Williams Lake Tribune “* ~

NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

Volume 20 — Number 44.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, November 6, 1952.

Single copy 10¢, $2.50 per year.

lt Took a Long Time...But the PGE’s at Prince

SPIKE CEREMONY

Pictured at the right below, is part
of the huge crowd that watched the
spike driving ceremony at Ahban
Creek. This was taken just prior to
the ceremony and shows the official

E train pulling back across Abbau
BES bridge.

q At the left are the principals in
: the spike driving ceremony just af-
i ; ter the silver spike was driven home.
On the left is L. C. Gunn of Prince
George, centre is Miss Nellie Law,
who held the spike, and at the right
is Jobn A. Fraser of Quesnel.

PROUD MOMENT

It was a proud moment in the lives
of these five men who comprised
the train crew of the first official
Passenger train into Prince George.

All working out of Williams Lake,
the men are from left to right: Clift
Snow, engineer; John Alexander, fire-
man; Cliff Norquay, trainman; Bert
McIntyre, trainman; Gordon Allan,
conductor.

The perky dog being held up by
Mr. McIntyre is no chance stray —
that’s ‘Casey,’ official crew mascot.

(See PGE stories — Page 3)

In the centre below are a couple of real old-timers and a
daughter of a pioneer Quesnel family. Left to right are Mrs.
B. H. Smith, one of the Johnston family and born at Quesnel:
Captain Donald (Cap) Foster, father of our government agent
Miss Jessie Foster and an early steamboat capta‘n on the river.
and John Strand, who has been in Quesnel for 57 years.

They weren't all pioneers in the contingent. Shown here at
| 4 the left is Mrs. Tony Borkowski, next to her is Roderick Mac-
i kenzie, one of Williams Lake’s first businessmen and at 84 still
able to take part in a parade. Next to him is Mrs. Bert Liloya
and on the right is R. R. Smith, a mining man from Likely who
has been in and out of that country since 1930.

All Photos
by Blackwell's

At the left is a picture of the boys (30 of them) who stole
the show at Prince George. Members of St. Joseph’s Mission

band are seen just leaving the station on the parade route to
the Civic Cente at Prince,

Below shows why the celebration got off to a good start
at Williams Lake. One corner of the crowd dancing on the
station platform prior to train departure includes from left to
right, Benny Abbott dancing with an unidentified woman,
Miss Vena Bennett and Joe LeFleur, and in the background
Don Anderson with partner Edna Bullock. Providing the music
in the background is genial Maurice, Bourgeois,