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Vancouver pair built ex

The first. thing the late J.D,
;Fraser and J, J. Payne did when

they started business at’ Sixth

Street and Third Avenue in. 1927
i was to. modernize the front..of

the store. Remoying the whole”

old: fashioned: front they Teplac-

ed with a new one,

‘Mr. Fraser and Mr. Payne came
i to: Prince Rupert from -Vancou-
iver, After forming a partnership
the ey set up a drygoods business

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that carries their: name today:

The feature Mr. Payne recalls
most distinctly ahout Prince Ru-
pert at that time is the wooden
sidewalks: “All the’ sidewalks
were wooden,” he said...

After a very. few. years expan-
{sion .of the, business: made it

panding beseisic th here :

‘hts father, the e late We:

“(starr Photo) -

- Gordon Fraser, ‘and: Douglas
Payne, sons of the: founders “were
in the armed forces ‘during the
Second'World War and on ‘their
discharge they. entered’ the busi- |:

necessary to. take over the Elks *

Lodge above the store. With the
addition ofa Stalrway. the ‘busi-
ness took in two floors.

 

‘MENTION Most a piece
Of construction in Prince: Ru-

“pert and more than likely the

/ name of. city taxi
“John Gurvich will

operator
turn up.

Somewhere either in connce-

‘i tlon with the

contracting © or
transportation.

John Gurvich spent. \-four

+ hours-in Pri ince Rupert in ‘May,

“and has been’ here ever

1908, came” back in July 1909
since.

.. He began - helping his Dad.
Nickolas: Gurvich who was in

the contracting business ata —~

‘Lime when strects were first
‘built-in Prince Rupert. .All

~ During’ conatiistion. of the
Seal Cove air base John. Gur-)
‘vich transported 250 men, back -
and forth, a day. Later-he had.
contracts, in connection with
the wartime: housing. we

sorts of jobs came the way of -"

the Gurvichs. Buildings, clear- -

‘ing, ’a water line at Smithers’ -

lor. the: Grand Trunk » Pacific,

 

sclonald keeps

amily tradition « going

Metlakatla on the Tsimpsean_ peninsula, Masset

wevre-Queen Charlotte Islands and Kincolith on the!
Nass River were the stamping grounds of W. H. Col-|

lison, grandfather of Dr. J. A, Macdonald of Prince |

Rupert. And when Dr.

“T WAS walking down Me-
Bride Street and someone ask-
ed me if I was golne - to the
firo. T asked whore Jt was,
When they sald Kaien THard-
ware, T took off."

That was a fire In the early
308 that destroyed the first
Kalen Hardware building,
"Bost fire Teupert ever had,”
Says W. J. Seotl present owner
of tho hardware store.

Ienten Hardware has been in
the Seoate family kince if was
firat ostablished in 08 by
Jaxoph G. Scott where — tho

Brondway Cafe ts now situated,

J. W. Seoth and his son W. a,
Beatt wore -pariners hy the
bishneas wuntll the founder died
Wy 1027,

The prosont proprietor of
the bushes, W. J. Beott be-
KAN working In the hardware
Koro In 1980 pnd after — the
fre, established the bushivess
MW its opresont location on
Third Avenue. Chalrman of
District 62 School Bord,
Boott In also vico- -prosident, ut
the Prince Rupert  Cuting
club, prat president of the
Gyro Oinb, past preatdont of
the Chamber of Commerce and
past president of the Assocdat-
Od Hourds of Trade at North-
orn BO. Te also has tho dla.
HWnetion af boing the — frat

vee WACO baby born in Pence Ru-

port Goneral Hoapltad,

D. J. Macdonald of Nova’
Scotia and a graduate of Queen University marr ied |
Emily Charlotte, Collison’s daughter, the pattern con-!
tinued i In the Nass River and Portland Canal district. |

 

WOH. Collison, arrived at Met-i
lakatla in 1873, during. the. time |

of “Father” Duncan's tenure. He |
was sent out as a missionary by |

the Church Missionary. Society,
His wife was Mary Goodwin,
whom he met during a smallpox
epidemic when she was nursing
in the Franco-Prussian war,

_ The author of “In the Wake of
a War Canoe" W. H. Collison
made 17 exciting crossings of
Hecate Strait in a dugout canoe,

After graduating in 1906, Dr,

‘D, J. Macdonald spent his life in

the Nass River area, the carter
part being spent on Portland
Canal ministeting to the needs
of the Indinns and people
brought to the district by the
mining. boom of the early 1900's,

It was during this time Dr,
Macdonald met and married
Emily Charlotte Collison, . so
named because she was the first
white child born on the Queen
Charlotte Islands,

Dr, J. A. Macdonald was one af
four boys and one. girl. The
daughter of the early missionary
went south to Victorla for his
birth and started back north
Ahree weeks after he was born,

"T's history Ino the family,"
ehyekled Dr, Maedonald, "st
took two bonts to get home, We
atartod out on the, thon new,
"Prince Rupert", she went
aground jn the Narrows.”
were crys of “Got the baby off!"
We finnily mado the trip north
In the ald, wooden “Amur” skip-
pered by Captain Locke who Inter
lost his We in the sinking of tha
"Sophin,”

Dr. Mnedonald left the Nass to
ro to Shawntran Lake School on
Vancouver Jaland and lator
Quoen's Universality, Graduating
In JO88 he returned to the Nass
where he practicad for threo
yours, with Kineolith na his
headquarters, Atyansh up the
Nnga, Widelen Intet, on Poenraa
Canal, where the river people
wont during the. fishing season,
wore all ports of call for him,

Whon “Jock" Macdonald mare
Ned Sybil Berry, hoe married a
girl who could take the unear-
tainty of. doctor's fe bocnuse
dhe wag canes from a family of
doctors,

In 1042 the Macdonald's moved
to Prince Ruport to continue the
oatablshed MaeDonnald pattern
af life on the North Oonst of
Beitlah Columbia,

¢

one. of * them” “escaped *
“ gether’. and- ‘the. $16, 000 was.
onever: ‘recovered oo

 

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“some, of “the ‘cate: ‘events -
“Mry Gurvich: calls “was. the.

rst. time. ‘the: Prince | George.
he ‘Prince, Rupert ° came’

turned ‘out. when. they. brought’
th ank robbers: down: .from :
Hazelton.’ "
bers were’ killed: in the “gun >
‘battle. at: Hazelton, | some’ es- |
eaped. and were, recaptured. but.

4

Mr. ‘Gurvich’ first went: into
the taxi: business’ ‘in 1929.

 

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lop, 1879, ‘a pioneer. in: 1958, “Dude”
Robertson is. the son of

son. who with James ...S
staked | out’ ,coallands -_ 1
Queen: Charlottes: in ied:

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