THE-OLD SCHOOLHOUSE in the village. of ‘Kitselas, : ‘seven miles east of Terrace was home to
Miss Bailey and local children during the war. :

LOCAL HISTORY

The tale of Kitselas |

HIS WEEK I would

like to tell you just a

little about Kitselas,

But first, a short
story on a schoolteacher who
taught school at this liltle school-
house.

Mrs. E. Louisa Timms was
born in Winnipeg, Man., in 1915
and went on to graduate from
East Kildonan Collegiate in 1932.

She went on lo take her icacher
training. at Winnipeg Normal
School and received a first class
Maniloba’ leaching certificate in
‘1935.

- AL that time many teachers
were unemployed.

. Louisa did occasional part-time
work and some substitute teach-
ing until she was finally accepted
for a small one-room posting at
the Wolverine School in western
Maniloba, where she tanght very
happily for two and a half years.

She left to enter the Salvation
‘Army. Training College to train
‘for work as a missionary officer
‘in Africa.

~ Louisa was accepied to go as a
jeacher-officer to Rhodesia, but

ithe : war made travel overseas
restricted,

By the time the war ended, she
‘had married and settled in Prince
Rupert.

Meanwhile, in 1941, she was |.

sent lovassist an officer in. Van-
couver and from there went lo
Nelson, B.C.

About a year later, because she
had teacher training, she was sent
to Kilselas,

In those days the native schools |-

up here were taught by teachers
from the Anglican, United or Sal-
vation Army churches.
”- This little schoolhouse was built
in 1936 and for several years had
a United’ Church teacher named
Mrs. Wilson.
She stayed there with her hus-
band until June, 1942,
Then a petition was: submitted
to the Department of Indian Af
~ fairs who were in charge of the
native schools.

Thus Mrs, Timms, then known |,

as Miss Bailey, was sent there as
. the. teacher by the Salvation

Amny.

. By. this time there were not
- many people lef in the village.

Many had died from an
cpidemic of tuberculosis, and
‘others ‘had: moved to Terrace ip
‘work. .

Much employment flowed from
the construction of the highway
from ‘Terrace: to Prince Rupert
and. from a, huge military camp
set-up in Terrace.

Afler-the war, many of the |,
people moved back to Kitselas }
‘and ihe school was reopened wilh [7

teachers from the Salvation }j
While - Mrs. Timms (Miss [

’ Bailey) was there, there were },

only ‘a handful of children of

school age...

_. Families there included those of

7 Solomon Bevan, the Boltons,
‘Dave and Leila Mason, and Susan
Bevan.

-- Other residents included Silas
Bevan, Amelia Bevan, Joe Hud-
son, Mr. MacKenzie, field ‘cap-

“tain: Mark. McKay, and Envoy

Walter Wright, the famed river |?

pio. &
‘The latter two, both ‘chiefs,
were authorized to hold services
~ for the Salvation Army then.
. Once a month
~ Church minister walked out from
Terrace to hold a sorvice in the
village on Sunday afternoon.
Other’ Sundays saw Silas and
~ Soloman ‘Bevan, of the Christan
“ Band. of Workers, conduct: ‘ser

vices in their own language,

One of the families that moved
back to the village after the war
was that of George. Wright,
Wallter’s son. -

Some of the men worked on the
railway with Mr. Somerville, the
section foreman at the station.

One of them was Joe Hudson.

Every evening he used to check
the four tunnels between Kitselas
and Usk before passenger trains
came through.

The mail was picked up and
thrown off at Copper River,
where the train slowed down

Cont'd Page B12

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© provide forest workers with skills training for new jobs in the forest industry,

@ support scientific research to protect the environment and make our wr forests mor
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MIKE HARCOURT .

Premier of British Columbia

April, 1994

With the introduction of British Columbia’ S Forest Renewal Plan, my. government has
brought together leaders from business, labour, the environmental movement, forest. erty &
communities and First Nations in an unprecedented partnership and historic Understanding t to.
save our forests and the jobs they provide. 7

Over the next five years more than two billion dollars in stumpage fees, paid by the forest - &
industry for trees harvested on public land, will be reinvested directly in an innovative,
progressive and forward-looking Plan that will:

@ create new jobs in land reclamation, reforestation and silviculture.

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For too long, we have taken our forests for granted. Giving back to the land means we all 2
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I commend all those, from. so many different backgrounds, who came ‘together to develop
our Forest Renewal Plan, and J urge all British Columbians to support it and d help, make it t work.

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