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THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE ° CENTENNIAL EDITION

KEEPING PACE W So ,

The Village of Williams Lake has mushroomed into a bustling community of more than 2,000 inhabitants
since 100 years ago when it was an unmarked, un-named, uninhabited part of this vast hinterland.

Its first growth saw it as a cattle-trading centre, ideally suited as it was, at the conflux of roads to the
principal points of the compass and served by a rail track to the coast. It soon became known as the “Hub of
the Cariboo” and today serves a rural population of many thousands.

After the second world war, it gathered a new momentum with the lightning growth of the lumber industry.
Today hardly a month goes by without a new street seeking its way across virgin ground ... without a home
blossoming forth on some new sub-division or without seeing changes and additions to its busy shopping
thoroughfare.

Civilisation demands that your village commissioners
New pavement, new sidewalks, extensive sewer
vising orderly planning and clearing slums , .
in our very own community as the Province
to the future.

be ever vigilant to keep pace with the march of time.
ystems, co-ordinating lighting, providing

water, super-
+ all these are the history-making developments taking place
asses its 100th Birthday celebrations

and leoks with vigour

H. J. GARDNER
Commission Chairman

R. CARSON
Commissioner

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F. HAMEL A. SMALLENBERG
Commissioner

Commissioner

Williams Lake

The Corporation of the Village of

“INCORPORATED 1929”