Kitimat Museum and Archives

Haisla-Kuldo Intersection

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Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
13 august 1964
Accession Number
2005.8.1740
Scope and Content
Photo showing kids at the Haisla-Kuldo intersection where there were crosswalk installations.
Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2005.8.1740
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
13 august 1964
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 6" x 5"
Custodial History
Current: 1960s; District of Kitimat, Miscellaneous
Scope and Content
Photo showing kids at the Haisla-Kuldo intersection where there were crosswalk installations.
Subject Access
intersection
Crosswalks
District of Kitimat
Storage Location
Artifact Storage
Part Of
Nute family fonds
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1977
Accession Number
2022.32.5
Scope and Content
Photograph of mountains and ocean, taken (presumably from a ferry) en route to Kemano.
Other Title Info
Taken from caption on back of photograph.
Part Of
Nute family fonds
Creator
John Nute
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2022.32.5
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1977
Physical Description
1 colour photograph; 12.3 x 8.6 cm
Custodial History
Donated by Meg Walker, granddaughter of John and Marjorie Nute, on October 11th 2022.
Scope and Content
Photograph of mountains and ocean, taken (presumably from a ferry) en route to Kemano.
Notes
Taken by Rev. John Nute, who was the pastor at Kitimat Presbyterian Church in summer 1977.

Aerial View Of Nalabila Intersection

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Part Of
Harvey Thompson Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
May 1956
Accession Number
72.83.10
Scope and Content
Photo showing Nalabila and Kingfisher intersection
Part Of
Harvey Thompson Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
72.83.10
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Harvey Thompson
Date Range
May 1956
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 5" x 5"
Scope and Content
Photo showing Nalabila and Kingfisher intersection
Subject Access
Kitimat-Kemano Project

Accident at intersection of Kuldo and Columbia

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Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
4 February 1960
Accession Number
2005.8.3235
Scope and Content
Photo showing accident at intersection of Kuldo and Columbia. Cars driven by Robert James Shaw and Heinz Leopold Jachner
Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2005.8.3235
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
4 February 1960
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 6" x 6"
Custodial History
Northern Sentinel Box #3 - (A)Historical (1)Accidents (a)Automobiles
Scope and Content
Photo showing accident at intersection of Kuldo and Columbia. Cars driven by Robert James Shaw and Heinz Leopold Jachner
Name Access
Shaw, Robert James
Jachner, Heinz Leopold
Subject Access
Accidents
Automobiles
Storage Location
Artifact Storage

On the Channel on the way to Kemano.

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Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Accession Number
2005.8.6659
Scope and Content
"en route to Kemano."
Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2005.8.6659
GMD
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 12x20cm
Scope and Content
"en route to Kemano."

Marjorie Nute on way home from Kitimat

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Part Of
Nute family fonds
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1977
Accession Number
2022.32.10
Scope and Content
Photograph of Mrs. Marjorie Nute at the rail of a ferry, heading home to Maple Ridge, B.C. from Kitimat.
Part Of
Nute family fonds
Creator
John Nute
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2022.32.10
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1977
Physical Description
1 colour photograph; 8.5 x 8.5 cm
Custodial History
Donated by Meg Walker, granddaughter of John and Marjorie Nute, on October 11th 2022.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Mrs. Marjorie Nute at the rail of a ferry, heading home to Maple Ridge, B.C. from Kitimat.
Notes
Taken by Rev. John Nute, who was the pastor at Kitimat Presbyterian Church in summer 1977.

