Invitation
fo tender’

Transportation Service

Sealed tenders for the fottowing
transportation service will ba.
“tecalved at the address below |
until 18:00 on the specified 0 clos-
Ing date.

Service -

TERRACE R.A. #2
TERRACE R.A. 43
TERRACE R.R. #4
Specifications —
Full details as to contract spec-
ifleations,. schedule of service
and tender form may be obtain-
ed from the Terrace Post Office
or.at: Canada Post Corporation,
Pacific Division, Transportation
contracting P.O, Box 2110, Van-
couver, B. my.) 42Z3 ;

Telephone: (604) 662-1306
Closing Date: January 17, 1990 |

Deposit: $25.00 per -service by
means of Certified Cheque o or -
’ Money Order.

The lowest or any ‘tender willnot .
- Nacessarily be accepted.

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. Skeena -
Abus 2 -CELLODOSEINC .

- Terrace Operations
P.O. Box 3000

Canada, V8G 4C6

ROAD MAINTENANCE —
CONTRACT

Skeena Cellulose Inc., a wholly
owned subsidiary of REPAP
Enterprises, ‘will be offering a
contract to provide the following
services for their 1,000,000 cubic.
meter lagging operations:

- grading

- sanding
« fleet ballasting
- ditch cleaning

interested parties are invited to
submit their resume and a list of
| their. equipment to: SKEENA
CELLULOSE INC. P.O. Box 3000,
Terrace, B.C., V8G 4C6. Atten:

IN THE MATTER OF THE
| BANKRUPTCY OF
SANDRA LEE SWANSON -

SANDRA LEE SWANSON filed
‘|.an assignment on the 14th day
of December, 1989, and that the
first meating of creditors will be
held on Friday, the 26th day of
‘January 1990, at the hour of
11:00 o’clock In the forenoon, at
The Court House, 100 Market
Place, In the Clty of Prince
Rupert, In the Province of British
Columbia.

DATED at Prince George, B.C.
this 19th day of December, 1989,

Terrace, British Columbia, :|

tlon: R.C., Operations Manager. .
L_ 12/27¢

Touche Ross Limited]

Trustee
Sulte 800

299 Victoria Street
Prince George, B.C.
V2L 588

Telephone: 564-1114

A Touche Ross

|] P0.Box3000-2
. Canada, V8G 4C6"

--4» Unless In. the meantime vatid ob-

NOTICE™Is hereby. given that:| -

j ton R. C., Operations Manager.

Skeena.
~ > CELLULOSE INC

Terrace Operations
Terrace, British Columbia

LOGGING CONTRACT |

Skeena Cellulose .Inc., an in-
tegrated products company in J.
Terrace, B.C. is accepting: pro-
posals from qualified contrac-
tors for the loading and hauling
of right-of: “way. logs in 1980. —

Note that a line loader will be re-
quired to perform this contract: °

Interested parties are invited to
‘submit their resume and a list of
thelr equipment to: SKEENA.
CELLULOSE INC. P.O. Box 3000,.
Terrace, B.C., V8G 4C6., Atten-

‘A2/27¢

LAND TITLE ACT
IN THE MATTER OF Duplicate
Certificate of Title No. E8705 to |
Lot 85, District Lot 190, Range 5,

Coast District, Plan 5304 Parcel
Identifier 010-594.663°

WHEREAS, . proof ‘of. loss of
Duplicate Certificate of Title No.
{7 E8705 to the above described
land, issued In_the name(s) of
MABEL PEPIN has been filed in
this office, notice Is heraby given.
-that | shall; at the expiration:
date of two weeks: from the date ©
of first ‘publication hereof, issue
a Provisional Certificate to Title
in Ileu’ of the sald Duplicate,

fection’ be made to me In writing.
DATED at the Land Title Office,
Prince Rupert, B.C. this'7th day
of December, 1989. ’

‘© -* Terry Dinnell
Registrar

DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION
December 27, 1989. 1/3¢

| THE SIGN OF A

GOOD BUSINESS
NEIGHBOR . ...

1 UU RSME SS NETRHR MU ®

THE SIGN OF
A MERCHANT
WHO CARES
‘ABOUT PEOPLE...

