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PAGE Az, THE HERALD, Thursday June 9, 1977

West Vancouver. man has global cr!

VANCOUVER (CP) —
RCMP say a 37-year-old
man who has been living in a
luxurlous Lions Bay home in
West Vancouver on several
occasions during the past
three years is wanted in
Northern Ireland, Britain
and West Germany on
numerous charges including
attempted murder, arson,
bombing and fraud.

The man used the name of
Peter Joseph James Ken-
nedy and was the .9 jd Jh-

2,f Ashling Investments Ltd.
of Vancouver and Amster-
dam. He lived with a woman
and two young children and
aow is in city police cells
awaiting the conclusion of
deportation roceedings.

Police said the name of
the wanted man is James
Joseph McCann, a name
similar to a notorious [rish
Republican Army figure
known as Joseph (The Fox)
McCann who was reported
killed by British soldiers in

~ ATTEMPTED MURDER, ARSON, BOMBING

Belfast April 18, 1972.

But RCMP Sergeant Bill
Ingenthron of tie Criminal
Investigation Branch here
said the fingerprints he was
given to match by New
Scotland Yard in London did
net come from a dead man.

Ingenthron said the living
McCann is wanted by
Scotland Yard for fraud;
Belfast police want him for
arson, ‘burglary and
possession of explosives;
police in Weisbaden in the

By Vern Simaluk

Sadly, legends rarely
measure up to facts.
Occasionally, however, the
facts can be as interesting
as the legend.

This is the case of the
Shuswap Lake Hotel story
that started a decade ago.

The story appeared too
good to be true, but
numerous owered-
hilmsmen insisted that
they had seen the hotel and
talked to the caretaker.

The yarn spinners said
that the hotel had been
developed in the early
1900s on a secluded shore
of Shuswap Lake, but had
never been occupied. All
the furnishings and con-
struction material had
been shipped over from
England.

Before the hotel could
open, the First World War
intervened and a number
of fixtures, such as
plumbing, were sup-
posedly never removed
from the packing cases.

The proprietors, English
business interests, were
supposed to have hired a
caretaker to maintain the
buildings and grounds
yzar-round.

Roam at home

B.C.

news

West German province of
Munchengladbach, want
him for attempted murder
in connection with a bomb
attack on British offices
there.

There are charges in at
least three other countries,
police said.

Murray Perry, an in-

formation officer with the
immigration department,
said Kennedy first came to
the Vancouver area in 1974.
’ He has never had landed
immigrant status, but has
' gbtained) temporary work
visas. Such visas are good
for a maximum of one year
and may be renewed, They

Collings home

The facts, however,
proved more interesting.

True, there wag a hotel
on the northern shore of
Shuswap Lake. It was
probably built during the
days of the Columbia River
gold rush in the 1660s.
Then overlanders' ‘ back-
packed and rode from
Kamloops to the goldfields
north of Revelstoke via the
north end of the lake.

Construction of the CP
railway around the south
end of the lake in the °880b
doomed the backpack

trail. The town of several —

thousand that had
flourished at Seymour
Arm disappeared into gold
strike history.

In the early 1900s a
second boom convulsed the
district. Spurred on by the
CPR land boom, land
developers started
promoting the fire-scarred
shoreline as potential
orchard farms.

An English immigrant
wave awept over British
Columbia’s mountain
valleys. When the land
boom collxsped and the
snows fell, the wave
receded, leaving isolated
pockets of English customs
and culture among the

A little bit of England -

giant pines.

during this land boom was
eventually abandoned and
settled into decades of
despair. Several years
ago, business interests
refurbished the hotel and
today ti is a prime tourist
attraction.

However, the yarn
spinners insisted that there
was yet another hotel,
immaculate in appearance
and wnoccupied _ still,
locked in verdant isolation.

Today there is another
building back in the pines
that looks like an English
tudor inn, and it appears to
have a caretaker.

It was however, the
home of Guy Collings, who
died recently and. willed
the estate to John Rivette.
Many tourists mistook him
for the caretaker.

There is no other hotel.

