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Tuesday, November 15, 1995,

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Founder of Terrace Best Known
As George Little ‘“Townmaker’’

By BRUCK LEVETT
Canadian Press Staff Writer

TERRACE, B.C. (CP) — Ona side street of this quiet town lives a quiet

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George Little, 76, is

Talis ew, Mrs Live Was gea-

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retired—from just about any job you care to mention.
. cece Los bee we te et see ae nee me meaee
to Senttle and

| But he js best known as George went outside
Little, townmaker, mee 4 rallway ea
: ue wn railway came
FOLLOWED GOLD TRAIL through headed for Prince Ru-

His story began in Ontario dur- pert, he donated 50 acres of tand
Ing the closing years of the last: foy a station and the company
century when he left for the! named the stop Littleton, Later,
West and the gold trail of 1808! when the Canndian National
Into the Yukon. Railways took over the OTP and

It was 50 years ago, afterta pust office was established,
seven years hunting the gold he: the name had to be changed to
never found, that’ he turned/avold confusion with a Litueton
south, wy eastern Canada,

In 1905 he landed at Kitimat, : it Was postmaster Litue that
row site of the $350,000.000 Al-;Pamed the low wetrac,
uminum Company of Canada. He gave H leading Terrace

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smelter development. From there | Dusiiess men thelr start, fin

ihe blazed a trail 40 miles back’
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tures, He gave away large tracts
lev Of land for tee as park, library
a ee os _, tilt hospital sites.
| Aside from brief visits outside,! And ne used (o boast that he
jhe never left. had union oiganizers beaten up
(He dald claim to thousands of and thrown out of the territory
raeres qind set about building jn the early duys.
sDimself a town, Slreets were Jaid' 4) 1939, he found Terrace tou
lout 80 feet wide and shade trees, civilized and sold his sawmill to
[many of them imported from! son and two employees and
;Quebec, were planted along! went to Yellowknue, N.W.T., to,
them. stake a mining claim,

In 1909, with the Grand Trunk; Il was there thata charge ex-
‘Pacific Railway polsed in Ed-!ploded prematurely, costing him

'monton for its jump to the west! Nis left leg above the knee, ences Will be issued by the Vil-|
leoast, he set up the first saw-} George Little came back to Ter- lage of Terrace until the bulld-
Tm In the area and cut hun-frace, new grown to 5,000 per- ings fo be used for business
| boasting a war-born have been inspeeted and approv-
nirport with long, wide runways. ed by the sanitary laspector, Ue

ne stlil Wains Une wide streets fire marshal and building In-

‘dreds of thousands of tes. sons and

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' The following year he bullt} he laid out-—-under the trees he
the first store and In 1912 he phunted.

Terrace Wants Highway
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GEORGE LITTLE, 76, of Ter-
race, now ds retired but in his
day he has been a general
store operator, — postmaster,
railway foreman, proprietor of
a sawmill, miner financier and
townmuaker. He went into the
Yukon from Ontario in 1898
and lived variously, and at
various jobs, In Kitfinat, before
setiling at Terrace, He gave
away tracts of land for use as

anemy then in community ven. park, library and hospital sites. ‘younLE LOSS
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Inspectors
To Check
Licence Bids

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TERRACE-—-No new trades lic

spector, It has been declded,

A motion to amend the Ter-
vrace Trades by-law was passed |

uta mecting of the Village Com

missioners following a letter of)
the assistant |

complaint from
Fire Marshal for this area,

An application from ‘Trip!
One Cabs to operate a U-Driv

service in affiliation with Tilden |
U-Drive was approved subiect |

‘Mr, Champion Is Not Caught In Any Error

  
 

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By FASLEY BLACKWOOD

When this hand was played, Mr. Muzzy was sit
ting behind My, Champion trying to eatch the great
man in an error, rn

Miss Brash opened the quecn .
of diamonds and Champlon took Peedled Champton,

it with dummy's ace, After a] “All right, so you made six,"

iittle thought he Inid down the: Muzzy replied. “But, 1 still say

s, failing |!'d have taken the heart fesse,
ace and king of trumps, tans rien Tt have played the rest of |

een when Miss
to arp ne een club ott the ‘the hand like you did and made |

second lead. seven.” . |

Mr. Muzzy was delighted; “Well, drawled Champlon,
“You're always telling me not; grinning wickedly, “so you'd |
to finesse so much, Chae seven with a throw-in
he sald, “A simple finesse would nay, You're the only one 1 know
hate. neh ie nck In, Bub yho could do It. In faet you're

wwe vont ithe only one I know who would |

What makes you think VY ink it wis possible.” *

;won't sull make {t?” retorted 7" 8 Posse
j Champion angrily. : '

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TERRACE—Recapping of

will stand up under constant use by heavy trucks will be de-.
manded by the Terrace Board of Trade it was decided et the

group's most recent meetina.

The move followed recelot of a
letter from Highways Minister
. Lo P. A. Gaglardi which Informed
Ta Pethe board of trade that no pro-
visions for a secand coat of
blacktop at Terrace had ever
been mace. Deterioration of pay-
ing is caused primarily by heavy

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* COMMERCIAL. PRINEING logging trucks, Mr. Gaglardl told
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It starts November 21st

DAILY NEWS —

moved that. the road be recapped
next year when It js understood
that the necessary equipment
will be in the area.

