The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - B3 Keg Canadian Let's Make Cancer History MOL ‘Society 1.888 939-3333 | www.cancer.ca Police station full of history a ‘ 3s A 4 ‘ 4 ay 4 ' s . TOP RRR ERR ARR RRR AR RRR RRA AOR Re eR ee RR ee "YVONNE MOEN CONTRIBUTED By CHANTAL MEIJER -TERRACE’S FIRST police station has survived, largely ‘unscathed, for 94 years. Yet the future of this his- ‘ tory-rich. police station — which.is currently privately. , owned and,has recently been vacated ~ rests with current- -’ day residents. They are its ultimate Judge. ' Terrace’s first police station ° _ = which solidly sits. exactly where it was built in 1912, at’ the corner of Lakelse Ave. &., Kalum St. — symbolizes and embodies Terrace’ s policing - history. ‘ One of 100'or so police sta- tions commissioned by the . * B.C. government of the day, this building is one of the few that has Survived... Built in 1912 by Will Little, a half-brother of city found- er, George Little, it was built to provide living quarters brewed from that unlikely “ cohabitation. - for a constable and cells _ _for the prisoners. One’ can only imagine the stories that . _ Terrace’ s first police officer, : Const. Thomas Parsons, rose «through the ranks of the B.C. * Provincial Police to’ become its chief. He was stationed “in Terrace in 1913 —'a busy time with the ‘construction “of the Grand Trunk Pacific: _ Railway. Described. as a well- liked, _ bright ~young’ man © who . made friends everywhere he with: reorganizing the B.C. served, Parsons .is credited. . brands, “TERRACE Regional Historical Society member Chantal Meller says, the old police “ station is too important to forget. ~ ¢ CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Provincial Police into a di- vision-district detachment plan, designing the BCPP uniform and administering the Police Training School. Duties for the pioneer police | officers’ were far-flung. and varied. ° ‘They were expected to col- lect licence fees, tal statistics, check cattle test new drivers ‘and perform any other task the provincial government asked of them. - Police officers acted as sani- , tary inspectors,: weed and brarid inspectors, investi- gators’ for: the Prohibition Commissioner and fire de- partment, and tax collectors. “They patrolled. large” geo- . graphic areas with almost.no o support. “ "make weather reports, ‘gather vi-- a ‘For decades, horses:’ were . the main means of: travel in summer, with weeks in the saddle not uncommon. They also travelled in canoes and riverboats, In winter, they used“ snowshoes and. dog teams. It wasn’t unusual for » alone constable on dog-team “to patrol hundreds of miles _ and be out several weeks in “ sub-zero cold and blizzards. “Of course, ‘they also walked ‘long distances. ‘A story is recorded of.a Ter- race B.C. Provincial Police, Officer, Const.. .Munkley, who walked into the Nass i in 1940, to investigate: a com- plaint about a. settler. That investigation. took 10 days, ‘ most of it spent travelling - first on foot to the Nass, then _by Gillnet ‘boat to Prince “Rupert (his ankles were too swollen to walk back to Ter- . race), then: back to Terrace *. by train. Terrace’s first police station has. housed two police forc- es: first, the B.C. Provincial Police, which existed from 1858-1950, then the RCMP,. which took over the BCPP . in 1950. The RCMP moved .: out of the first police: station, - -and into city hall, in the mid-" "1960s. | If the walls of this building could talk, oh, the ‘stories. ‘they \ would tell. » Ideas? Suggestions? -The Terrace ‘Regional History... Society would like to hear from you. — Contact us at-P.O. Box 246, “Terrace, V8G 4A6, or e- ‘mail HYPERLINK “rnailto: ‘ meijer@telus. net” meijer@ ’ telus. net. ~ Party celebrates | Pat Palahicky THE CHILDREN. of Pat Palahicky held a surprise 70th birthday party on Sat- urday, March 11 at Veritas School auditorium. Family and friends gathered. togeth- er for a special and wonder- : * ful time together. The smorgasbord-style party had a wonderful selection of © delicious food and lots of fun iwas had by all. The evening ‘began with son Glen savin living in Kitimat. Her father, dren and-Pat said she grew , EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT |. 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