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loa dh. speaking contest tas «, Georg> |y, , °
| oie aa Mithell daughter of Mr, and [dnd covered with muskeg.
US) abe Mrs, George Mitchell, 993 Fifth Av- | We will have to land with | 1 “and
ST". ene West, won the contest over jcare because it was a daily oc- of a great terminal railway an
tH Patricia Lemon. Poth speeches, leurrence to see whales blowing | Pacific shipping port... < --
ty! » outlining the history of Prine ay re ine j
° és un , pert are published: today on this |@d porpoises cavorting in the!
fr [Ill page, ‘harbor,
Wa te tf cgpmennts oo or cneeate 4a none cence acca arene te etter int pnepe ee
fs Pl lost in that brief period, .
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i students are two talks given by |

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Crazy But Dreams Com
By GEORGINA MITCHELL. | The engineers had
Fasten your safety belts and/and were laying’ pla ‘0
mek within | tors of the ‘Grand ‘that
Trunk Pacific, later to become ‘thete
the Canadian National Railways,
and Sir Charles Hays had dreams

By 1909 lots were offered ‘for
isnle, Fantastic Prices. were nam-
-ed and. fortunes were made and

;1910 and consisted of a centre
Street which is now Sixth Stréet,
running down to the waterfront,
|The people lived in shacks <or
‘tents. The roads were just planks

‘there were no street lights and
‘the muskeg was deep und wet
ithe pioneers put candles in ‘tins
:and cut the sides out so they

There were labor troubles ‘too,
While Kelly's Cut was ‘being.

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‘were no unions they wenl
to war about it with guns and

Good Citizen Award win
1962, patehed up the casualties
and work went on ‘as usual the
hext day,

When my Dad's people arrived

in 1910 they moved to an ue
finished home on Ninth Street,
Dad tells me they had to shoot
squirrels. out of the partitions
So they could sleep at night.
Water was carried from McCly-
mont park and sanitation facil.
ities were very primitive,
Oh that muskeg! Remember,
there were no bulldozers or
machines in those days, All labor
was done by. hand. So the pio-
neers decided to build roads on
trestles over the muskez and in
Some cases these roads were 10
to 15 feet above the ground,

incorporated.-in

the muskeg: As

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May joy.and good will be yours

the year through.

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Rupert Bakery |
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EARL MAH |

The railway, started in 1908

the whole town was exhuberant, |
With the drydock and cold stor-
age plant the people felt that
hothing could stop them. J
__ Several ships were built at the!
“Irydock but dt took the Second
World War to show what the
shipyard was capable of doing if.
it was opreated steadily, ‘

Being a high school student, J
Was Wery interested in the first.
‘high school. I am told it was
: located at the present site of t
ygovernment liquor store,

 

 

 

The |

ithe sidewalk
jwas set only a short’
from the strect, Local
Would sit on the ralling discuss. |

School room. Mr. Brady,
‘first principal, would be force
to leave his class and tell these
men to take their shoose and |
‘opinions elsewhere,

| Highway 16 was
“yearly 20's became more or
a relief job in the 30's but
finally connected up to Ter
iin 1943 and over the years is i
going to-mean
j Prince’ Rupert and the
north .country,

‘{told+ they were crazy to come f
here their- dreams and plans are:

 

| Prince Rupert has the gcogra- |
'phic position for a trading port!
ito the Orient, the resources are:
:here and as the Interlor grows:
and expands the city is bound
sito benefit and become an out--
Ri-jlet for the north as was origin-:
; jally planned. It will come into,
jits own, Maybe not in this gen-
eration but undoubtedly In the.
Next as nothing can stop it.

: So let’s fasten our safely belts
again and take off for 1954 and |
a Prince Rupert definitely im-'
proved since its early beginnings, ;
Hats off to the pioneers who:
had the courage to come here:
and stick it out through =many

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Vboory Choist
terry Chrisimas

Joycux Nnol
Buon Natalo
Glaodelig Jul
God Jul
Gelukkig Kertmis
Frohlicha Woinachten
Nodlag Broagh ....
Folix Navideqa'?
Boldog Karacsonyt
Kala Christovyenna

 

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er ane Al Happy Thon Year Wosotych Swiat

Bozago Norddzonia

Jeweller

hardships,

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g True
Just artived blasted to the side ‘of the Prince

ns’ for our Rupert Hotel, the men decided
they needed more pay. As

real bullets, Dr, J, P, Cade, our} :
ner of

he during 1907-08 that pioneers

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reached completion in 1914 and |

he avoid our soggy muskeg,

| Windows. were on the level with a)
and the building Nulty

distance plank roads selling his
worthies | of a wheelbarrow,

‘{.;ine sundry topies in tones that inspired to start the
penetrated the sanctum of the |S
the] father

dj store near the site of the present
Skeena Grocery.