But then the Collings
home, as it is still called, is
as unlikely a prospect to
stumble upon in the dense
forest as any legendary
hotel,

Mr. : Collings was the
scion of English artist
Charles John Collings, who
was a notable water color
and oil painter at the turn

The hotel that was built .

of the century. He hada
number of one-man shows
in major European and
NORTH American cen-
tres. He died in 1931.
The Tudor-style house
was built by Guy Collings
and his brother, Carl,
according to the father’s
design. It is a three-
bedroom building with a
carriageway, billiard
room and attached flower
room. At the age of 80
years, Mr. Collings added
the massive billiard room.

The billiard table has
been in the family since
First World War days and
resided in the attic -until
the room was built, The
father purchased it from
the Carlton Club in Win-
nipeg on one of his trips
abroad, Similarly, the
grand piano was pur-
chased in Vancouver on a
trip. ,

Contrary to the legend,
only a few mantelpieces
accompanied the family
from England. The rest of
the furniture came from
Western Canada by rail
and barge.

The house was con-
structed of native timbers
and field rock.

VANCOUVER (CP) — A
management negotiator
complained Tuesday that
nearly two years have
passed without final
resolution of a major con-
tract and now the ad-
ministrator of the anti-
inflation program wants to
add about three months
more by probing company
payroll records. .

The negotiator said
renegotiated versions oi the
British Columbia propane
delivery contract that ex-
pired April 31, 1975, and the
master freight and cartage
pact that expired Dec. 31,
1975, have not been signed
yet because of problems
related to the national

’ bartenders,

“VICTORIA (CP) —
Continued effort by school
boards, teachers, students
and the education ministry
will be needed to raise the
standard of English in Brit-
ish Cusuiiia, Luutation
Minister Pat McGeer said
Wednesday.

McGeer was commenting
onresults of a May 3 Englis
placement test written by
more than 17,000 prospec-
tive college and university
entrants which showed that
more than 40 per cent of
them scored less than 50 per

40% FAIL EXAM

English standards poor .

cent on the composition sec-
on.

The minister said some
factors which contribute to
the continuing writing
standards problem are
competing demands for
curriculum time, de:
emphasis of drill and
practice, the increasing
number of students com-
pleting grade 12, and the
number ef students for
whom English is a second
language. |

The test was set up by
McGeer last fall after

Band fights 2,4-D

PENTICTON, B.C. (CP) -
The Penticton Indian Band
will stop any altmepts to put
the herbicide 2,4-D into
Kaha Lake in front of its
reserve, chief Morris
Kruger said Wednesday.

Penticton Mayor Al
Kenyon said Monday that
work crews will likely use
the herbicide in se:.uas of
the lake within the next
month to contrel water
weeds, _

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requests were made by
colleges and universities.
The minister said at the
time that the test would
provide an indication of
English language com-
petence of Grade 12
graduates.

The test was divided into
three _ bections—sentences
containing err’rd commonly
made by persons for whom
English is a first language;
sentences containing errors
commonly made by persons
for whom English is a
second language, and the
composition test.

Greater Victoria School
Board chairman Susan
Brice said she was not
surprised by the test results.

She said there have been

~ indications for some years

that students leaving high
school have not been faring
well at university and It wi
take years to correct the
problem.

Dr. Victor Neufeldt,
director of freshman
English at University of
Victoria, agreed that the
standard of English should
be raised, but said parents
should not consider a score
of less than 50 per cent as a
failure.

“There is no way you can
grade a test like this on an
absolute score.nOnce we
have a few year’s ex-

rience with this, we might

able to establish some
norms.”

Until that time, he said,
UVie will go on its past
experience in deciding what
score indicates remedial
English work is requi,ed,

The University has been
administering its own
English placemv?t test for
the past seven years, and
has found that 17 per cent of
the students who tock the
test required remedial
English classes.

program.

are routinely given
nationals of other countries
who work temporarily in
Canada.

Kennedy moved in and out

.of Canada on several oc-

casions during the past
three years. x

- He was last given a one-.

year work visa by im-
migration officials in
Toronto July 29, 1976.

Following an RCMP in-
vestigation, Kennedy was
arrested May. 27 and placed

PROPANE DISPUTE

Still no contract
after two years"

The fact that long delays
are taking place—propane
is back into new
negotiations again— came
to light Tuesday because of
ah announcement from the
federal anti-inflation board
in Ottawa.

The announcement said
the board had referred the

trucking pact, affecting 97 .

firms and 4,-500 B.C.
driver's, to Donald Tansley,
administrator of the anti-
inflation act.

