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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1954
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers going up the mountain on the 20-ton tramway.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
49
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Photographed by the International Harvester Company, manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project.
Date Range
ca. 1954
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers going up the mountain on the 20-ton tramway.
Notes
This tramway carried men and cargo from Kemano Camp 5 to the camps at the 1600' and 2600' elevations.Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.81
Subject Access
Tunnels
Images
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
June 25, 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers from the afternoon shift exiting the Horetzky adit.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
41
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
June 25, 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers from the afternoon shift exiting the Horetzky adit.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-396. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Tunnels
Images
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
October 29, 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the aggregate stockpile at Horetzky, being built up to a total of 120,000 cubic yards for the power tunnel lining. View is looking south from the top of the batch plant.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
54
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
October 29, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the aggregate stockpile at Horetzky, being built up to a total of 120,000 cubic yards for the power tunnel lining. View is looking south from the top of the batch plant.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-1403. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Tunnels
Images

Car heading up Lahakas Boulevard

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description162
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a car heading up Lahakas Boulevard. A large washout has occurred to the right.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
156
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a car heading up Lahakas Boulevard. A large washout has occurred to the right.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Judy Bachynsky Collection 2002.14
Subject Access
Towns
Images
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
October 01, 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts three men inside the underground drill doctor's shop.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
38
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
October 01, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts three men inside the underground drill doctor's shop.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-1304. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Tunnels
Images
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
November 24, 1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers drilling off another round at the tunnel face.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
40
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
November 24, 1952
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers drilling off another round at the tunnel face.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-676. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Tunnels
Images

Drilling on skip jumbo

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description53
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 16, 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts miners drilling on the skip jumbo in the No. 1 penstock 900' below the 2600' level.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
47
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
May 16, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts miners drilling on the skip jumbo in the No. 1 penstock 900' below the 2600' level.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-935. -- The heading was slashed to a full 15' diameter. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Tunnels
Images

Enlarging the valve chamber

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description49
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
January 26, 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers inside the tunnel, enlarging the valve chamber for the No. 1 penstock on the 2600' level.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
43
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
January 26, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers inside the tunnel, enlarging the valve chamber for the No. 1 penstock on the 2600' level.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-712. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Tunnels
Images

Give them both barrels sign

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description51
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
March 19, 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a worker looking up at a sign above the entrance to the recreation hall that reads, "Tunnel target, give them both barrels Tahtsa." The sign was a target date for the two ends of the tunnel to meet September 1st.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
45
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
March 19, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a worker looking up at a sign above the entrance to the recreation hall that reads, "Tunnel target, give them both barrels Tahtsa." The sign was a target date for the two ends of the tunnel to meet September 1st.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-798. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Tunnels
Images

Hangar & helicopter West Tahtsa

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description37
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
March 17, 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a Sikorsky helicopter outside a hangar at West Tahtsa Lake Camp. Men are gathered around a smaller helicopter to the left of the hangar.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
31
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
March 17, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts a Sikorsky helicopter outside a hangar at West Tahtsa Lake Camp. Men are gathered around a smaller helicopter to the left of the hangar.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-788. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Tunnels
Okanagan Helicopters
Camps
Images

Horetzky Camp quonset hut construction

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description38
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
September 21, 1951
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Horetzky Camp's many aluminum-sided quounset huts during construction. The camp is situated at the foot of Mt. Horetzky.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Creator
Morrison-Knudsen Company
Description Level
Item
Item Number
32
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
September 21, 1951
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Horetzky Camp's many aluminum-sided quounset huts during construction. The camp is situated at the foot of Mt. Horetzky.
Notes
Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Tunnels
Camps
Images
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1951
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two men standing beside the aluminum-sided quounset huts at Horetzky Creek Camp.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
33
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Photographed by the International Harvester Company, manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project.
Date Range
ca. 1951
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two men standing beside the aluminum-sided quounset huts at Horetzky Creek Camp.
Notes
Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.71
Subject Access
Tunnels
Camps
Images
Part Of
Max Patzelt fonds
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 13, 1964
Scope and Content
Photo depicts three men wearing aluminum hardhats giving the Haisla Look-Out sign a coat of linseed oil. One man holds a ladder steady and the bucket while another on the ladder and the man standing on the left brush the wood log supports of the sign.
Part Of
Max Patzelt fonds
Description Level
Item
Item Number
240
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 13, 1964
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
1 negative b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts three men wearing aluminum hardhats giving the Haisla Look-Out sign a coat of linseed oil. One man holds a ladder steady and the bucket while another on the ladder and the man standing on the left brush the wood log supports of the sign.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- No. 2178.
Images
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 13, 1964
Scope and Content
The Annual Jaycee clean up of the town included the Haisla Look-Out sign, originially presented to the District of Kitimat by the Chamber of Commerce and created in colour by Bill Diesing.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
240
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Photographed by Max Patzelt.
Date Range
May 13, 1964
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
The Annual Jaycee clean up of the town included the Haisla Look-Out sign, originially presented to the District of Kitimat by the Chamber of Commerce and created in colour by Bill Diesing.
Notes
Max Patzelt Collection 1998.1.7897 (no. 2178)
Subject Access
Towns
Images

