Milton Glass files on Kitimat Canada, 1950-1954.
Collection Number: 6896
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Milton Glass files on Kitimat Canada, 1950-1954.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6896
Abstract:
Files relating to the planning and development of Kitimat, B.C..
Creator:
Glass, Milton.
Quanitities:
10 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Architect. Milton Glass worked on the planned community of Kitimat, British Columbia.
Commissioned by Alcan (Aluminum Company of Canada), it was to be British Columbia's
first planned community: "Kitimat would be designed for the worker and his family.
The fulfillment of people's needs as the focus of a town plan was considered revolutionary.
Famed American architect and town planner Clarence S. Stein, and town planners Mayer
& Whittlesey of New York fulfilled Alcan's goals. A green space model was chosen separating
pedestrian and vehicular traffic and having home, store, and community building face
peaceful open spaces, removed from intrusion and hazard by the automobile."
Files relating to the planning and development of Kitimat, B.C.. The Kitimat collection
goes in depth into the planning and development of all aspects of the city, starting
from choosing the designers and planners of the city and ending with the evaluation
of the mostly finished town. The correspondences, meeting reports, and townsite planning
reports show what the planners had in mind at the time and how the town slowly evolved
to satisfy the townspeople physically, mentally, and culturally. The collection also
includes many photographs used to plan the landscape and various blueprints and reports
which show changes between the years of planning. Various publications and attempts
to publicize and advertise the town is reflected. Conflicts with the municipal and
provincial government are also listed as well as attempts to resolve the conflicts.
Records, receipts, correspondences, and figures show the financial struggles in planning
and developing the city.
The collection includes correspondences, maps, blueprints, reports, minutes of meetings,
photographs, negatives, slides, publications, contracts, receipts, material lists,
graphs, advertisements, and news clippings. Notable figures (in no particular order):
ALCAN (Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd.), Clarence S. Stein, Julian Whittlesey, Wilbur
Smith and Associates, Edmund T. Ames, Albert Mayer, William J. Conklin, Norman Klein,
J. A. Currie, Wilfrid R. Ussner, Dan Kiley, James C. Buckley, Ralph Eberlin, Walter
E. Kroening, Larry Smith, Lois Barclay, N. L. Engelhardt, Larry Smith, and Roger Willcox.
See also the Clarence Stein papers, #3600, http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/EADresolver?id=RMM03600
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Milton Glass files on Kitimat Canada #6896. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Stein, Clarence S.
Mayer & Whittlesey (New York, N.Y)
Subjects:
City planning -- British Columbia -- Kitimat.
Planned communities -- Canada.
New towns -- British Columbia -- Kitimat.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
From the Start of the Job Through to the End of W and C Participation
|
1957 |
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Scope and Contents
On the front of the folder, it says: "KEEP THIS FILED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE KITIMAT
JOB (this involves several job numbers)"
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Townsite Report
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence Between Partners of Mayer and Whittlesey re Alcan
|
1951 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence Relative to Kitimat
|
1951 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
General Correspondence with Alcan
|
1951-1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Billing Beta - Fees
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Billing Data - Reimbursible Expenses
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Cost Estimates
|
1951 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Architectural Production Costs
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Town Development Costs
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Drawings Filed in Drafting Room
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Minutes of Meetings
|
1951 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Record of Plans and Reports Submitted to ALCAN
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Planning Notes, Comments, and Reports
|
1952-1955 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
James C. Buckley
|
1953 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Dan Kiley - Landscape
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Telecommunications - Walter Duchinsky
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Kitimat Constructors - Correspondence with
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1951-1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Sharp, Thompson, Berwick and Pratt - Architects for Alcan
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Swan, Rhodes and Wooster Report on Kitimat River Bridge
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Clarence S. Stein
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1954 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Ralph Eberlin (Utilities)
|
1951 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Walter E. Kroening (Community Management)
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Larry Smith (Commerce and Business)
|
1951-1958 |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Community Living - Planning for Reports by Lois Barclay Murphy
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Community "A" - The First Neighborhood; Home, Plot and Road: House Types and Materials
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Butler Report - Recreation
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Schools - N. L. Engelhardt
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Robert L. Davison (Howard T. Fisher Associates)
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1952-1953 |
| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Frederick Latzer (re Utilities)
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Semmons and Simpson - Architects for Alcan
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
River Control and Mr. K. Ross
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Weather - Dr. Landsberg
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1951-1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Weather Reports from Dr. Landsberg
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1951-1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Maps
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Indian Mission Weather Records
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| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Weather - Charts, etc.