S. «, Parker who first owned and | capression Pain whole v
started in the operated Pacific Cartage Co, This! Canada an witn the Secon

Jess | he sold and then entered into an , World War coming two years lat-
Was; awwiuotlve dealership that ex- er it was a longptime before Ru-
race Nended info a garage business! Pert got back on its:faet again.

a great deal to!Tace. -

Q . 3 Pata .
that the highway to points south Mi WhAttTep ont
whole Prince Rupert's first postman, ¥38 completed’ and the air base FROM: DON, WALTER, BILL :

‘brought his bride from Toronto, ' finished.
. i ioneers being : Most girls have a. seeret yearn-'
ps abule of the pioneers come |e for a green-shuttered cot-/ Company Ltd., put in its appear: |

just beginning to, be fulfilled! ~

 

Varied Occupations of Northern Wij

 

By Pat Lemon will provide for then. Ths giel’s ON aoe tae tet deliy { more constry
Weta ae “De art }dream was rudely shattered ; The -to-door ~ tum smelter
is ah overtlovine necount ot te when her dream house turned ery service was patted In 1053 doubtably make this
many wide but varied occupa-;out to be a’ small tent with ais an example a . 2 far the elty Prosper. .
tions that turned this once prim.|tarpaulin-covered bed in the ‘ity ms brogresse Since Ils We are Inded
eval forest into the commercial’ centre, They had the same type eu Her days, with a future.
ore it Is today, | lof weather that we enjoy ta-; fem
The origin of this port as the! day, so the young wift wasn't al . 16
terminus of the Grand Trunk /all surprised to find a stream of
Pacific Rallway was due ‘to the {liquid sunshine running down: --
selection of G. M. Hays, underneath thelr bed.

{
; ospector,| The fishing Industry of 1903!
Jehn Knox, a loae prospector, a
Secured the first footing on this! Consisted of the verry wen Ne
townsite by locating a mineral/Salmon, halibut made by the;
claim. —_Baconsville, Knoxville; tailblazers. . Although this year
and Vickersville represented the; hasn't been toa prosperous the
maior divisions and camps of | fishermen in better years caught
the earlier members of this city, /ON an average of 10,000 to 100,000
A survey party ‘landed and‘? ones ” fish te me Cocordlng
thee 74/40 the size of the boat. In an-

‘started operations in 1906. Tt tietpation of rapid growth .of
this Industry one of the largest
|cold storage plants in the ‘world
jas built between 1910 and 1913. ,

The population was growing

Friday, Decempey 24, 1054,

[UF tana rte te meteateeee mene

Che time has come to tay again -
«the things we feel all year...

we y to wish you Health and Happiness
“sand lots of Good Old Cheer!

   

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of the fulure city began to ar-
rive from all provinces and ports,
The charter that made Prince |
Rupert into an incorporated cits
Was granted in 1910. Alfred :steadily’ by this time‘ as bont-
Stork was the first mfyor, ‘loads of immigrants arrived to
Early businessmen had vari- UY their luek in the wholesome :
ous ways of selling their goods, Country. Pan we a ae
Orme's drug store began as a: city, Sonaols, banks, acl ne
small tent perched on a hich ® hospital ‘and © a provincial |
platform. All the homes and : building Sprang uP lo meet, the:
buildings of note were built on | Needs of the population,
these platforms. The roads were: On April 9, 1914 two thin bands
plank sidewalks, these tod were ‘of Steel that connected ' Prince
raised above the. ground to; Rupert with Eastern Canada
iwere joined. a .
In 1926 the elevator was built
to store the grain ‘brought In
from the pralries, As Prince
Rupert 1s 500 miles closer to the
‘Orient it was thought that’ the
Perhaps Jack Musallem was, shipping industry would help to
Variety | develop Prineé’ Rupert lke it
of bisidid san Francisco and other
who operated a grocery ; Ports, bub thus far this.has not
jeonie Into being, ~~

Parker's garage was started by i From 1930 to 1937 a. general

 

The hardware store of Howe
id McNulty began as Mr. Me-
walked up and down the:
goods out

ore from the example

   
  
 

n both Prince Rupert and Ter- ‘It was during these war years

 

WILLIAM F. STONE: ©

In 1947 the Columbia Cellulose ! ‘Clothes of Distinction

 

age that thelr young husband ance which

   

  

has’ greatly helped |

SUL LR et penta atee ena wae coe teenie pene

 

wt t May the turn backward in its flight...
and make you a child again just for a Night...a8
Santa bows In with a sack full of gifts and a
‘wealth of good wishes from all of us to all of you

   
  
 

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