Photograph showing a man and a woman holding a piece of paper resembling a cheque. They are both smiling for the picture. The man has big glasses with thin frames and has a thick mustache. The woman has thin eyebrows and very curly short hair. The background looks like a comic store.
Photograph showing a man and a woman holding a piece of paper resembling a cheque. They are both smiling for the picture. The man has big glasses with thin frames and has a thick mustache. The woman has thin eyebrows and very curly short hair. The background looks like a comic store.
Photograph of a man talking on the phone and writing on a piece of paper. He is wearing a black shirt and has a watch on. His hair is done nicely and slicked to one side. He is in a room with wooden walls and is sitting on a chair that has a coat on the back of it.
In the background is a window and through that window you can see a van and a truck.
Photograph of a man talking on the phone and writing on a piece of paper. He is wearing a black shirt and has a watch on. His hair is done nicely and slicked to one side. He is in a room with wooden walls and is sitting on a chair that has a coat on the back of it.
In the background is a window and through that window you can see a van and a truck.
Two people working in a kitchen. Man appears to be preping soemthing, while the other is stirring a pot. (Envelope with negative says Anderson Creek Opening)
Two people working in a kitchen. Man appears to be preping soemthing, while the other is stirring a pot. (Envelope with negative says Anderson Creek Opening)
Photograph of a police officer working at the July 1st parade in 1956. Officer is standing on Kingfisher Avenue and beyond him is the Nechako Centre parking lot where the parade is taking place. There is a large crowd of people watching.
Edna Nicolay (Webb) was the former Miss Kitimat in 1955. Her and her family moved to Kitimat on April 8, 1955.
Scope and Content
Photograph of a police officer working at the July 1st parade in 1956. Officer is standing on Kingfisher Avenue and beyond him is the Nechako Centre parking lot where the parade is taking place. There is a large crowd of people watching.
Slide showing crane in river loading material into a dump truck. Likely for the start of the Haisla Bridge construction. Other people standing on left shore.
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 crane in river loading material into a dump truck. Likely for the start of the Haisla Bridge construction. Other people standing on left shore.