|
1947-1957 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Publicity
|
1955 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Source Material (Empty as of August 18th 2011)
|
No Date |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Kitimat Master Plan Report Backups of Parts I, II, II, and Index
|
1953 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Part I of Report on Master Planning
|
1952 |
|
Scope and Contents
Mimeographed copy of 6.0 "Townsite Physicla Planning" as prepared by Mr. Stein's office
for inclusion in the Townsite Report
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
House Types and Their Relation to Land and Living; Self-Building; Landscaping
|
1952 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
First Interim Report (Land Use Study and Preliminary Master Plan)
|
1951-1952 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Second Interim Report (Revised Town Plan)
|
1952 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Larry Smith Reports on Commercial Aspects of Kitimat and the Hotel Facility 1957
|
1957 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Larry Smith Reports on Commercial Aspects of Kitimat and the Hotel Facility 1952
|
1952 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Walter E. Kroening and Lawrence H. Tucker
|
1951 |
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Scope and Contents
Report entitled "The Kitimat Project - Study of Service Personnel Requirements"; Organization
- Personnel - Budget
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Stein: Progress Report for Kitimat Townsite Planning
|
1952 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Howard T. Fisher Associates Report on Materials and Methods - Parts 1 and 2
|
1952 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Buckley Secion of Report on Kitimat
|
1952 |
|
Scope and Contents
Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd.
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| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Master Plan for Service Center
|
1953 |
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Scope and Contents
Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd.
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Master Plan Report for Kitimat - Part I
|
1953 |
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Scope and Contents
Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd.
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Master Plan Report for Kitimat - Part II
|
1953 |
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Scope and Contents
Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd.
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| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Master Plan Report for Kitimat - Part III
|
1953 |
|
Scope and Contents
Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd.
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| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Church Planning
|
1951-1952 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
City and Neighborhood Centers, Commercial Center, Service Center
|
1952-1955 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Theater Concept
|
1952-1953 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Service Center
|
1952-1953 |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Parking Facilities
|
1953 |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Weather
|
1953 |
|
Scope and Contents
Photos
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| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Commercial Space - J. S. Shakespeare
|
1953 |
| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Utilities (Water, Central Heating) and Site Engineering - River Control
|
1953-1953 |
| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Terrace Road
|
1953 |
| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Landscaping - Dan Kiley
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1952-1954 |
| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Architects - Semmons and Simpson and Sharp, Thompson, Berwik and Pratt
|
1952-1958 |
| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
James C. Buckley
|
1953 |
| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Utilities - Ralph Eberlin
|
1952-1953 |
| Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Clarence S. Stein and Roger Willcox - Correspondence
|
1952-1956 |
| Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence with ALCAN
|
1952-1953 |
| Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence with ALCAN
|
1953 |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence with ALCAN
|
1954 |
| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Town Building Documents and Correspondents
|
1956-1957 |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Town Building Letters
|
1955-1958 |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence With Vancouver Office
|
1955 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence With Vancouver Office
|
1956 |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence With Corporation of the District of Kitimat Officials
|
1954-1956 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Kitimat Community Council (Stan Rough, Chairman)
|
1957 |
| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Contract Proposal
