Kitimat, B.C., is benefiting from major ... In the early ‘50s, the Aluminum Company of Canada (later Alcan and now Rio Tinto Alcan) acquired the land for a new smelter, and a new community ...

In the early ‘50s, the Aluminum Company of Canada (later Alcan and now Rio Tinto Alcan) acquired the land for a new smelter, and a new community was born. “Industry is the only reason we exist,” said ...

Kitimat, the home of LNG Canada’s terminus, is no stranger to economic volatility. But locals say Trump’s trade war and the ...

The history of Kitimat’s aluminum smelter dates ... worked out a deal with what was then known as the Aluminum Company of Canada (Alcan), to provide the company with the cheap power it needed ...