t.t 1 Sit I .4 1 - I" I Prince Rupert Dafli JSctos , Monday, September 24, 1945 published every afternoon except Bun-i,aayjsy. Prince Rupert Dally News Limited. Third Avenue. Prince Rupert, imm- . British Columbia. -inr OtJL HUNTER, Managing Editor. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: By City Carrier,, per week Per, Mpjith Per Year By Mall, per rronth Per .Year New Arrivals IN Cord Jackets and Trousers The Jackets are smartly styled and comfortable. Two-tone shades of tan arid brown. .Sizes 36 - to 44 . , $7.95 6 Trousers are in shades of tan, brown and teal. Sizes 30 to 36 $7.75 B ecause UEMBER A.B.C. SS t700 14.00 - Fortunate Solution to Dilemma The much to be lamented and untimely loss of the good ship Prince George, which has served so long" and so faithfully along the British Columbia coast and into the waters of Alaska and' Pget Sound, brings about a real crisis for the Canadian National Steamships as far as the ser vice-on this coast is concerned nut TTTA im ' biiu.-v;uiHjaii la luv-r iu nave a vjuiv-iv way uui. Should anything happen to the Prince Rupert, sole surviving member of a once fine fleet, and the tendency might be to crowd her in view of the emergent situation now existing, the company would be completely out of business as far as active primary operation is concerned. While Canadian National Steamships does have its Vancouver Island and Okanagan Lake ferries, the coastal service between Vancouver and Prince Rupert and incidental "pprts has already been its main function. , . So if the Canadian National "THE MEN'S SHOP' Ponlseii's Cafe and Dining Room Is the Talk of the Town WHY? Railway is to remain in the steamship business on this coast, it is how faced with making a very prompt decision on the matter of new ship . construction. With, that decision will go the necessity of immediately building at the veiy least two new and up-to-date passenger vessels adaptable both to the requirements of a summer tourist traffic. - which, in the coming years, will probably be greater than it ever was before, arid the growing demands of coast travel arid shipping. There can be no delaying longer the construction of these ships if the company is to stay .in the steamship business. " In yiew of the fact that time is ' the "essence in having these ships built and that the company has available the yard and organization to carry out the work at once in its own shipyard at Prince Rupert, which .achieved such fine accomplishment in war shipbuilding, the completion of which program will have beeri reached within the next two or three months, it is logical to assume that there will be no further delay in the decision to get this vital ship construction work under way here at once. , The company is on the spot today but, fortunately, the Prince Rupert dry dock, its own plant, offers the quickest and best way out of the de-lemma which embarrasses not only the company itself but the shipping and travelling public generally. It's the nicest-looking place in town. It's open for banquets, weddings and parties. Meetings may be arranged. As good as the best, Better than the rest." WANTED Able-bodied then, willing workers for cold storage and fish floor work. Have steady work for capable men. Can also1 use some casual labor. APPLY Canadian Fish AND Cold Storage COMPANY LIMITED PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. LETTERBOX HONESTY AND RELIABILITY Editor, Dally News: I notice in your advertising columns an advertisement for reliable arid honest boys. How can you expect honesty and reliability in others when you are both dishonest and unreliable yourself? On your front page of Saturday's paper you print in large type "One thousand men still working," presumably at the dry dock. You know as well as I know, or you ought to, that there hasn't been 1000 men working there for a year. Any dry dock workers .can verify that. -Last week's total wps less than 600. Also you printed some time ago In your paoet that only men from the prairies were being let out which Is another Inaccuracy because I am personally acquainted with one or two who are residents of this town, taxpayers, and hired from here. So when you ask for honest and reliable people it would be a good idea to practise what you preach eh? Yours for truth, J. ARNOLD, ex Dry Docker. FROM WAR TO PEACE LONDON. (Reuters) Fire repayable in 1Z monthly instalment! fJ to 6 Irdtrtst fer annum) UGt 10NI AT MOPORTIONUTE COST Priest's Life Story JOSEPH ALLARD, ONCE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER JURNED TO GOD'S WORK Father Joseph Allard, O.M.I., the young French-Canadian commercial traveller, who turned priest because he felt he could better serve in bringing true happiness to the world and the crowning climax of whose ecclesiastical career was the founding of the Lejac industrial school, was in Prince Rupert as the personal representative of Bishop M. Lajeunesse of Le Pas, Man., to assist at the installation of Bishop Jordan of Prince Rupert. Father Allard lacked no company here daring his short stay. Both old-timers and newcomers to .the country enjoyed the pioneer priest's talks about his experiences during 37' years of practical missionary work in the Yukon, Northern