|
1952-1956 |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Billing
|
1952-1956 |
| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Progress Reports
|
1953-1954 |
| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
By-Laws and Regulations
|
1953-1955 |
| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
By-Laws (Comments on, bound copies)
|
1953 |
| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Master Plan Revisions
|
1954 |
| Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Survey
|
1952 |
| Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Field Directions to ALCAN
|
1952 |
| Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Maps in Connection With Field Directions
|
1952 |
| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Minutes of Meetings and Office Memos
|
1952 |
| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Architectural Production Costs
|
1952 |
| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Planning Notes (Data extracted from Report by Dudley)
|
1956 |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Conference: Understanding the Community
|
1957 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Meeting Report Back Ups
|
1955 |
| Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Fall (1955) Conference: Development Program; Agendas; Proceedings
|
1955-1956 |
| Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Material for Possible Publication on Kitimat
|
1952-1955 |
| Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence with FORUM (Haskell) re Publication
|
1954 |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Letters Sent to Individuals and Firms with Brochure Reprint of FORUM Article
|
1955 |
| Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Publication of Mt. and Reports on Loan
|
1954 |
| Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence Relative to Kitimat
|
1957-1958 |
| Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Customs Forms and Instructions on Their Use When Shipping Blueprints
|
1952-1959 |
| Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Preliminary Report on Kitimat City Center - Mayer Whittlesey and Glass
|
July 12, 1957 |
| Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Annual Report with Info on Alcan and Other Subsidaries of Aluminum Limited
|
1955 |
| Box 5 | Folder 15 |
City Center - Draft for Final Report (Mayer Whttlesey and Glass)
|
1957 |
| Box 5 | Folder 16 |
City Center Commercial Development - Volume 1 Draft
|
1957 |
| Box 5 | Folder 17 |
Ripley and Associates (Soil)
|
1957 |
| Box 5 | Folder 18 |
Proposal, Contract, Billing
|
1957-1958 |
| Box 5 | Folder 19 |
Larry Smith and Company
|
1957-1958 |
| Box 5 | Folder 20 |
Municipality of Kitimat Federal Government
|
1957 |
| Box 5 | Folder 21 |
Correspondence with Alcan re City Center
|
1957-1958 |
| Box 5 | Folder 22 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence
|
1958 |
| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Notes: Made by J.W. in the Field in April-May, 1957
|
1957 |
| Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Eric West - re Exhibit (1955) and Later Correspondence
|
1955-1958 |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Publications
|
1952-1954 |
|
Scope and Contents
Architectural Forum (October 1954), Fortune (August 1952, July 1954)
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| Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Kitimat Proposal by Mayer and Whittlesey
|
1951 |
| Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Proposal Dated July 31/51
|
1951 |
| Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Publications
|
1953-1958 |
|
Scope and Contents
Clarence S. Stein, Kitimat: Progress Report on the ALCAN Project
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| Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Publicity, etc.
|
1950s |
| Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Publicity and Historical and Other Data from Kitimat Newspapers and Elsewhere
|
1950s |
| Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Progress on Physical Development on Kitimat
|
1956-1957 |
|
Scope and Contents
Newspapers
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Publicity
|
1954 |
| Box 6 | Folder 11 |
Publicity Material1954-1957
|
1954 |
| Box 6 | Folder 12 |
Zoning (Draft)
|
1953 |
| Box 6 | Folder 13 |
Zoning
|
November 1956 |
| Box 6 | Folder 14 |
Zoning
|
1954-1964 |
| Box 6 | Folder 15 |
Photostats of 4 Drawings
|
1952 |
| Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Kitimat
|
1951-1957 |
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Scope and Contents
Photos, material lists, correspondence, plan reviews, project plans, landscape maps,
cost analyses, planning maps, charts and figures, facility plans, reports
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Kitimat Photos
|
1950s |
| Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Kitimat Photos
|
1950s |
| Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Kitimat Photos
|
1950s |
| Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Kitimat Photos
|
1950s |
| Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Kitimat Photos
|
1950s |
| Box 7 | Folder 7 |
Kitimat Photos
|
1950s |
| Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Kitimat Photos
|
1950s |
| Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Photographs of Kitimat, Kemano, and Nechako
