Approximately 900 Rio Tinto workers at the company's aluminum smelting facilities in Kitimat, B.C. have gone on strike.

A company town, Arvida was planned around the first Alcoa aluminum plant, later known as Alcan, so people could walk to it.

A ceremonial first pour of molten metal at Rio Tinto Alcan's aluminum plant Tuesday marked the completion of a multibillion-dollar modernization project in the northern British Columbia community of Kitimat.