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Westcoast Transmission Company Ltd. fonds
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- Photograph
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- Source of title proper: Title based on provenance of the fonds
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ca. 1,000 photographs : col. and b&w negatives, prints and transparencies
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Biographical history
The Westcoast Transmission Company was incorporated in 1949 to extract and distribute natural gas and provide other energy services. Established by Frank McMahon, it had its headquarters in Vancouver. In 1988 the name of the company was changed to Westcoast Energy. By 2000, the company had five gas processing plants and three sulphur recovery plants. In March, 2002, Westcoast Energy was acquired by the U.S. company Duke Energy.
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Scope and content
Fonds consists of photographs taken by or for the Westcoast Transmission Company Ltd. They include aerial views of Vancouver and photographs of the Vancouver Museum and Planetarium, the Vancouver Aquarium, MacMillan Bloedel Conservatory, Pacific National Exhibition buildings and prize homes, petroleum and gas industry exhibits at the Pacific National Exhibition, scenes from Gastown, the Westcoast Energy building, and other buildings and scenes in Vancouver. Fonds also includes photographs showing the various stages of construction of the Westcoast Transmission building at 1333 West Georgia Street, as well as a promotional pamphlet for the building.
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Donated by Duke Energy Corporation in 2003.
Arrangement
Photographs in this fonds have been assigned catalogue numbers in the range CVA 1435-1 to CVA 1435-1045. The following CVA 1435 numbers were missed in sequential ordering: 486, 535, 602-611, and 638.
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Nine photographs found in the Major Matthews collection (AM54) are duplicates of prints from this donation and created for the company, see reference code: AM54-S4-: Bu 725.1 to Bu 725.9