This embiem identifies

the civic-minded
businessmen who sponsor -

Seton Wagon |

in the community.

- Terry Kendell 638-8178

; Vi Middleton 635-5672 |

i

. day of rest.

Vera Henry’ $ earliest recollec-

tions of time were in the Tsim-
. shian language. Vera, 65,
_member of the Kitselas and Kit-
‘sumkalum_ bands.

Her -grand-
mother was half Scottish, her

7 grandfather, half Norwegian. In

1941, she: married and moved to
Port Simpson.:

_ by Betiy Barton:

' “Vera Henry recounts-that' the .
‘Northwest’s first people, the.

wo

they. ‘would cconunue to speak

- Tsimshian at home.

isa
public, health nurse in Saskat--
chewan and at the University of

Vera went on to train as a

Alberta. She worked as a public
health care worker for 20 years
in Port Simpson. In 1974, she
represented the natives of B.C.

. in. the provincial drug and

Tsimshian Indians, determined -

‘the days, months and seasons by
_ their surroundings. The changes
‘in nature and the way these

changes affected their food sup-

“ply were their only concept-of a

calendar. The passage of time is
something people have always
understood, but the method of
recording it has long been a Puz-
zie.

The Greek and Roman civili-

zations gave us the word calen- -

‘dar. Its roots are in the Greek

calend (1 shout) and. in the
Roman calends (the first day of

‘the Roman month). The ancient

Greek shouting kalend was a
public. crier who informed peo-

- ple when ‘to pay their taxes,

when the magistrates. would.try

‘ criminals, and when. marketing

days and other ‘events would

. take place. There. was. no. stan-
dard calendar in.use anywhere in.
the ancient world.:Most of-the ~-
systems, if riot-all, were based on

either. the lunar month or the
solar year.

day of the week” (they used : a
seven-day week, as we do today)

was special for the Tsimshians. ..

Sunday or Ha ‘lisqwaytk, was a
‘The prefix Ha’li
means any finite period of time.
It prefixes both days of the week
and months of the year. Monday
is Ha’likuulsah. The suffix Sah

means ‘day’ and the middle part |

of the word is the number. Mon-

“day is the first day; Friday, the

fifth. Friday is. Ha’likswtuun-

day of sharing with ones neigh-
bors and friends, It is also a day
for cooking and cleaning in
preparation for Sunday, the first
day of the week. Vera is very
proud of her language and the
fact that she has been able to
maintain it through adverse and
archaic rulings in the old school
system.

When she was at school in
Kitselas, the children were

severely punished or subjected

to public embarrassment if they
spoke Tsimshian in school. She
remembers trying to help a non-
English speaking classmate one

day, They had been asked to’ ;

memorize the poem. ‘Jack
Sprat’’. The teacher wanted her
friend to recite the poem, but he
didn’t comprehend the instruc-
tion. Vera quickly jumped in

-and translated for him. But she

was immediately reprimanded
by the teacher for speaking
Tsimshian and was made to: sit
in the’cornér of the roam, wear-
ing a dunce cap. After school,

’ her father, a-learned man, asked

what she had learned that day.
She replied, ‘I leartied to wear a
dunce cap.” Her-parents assured
her that she had not done any:
thing wrong: But; they: encour-
aged her to speak only English in
school. They reassured het thal

- sash, Saturday or Ha’liyaayx isa.

alcohol counselling program.
‘Vera’s voice lilts as her tongue

Tolls off the convoluted words

that” name the months of the
year. January is known as
Ha’lisuwilliinsk, the month of
trapping; February is Ha’liwil-
gisiyaask, the month of the
north wind; March is
Ha’lix’wah, the month that the
oolichan fish run; April is

Ha’lixswaanax, the month that .

the Tsimshians pick herring
egos: May is Ha’lizia’ask, the
month for picking seaweed;
June is Ha’lixmak’ooxs, the

month for salmon berries; July ;

is Ha’lixminso, the month the
sockeye are ready to catch;
August is Ha’lilaxstmhoon, the
pinks (salmon) month; Septem-
ber is Ha’lilaxsmaay, the month
for picking blueberries and cran-
berries; October is Ha’lilaxga-
boox, the month for picking
cockles; November is Ha’lilax-
sats’ax, the month for picking

‘clams: arid December is Ha’til-
uulgit, ‘the month for feasting.