|
1951 |
| Box 7 | Folder 10 |
Kitimat Exhibition Panels
|
No Date |
| Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Reports and Small Plans from Kitimat
|
1959-1960 |
| Box 7 | Folder 12 |
Reports and Other Material Sent Direct from Kitimat to JW in Athens
|
1958-1960 |
| Box 7 | Folder 13 |
Correspondence with Mariel Ames (includes Social Study of Kitimat)
|
1959-1965 |
| Box 7 | Folder 14 |
Consultation with the Municipality Report: Parks and Recreation (Community Plan Report)
|
1962 |
| Box 7 | Folder 15 |
Community Center Plans
|
1959-1965 |
| Box 7 | Folder 16 |
Report: Park and Recreation
|
1962 |
| Box 7 | Folder 17 |
Reports (brought back by JW Nov. 1965)
|
1964-1965 |
| Box 7 | Folder 18 |
Kitimat Negatives
|
No Date |
| Box 7 | Folder 19 |
Drawing List as of January 1964
|
1964 |
| Box 7 | Folder 20 |
Townsite Development Maps
|
1958 |
| Box 7 | Folder 21 |
House Plans
|
No Date |
| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Kitimat Consultancy
|
1965-1966 |
| Box 8 | Folder 2 |
Record of Materials Sent to Julian Whittlesey in Athens, June 1960
|
1960 |
| Box 8 | Folder 3 |
Henry Strub (Aluminum Secretariat Ltd., in Montreal)
|
1959-1961 |
| Box 8 | Folder 4 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence re Kitimat, Including Correspondence with Some Alcan
People
|
1959-1961 |
| Box 8 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence with Mrs. Meldrm (Editor, Northern Sentinel) and Planning Articles
Therein by Edmund T. Ames
|
1959-1961 |
| Box 8 | Folder 6 |
Industrial Development Report (Delta Area) by Hopkins
|
1958 |
| Box 8 | Folder 7 |
Edmund T. Ames (Personal)
|
1961-1962 |
| Box 8 | Folder 8 |
Kitimat Consultancy - Kitimat Townsite Report
|
1960 |
| Box 8 | Folder 9 |
Bibliography (Jan. 1962): Community Plan Report Index
|
1966 |
| Box 8 | Folder 10 |
Background Info - Clippings, Reports, Minutes, etc.
|
1961 |
| Box 8 | Folder 11-22 |
CONSULTATION WITH THE MUNICIPALITY
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence Reports and Bill re May/63 Trip
|
1952-1963 |
| Box 8 | Folder 12 |
Traffic Survey Material Related to Wilber Smith File
|
1956-1962 |
|
Scope and Contents
Traffic survey, various sketches and maps showing intersections, correspondence
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| Box 8 | Folder 13 |
Wilbur Smith and Associates (Traffic)
|
1961-1962 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 |
Contract and Billing
|
1961-1962 |
| Box 8 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence with Ames and Currie
|
1961 |
| Box 8 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence with Ames and Currie
|
1961-1962 |
| Box 8 | Folder 17 |
Portions of Minutes of Council Meetings
|
1960-1961 |
| Box 8 | Folder 18 |
Correspondence with W. R. Ussner (Architect)
|
1960 |
| Box 8 | Folder 19 |
Proposal, Contract, Billing
|
1960 |
| Box 8 | Folder 20 |
Planning Personnel
|
1960-1961 |
| Box 8 | Folder 21 |
Correspondence (Ames and Currie)
|
1960 |
| Box 8 | Folder 22 |
Correspondence (Ames and Currie)
|
1959 |
| Box 8 | Folder 23 |
Mayer and Whittlesey Photos
|
No Date |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Oversized items.
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Scope and Contents
These items are mostly plan drawings for the Kitimat area. Includes plans for the
Service Center of the Aluminum company of Canada and the Kitimat Townsite Report,
1960. Oversized portfolio, 2 copies; placed in the library vault, separate from the
rest of the collection
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| Mapcase Folder 2 |
Oversized items.
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Scope and Contents
These items are mostly plan drawings for the Kitimat area. Includes plans for the
Service Center of the Aluminum company of Canada and the Kitimat Townsite Report,
1960. Oversized portfolio, 2 copies; placed in the library vault, separate from the
rest of the collection
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| Mapcase Folder 3 |
Oversized items.
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Scope and Contents
These items are mostly plan drawings for the Kitimat area. Includes plans for the
Service Center of the Aluminum company of Canada and the Kitimat Townsite Report,
1960. Oversized portfolio, 2 copies; placed in the library vault, separate from the
rest of the collection
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| Mapcase Folder 4 |
Oversized items.
|
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Scope and Contents
These items are mostly plan drawings for the Kitimat area. Includes plans for the
Service Center of the Aluminum company of Canada and the Kitimat Townsite Report,
1960. Oversized portfolio, 2 copies; placed in the library vault, separate from the
rest of the collection
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| Mapcase Folder 5 |
Oversized items.
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Scope and Contents
These items are mostly plan drawings for the Kitimat area. Includes plans for the
Service Center of the Aluminum company of Canada and the Kitimat Townsite Report,
1960. Oversized portfolio, 2 copies; placed in the library vault, separate from the
rest of the collection
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