File - Precontact Way of Life

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Part Of
Patricia Robertson Fonds
Description Level
Series
Accession Number
995.8.18
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
Decline of the Kitimat Eulachon. Northern Times, Vol.1 No.18, Friday April 9 1976.
Article about Canoe making with image if finished canoe. Kitimat Ingot, 1958
Translation of french document inserted in the oldest baptismal record kept at St. paul's Indian Church, North Vancouver BC (2 pages)
The History and Story Involving the Present and Only Standing Totem Pole in the Kitimat Indian Village British Columbia, Nov 26, 1953
The Small Fish by Gisela Mendel, grade 4 (6 pages)
Kitimat Monster. Project Post, Vol 1 No 33, Aug 27 1953 (2 pages)
Notes from Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Canada by W.A. Clemens and G.V. Wilby (hand-written, 1 page)
Comparitive Vocabularies, Tolmie and Dawson (hand-written, 3 pages)
Museum material from binder entitles "Haisla" (hand-written, 1 page)
Museum Material from Gisela's "Eulachon Diary" 1972/73 (hand-written, 5 pages)
Museum Material - File on Eulachon (hand-written, 1 page)
Museum Material - File on Haisla Indians, Pre-contact (hand-written, 1 page)
Museum Material, Gobeil Island (hand-written, 1 page)
Museum Material - File on Haisla Stories (hand-written, 4 pages)
Indians of the North Pacific Coast by Tom Mcfeat, 1966
Part Of
Patricia Robertson Fonds
Description Level
Series
Accession Number
995.8.18
Physical Description
1 folder
History / Biographical
Collection of materials that Patricia Robertson used for her PhD.
Custodial History
Donated to the museum by Patricia Robertson.
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
Decline of the Kitimat Eulachon. Northern Times, Vol.1 No.18, Friday April 9 1976.
Article about Canoe making with image if finished canoe. Kitimat Ingot, 1958
Translation of french document inserted in the oldest baptismal record kept at St. paul's Indian Church, North Vancouver BC (2 pages)
The History and Story Involving the Present and Only Standing Totem Pole in the Kitimat Indian Village British Columbia, Nov 26, 1953
The Small Fish by Gisela Mendel, grade 4 (6 pages)
Kitimat Monster. Project Post, Vol 1 No 33, Aug 27 1953 (2 pages)
Notes from Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Canada by W.A. Clemens and G.V. Wilby (hand-written, 1 page)
Comparitive Vocabularies, Tolmie and Dawson (hand-written, 3 pages)
Museum material from binder entitles "Haisla" (hand-written, 1 page)
Museum Material from Gisela's "Eulachon Diary" 1972/73 (hand-written, 5 pages)
Museum Material - File on Eulachon (hand-written, 1 page)
Museum Material - File on Haisla Indians, Pre-contact (hand-written, 1 page)
Museum Material, Gobeil Island (hand-written, 1 page)
Museum Material - File on Haisla Stories (hand-written, 4 pages)
Indians of the North Pacific Coast by Tom Mcfeat, 1966
Name Access
Robertson, Patricia
Storage Location
Archives Bay 1 Shelf 4 Box 37

This way folks or I shoot!

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Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
18 November 1957
Accession Number
2005.8.1850
Scope and Content
Photo showing "This way folks or I shoot!" "Barker" J.A.G. King ran his game of chance at the Legion Klondike nights here with all the fervor of a rootin', tootin' sourdough. Using the lusty cry of "three for a quarter or I'll shoot you", the enticed customers to his stall where they belted down mild bottles with baseballs at the rate of three throws for two bits.
Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2005.8.1850
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
18 November 1957
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 6" x 8"
Custodial History
Northern Sentinel Box #3 - (A)Historical (1)Service Club (a)Royal Canadian Legion Kitimat Branch #250
Scope and Content
Photo showing "This way folks or I shoot!" "Barker" J.A.G. King ran his game of chance at the Legion Klondike nights here with all the fervor of a rootin', tootin' sourdough. Using the lusty cry of "three for a quarter or I'll shoot you", the enticed customers to his stall where they belted down mild bottles with baseballs at the rate of three throws for two bits.
Name Access
King, J.A.G.
Subject Access
Legion
Storage Location
Artifact Storage

Haisla-Kuldo intersection gets new lights

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Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
9 February 1961
Accession Number
2005.8.1883
Scope and Content
Photo showing power distribution crew is shown above erecting new double-arm aluminum light standards along the centre island at the Haisla-Kuldo intersection. The standards, some double, others single, all equipped with mercury vapor lamps will light Haisla from the intersection to the bridge, Commercial for its full length and Kuldo from Haisla to Columbia. Bases for the standards were installed in late November but the poles, which were made elsewhere, did not arrive in Kitimat until last week.
Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2005.8.1883
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
9 February 1961
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 4" x 6"
Custodial History
Current: 1960s -District of Kitimat -Miscellaneous
Scope and Content
Photo showing power distribution crew is shown above erecting new double-arm aluminum light standards along the centre island at the Haisla-Kuldo intersection. The standards, some double, others single, all equipped with mercury vapor lamps will light Haisla from the intersection to the bridge, Commercial for its full length and Kuldo from Haisla to Columbia. Bases for the standards were installed in late November but the poles, which were made elsewhere, did not arrive in Kitimat until last week.
Subject Access
District of Kitimat
Transportation
Storage Location
Artifact Storage
Images

