Fonds contains documents, photographs, photocopies, and maps collected by Arvid Hardin throughout his ten years in Kitimat. Areas of focus include high school life, the Kitimat Army Cadets, and the creation of Hirsch Creek Park, the Kitimat Community Centre, and the Kitimat trail system.
Arvid Hardin (born c. 1941) lived in Kitimat from 1953 to 1963. He graduated from Mount Elizabeth Secondary School in 1959, served as an active member of the Kitimat Army Cadet Corps, and was involved with the creation of Hirsch Creek Provincial Park. Around 2008, he collaborated with E.E. 'Bill' Duyvewaardt and other former Kitimat Cadets to write a 'historical profile' of the Cadets and their activities.
Custodial History
Materials from accession 2009.15 were donated by Arvid Hardin to the Museum on June 10th, 2009.
Materials from accession 2022.18 were donated by Arvid Hardin on May 10th, 2022.
Scope and Content
Fonds contains documents, photographs, photocopies, and maps collected by Arvid Hardin throughout his ten years in Kitimat. Areas of focus include high school life, the Kitimat Army Cadets, and the creation of Hirsch Creek Park, the Kitimat Community Centre, and the Kitimat trail system.
Conservation
Many pages old and yellowing. Staples, paper clips, and other metal fasteners removed from all papers in March & May 2022.
Storage Location
Box 39
Photo storage
Related Material
Artifacts donated by Arvid Hardin include a proclamation (2009.15.6), gazette (2009.15.7), and high school certificate (2009.15.11).
Photograph of Kitimat's first Beatle haircut. The young gentleman receiving the haircut is only identified as Rupert and the expert with the scissors is Kitimat barber, Elio Geremia
Photograph of Kitimat's first Beatle haircut. The young gentleman receiving the haircut is only identified as Rupert and the expert with the scissors is Kitimat barber, Elio Geremia
Alice Dicker's father, Benard, came to Canada to work in 1955. He was a foreman D-shift for Alcan. He married Anna in 1959. Alice and her sister Claudia were born in Kitimat and the family lived here until 1969, at which time they returned to Germany.
Scope and Content
Photograph of a child in City Centre parking lot. Likely Alice or Claudia Dicker. Many Cars parked behind her. Kitimat General Hospital in background.
photo showing civil defence equipment "Mobile Feeding Unit" being inspected by Assessor A. Sanderson (foreground on left) and Reeve Sam Lindsay (background on left). Sign on the wall with stencilled letters all in capitals states: "District of Kitimat, Emergency Welfare Service, Mobile Feeding Unit."
photo showing civil defence equipment "Mobile Feeding Unit" being inspected by Assessor A. Sanderson (foreground on left) and Reeve Sam Lindsay (background on left). Sign on the wall with stencilled letters all in capitals states: "District of Kitimat, Emergency Welfare Service, Mobile Feeding Unit."
Notes
Date of photograph is believed to be April 9, 1964.
