Photo depicts two barges moored in Douglas Channel and loaded with flat-top house sections for construction workers and their families.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Temporary housing destined for Kitimat was assembled at Vancouver Tug and Barge below the Lion's Gate Bridge in three sections, then barged to Kitimat - 10 houses or 30 sections on each barge. -- Electrician Bill Frahler wired approximately 2,000 houses in Kitimat camps and townsite between 1954 and 1958, working first for Johnson-Crooks then Straits Construction, both U.S. contractors. Pat Jimenez Collection
Photo depicts Electrician Bill Frahler's family standing beside his truck. Johnson-Crooks houses under construction in Nechako Neighbourhood are in the background.
Photo depicts Electrician Bill Frahler's family standing beside his truck. Johnson-Crooks houses under construction in Nechako Neighbourhood are in the background.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- "Alva and the Boys", Slide No. 95 -- Bill Frahler wired over 2,000 temporary construction and permanent homes between 1954 and 1958, first working for Johnson-Crooks and then Straits Construction. Bill Frahler Collection 2003.32
Photo depicts two workers looking on as a Sikorsky S-55 helicopter brings in a load of supplies to the transmission line camp atop Kildala Pass.
Notes
Photographed by the International Harverster Company, manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.82
Photo depicts the newly constructed dock, Terminal Wharf No. 1. View looking south-west from a point on the graving dock. Hydraulic fill dredge pipeline in the foreground running along at water level.
Photo depicts the newly constructed dock, Terminal Wharf No. 1. View looking south-west from a point on the graving dock. Hydraulic fill dredge pipeline in the foreground running along at water level.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Alcan ID No. BC-2-846. -- Note progress of conveyor gallery steel, kangaroo crane and pneumatic unloading equipment. Alcan Collection 78.11.68
Photo depicts construction of two pan-abode waiting rooms on the beach at Smeltersite for Pacific Western Airlines. A "Mallard" amphibian airplane unloads on the landing ramp in the background.
Photo depicts construction of two pan-abode waiting rooms on the beach at Smeltersite for Pacific Western Airlines. A "Mallard" amphibian airplane unloads on the landing ramp in the background.
Notes
Pan-Abode is interlocking red cedar building materials invented in 1948 in British Columbia. The builders of Kitimat chose innovative materials such as Pan-Abode for the town. Pan-Abode was used in some of the first prototype homes on Kitimat's first streets - Oriole, Pintail, and Partridge. It is also an efficient building material as a structure can be assembled very quickly. Northern Sentinel Press Collection. P00226.jpg
Photo depicts a barge loaded with muck dredged from the wharf area. The International TD-9 dozer boat on the barge was there to push loads off as the barge was moved along.
Photo depicts a barge loaded with muck dredged from the wharf area. The International TD-9 dozer boat on the barge was there to push loads off as the barge was moved along.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- International Harvester Company ID No. C 6039. International Harvester Company manufacturerd construction equipment purchased for the Project. -- Dredging at the wharf area provided sufficient water space for large ships to dock. Muck was dumped onto these barges by the clamshell bucket and towed out to deep water. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.123
Photo depicts a man standing beside his truck, crossing the Kitimat River aboard a wood construction raft ferry, guard rail on two sides, and guided by a cabling system shown above the river.
Photo depicts a man standing beside his truck, crossing the Kitimat River aboard a wood construction raft ferry, guard rail on two sides, and guided by a cabling system shown above the river.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Alcan Collection 73.3.3.29
Title based on content of photograph. -- Haisla Bridge, Kitimat's first permanent bridge was completed by the end of 1953 and officially opened in 1957. -- The cost was over one million dollars. District of Kitimat Collection. District of Kitimat Collection 987.10.2
Photo depicts Kitimat Constructors Project Manager Hal Whiting on right, standing beside a unidentified man. Both watch the construction activity occurring down on the tidal flats in front of them, site for the smelter.
Photo depicts Kitimat Constructors Project Manager Hal Whiting on right, standing beside a unidentified man. Both watch the construction activity occurring down on the tidal flats in front of them, site for the smelter.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- Photographed by the International Harvester Company, manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.99
Photo depicts an International crawler hauling one of the temporary living quarters at Camp No. 5 in Kemano.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. -- The International Harvester Company were manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.77