Photo showing Kitimat one of only 5 BC communities of over 5,000 population who went through 1965 without a fatal road accident. Reeve Sam Lindsay accepting award from RCMP inpector E.R. Lysyk of Prince Rupert.
Photo showing Kitimat one of only 5 BC communities of over 5,000 population who went through 1965 without a fatal road accident. Reeve Sam Lindsay accepting award from RCMP inpector E.R. Lysyk of Prince Rupert.
Photo showing Auxiliary policemen, at front from left: RCMP Const. M.J. Vandekinderen, Sgt. Ian Fisher, Magistrate Don Murray. At rear from left: John Smith, Jack Rewers, John McKenzie, Dave Allen, Barney Mahon, Lewis Truesdale, Miles Bode, Peter Krytenberg, Steve Stevenson, Jerry Stacey, Walter Zelinski.
Photo showing Auxiliary policemen, at front from left: RCMP Const. M.J. Vandekinderen, Sgt. Ian Fisher, Magistrate Don Murray. At rear from left: John Smith, Jack Rewers, John McKenzie, Dave Allen, Barney Mahon, Lewis Truesdale, Miles Bode, Peter Krytenberg, Steve Stevenson, Jerry Stacey, Walter Zelinski.
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.
Scope and Content
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.
Photo showing party at Gordon Hotel given by RCMP Kitimat detachment. Left to right: Const. and Mrs. Barry Hughes, Mrs. Ian Fisher, Staff Sergeant Ian Fisher, Mrs. Bob Evans, Const. Evans, Mrs. Bill Ingenthron, Const. Ingenthron.
Photo showing party at Gordon Hotel given by RCMP Kitimat detachment. Left to right: Const. and Mrs. Barry Hughes, Mrs. Ian Fisher, Staff Sergeant Ian Fisher, Mrs. Bob Evans, Const. Evans, Mrs. Bill Ingenthron, Const. Ingenthron.
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.
Scope and Content
Portrait of RCMP officer James Norman Smythe in his uniform and hat.