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TRADE & COMMERCE

RIVER, INDUSTRIES |
_ FLOWS IN TO NEW HANDS

7 Don and Elsie Hitll: Good-bye River, hello lake.

he was making ‘real
money! {a scarce commod- |
ity in the Depression era).

Elsie was born in
Detroit, Michigan, but
came here in 1946 from the
Carlisle Cannery near
Prince Rupert. Her father
was a machinist there
when Don’s dad and Dud-
ley Little came to the can-
nery to pick up a boiler.

_ They raved about Terrace.
The’ timing _ was. . right
because Elsie and her
brother were just about’ to
enter high school. Elsie’s
mum came here to check it
out and bought a house at
the same time.

Don and Elsie met on
Elsie’s birthday — July 12,
1947. Don was working in
a sawmill in Houston at
the time and Elsie was
teaching in Endako. Both
were on the. train back ‘to

Don and Elsie Hull have sold
River, Industries, but one member
of the family, their son Norman,
‘is going to Stay on as manager,

_ Effective December 1991, a
_ local investment group bought the
automotive, logging, mining and
industrial supply centre known as

River Industries (Terrace) Ltd. |

Don and Elsie, both active players

in the business since its inception

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- ‘in 1986, will stay on until the end.

of June to effect the transition.
Don and Elsie Hull both con-
sider themselves Terrace old-
timers, although neither of them
was born here. Don was born in

- southeastern Saskatchewan. His

family moved to Smithers in 1939,

after ‘prompting from an uncle —

already in the area. He wrote
copious letters about. the fact that
. . . _ . . . \

Terrace when Don spotted
Elsie, sitting alone. He was

. Sure she couldn’t be unaccompan-

ied, but: on his third pass through

her car, she was, still sitting

alone. He finally got up the nerve
to ask her for dinner in the dining
car, She accepted.

They were married in Septem-
ber 1949. Elsie-was working as a
telephone operator for the Gov-
ernment Telegraph and. Tele-

phone. . Since « ‘thers Don: says,

Terrace Review — April 10, 1992

“Terrace Review _ April 10, 1992

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