Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

9 Oct 1952

Accession Number

986.21.24

Scope and Content

Smelter Site looking East. Precast yard and storage in foreground. Structural steel being erected in Service Buildings. Forms being placed for Building 153 and Rectifier Building 102. Trucks dumping backfill behind. Burning in Townsite Area left background.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

July 13 1954

Accession Number

78.11.90

Scope and Content

Aerial view of Service Centre and Sandhill areas, looking South.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1951

Accession Number

78.11.7

Scope and Content

Clearing for machine shop site and storage yard, Moore Creek camp in background, looking east.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Fonds

Accession Number

2017.12

Scope and Content

Two boxes of photographs and negatives showing early Kitimat and Alcan.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1951

Accession Number

73.3.2.15

Scope and Content

Photo showing sandhill

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952

Accession Number

78.11.19

Scope and Content

Photo showing Alcan smeltersite

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952

Accession Number

78.11.16

Scope and Content

Looking north from sandhill (elev. 640 +) to site of permanent bridge center left, Townsite camp center right edge of photo, and Townsite ridge left to right.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1956

Accession Number

2022.25.18

Scope and Content

Photograph of asphalt paving being placed on the Service Centre road between the Public Works building and the railway. Seven men visible working. Sandhill in background on the right.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1953

Accession Number

78.11.35

Scope and Content

Photograph showing smelter industiral area, the graving dock

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

29 April 1952

Accession Number

73.3.3.27

Scope and Content

Photograph showing smeltersite, view looking south - married quarters. Small houses on a muddy slope with the Douglas Channel in the background.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1951

Accession Number

78.11.1

Scope and Content

Photo showing sandhill as it was in 1951. It reached down to the Kitimat River. Huge amounts were transported to the smelter site for hydraulic fill.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1951

Accession Number

73.3.2.1

Scope and Content

Photo showing smeltersite

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1951

Accession Number

73.3.2.3

Scope and Content

Photo showing smeltersite construction

Part Of

Art Coghlin Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1950

Accession Number

2002.7.43

Scope and Content

Photograph of smeltersite homes and cleared area.

Part Of

Art Coghlin Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1950

Accession Number

2002.7.46

Scope and Content

Photograph of smeltersite bunkhouses and Hudson's Bay building.

Part Of

Art Coghlin Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

29 Oct 1958

Accession Number

2002.8.45

Scope and Content

Photograph showing flood conditions of Kitimat River at Sandhill, Wednesday morning, 29th October. Note: leaning power poles in middle foreground, these were dislodged by floating debris.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

January 11, 1952

Accession Number

78.11.13

Scope and Content

Kitimat constructors standing in snow at Sandhill with Kitimat River in background, looking North. Sandhill to left.

R. Craig

R. Thompson

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

1952

Accession Number

78.11.18

Scope and Content

Construction of first gravel bunker at Sandhill, with screening plant fill being placed in left background, looking south.

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

4 Nov 1956

Accession Number

76.66.578

Scope and Content

Photograph of General Construction's Crushing Plant at the sandhill showing gravel and debris which covered a portion of this plant during the heavy rainstar

Part Of

Alcan Collection

Description Level

Item

GMD

graphic material

Accession Number

78.11.58

Scope and Content

View looking north from the top of the sandhill showing CNR right of way and Service Centre clearing at left, and Kitimat River Bridge at right.