Horseshoe was once farmland

THIS 1S WHAT the horseshce area used to 0 look like, back in the early 190s. The
site of present day Caledonia Is marked with an ‘X' on the right hand side, The

bench is in the background.

Accomplished student

. MARK TESSARO has been
_named the winner of the
- Science Council of BC's
- Headed For Success award
for excellence in science
~and technology studies, The
“award comes with a 15
kilobyte electronic organizer
to-help him stay organized
‘during his post-secondary
career,

“The award is presented to
the top senior science stu-
dent’ in every BC high
School.

“This year’s sludents are
top achievers,” says Craig
Young of the BC Science

~Teacher’s Association,

“and I’m sure they will go
“on todo other spectacular

things.”

‘» But Mark hasn’t quite fig-

‘ured out what his future
- holds.

“His mother Judy wouldn’t
be surprised if Mark ended
up as an actor or a musician,
playing. guilar in a band.
_“*That’s his passion,’ she
“says.

Mark recently bought a
custom made guitar, with
. Taoney he won as the top so-
cial studies student in the
province last year.

““He’s got a lot of dif-
» ferent interests’? says his
mother,

This year Mark also won

Mark Tessaro

the Governor General’s
Award and the Premier’s
Excellence Award, which
comes with $5,000. a

Mark"is in aly’ “for tlie”

suminer, and will be attend-
ing the University of Vic-

toria in the fall,

taking a

general sciences program.
‘He's

re
Ane

iedicine,’’

thinking about
says Judy. ‘‘But

ed eally” ‘ove “io be dis- «
covered as ai actor,’’

weed

By LYNNE CHRISTIANSEN
HAVE YOU ever wondered what the Horseshoe arca
looked like, 80 years ago? Looking at the neat grids of
houses, streets and small pockets of lawn, it’s hard to im-
agine the Horseshoe was once a farming community.

Two of those early farmers were Ross Thompson and
Geoffrey Hamlin. They came to Terrace in 1913. They
were farming partners on a 20 acre piece of land at the foot
of the bench, now known as the horseshoe.

They built a cabin there and started clearing land while
they worked at George Litiles sawmill.

After the farm got a start Ross married a Scandinavian
girl he met while he was in San Francisco.

Geoffrey Hamlin joined the army and went to war, When
the war was over in 1919, he returned to Terrace with his
English war bride.

After the war the Thompsons and Hamlins started into
full partnership. Alt first Ross stayed at home on the farm
full time, while Geoff worked at the sawmill or at road
work. Later they both stayed on the farm full time. Their
long hours and hard work made a success of the farm.
They raised vegetables, small fruit, besrics, fruit trecs,
chickens and cows,

Since the time the Hamlins and Thomsons started the
farm the population of the horseshoe area has grown to ap-
proximately five or six thousand people. There are only a
handful of large gardens left in the area. Some of these
gardeners bring their produce to the Skeena Valley Farm-
ers Market.

Right now strawberrics are in season at the market, You
can contact me at the market for information on a place to
pick strawberries, or if you have strawberries to be picked,
you can leave that information with me as well.

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