The Kitimat Museum & Archives offers displays on town history, multiculturalism, turn-of-the-century settlement, and Haisla arts and technology. Additional displays feature the geology, flora, and fauna of the Kitimat Valley and the sea life of Douglas Channel.

Kitimat was the place to be in North America in the 1950s. The massive Alcan Project in northwest British Columbia was completed in just five years – dam, tunnel, powerhouse, Kemano, transmission line, smelter, and Kitimat. In the post-war industrial boom worldwide, the Project was the largest construction job for the time with thousands participating in its feverish work pace. Records were set, innovation was at every turn, and the result was the largest smelter in the world and the premier community to go with it.

Browse through Kitimat history on the left in “Project Images” - a B.C. Digital Collection.
The Project was one of the most photographed and filmed construction jobs in BC history. Photographic collections created by Alcan, The Northern Sentinel Press, and those who took part in the construction are featured.