Photos showing Elks' Frontier Day Celebration, Smeltersite. Featuring: Geo and Mrs. Mary Pierce; Frank Grogan; Murray Evans; Bill Martenuk; Geo Birch; John Grey.
Envelopes #1 & #2 Northern Sentinel: Box #3: (A) Historical (1) Dominion Day (a) Frontier Day
Scope and Content
Photos showing Elks' Frontier Day Celebration, Smeltersite. Featuring: Geo and Mrs. Mary Pierce; Frank Grogan; Murray Evans; Bill Martenuk; Geo Birch; John Grey.
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
Photograph of the Albatross Avenue bunkhouse and in the background the burgeoning Nechako neighbourhood, which at the time of this picture was a hive of busy consturction activity.
Malcolm Baxter died in 2020. His father Basil, was very instrumental in the organization of Kitimat in the early years. Basil was married to Cathy Baxter and they had two sons - Malcolm and Michael.
Custodial History
Part of items collected by Malcolm Baxter, former editer of NSP. Brought into the museum by Judith Cullington, Malcolm's sister-in-law.
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Albatross Avenue bunkhouse and in the background the burgeoning Nechako neighbourhood, which at the time of this picture was a hive of busy consturction activity.
Alice Dicker's father, Benard, came to Canada to work in 1955. He was a forman D-shift for Alcan. He married Anna in 1959. Alice and her sister Claudia were born in Kitimat and the family lived here until 1969, at which time they returned to Germany.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Albatross Avenue with homes. Left side is cleared without homes.
Photograph of private residences under construction on Albatross St. Two homes in clear view, one dark and one light. Exteriors appear complete. Area around flattened dirt with some dirt piles.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of private residences under construction on Albatross St. Two homes in clear view, one dark and one light. Exteriors appear complete. Area around flattened dirt with some dirt piles.
Photograph of private homes under construction on Albatross Avenue. Exteriors look mostly complete. Some vehicles on the road, and parked in front of the houses.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of private homes under construction on Albatross Avenue. Exteriors look mostly complete. Some vehicles on the road, and parked in front of the houses.
Photograph of view looking south along Kingfisher Avenue showing the asphalt pavement being completed. Vehicles and people visible on the road further down. Fully built houses, as well as in progress construction are on either side.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of view looking south along Kingfisher Avenue showing the asphalt pavement being completed. Vehicles and people visible on the road further down. Fully built houses, as well as in progress construction are on either side.
Photograph of nearly completed B.C. Telephone Exchange building on Kingfisher Avenue. There is a ladder against the outside of the building leading to the roof. Kitimat New Telephone Exchange sign is on the ground leaning against the building. On the right is a vehicle of some sort.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of nearly completed B.C. Telephone Exchange building on Kingfisher Avenue. There is a ladder against the outside of the building leading to the roof. Kitimat New Telephone Exchange sign is on the ground leaning against the building. On the right is a vehicle of some sort.
Photograph of view showing Terminal Construction placing the concrete walkway along the west side of Kingfisher Ave. Seven men are visible working. Cement truck on the right. Homes are in the background.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of view showing Terminal Construction placing the concrete walkway along the west side of Kingfisher Ave. Seven men are visible working. Cement truck on the right. Homes are in the background.
Photograph of Service Centre showing the foundation wall formwork for the temporary stores in block 5. One man visible working. Train cars in background.
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Service Centre showing the foundation wall formwork for the temporary stores in block 5. One man visible working. Train cars in background.
