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Kemano Powerhouse - Generator Floor

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description29195
Part Of
Kitimat Heritage Advisory Commission fonds
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
[ca.1959]
Accession Number
2014.14.260
Scope and Content
Photo Kemano Powerhouse - Generator Floor. Shows three workers looking at various pieces of equipment and drawings.
Part Of
Kitimat Heritage Advisory Commission fonds
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2014.14.260
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
[ca.1959]
Physical Description
1 negative : colour ; 12.5 x 10
Scope and Content
Photo Kemano Powerhouse - Generator Floor. Shows three workers looking at various pieces of equipment and drawings.
Subject Access
Kemano Powerhouse
Storage Location
Negative in negative cabinet
Part Of
Gisela Mendel fonds
Description Level
File
Date Range
[1958]
Accession Number
71.93
Scope and Content
Photographs of a glacier at Kildala Pass and the Kemano River.
Part Of
Gisela Mendel fonds
Creator
Gisela Mendel
Description Level
File
Series Number
Series 1
Accession Number
71.93
Date Range
[1958]
Physical Description
9 slides : colour
Custodial History
Photographs taken by Gisela Mendel in her position as curator of the Kitimat Museum
Scope and Content
Photographs of a glacier at Kildala Pass and the Kemano River.

Kitimat Museum & Archives VHS Collection

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description26063
Part Of
Kitimat Museum & Archives Collection
Description Level
Series
Date Range
[ca. 1958-2001]
Accession Number
2019.75.1-17
Scope and Content
VHS Cassettes collected or created by the Kitimat Centennial Museum (Kitimat Museum & Archives): Launching of Canoe 'Haisla Nation' Kitimat Port Facts Fluoride Totem - The Return of G'psgolox Pole Alcan Historical Films - 1958-1965 - Generator No. 4, Port to the World, Man with a Thousand Hands Alcan Historical Films - 1979-1991 - Kitimat: A New Generation, Kitimat/Kemano: Aluminum Legends Kitimat/Kemano: New Dimensions Kitimat Centennial Museum presents: An Evening with Roger Willcox (3 copies) Riobamba 1990 Exhibits - Elem. School Art; Out of Shade; Museum (Mixed Filming); Oak Winter Scenes Child Art - Elementary School, Out of Shade, Tour of Museum, Quilts Part I Quilts Part II Golden Mountain - Produced by RBCM Lion's Dance, W.M. Pang Golden Dragon Acrobats, Overture Concerts, Vancouver, BC Design & Production Group, Shane Lunny Productions B.C. Environment - Green Team, Here's The Dirt, Garbage is Resourceful Oolichan Rushes, March 1992, Haisla Band, Interview with Cecil Paul, Variations on a Word, Victoria, BC
Part Of
Kitimat Museum & Archives Collection
Description Level
Series
Accession Number
2019.75.1-17
Date Range
[ca. 1958-2001]
Physical Description
17 VHS Cassettes
Scope and Content
VHS Cassettes collected or created by the Kitimat Centennial Museum (Kitimat Museum & Archives): Launching of Canoe 'Haisla Nation' Kitimat Port Facts Fluoride Totem - The Return of G'psgolox Pole Alcan Historical Films - 1958-1965 - Generator No. 4, Port to the World, Man with a Thousand Hands Alcan Historical Films - 1979-1991 - Kitimat: A New Generation, Kitimat/Kemano: Aluminum Legends Kitimat/Kemano: New Dimensions Kitimat Centennial Museum presents: An Evening with Roger Willcox (3 copies) Riobamba 1990 Exhibits - Elem. School Art; Out of Shade; Museum (Mixed Filming); Oak Winter Scenes Child Art - Elementary School, Out of Shade, Tour of Museum, Quilts Part I Quilts Part II Golden Mountain - Produced by RBCM Lion's Dance, W.M. Pang Golden Dragon Acrobats, Overture Concerts, Vancouver, BC Design & Production Group, Shane Lunny Productions B.C. Environment - Green Team, Here's The Dirt, Garbage is Resourceful Oolichan Rushes, March 1992, Haisla Band, Interview with Cecil Paul, Variations on a Word, Victoria, BC
Notes
There were three tapes in set of Alcan Historical Films. One was destroyed by the VHS Machine. It contained: Nechako Survey Prelude to Kitimat Powerline to Kitimat
Storage Location
Bay 1, Shelf 3, Box 4
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1956
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the motor vessel Nechako docked in Kemano.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
220
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1956
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts the motor vessel Nechako docked in Kemano.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.100. KMA No. P00220.jpg
Subject Access
Boats
Transportation
Images
Part Of
Lorna Daniel Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
19 - 30 Aug 1955
Accession Number
2020.1.10
Scope and Content
Photograph showing housing for the Alcan Smeltersite
Part Of
Lorna Daniel Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2020.1.10
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
19 - 30 Aug 1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 9 cm 1 negetive : b&w ; 12.8 x 6.1 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph showing housing for the Alcan Smeltersite
Subject Access
Housing
Smeltersite
Kitimat-Kemano Project
Geographic Access
Alcan Smelter
Smeltersite
Storage Location
photograph storage