RR Right of Way From Sandhill

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Part Of
Fred DeLory fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1953
Accession Number
2002.15.142
Scope and Content
Slide of R.R. right of way from sandhill. Next to Kitimat River.
Part Of
Fred DeLory fonds
Creator
Fred A. DeLory
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2002.15.142
Date Range
1953
Physical Description
1 slide ; colour
Scope and Content
Slide of R.R. right of way from sandhill. Next to Kitimat River.
Storage Location
Slide storage

Clearing transmission line right-of-way

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Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers clearing the transmission line right-of-way. The smelter site preparation and smoke from the townsite clearing are in the distance.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
127
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Physical Description
1 slide : col.
Scope and Content
Photo depicts workers clearing the transmission line right-of-way. The smelter site preparation and smoke from the townsite clearing are in the distance.
Notes
Title based on content of photograph. Alcan Collection Accession no. 73.3.10.1
Subject Access
Transmission line
Images

File 2 - Precontact Way of Life

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Part Of
Patricia Robertson Fonds
Description Level
Series
Accession Number
995.8.17
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
Time and Place by Timothy Starr, Chief Councillor of Kitamaat Village. From Northern Sentinel 1956 (1 page)
Letter to Mr. Ed Meade, February 5, 1975
Sentinel Hill, Daduk'wilatzi
The Founding of Kitamaat. Speaker: Mr. Jeffrey Legaik (13 pages)
Historic Sign. Info drafted by Grodon Robinson at Gisela's request (2 pages)
Kitimat River Village (1 page)
Letter to Mr. Shakespeare from H, Duker. Re: Kitimat Indian Names (6 pages)
"Historical Inventory of the Kitimat-Stikine Region" compiled by R.K. Kaser, September 1974, for the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, Terrace BC (4 pages)
Krause, Tlingit Indians
Fisheries fact Sheet. Eulachon, Anchovy, and Pilchard
Oolachon Fishing in the Kitimat River. Kitimat Northern Sentinel, April 16, 1957
Casey volume two number six. "The Kitamaat Story" (2 pages)
Part Of
Patricia Robertson Fonds
Description Level
Series
Accession Number
995.8.17
Physical Description
1 folder
History / Biographical
Collection of materials that Patricia Robertson used for her PhD.
Custodial History
Donated to the museum by Patricia Robertson.
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
Time and Place by Timothy Starr, Chief Councillor of Kitamaat Village. From Northern Sentinel 1956 (1 page)
Letter to Mr. Ed Meade, February 5, 1975
Sentinel Hill, Daduk'wilatzi
The Founding of Kitamaat. Speaker: Mr. Jeffrey Legaik (13 pages)
Historic Sign. Info drafted by Grodon Robinson at Gisela's request (2 pages)
Kitimat River Village (1 page)
Letter to Mr. Shakespeare from H, Duker. Re: Kitimat Indian Names (6 pages)
"Historical Inventory of the Kitimat-Stikine Region" compiled by R.K. Kaser, September 1974, for the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, Terrace BC (4 pages)
Krause, Tlingit Indians
Fisheries fact Sheet. Eulachon, Anchovy, and Pilchard
Oolachon Fishing in the Kitimat River. Kitimat Northern Sentinel, April 16, 1957
Casey volume two number six. "The Kitamaat Story" (2 pages)
Name Access
Robertson, Patricia
Storage Location
Archives Bay 1 Shelf 4 Box 37

File 2 - Precontact Way of Life

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Part Of
Patricia Robertson Fonds
Description Level
Series
Accession Number
995.8.20
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
Mike Shaw Pays Visit, Sentinel
The Journals of William Fraser Tolmie, Physician and Fur trader (3 pages)
The Church Missionary Intelligence
Franz Boas, from the Report to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. On The North-Western Tribes of Canada (8 pages)
Part Of
Patricia Robertson Fonds
Description Level
Series
Accession Number
995.8.20
Physical Description
1 folder
History / Biographical
Collection of materials that Patricia Robertson used for her PhD.
Custodial History
Donated to the museum by Patricia Robertson.
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
Mike Shaw Pays Visit, Sentinel
The Journals of William Fraser Tolmie, Physician and Fur trader (3 pages)
The Church Missionary Intelligence
Franz Boas, from the Report to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. On The North-Western Tribes of Canada (8 pages)
Name Access
Robertson, Patricia
Storage Location
Archives Bay 1 Shelf 4 Box 37

