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Forsslution

on the Part of our

ten OUT ISts have foung

her in the 7 Dual pattengy
didn’t know they were required to hav 1

No customs officer at the border Warned them that

no Conspicuous Signs were noticed,

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trate these tourists 80 to loca) beople an

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Publication

disclosure that all of the
licenses Say they were warned at the border

c S y » With
“two exceptions, Say they were not warned

© give another

ce of time
© road, is a large sign placeq there
ernment Warning visitors of the game Tegula-
One of the offenders haq Seen it.
_ Even ig there were NO such signs, oy the customs off

Judah
Cials 5. Aquatic bi
or these offend-

in their own From ther FY;

and any hope that conditions are different across the
ONE YEAR ago

line is Just wish fu] thinking. Just as it is their Tesponsibility
to know the laws of their Own land, so the onus is Placed on

them to know the laws of the Jand they are Visiting, Alth Sb pi:
Although
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Why, Oh Why?
Dorothy G. Taylor, publisher of the New Westminster

British Columbian, Sot off the folowing terri

Tecent Motor trip to Prince George

We do not asree fully With Miss Taylor's ;

is'too much of the unpleasant truth in her stat ‘
ed off.

Five
the new SuD-divis:

in a g00a POSition to make ¢

“Twenty-three years ag POV D the Cariboo trail to
Quesnel. The road Was dirt irly narrow jin Spots, but
the Surface Was good: accomn S to be found at the

» Where facilities were

his Property at the lake
of 122 Mile za
within one Mark of to,

veller met friendliness and
© Barkervilie tables
h

; une
erorms resulted in a rach of sm
forest fires in the
trict— yp, and

boay Sat down and tacked jn.
i 1 i ae, a f See ea
: 'This summer I went over tha; xail again. The Toad is the Sary— The curling rink,
Worst I have ey er travelled, in worth, Centra! or South Ame- which was Strengthened by the in-
rica; accommodation and facilities are the same in quality but | clusion Woodland, won
harder to find because of increaseq traffic; ang the meals are | three and lost four of their games in
a crime. the big midsummer bonspiel at Nel.
From Hope to Prince George there is q stretch of one Son— The Third Avenue Billiards,
hundred miles of paving. Close to three hundreq anq fifty | league leading team in the Prince
Miles is Sap? construction by a government whic}; George softball loop, split a doabie-
apparently wanted to impress g lot of people With the extent | header with the "lake boys here—
“of its highway Projects. The extent is there, but With perhaps | Verna Marion Nason of Barkerville
one small roz a nd one bulldozer or grader working iy
motorist throughout this tremendous
stretch is at the mercy of the weather: Plowing through axle-
high mud When it rains, driving dust-bling over jagged rocks.
loose grave] ang hard-bakea Clay ruts when the weather is dry.
“How come they don’t finish a few Miles at a time?” ask
buzzled tourists from the Us.
“IT don’t know,” Was this Canadian’s reply.
With the new Hart highway being widely advertised
in the U.S. as the shortest route to Alaska, many motorists

with 38 Passengers, landed on -

Neil Ranch air strip— Plans jare

Columbia—
i

FIVE YEARS AGO

July 31, 1947
Final report of the Stampede Ae-
sociation showed a bank balance, of
Shiverick, | of
Chagrin Falls, Ohio was killed ana
his three companions injured in a

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Bad food throughout the journey adds
glamour of the Cariboo and the ‘North.” Beginning at Hope,
frozen fish and Meat is the rule — and not only frozen, but
frozen and thawed ana refrozen until it is almost inedible.
ej. And
this in the heart of the cattle country and in a lana where the
is fi a faster route to market for the rich

Cariboo trail, Hart high Way and Alaska highway all deal
With the same food merchant so far as the tourist is concerned.

Accommodation is just as it was taventy-three years ago
in the Cariboo, ana not much different than it was seven
years ago on the Alaska highwa. But on the newer road,
and on the Har camps are being built or improved
so that within ay WO, no doubt, a night’s lodging will
cease to 8 ordeal that it Still is in severa]

riou

From Hope, thresholq of both the Cariboo and the
Okanagan, to the Yukon, British Columbia has a golden
opportunity og welcoming U.S tourists, who, amazingly, keep
coming to see this Jand in ite of the shabby treatment it
hands out to them. Instead of friendliness and pleasant
travel conditions they meet baa roads, bad food and locked
doors. Ang on more than one occasion th Summer I ovey-
heard the remark, “Don’t you know that American money is
no good in this country?”

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Manufacturep of
Exclusive Upholstered Furniture

Williams Lake,

Phone
INTERIOR WHOLESALE
DISTRIB CTORS
Williams Lake, B.C,

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“We specially invite yom
4 enjoy a smooth ride f

Elks Hall— the!
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Fuly 27, 1949

== tremendous heat at sg

“year og! 3 Lassureg 2 Be ‘ s
Sa ~ ™ Ran Oey -poaey sams Lake 3
= &. K. North, District — come ty Sil on Out More about this
the Newton Man.

modern’ fuel-and@ its place in your home,
~ PROPANE APPLIANCES
Guerney Kitchen Ranges Hot Water Heaters

x Coleman Floor Furnaces

Cariboo Home F urnishings

Agents for Connor, Maytair, Norge, Gilson ana Climax.
Gas and Electric Washing Machines

“Visit the Store With the Briendly Door”

Eanese Mining Co., arrived to start
development Work on Prospecting
the claims of Arthur Haddock, sity-

ey Creek bridge— Colin McKenzie
Ross, Horsefiy, passed away sudden.
ly— Capt.. S.C. Biot of the 391
P.C.M, Rangers of this district, Jere

ADY CASH
Hae ROW TO HOE?

i your
an with y
ing loa

IS LACK OF
GIVING YOU A TOU

ro fit
Talk over @ on do a w
that tough row.

aki
vail he can to help

er. He’
BofM ae smooth

MY BANK

704 WiLiON canaovans

7
re

Williems Lake Branch:

JACK PURSER, Manages

BANK or

MontTreEAy
‘* First Bank

EVERY WALK oF

WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN

LIFE’ SINCE 18)7
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