Photographs of early Kitimat and Alcan smelter. Souvenir photobook with five photos.
Townsite with Mount Elizabeth in background. Smoke is visible beyond townsite in the forest. May 15, 1956.
Townsite with sandhill visible in background. May 15, 1956.
Main Road - Motel - Townsite. View of road leading from service centre into town. Kildala area cleared but not much is built. Kitimat River bridge visible at bottom. Aug 1955.
Kitimat Valley. View of Alcan site, hospital beach, and pier. Looking north.
Smeltersite. View of Alcan smelter and smeltersite.
Donated by Carol Larson. Originally belonged to her mother, Lydia Strecheniuk.
Scope and Content
Photographs of early Kitimat and Alcan smelter. Souvenir photobook with five photos.
Townsite with Mount Elizabeth in background. Smoke is visible beyond townsite in the forest. May 15, 1956.
Townsite with sandhill visible in background. May 15, 1956.
Main Road - Motel - Townsite. View of road leading from service centre into town. Kildala area cleared but not much is built. Kitimat River bridge visible at bottom. Aug 1955.
Kitimat Valley. View of Alcan site, hospital beach, and pier. Looking north.
Smeltersite. View of Alcan smelter and smeltersite.
Collection of documents including letters, records, photos from Meldrum Pixie.
1- Book manuscript by Hugh Meldrum. Honestly it Happened (early history of Kitimat - chapters 20-25 missing. (2 folders)
2- Biographical notes to Northern Sentinel Press while Mrs.Meldrum was editor, by Fran Howerd MP for Skeena for Long years in answer of being accused of a criminal background.
3- Mt. Elizabeth correspondence with Hugh Parmiter regarding mountian name.
4- Nechako Toastmasters Club pamphlet, a yearbook 1956-1964.
5- Notes on Mitchell trial, Mar. 20, 1970.
6- Circular Letter, Info on Alcan. Kitimat-Kemano project.
7- Hugh Meldrum: The perfect crime (A typewritten story: 6 pages).
8- Story- priority by H. Meldrum (4 pages).
Collection also includes miscellaneous documents including:
- Kitimat 1960 Pixie Meldrum's Information sheets for Canadian Press.
- Meldrum Estate Clippings, etc
- Meldrum Estate Correspondence Pixie Meldrum
- Meldrum Estate Booklet on Education
- Alcan planned closure article draft by Pixie Meldrum.
Mrs.Meldrum a longtime resident of Kitimat and Newspaper Editor, died May 4, 77 of cancer at Vancouvar.
Scope and Content
Collection of documents including letters, records, photos from Meldrum Pixie.
1- Book manuscript by Hugh Meldrum. Honestly it Happened (early history of Kitimat - chapters 20-25 missing. (2 folders)
2- Biographical notes to Northern Sentinel Press while Mrs.Meldrum was editor, by Fran Howerd MP for Skeena for Long years in answer of being accused of a criminal background.
3- Mt. Elizabeth correspondence with Hugh Parmiter regarding mountian name.
4- Nechako Toastmasters Club pamphlet, a yearbook 1956-1964.
5- Notes on Mitchell trial, Mar. 20, 1970.
6- Circular Letter, Info on Alcan. Kitimat-Kemano project.
7- Hugh Meldrum: The perfect crime (A typewritten story: 6 pages).
8- Story- priority by H. Meldrum (4 pages).
Collection also includes miscellaneous documents including:
- Kitimat 1960 Pixie Meldrum's Information sheets for Canadian Press.
- Meldrum Estate Clippings, etc
- Meldrum Estate Correspondence Pixie Meldrum
- Meldrum Estate Booklet on Education
- Alcan planned closure article draft by Pixie Meldrum.
