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| These four-unit multi-coloured housing units were used as PMQs by the Navy mainly for leading Seamen and below. The buildings were built on 'stilts' to enable air circulation beneath the structure thus avoiding the unnecessarily melting of the permafrost. Here you see the accumulation of snow up to the building's base, but the stilts are visible on the aluminum 'utilidor' (foreground, bottom) which supplied water and heat to all buildings in the 'serviced' area of the town. It also carried waste water and sewage away from the buildings for disposal. Petty Officers and above were assigned individual houses, which were also constructed on 'stilts' and connected to the 'utilidor'. This photo was taken in 1960, the year prior to the RCN's move from Aklavik. (From the collection of D.S.K. Blackmore submitted by Donna Loewen) |