B.C. and He told of his three years with Creek which cost $1500 and which was paid by the miners of the Creek threedays after its i openlngt In 1906, he went to Southern Yukon and built at Conrad a church which Capt. Fitz-H6rlgan and Kate Ryan helped him to pay for. But the Conrad mines' having closed down, he moved the church 12 miled on the water to Carc.ross where it still stands. In 1907 Father Allard went to Atlin, saw 12 Catholic miners and 60 non-Catholic Indians at his first religious service, got $20 each from 10 miners, bought a house in the Indian town for $200 and watchers' steel helmets are being oVer 300 miles up the Stewart iffered for sale at threeDence (six cents) each, with the suggestion they be used as hanging flower baskets or chicken 'food receptacles. op DO YOU WANT TO REPAIR YOUR HOME... MAKE IT READY FOR WINTER? That is Good Business Sec the manager or accountant of your neighbourhood D of M office. PERSONAL LOANS for every useful purpose for only (27h A MONTH FOR A i JI00.00 loam River. He started i kindergarten and music school with a large hall where regular "weekly card parties gathered, the old-timers playing progressive whist and solo. "This Is the happiest night I have spent since I came to the Yukon," said old Billy Irish from Aylmer. The Moose organization fol lowed the priest's example arid opened a larger hall for' the" same purpose and soon there were few old-timers "chewing the rags" in the lobbies of the 22 saloons. Only two of them kept going. In 1913, the Yukon Council voted to close the Sisters school. the first and only school in 1898 which was frequented by all the Dawson children. A petition was signed by the citizens demand lng that the oldest Dawson school be maintained. Their re quest was .granted by the com missioner and the school is still on the Job. Sisters' School In Prince Rupert In 1915, Father Allard was in Prince Rupert when the church administration of Bishop Bunoz and Fathers Coccola and Allard voted the erection of Sisters' school in the city. In 1916, he was in charge of the district from Hazeltorfto Burns Lake. He added a sanctuary to the Hag- the Yukon miners on the creeks, wllget church and had an elab- building a log house the day) orate out-door religious celebra-af ter his arrival, at night teach-1 tlon In Hagwilgate which was lng English to his 'Canayens' on attended by whites and natives Dominion Creek,- for three years, from far and near Hazelton, going into two different mining Glen Vowell, KLspiox and Mor-groups to get his noon and eve- lcetown. An Indian Department nlng meals. One of the early artist made a moving picture of accomplishments was in 1904 the procession, building a church on Sulphur In October Father Allard met Bishop Bunoz on the train. The latter said to him: "The Indian Department refuse to build an Indian school on account of the many expenses caused by the war but they will grant so much per capita if we build it ourselves. What do you think of It?" "Let us build the school," said Father Allar.d." '-'I agree with you," said Bishop Bunoz. "The other member of the council is opposed to it.'but you and I are the majority. Go and build and take charge." On October 10 Father Allard went to Fort St. James and built the school with the help of one white man carpenter and sev eral Indians. A local sawmill used it as boarding! ,"ut- ? J0". school and chapel. This he filled ?viae ine u?n a"a'; .... - iib rnvi. wile irnivii pii i nun up with Indian children and for three years he monopolized all the Jobs of teacher; cook, baker and fisherman, meanwhile learning the Klinget language which enabled him to teach the old Indians Christianity in their own tongue. For one and a half years, the Atlin boarders and teacher lived on the charity "of a handful of miners and of the Indians. Then the Indian Department gave him $75 a month which enabled him to have potatoes and butter. From l&2to;1936, he was backH in' Atlin to' finish the evangelization of the Indians and lecturing to many tourists. He sat In the church on his bread box, lectured for an hour and wound up saying, '-For three years I taught here and fed a house full of, In dlan children' and made bread for them. I have been sitting on my bread box. Look at It. I still have the bread box tout I have no dough. I use It for a collection box. The- collections were sufficient to make the Atlin and Carcross missions what they are tdJday. From 1910 iu ibis, Father Allard was in charge of Dawson. He built a church at Lansing, Vanderhoof. On February 4, 1917, the Fort St. James school was opened for 37 boys: The school staff was composed of local men; a Polish teacher, a Swede fac totum, a Chinaman cook and the Father. The teacher and his wife bathed the 37 bovs in the lar?es1 tub available. The Father. cIId-per In hand, shaved the 37 heads There were only 25 beds ready. The partition separating the Father's bed fr6m the bovs was torn down and 12 bunks built on the walls and thus did the .37 boarders each have a. bed Icr their first night In th? school. Iri July, the pupils went home f6r one month's vacation. Then the Father brought to the school 55 boy boarders. He found that the teacher had enlisted in the army and left him alone with the factotum and the Chlnai man. He wired Bishop Bunoz who promised to send him four Sisters. A month later, alone with the 55 pupils, he cleared land to extend his garden and grain field. This work was combined with the spiritual care of 350 souls on We snores of the "40 mile long Stewart Lake. McAl-lan, the Iridfah .Agent, said to the Bishop: "That priest has too much work." "Ah, the more the better, he likes it," said the Bishop. The Sisters arrived in Septem ber. Already was started an -ad ditional building for Sisters and girl boarders. By the middle of January, 1918, the new building was occupied by the Sisters and 14 girls. 