Photobook of Early Kitimat and Alcan Smelter

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description35205
Part Of
Lydia Strecheniuk Collection
Description Level
Series
GMD
graphic material
Accession Number
2022.14.7
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.
Part Of
Lydia Strecheniuk Collection
Description Level
Series
Accession Number
2022.14.7
GMD
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph print : 9x9cm ; colour
Custodial History
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.
Subject Access
Townsite
Mount Elizabeth
Sand Hill
Kitimat-Kemano Project
Smeltersite
Storage Location
photograph storage

First air mail via PWA

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description204
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Scope and Content
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
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
198
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
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
Notes
Title based on content of photograph.
Subject Access
Services
Kemano
Airplanes
Images

Power Transmission Lines Over Glacier

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description28339
Part Of
Gisela Mendel fonds
Description Level
File
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. Oct 1954]
Accession Number
72.6
Scope and Content
Photographs showing Kitimat as well as power transmission lines over a glacier at Kemano-Kildala.
Part Of
Gisela Mendel fonds
Creator
Gisela Mendel
Description Level
File
Series Number
Series 1
Accession Number
72.6
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. Oct 1954]
Physical Description
2 photograph prints : b&w ; 9 x 12.5cm
Custodial History
Photographs taken by Gisela Mendel in her role as museum curator.
Scope and Content
Photographs showing Kitimat as well as power transmission lines over a glacier at Kemano-Kildala.
Notes
72.6.4E and 72.6.4F
Subject Access
Kemano
Kildala
Transmission line
Kitimat
Glacier
Storage Location
Curator's Office
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
ca. 1954
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers going up the mountain on the 20-ton tramway.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
49
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Photographed by the International Harvester Company, manufacturers of construction equipment purchased for the Project.
Date Range
ca. 1954
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers going up the mountain on the 20-ton tramway.
Notes
This tramway carried men and cargo from Kemano Camp 5 to the camps at the 1600' and 2600' elevations.Hal Whiting Collection 985.65.81
Subject Access
Tunnels
Images

Ken Desjardin Collection

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description28272
Part Of
Ken Desjardin Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Accession Number
2009.22
Scope and Content
Collection of paperwork from Ken Desjardin, including Employment Agreement, Notice of Rent Increase, and Leases Act.
Part Of
Ken Desjardin Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Accession Number
2009.22
History / Biographical
Ken Desjardin was an Alcan employee who lived and worked in Kitimat from 1954 to 1973 and Kemano from 1973 to around 1991-2.
Scope and Content
Collection of paperwork from Ken Desjardin, including Employment Agreement, Notice of Rent Increase, and Leases Act.
Name Access
Desjardin, Ken
Storage Location
Bay 2 Shelf 5 Box 2
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1954-1955
Accession Number
2003.32.227
Scope and Content
Black in bush at Kemano.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2003.32.227
Date Range
1954-1955
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Black in bush at Kemano.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1954
Accession Number
2003.32.228
Scope and Content
Bear in Kemano around trash pile.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2003.32.228
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Bear in Kemano around trash pile.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1954
Accession Number
2003.32.229
Scope and Content
Bear in Kemano at trash pile.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2003.32.229
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Bear in Kemano at trash pile.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1954
Accession Number
2003.32.230
Scope and Content
Kemano tail race. Powerlines overhead.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2003.32.230
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Kemano tail race. Powerlines overhead.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1954
Accession Number
2003.32.231
Scope and Content
Bill at Kemano. Powerlines in background
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2003.32.231
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Bill at Kemano. Powerlines in background

Blower at Powerhouse Entrance

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description30057
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1954
Accession Number
2003.32.232
Scope and Content
Two men standing in front of powerhouse entrance at Kemano.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2003.32.232
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Two men standing in front of powerhouse entrance at Kemano.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1954
Accession Number
2003.32.233
Scope and Content
Transmission station at Kemano.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2003.32.233
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Transmission station at Kemano.

Crooks and Eric at Kemano

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description30059
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1954
Accession Number
2003.32.234
Scope and Content
Crooks at Eric standing next to red truck at Kemano.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2003.32.234
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Crooks at Eric standing next to red truck at Kemano.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1954
Accession Number
2003.32.235
Scope and Content
Aerial view of kemano camp.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2003.32.235
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Aerial view of kemano camp.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1954
Accession Number
2003.32.236
Scope and Content
Kemano mountains with water below.
Part Of
Bill Frahler Collection
Creator
Bill Frahler
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2003.32.236
Date Range
1954
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Kemano mountains with water below.

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