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The Kitimat Valley is part of the most populous urban district in northwest British Columbia, which includes Terrace to the north along the Skeena River Valley. The city was planned and built by the Aluminum Company of Canada during the 1950s. Its post office was approved on 6 June 1952. [4] Kitimat's municipal area is 242.63 km 2 (93.68 sq mi ...
Dec 22, 2021 · By 1951, the provincial government and Alcan had entered into a whopping $500-million partnership — about $5 billion in today’s dollars — to build a wildly complex hydroelectric system that would power an aluminum smelter in a coastal town that did not yet exist: Kitimat.
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Before European colonization, the Kitamaat band lived along the Kitimat Arm at the north end of the Douglas Channel (see Haisla). A wave of European settlers came to the area in the early 1900s, when the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway surveyed the site as the railway’s possible western end point. Prince Rupertbecame the terminus of the railway, howeve...
The Eurocan Pulp and Paper Co. built a mill in Kitimat in 1969. West Fraser bought the mill in 1993. It closed the mill in 2010, citing declining profits. (See also Pulp and Paper Industry.) A methanol and ammonia plant also operated in Kitimat from the 1980s until 2005. These plants were significant employers. Spurred by industrialdevelopment, Kit...
Multinational corporation Rio Tinto bought the Alcan aluminum smelter in 2007. Rio Tinto now employs about 1,000 people in Kitimat, roughly 12 per cent of the population. The smelter is a cornerstone of the community’s economy. Other contributors include tourism, small business, port development and international tradeinvestments. Construction is u...
Named for a nearby Indian village, Kitimat and its deepwater anchorage came to prominence in 1951, when the Aluminum Company of Canada chose it as the site for a huge aluminum smelter, completed in 1954.
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Mar 21, 2017 · In the late 1800s/ early 1900s, European pioneers settled in the Kitimat area. They had planned to settle in the region and capitalize when the railroad was built. The District of Kitimat was developed in the 1950s as part of the grand scheme to build a huge hydroelectric project and aluminum smelter in the area.
The Kiwanis Clock in City Centre, pictured here, has long been a Kitimat landmark. It was first unveiled on June 3, 1967, as part of a Canada Centennial Year project by the Kiwanis Club of Kitimat and District of Kitimat.
In 1953, the District of Kitimat became the first town without residents to be incorporated in B.C. The catch was that in order to sit on the District Council, one had to be a landowner. Basil Baxter was elected on that first Council, having received his land.
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