'On the first of July 1918, all pupils went home and the principal of the schbol went to Up ton. P. Q.. to make his first visit after spending 15 years in the country. He assisted at the ordination of his young brother, F. Elphege Allard and brought him back to the school as his assistant. Soon after the re-openiri.g of the school, the Spanish Flu struck the country. Spanish Influenza Takes Heavy Toll. One morning the young Father Help to make Better People for a Better World Through experienced personal contact and Its homes, hosrjitdls and hostels. The Salvation T-& Army restores to useful living the victims of mischance, mistake and human weakness. Never was the need, so great for your dollars to make possible this task of making better people for a better world. Give generously. Space donated by RUPERT PEOPLES STORE two Sisters and all the pupils except two, stayed in bed sick with the flu. The two boys helped the -principal to pack the water ifrom the lake and the wood for all the stoves and to attend to all the needs of the sick On November 11 two adult gir,ls were dead and the village was full of sick and-dying. The Hud- kill a steer and give a piece of meat to every home. A man accompanied the priest who ministered to the sick while he went to the lake, got water, started the fire and got the pot of, meat boiling. Pete, the carpenter, used all the lumber and tore the wood-shed down to make coffins. Fifty families had cut 50 cords of wood at Easter for the church. Two men with a team brought that wood before every man's dor. No doctor, no nuns could go and help although two villages nearby were crying for help at Tatchi and Pinchl 10 and 25 miles away on the lake shore and at Grand Prairie, 15 miles back of the mountain. The priest had to abandon the sick, the dying and the dead to go to their rescue. When, after two months, the flu ceased to make any more victims, the Fort St. James missions had lost 78 persons. Then the Vanderhoof doctor came and told the principal of the school that he was a sick man and had better get out of the country. The Prince Rupert and Victoria doctors told him tarlum doctor that a year's rest in the place would put the school principal on his feet. At the end of September, Bishop Bunoz wrote to the sick principal, saying his younger brother and the Sisters newly arrived were in experienced in the management tor told him: "If you have no priest to go there, I'll go myself." "Well, Father," replied the Bishop, "if you go there I don't think anybody will be Jealous of you." So Father Allard went I to Vanderhoof, then 40 miles on horseback, to. Fort St, James, then, with two Indians and three horses, went 100 miles through son's Bay manager was told to the woods to Fort McLeod, arrlv Ins there on tfte day appointed. Three days after, four Indians arrived from Fort Graham. They had paddled 67 miles on the Finley. They had poled upstream 135 miles on the Pasnlp and 17 miles on.the Park river all that to get the water of baptism. Eight days to come and eight days to go back with the priest. One Fort McLeod and two Fort St. James Indians brought the priest back after three weeks visit at Fort Graham. No time was lost at Fort St James. The Father had to be at Fraser Lake to see that the school was ready for its open ing in the beginning of 1922. Too many winters had been spent in the fire-trap school at Fort St. James where, in the cold nights, the priest went with a stick in hand trying the red-hot stovepipes to see if they held together for the lives of over 63 persons were in danger. When putting the last touch on the new school, the principal received a letter from his brother siy'n-r that the Fort St. James Indians objected to. sending their children to Fort Fraser. a Mnntronl Wnltnl whpr V,P'l"v,"S ociiuui Was ni J,b had .1 hemorrhage of the lunes. He was sent to Gabriel Sanitori- j s Father Allard went to Fort urn in the Adirondack Moun- fat- James, sentms sick orother tains. Bishop Bunoz went to see to tne Edmonton hasp'.tal arid him and was told hv the x.ini- movea me sum or nve sisters and 80 pupils ffbrri Fort St. James to Fraser Lake ort January 16, 1922. Fourteen Indian rigs deposited at Vanderhoof the whole school perSonriel. At 12 p.m. the train took all the travellers to Fraser Lake 'and un loaded them Jri front of the new of a school which had already school at 2 a.m. January 17,1922. called for so much work and I " thl date, the Fraser Lake suffering by Its founder and said j Indian School had within its he would consider it a personal wa"s 3even Sisters. orie