SS Camosun III
Built in 1943 in England, as HMS Sandgate Castle,
then to the Royal Canadian Navy as RCN St. Thomas, K488
a Royal Canadian Navy Castle Class Corvette,
purchased by Union Steamships Co. in 1945
entered service here in Dec 1946,
after conversion to a Passenger/ Cargo Vessel
at Burrard Dry Dock.
Length 252 ft., Beam 37 ft, speed 16.5 knots, 2750 HP, 1835 tons
In 1958 it was renamed Chilcotin II.
In 1958 it was sold to Chuck West's, Alaska Cruise Lines,
and  renamed the Yukon Star.
It carried 148 Cruise Passengers.
1974 it was towed to Seattle and scrapped.

SS Chilcotin II at Butedale
the Camosun with a different name

MV Nechako
 at the Kemano Wharf
Unknown Airplane in the Distance
this boat made 2 round trips
weekly from Kitimat to Kemano
1954- Captain Bill Cogswell

Allan "Al" Beaton
b- 1923 in Vancouver BC
d- 1967
He served in the RCAF in WWII
After the war he attended the Vancouver School of Fine Arts.
He travelled in Mexico and then worked
for a construction company in Kitimat BC.
The caricatures he drew for the construction company,
 were seen by the editor of the Vancouver Province newspaper,
 who hired him as editorial cartoonist in 1953.
He was editorial cartoonist for the Toronto Telegram
from 1961 to 1967.
 He won a prize at the Montreal International Salon of Cartoons in 1965.
He was the creator of the "Ookpik" comic strip
which ran in more than fifty Canadian and US daily newspapers.
It was based on the popular Arctic Owl stuffed toy, in the mid 60's.
I believe the Kitimat Museum has a book of his cartoons.
 

Inside Mess Hall
-near side of table - left to right -
Gil Cadeaux, Norm McDonald, Steve Radomski
-far side - left to right -
Raymond George Angus
 (perished on flight to Kitimat July 20, 1958-
his stamp collection was seen floating
on water in the Channel),
Bruce Moss, Jim Talbot.
(Jim Talbot facing camera)

Cafeteria etc on left- 1956

Lunchtime

Lunchtime