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20-600: A major side-inlet, the Gardner Canal , is 90 km (56 mi) in length, accessible from the Kitimat Arm of the Douglas Channel via Devastation Channel (20 km, 12 mi), on the east side of Hawkesbury Island . South of Hawkesbury is Verney Passage (40 km, 25 mi), which has a side-channel called Ursula Passage (30 km, 19 mi). Total length of the fjord waterway dominated by Douglas Channel

40-610: A kitchen utensil production plant and foundry in Toronto . It added a rolling mill in the plant a few years later. During World War I (1914–18), aluminum production increased to 131,000 tonnes from 69,000. In 1925, the company was renamed the Aluminum Company of Canada. It was responsible for rapid development in Arvida , today a part of the city of Saguenay in Quebec, by contributing to

60-547: A location on the North Coast of British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Alcan Alcan was a Canadian mining company and aluminum manufacturer. It was founded in 1902 as the Northern Aluminum Company, renamed Aluminum Company of Canada in 1925, and Alcan Aluminum in 1966. It took the name Alcan Incorporated in 2001. During that time, it grew to become one of

80-533: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gardner Canal The Gardner Canal is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast . Technically a side-inlet of the larger Douglas Channel , the Gardner Canal is still 90 km (56 mi) in length in its own right; total length of the waterways converging on the Douglas Channel is 320 km (200 mi) making it one of

100-587: Is important for being the location of the Kemano Generating Station of the Nechako Diversion , which was built to supply power for Kitimat . The head of the Gardner Canal, also, is the mouth of the Kitlope River , a major wildlife and wilderness preserve and area of outstanding natural beauty and harsh weather. This article about a location on the North Coast of British Columbia , Canada

120-436: Is therefore (not counting smaller side-inlets) roughly 320 km (200 mi), considerably longer than Norway 's Sognefjord (203 km, 126 mi) or Greenland 's Scoresby Sound at 350 km (220 mi), though not as long as nearby Dean Channel 's total of 335 km (208 mi). Douglas Channel is a busy shipping artery because of the methanol import terminal (formerly methanol production and export) and

140-707: The Allies ' demand for aluminum expanded rapidly, and with it the company. Already accounting for roughly three-quarters of the production capacity for aluminum in the British Empire , the company's "assets increased fivefold; sales increased fivefold; net income increased sixfold" between 1937 and 1944, according to a report commissioned by the Government of Canada. The governments of the UK, Canada, US, and Australia facilitated this growth with low-interest loans and tax deferrals. In 1945,

160-554: The LNG Canada natural gas storage and liquefaction terminal is completed and operational, which is estimated to be in 2025. The project, led by an liquefied natural gas (LNG) subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell and several Asian partners and finally approved on October 1, 2018, will see large LNG carrier ships loading liquefied natural gas at the future Kitimat LNG terminal, to carry it to export destinations, mainly in Asia. The Gardner Canal

180-512: The aluminum smelter at Kitimat, as bauxite must be shipped in and smelted aluminum shipped out. Expansions of the Port of Kitimat have increased the port capacity of the British Columbia's North Coast and decreased the shipping monopoly of the nearby city, Prince Rupert . The methanol production and export plant closed in 2006. Douglas Channel will be subject to new sensitive ship traffic when

200-488: The Aluminum Company of Canada was officially registered under the trade name Alcan. Sales fell substantially in the immediate aftermath of the war but rebounded with postwar expansion, as aluminum was increasingly in use in construction, by electrical utilities, and in manufacturing. In 1951, the company initiated a $ 500-million project at Kitimat, British Columbia , the largest public-private partnership ever created in Canada at

220-402: The Gardner Canal are named "reaches". They are, from mouth to head, Alan Reach, Europa Reach, Barrie Reach, Whidbey Reach, and Egeria Reach. The extreme head is called Kitlope Anchorage. Side inlets include Ochwe Bay, Triumph Bay, Kiltuish Inlet, Owyacumish Bay, and Chief Mathews Bay. The Gardner Canal is the location of the Kemano Generating Station of the Nechako Diversion , which

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240-557: The construction of major ports and railway facilities. It began production at its sheet rolling and extrusion facility in Ontario in 1940. In 1931, the Northern Aluminum Co. Ltd., or Alcan Industries Ltd. pig and rolled aluminum factory was opened on land acquired in 1929 in the then-hamlet of Hardwick, Banbury , England. The factory helped build parts for Spitfire fighter aircraft during World War II . The Alcan Laboratories Club

260-447: The largest fjord -complexes in the world. It was named in 1793 by George Vancouver in honour of his friend and former commander, Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner . One of his men, Joseph Whidbey , first charted it the same year. The entrance to the Gardner Canal is hidden behind Hawkesbury Island , and is accessed via Devastation Channel or Varney Passage which form the northeast and southeast flanks of that island. Segments of

280-502: The location was later closed and demolished. Between 1998 and 2001, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean became the largest construction site in North America, as Alcan undertook a $ 3-billion construction project in Alma , with a yearly production capacity of 400,000 metric tonnes. In 2000, Alcan acquired Algroup (Alusuisse Group Ltd.), merging the companies to become Alcan, Inc. in 2001. Alcan became

300-494: The second biggest primary aluminum production company. It then became the world's largest aluminum manufacturer in 2004 after acquiring the Pechiney Group, the fourth player in worldwide production and fabrication of aluminum and the number-three in packaging. In 2007, Rio Tinto acquired Alcan in a US$ 38 billion deal. The offer served to undermine a hostile bid of $ 27.5bn from Alcoa , Alcan's US rival. Rio Tinto thus became

320-502: The time. Despite a June 1950 antitrust ruling by a US court that forced shareholders to divest themselves of shares in either Aluminum Limited (as the company was then known) or Alcoa, and the rise of American rivals Kaiser and Reynolds , Alcan remained a dominant player in the aluminum sector for many subsequent decades. In 1994, Alcan sold their building products unit (with a plant in Scarborough , Ontario) to Genstar Capital , and

340-571: The world's largest aluminum manufacturers. Alcan was purchased by Australian-British multinational Rio Tinto for $ 38 billion in 2007, becoming Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. in 2008. It was headquartered in Montreal , in its Maison Alcan complex. The Northern Aluminum Company was founded in 1902 in Shawinigan , Quebec, as part of the Pittsburgh Reduction Company . In 1913, the company opened

360-544: The world's leading aluminum producer. The company quickly announced its intention to sell off the Engineered Products and Packaging business groups. Alcan Incorporated was amalgamated with Rio Tinto Canada Holding Incorporated and renamed Rio Tinto Alcan Incorporated in 2008. The various Alcan facilities on the 53-acre site in Oxfordshire closed between 2006 and 2007, and the factory and laboratory were demolished over

380-595: Was built to supply power for an Alcan aluminum smelter in Kitimat . The generating station is located about halfway along the canal on its north bank, at the mouth of the Kemano River . At the head of the Gardner Canal is the mouth of the Kitlope River a major wildlife and wilderness preserve, the Kitlope Heritage Conservancy , an area of outstanding natural beauty and harsh weather. This article about

400-400: Was founded in 1948 by the lab technicians to promote the well-being of the workforce in general. As a result, the village began to grow. By the early 1950s, the local economy had become dependent on the plant's prosperity, with 24% of the town's workers being employed there. At this time, 13% were employed in distribution, 7% in clothing, and 5% in agriculture. With the onset of World War II,

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