engineer, favor if he came back to take I one toys' guardian, one farmer his year's rest at the school. The a"d 80 pupils with the principal, m-inclnal left the sanitarium.1 The agent was asked to bring stopped at the Indian Depart ment to suggest modifications to a plan drawn out for. the erection of a new Indian school to be built on the shore of Fraser Lake. Back at Fort St. James in October 1919, the sick principal cut short his years rest. trees standing and many stumps to pull and fallen trees to burn. A large crew pf Indians was hired to do the work. Added to this worK was the "airst the cloth that oils love ffa!rs had been Interfered with. Larry O'Connor disarmed him. Back from Atlin to Fraser Lake, Father Allard Joined his crew, piled and burned stumps and trees till the snow drove them away. At Christmas in Fort St. James, he received a letter from the Indians at Fort Graham at the head of Flnlay River, saying: "Old men and women long time cry, no water yet (meaning baptism). He promised to send a priest who would meet 50 more pupils to the school. On the following f Ir $1 'day of March, the school had 130 boarders. The principal requested that the school be called the Lejac School. The agent thought that the name of a priest for the new School would not be acceptable. Tn Mnv iqm ne went, with the The principal obtained permis Indian Aeent and selected the slon fr a station called Lejac spot for the new ecnool on the to be built near the school. He chnre nt TTm, t -to Tt . obtained also a post Offiee called timber land, fire had g0rie!LeJac- A" a year of getting through it but had left many on or Off the train . at Lejac and of writing to Lejac. the school became the Lejac School. So the name of the first missionary who had gone through great trials and sufferings in T11TkTb iS EK. "maK - xhan?? ; visited Ocean Falls, Anyox.l,? .""if. e nmnon,lhnni whttehnr. n,i At.Mn At. thu ' Au?u?t 1922 the principal and last place, a dissipated man met h!m with a gun in hand and a dagger in his belt. He had It founder of the FOrt St. James arid the Lejac schools was succeeded by the late Father Coccola, Father Allard was sent to build the price's residence at Smlthers and to take charge 'of 11 missions from Hazelton to Burns Lake and beyond to Ootsa Lake, Cheslatta and 'the Babines. He was given the he'lp of one yourtg priest. He Instructed many converts n Old Hazel-tori, at Round Lake and in sev eral railway stations. In 1926 Father Allard was sent as a delegate to a general Oblate' Chapter held in Rome in Sep- them at Fort McLeod the last i temb3r and October. He spent Sunday In the next month of August. Early In the spring of 1921, he went to Fraser Lake and started a large crew of Indians to finish the clearing of 40 acres of land around the school under construction. He went again to visit the northern missions and, on his return to Prince Rupert in August, he met Bishop Bunoz and told him of the engagement to send a priest in 10 days to Fort McLeod. As the Bishop seemed puzzled, his adminlstra- the winter of 1927 in Eastern Canada and the United States' licturlng on the missions. At the end of May, he returned to Smlthers, made the Moric'e- tewn priest house habitable ana repaired the foundations of that, church. He acquired a car and went to visit his scattered flock. His first call was at the Hazelton hospital where he made ; use of a privilege eranted to him by the Pope, ire gave the Pope's blessing: to a 'nOn-Catholic girl and t6 her mother standing by her bed. That was the beginning of 25 conversions who were received In the church oh June 2, 1928 when the Silver Jubilee of the priest F. Allard was celebrated Iri the llagwilget Church Iri the presence of Bishop Bunoz, his brother F. E. Allard and a church filled to capacity with people from far and near. Christmas and January were spent In Bablne, where he induced five yOung couples to get married, He returned to Smlthers with 10 double teams! arid 40 Indians on the new 40 mile road made by the Indians with financial help from the Smlthers citizens. In the spring ot 1920, Father Allard went to Atlin. There he Instructed the rest of , the Indians who were not yet Catholics and he received them In the church. He lectured to the tourists In the Atlin Inn arid In the church and he received many substantial donations which he spent On the Atlin, Carcross' and Whltehorse missions. He spent his winters In southeastern Alaska, teaching in all the villages as far as Sitka and Seward at the foot of the Aleutians. He begged a good friend, a wav Driest f w..:,. ""Sh for the SkavT"0 school which n tJr , uay Lnp vi Liie t-uuriTrv - u. ' j in i36. Bishop Court. Father Allard to bSffi at Wells In southern Ln ne was again back at After nine years aBZ? ana eirn swnni.. . had not received th.S" tfhith was atau&ftj by Bishop Coudertin th. ence of the largest conX that Sm ther. v,j '"SSU ..w a iau ever completed the smwv.:- dence 1 which bscame the ho the Vicar of Missions. J of 1929 VntW " luarn Fa. in me muf.ceiown Indian 1 sion, In the school ed, In the church and is' J I . , . .. Mit . mans, laugni tnem to sin. B Mass, Benediction to pray in their own lam-m. 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