Photograph of sanitary sewer lines being installed by Straite Construction in Neighbourhood B across Lahakas Blvd. near Nalabila Blvd. Men are down in dug trench laying the pipes. Other men and machinery working above.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of sanitary sewer lines being installed by Straite Construction in Neighbourhood B across Lahakas Blvd. near Nalabila Blvd. Men are down in dug trench laying the pipes. Other men and machinery working above.
Photograph showing General Constructor placing curb & gutter along Babine St. in Kildala Neighbourhood Note: New Service Station under construction at the left middle distance.
Photograph showing General Constructor placing curb & gutter along Babine St. in Kildala Neighbourhood Note: New Service Station under construction at the left middle distance.
Slide showing what appears to be a wooden drilling structure at the smeltersite construction area. Men working around with one with a crank? And others appear to be tightening a pole into place. Drilling? A tank the reads "gas" is visible on the left.
James McNay was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on January 31, 1907. Between 1951 and 1953, he worked in the payroll department for Alcan. He had to leave his wife Effie and his two young daughters, Margaret and Diane, aged 6 and 5 in 1951, at home in Surrey, B.C., during his 3-4 month stints in Kitimat. To fill some of his free time and show his family where he was and what Kitimat was like, he spent many hours walking in the area with a 35mm Kodak camera. He photographed the scenic beauty of the area and parts of the construction of both the smelters and the town. He died in Surrey on August 7, 1983.
Custodial History
Donated by Margaret McNay. Images were taken by her father and sent to their family in Surrey in the 1950s.
Scope and Content
Slide showing what appears to be a wooden drilling structure at the smeltersite construction area. Men working around with one with a crank? And others appear to be tightening a pole into place. Drilling? A tank the reads "gas" is visible on the left.