File 2 - Precontact Way of Life

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Part Of
Patricia Robertson Fonds
Description Level
Series
Accession Number
995.8.21
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
How the Kitamaats Got the Fire as told by Rev. Raley. Archives of British Columbia Raley Collection (5 pages)
Part Of
Patricia Robertson Fonds
Description Level
Series
Accession Number
995.8.21
Physical Description
1 folder
History / Biographical
Collection of materials that Patricia Robertson used for her PhD.
Custodial History
Donated to the museum by Patricia Robertson.
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
How the Kitamaats Got the Fire as told by Rev. Raley. Archives of British Columbia Raley Collection (5 pages)
Name Access
Robertson, Patricia
Storage Location
Archives Bay 1 Shelf 4 Box 37

File 2 - Precontact Way of Life

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Part Of
Patricia Robertson Fonds
Description Level
Series
Accession Number
995.8.22
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
The Social Organization of the Haisla of British Columbia by R.L. Olsen. Anthropological Vol.2 No.5 pp 169-2000, University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif, 1940 (33 pages)
Part Of
Patricia Robertson Fonds
Description Level
Series
Accession Number
995.8.22
Physical Description
1 folder
History / Biographical
Collection of materials that Patricia Robertson used for her PhD.
Custodial History
Donated to the museum by Patricia Robertson.
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
The Social Organization of the Haisla of British Columbia by R.L. Olsen. Anthropological Vol.2 No.5 pp 169-2000, University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif, 1940 (33 pages)
Name Access
Robertson, Patricia
Storage Location
Archives Bay 1 Shelf 4 Box 37

File 2 - Precontact Way of Life

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Part Of
Patricia Robertson Fonds
Description Level
Series
Accession Number
995.8.23
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
Social Life and Religion of the Indians in Kitimat by Wan A. Lopatin. Univ. of Southern California, Social Science Series, No. 26, Univ. of Southern Calif. Press, Los Angeles, 1945 (hand-written, 29 pages)
Part Of
Patricia Robertson Fonds
Description Level
Series
Accession Number
995.8.23
Physical Description
1 folder
History / Biographical
Collection of materials that Patricia Robertson used for her PhD.
Custodial History
Donated to the museum by Patricia Robertson.
Scope and Content
Folder containing research material.
Social Life and Religion of the Indians in Kitimat by Wan A. Lopatin. Univ. of Southern California, Social Science Series, No. 26, Univ. of Southern Calif. Press, Los Angeles, 1945 (hand-written, 29 pages)
Name Access
Robertson, Patricia
Storage Location
Archives Bay 1 Shelf 4 Box 37

Upstream End of Culverts at the Intersection of Haisla & Lahakas Blvds

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Part Of
Alcan Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Accession Number
2022.25.35
Scope and Content
Photograph of the upstream end of culverts at the intersection of Haisla & Lahakas Blvds.
Part Of
Alcan Collection
Creator
Alcan
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2022.25.35
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Physical Description
1 photograph print : b&w ; 21.5x28cm
Custodial History
Donated by Jackie Worboys. Given to the Jackie Mufford Worboys family by Wally Melville.
Scope and Content
Photograph of the upstream end of culverts at the intersection of Haisla & Lahakas Blvds.
Notes
J-2-181
Subject Access
Early Kitimat
Townsite
Sumgas
Haisla Boulevard

Neighbourhood C-I from Intersection of Haisla and Road N

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Part Of
Alcan Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
25 Apr 1956
Accession Number
76.66.277
Scope and Content
Photograph looking South East across Neighbourhood C-I from the intersection of Haisla and Road N
Part Of
Alcan Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
76.66.277
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
25 Apr 1956
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph looking South East across Neighbourhood C-I from the intersection of Haisla and Road N
Notes
J-2-277
Subject Access
Construction
Kitimat-Kemano Project
Kildala
Storage Location
photograph storage

Two way phone hook-up for the prisoners and visitors

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Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
31 October 1974
Accession Number
2005.8.9003
Scope and Content
Photograph of a two way phone hook-up is provided for conversation between prisoners and visitors. A glass partition seperates the two rooms.
Part Of
Northern Sentinel Press Ltd Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
2005.8.9003
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
31 October 1974
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 17.6 x 12.6 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a two way phone hook-up is provided for conversation between prisoners and visitors. A glass partition seperates the two rooms.

Sky way air service apply pest control to Smelter site

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Part Of
Hal Williams Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
29,1952,06
Accession Number
79.31.2
Scope and Content
photo showing pest control being applied to the smelter site by Sky way Air
Part Of
Hal Williams Collection
Description Level
Item
Accession Number
79.31.2
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Hal Williams
Date Range
29,1952,06
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 24x20
Scope and Content
photo showing pest control being applied to the smelter site by Sky way Air
Subject Access
Smeltersite