SEEK GRAVELLING

The bonrd -algo' “votetd com-
‘plaints of the rough condition
‘of side ronds In the Terrace dis-
j trict. It, was moved that Dis-
j trict Enelneer R, 8S, Cunliffe, be
asked that all the roads in and
| around Terrace be gravelled,
Complaints were also aired re-

garding the condition of the
level crossing af Kalum Street,
The meeting passed a motion
j asking Canadian National Rail-
ways superintendent Pat. Mell-
roy, if the crossing could be built
up. The board also eriticlzed
the rallway for allowing box ears
to be left standing fess than 10
feet away from the crossing thus
‘blocking a driver's yislon when
(approaching the crossing.
[NUILDING LIKELY
A lotter from &. T, Applewhatte
MP Skeena, told the board that
‘prospects were bright for the
Construction of a federal wav.

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to apy apnroval that may be re-
quired from the Public Utillties
Conmniission,

Al Ponto submitted an appli-
— tation fur a lease renews) on:

the property he is how using for
ernment building in Terrace. Mr. pis dry-cleaning bustiess. ‘This
Applewhaite sald that an ap- matter was held in abeyance un-
propriation for the building ts +f the next meeting of the com-
to be included in the next fed- mission pending further infer-
eral estimates. He sald that al- mation and clarification of the ,

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asked sarcastically. “Here, take, phone ' For Orders to
my cards and show them to the: f Take 0 :
opponents. It may help them ake Qut
in defending.”

“Well, you: asked ome,” sald
Muzzy sulkily. ' dl wee ne

“As a matter of fact.” sale fo oe siete gnem yy I mem eas a ae
Champion, “I still have a geod Nef ALL ARTISTS

play for six If Abel doesn’t have
more than one dlamend left.

Me. Abel looked In his hand

 
  

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‘hough the estimates have to be
approved by the treasury hoard
there was every chance of the

proposed Terrace building re-
-eciving approval.
A report from) the board’.

Agricultural committer .tated
thht business with Kitimat was
developing satisfactorily and a
fair amount of produce was he-
Ing shipped into the smelter
town at fair prices. The volume
of business, now belng done by
the Terrace Marketing board ls
greater than that of last: year,
the renort sald. However, the
fact that the Canadian National
Express office was not open Sat-
urday mornings, was hamnertiie
shipments, the report sald,

The Ameriean Colonization and
Immigration service scheme at
Remo ts reported proceediny
well, Four families have ow
settled at that point and drive
cleared about 75 acres of land
to date,

In other business the board
dealded to write the Powell Piver
Company offering any assi-taner
In heloing the paper firny Areata
suitable site for location i the
Terrace District. The board vl
so write the Canadian read:
casting Corporation regional dir-
ector asking oan investigation
Into the poor reception received
from the CHC booster sbitlon
here due to extraneous noise,

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present lease, nnd paled slightly at this re-

Final reading war also civen to mark, althoudh he falled to sec
byelaw L24 which sanctions the pow Champion could be so sure.
leasing of the old ball park to’ Ag trick four Champlon cashed
the Civie Centre Assoclatton. ‘the king of spades, then led to

Resignation of the vlallage dummy's ace and ruffed a third
stenographer was accepted WIN] spade in his hand. Next he
regret fs Mrs, McPherson leashed his three club tricks,’
moving to Prince Rupert ending in dummy and followed
An anpileation tor the position | ign a diamond lead to his king.
was considered from Mrs, L@-' prope je lead a heart and Mr,

Croix and she is to be employed: ape) was in with the queen.
as from the middle of November,

LEADS QUEEN .
‘ "Now [seo what you meant,”
sald Mr. Abel sadly. He led back
"the queen of spades and Champ-
‘fon discarded his losing diamond
and ruffed with dummy's last
heart, A club return would have

Counsel Asks
Committal
For Student

‘suffered the sume fate.
NORTH VANCOUVER ( -In- — ,

mediate comouttal for tehat ws |

asked today for Peter Murray!

Willams, W-ear-old junior Moxham Death |
high relionl "Student charged. "Quite Shock”

with manslaughter In the blue-

geon death of hls 2l-year-old) VICTORIA @.-Premier Hen-

brother Dovid dast Oct, BL nett sald Monday no thought hid
Counsel for the youth, Harold been given to petting a dats

Bradshaw, told Judgo A. 2. Pool for a by-election to Mil the va.

jn Holler court that he was ree cant Vancouver Centre sent

questing walvers on the prelims causea by the audden death of

inary hearhiyg, scheduled for to Soclal Credit MLA George Mos.

day, after consulting Willams ham,

and hts parents, Y's been quite a shock ||]
Judge Pool granted the request wouldn't even Uilnk of a.by-elecs

and told counsel it would be fore tlon yet," he sald,

wierded to the attorney-general ‘The premier sald «Mr Mos-

today, hai’s death wag a “grent lows to
Young Willams’ brother was the Boclal Credit movenen, and

found dead In his bed by another the government.”

member of the fumily on the | Mr. Bennett and a number of

morning of Ort Ww. Tihs head: cabinet ministers wil attend the

chad heen beaten tn, fungral In Vancouver torliy,

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