The referral was made at
the request of Teamster
Union locals 31 and 213,
which have been fighting an
AIB rollback of their 1975-76
agreements to 11 per cent
andeight percent from 19.28
and 13.18 per cent for each
year.

Hotel Vancouver
faces staff strike

VANCOUVER (CP) —
About 450 unionized em-
ployees of Hotel Vancouver
Jan tostrike on Thursday to
ck demands for more
money but the manager

_|. says the hotel will continue
to operate.

The first strike in 28 years
at the CN-owned, Hilton-
operated hotel in downtown
Vancouver will
waiters,
bellhops, chambermaids
and kitchen staff.

General manager Denis
Buchanan said the hotel will
ren ain in operation using
supervisory staff.

Thursday's strike
deadline was announced by
John Wieffering, financial
secretary of the Canadian
Brotherhood of Railway,
Transport and General
Workers.

involve .

Union workers voted 90
per cent to reject the
company’s last offer which
included a dental plan and
improved working con-
ditions but no increase in
wages.

Support ©

for NDU

VANCOUVER (CP) —
The British Columbia
Federation of Labor called
Tuesday for a firm com-
mitment from the provincial
government to establish a
four-year university

program at David Thomp-

son University Centre—
formerly Notre Dame
University—in Nelson.
MecGeer announced June 1
that the province had
purchased the university.

in city police holding cells,
Because of the
seriousness of the charges
ggainst McCann, Perry
said, the immigration in-
uiry is being conducted in
e police cells under heavy
security.
The inquiry was ad:
journed this week while
lice awaited documents
om abroad, but it is ex-
pected to resume Thursday
ot Friday, Perry said, Since
Kennedy is not a lan

’ ‘The act provides for the
referral In cases where the
employer or employees file
notice of dissatisfaction with
a recommendation of the
board. in this case, the

union sought the referral. -
In AIB-disputed cases, the: °

employers ‘usually pay the
basic guides pending final
disposition of eals. But
David Thomas, the new
president of Transport
Labor Relations,
representing the trucking
companies, said it was
never anticipated delays
would be so long. ;
And the delay will likely
be still longer in the
trucking contract since

‘Thomas has had word from

the administrator that he is
preparing to go through the

me name

immigrant, there will be no
appeal of the inquiry’s
findings.

Prospective im-
migrants can appeal inquiry
rulings to the immigration
Appeal Board.

The immigration
department. has refused
Kennedy's requeat to leave
Canada voluntarily because
of the possibility he used an
assumed name when he ob-
tained his work visa.

yroll records of all 97
rms, This means checking
back in each company’s
records to: the base AIB
year, which in their case is.
1973. bs

Thomas said he has
written the administrator
advising him this could take
another three months and
would ‘cost a lot of money”
since the firms have payroll
records all aver Western
Canada,

Some of the records are
stored in head office ar-
chives, Thomas added.
Apparently Tansley’s ob-
jective is to confirm that the
starting payroll figures
from the base year are
accurate, Thomas added in
an interview.

TEAMSTER BROTHERS
JEER THEIR LEADER

KELOWNA, B.C, (CP) —
Teamster leader Senator Ed
Lawson confronted 250

. union members Tuesday in
to

a noisy meeting call
protest the formation of a

‘new: union’ local’ in “the

British Columbia “Interiér.

Amid boos and catcalls,
Lawson told the members of
Local 180 that the
procedures used in creating
the Interior local had been
in accordance with the un-
ion’s constitution.

Lawson came to the
Kelowna meeting to con-
front rank and file members
who called for his
resignation after the union’s
international executive
board granted a charter to
Local 180, which would
represent the Teamsters’

2,000 members in the In-
terior.
The move would erode the

‘power of Lawson foe Jack

Viahovic, who is president

of the existing single 8,000 .
~-gember-Local-218, rete
+ Lawson said Viahovie had

violated the union’s charter -

by attempting to remove
some Interior executives
from office.

In an interview Wed.
nesday, Vlahovie denied
that he violated any char.
ters.

Viahovic said he
estimates over 80 per cent ol
the union membership wil
vote against establishment
oi an interior local if the

British Columbia Labor |

Relations Board holds a se:
cret ballot to resolve the
matter.

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