: Edith Angle, Hugh Gresham, Don Stickney. Facing camera are Art Currie, Reeve Sam Lindsay, and Linda Shepherd. At right: Tom Smith, Joe Banyay, Paul Asikainen.
Kitimat Council 1966, from left: Edith Angle, Hugh Gresham, Don Stickney. Facing camera are Art Currie, Reeve Sam Lindsay, and Linda Shepherd. At right: Tom Smith, Joe Banyay, Paul Asikainen.