Kemano and Horetzky heading crews

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description61
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
October 23, 1953
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the Horetzky and Kemano heading crews meeting on top of the muck pile at the breakthrough point.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
55
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Power Operations, Alcan Primary Metal B.C.
Date Range
October 23, 1953
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the Horetzky and Kemano heading crews meeting on top of the muck pile at the breakthrough point.
Notes
Alcan ID no. KR-1377. -- The crews bet on when they would meet the team working from the opposite end of the tunnel. Alcan Collection
Subject Access
Tunnels
Images

Kinsmen Club donating anesthetic machine to hospital

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description275
Part Of
Max Patzelt fonds
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
September 05, 1961
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two members of the Kinsmen Club, from the left, Mike Skitcko and Dave Barclay, donating an anesthetic machine to the Kitimat General Hospital. Dr. Barbara Kraft is on the far right. Old accession #998.1.879.
Part Of
Max Patzelt fonds
Description Level
Item
Item Number
269
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
September 05, 1961
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts two members of the Kinsmen Club, from the left, Mike Skitcko and Dave Barclay, donating an anesthetic machine to the Kitimat General Hospital. Dr. Barbara Kraft is on the far right. Old accession #998.1.879.
Name Access
Skitcko, Mike
Kraft, Dr. Barbara
Barclay, David
Subject Access
Clubs
Hospitals
Images

Kinsmen Club Donating Anesthetic Machine to Hospital

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description28704
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
September 05, 1961
Scope and Content
Two members of the Kinsmen Club, from the left, Mike Skitcko and Dave Barclay, donating an anesthetic machine to the Kitimat General Hospital. Dr. Barbara Kraft is on the far right.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
269
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Photographed by Max Patzelt.
Date Range
September 05, 1961
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Two members of the Kinsmen Club, from the left, Mike Skitcko and Dave Barclay, donating an anesthetic machine to the Kitimat General Hospital. Dr. Barbara Kraft is on the far right.
Notes
Max Patzelt Collection 1998.1.879
Subject Access
Hospital
Towns
Images

Line up at the Bank of Montreal

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description207
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1956
Accession Number
2001.30.2
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers lined up inside the Bank of Montreal in Smeltersite.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
201
Accession Number
2001.30.2
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1956
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers lined up inside the Bank of Montreal in Smeltersite.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Lorne & Sharon Earle Collection
Subject Access
Bank of Montreal
Images

Line up at the post office

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description206
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1956
Scope and Content
Photo depicts residents lined up outside the Townsite Camp Post Office.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
200
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1956
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts residents lined up outside the Townsite Camp Post Office.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Alcan Collection 78.11.149
Subject Access
Services
Post offices
Images
Material Type
Virtual Exhibit
Description
Kitimat was the place to be in North America in the 1950s. The massive Alcan project in the northwest British Columbia was completed in just five years - dam, tunnel, powerhouse, Kemano, transmission line, smelter, and Kitimat. Browse through Kitimat history with these project images - a BC digital collection. The project was one of the most photographed and filmed construction jobs in BC history.
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Material Type
Virtual Exhibit
Description
Kitimat was the place to be in North America in the 1950s. The massive Alcan project in the northwest British Columbia was completed in just five years - dam, tunnel, powerhouse, Kemano, transmission line, smelter, and Kitimat. Browse through Kitimat history with these project images - a BC digital collection. The project was one of the most photographed and filmed construction jobs in BC history.
Images
Websites / Virtual Exhibits

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