This is the month that has been
designated as the Christmas
season since the coming of

Vera. Henry recalls that. ‘each Christianity with the missions to

the native people.

The ancient Sumerians devis--

ed the first lunar calendar about
$,000 years. ago. Later,’ Baby-
lonians: divided -months into
weeks and a: week into seven
days. The Jews, once captive in
Babylonia, used the Babylonian
seven-day week as did the sun-
worshipping Egyptians, who
devéloped a 52-week Solar
calendar based on the seven- day
week.

-The schemes of ancient

peoples were too complicated,

however, and calendar dates and
seasons became mismatched.
The problem worsened each
year, Farmers could not rely on
‘these calendars to plant crops.
Religious celebrants never knew
the right day for a particular
festival, Autumn weeks of one
year would become winter weeks
the next year.

The Tsimshians never had
that problem because it was the
harvesting seasons that con-

cerned them more than actual

be

days or dates. Vera doesn’t
know how it all evolved.

Julius Caesar (circa 100-44
B.C.) tried to adjust the calen-
dar so that it would repeat itself
the same way every year. Pro-
gress was made, but not enough.
Then early Christians modified

-Caesar’s ‘‘Julian’” calendar so

that all years following year 1,
when Jesus Christ was born,
would be known as A.D. or ané
no.domini, “in the: year of the
Lord’’. Those that came before
as B.C., before Christ or
B.C.E.,.before the common era.
Still, calendar errors continued
to multiply.

; Finally, . Pope Gregory XIE
(1502-1585) corrected the calen-
dar. Now iis dates would con
form year after: year to lhe’ pron

Anes ee er

_ Terrace Review — Wednesday, December 27, 1989 15

The ‘‘Gregorian” calendar con-

tinues to be the calendar of our:

modern world.
The Aztec nation emerged at

the end of 3,000 years of human —
Central. |

development in
America. What was most re-

‘markable about the Aztecs was

their ability to run their lives by
a complex written calendar de-

rived from the nearly precise

computations of the movement

of the sun, moon and stars..
Based on a 365-day solar year,

the Aztec calendar consisted of

18 months, each having 20 days,

plus an additional five days to
complete the year. Within these
365 days was a special group of
260 days that formed a religious
calendar, The calendar worked

for 52 years before the seasons .

no longer matched. Unable to
correct the mismatch, the Aztecs
starled a new calendar for
another 52-year cycle.

_ The. Babylonians devised: a
354-day lunar calendar with 12
alternating months of 29 and 30
days. But it fell 11% days short

of the 365'%-day solar year. To -
correct the calendar so that. the

seasons matched their dates
somewhat each year, they inter-
calated or ‘‘inserted’’ two extra
months seven times within every
19-year period. a
Also, the Babylonians were
among the first civilizations to
divide their year into seven-day
weeks.

of the sun, moon and five
planets: Shamash-- (Sun/Sun-
day), Sin (Moon/Monday), Ne-
be (Mercury/Tuesday,
(Venus/Wednesday), Nergal
(Mars/Thursday, Marduk (Jupi-
ter/Friday), and Ninurta
(Saturn/Saturday).

Modern China uses the Gre-
gorian calendar to run its every-

. day affairs. Yet the ancient,

traditional lunar-solar calendar
still determines the Chinese New
Year and other special Chinese
events.

Vera Henry says that most
natives operate with our
modern-day calendar now. They
have to function in a world that
is not so in tune with nature.

And, there are deadlines and-

dates that have become so much
a part of our busy lives. Our
calendar has evolved throughout
time until today, when it con-
sistently matches the sun, moon
and rotation of the earth.

The Tsimshian language has ~

also been revived again. All
Vera’s 11 children understand
Tsimshian, and the language is
being taught again and encour-
aged in the schools, after many
years of discouraging its use.
Her eldest great grandchild is
seven years old and is just learn-
ing Tsimshian.

Vera Henry looks forward to
living as long as her grand-
mother (half Scottish), age 105.
She still has many stories to tell
and many other things to pass
along. Time passes, seasons
change, people don't. ,

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remind you to watch your speed. |

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