James 'Jim' Smythe served as Kitimat's first RCMP officer from March 1952 to September 1953. This photo was likely taken early in his police career, which began in Winnipeg in 1947.
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Portrait of RCMP officer James Norman Smythe in his uniform and hat.
James 'Jim' Smythe served as Kitimat's first RCMP officer from March 1952 to September 1953. This photo was taken early in his police career, likely in Manitoba or Saskatchewan.
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Portrait of RCMP officer James Norman Smythe in his uniform and hat.
Photograph of a Kitimat police officer, Constable McDonald, standing on a police patrol vessel at the wharf. The stern of the ship is marked "R.C.M.P. M.L. 15."
Photograph of a Kitimat police officer, Constable McDonald, standing on a police patrol vessel at the wharf. The stern of the ship is marked "R.C.M.P. M.L. 15."
Interior shot of the police station at Kitimat smeltersite, showing a desk with a typewriter, telephone, radio equipment, and more. There is a Hudson Bay Company calendar on the wall and a Columbia Encyclopedia atop a cabinet.
Interior shot of the police station at Kitimat smeltersite, showing a desk with a typewriter, telephone, radio equipment, and more. There is a Hudson Bay Company calendar on the wall and a Columbia Encyclopedia atop a cabinet.
A desk that has the objects on it covered with a cloth and then a few phones on top of the cloth with the front doors that have bullet holes in the background
A desk that has the objects on it covered with a cloth and then a few phones on top of the cloth with the front doors that have bullet holes in the background