Wednesday, December 20,1967

Federal-Provincial ‘Poverty’ project .

rT Woe ee Terrace & District Co-op, The Board of Directors, Managernent and: Staff _
Old Ksan will rise again | °°“ a Par ES ES

“Old Ksan’ will rise agatn with || ee ae ae Pe d ‘wraig e Lo
Federal » Provincial help, 7 : , tains re ; . exten 1.fo you. ened
The project was proposed in a cet Wyo yi Se a rete ae
April of this year by the Village a he he
of Hazelton; It has now re.
ceived the approval.of the Fed
eral Government, because the
site is in a “poverty area’’,
The reconstruction of an old
Indian village to be known as
“Old Ksan’, will-go ahead as
a Fural Development project, it
was announced in Ottawa last
Monday, -

“Old Ksan’? will be under.
taken within the recently desig.
nated Bulkley Rural Development
Area which is located between
Burns Lake and Cedarvale and
Which includes the rural areasotf
Hazelton, Smithers, Telkwa,
Houston and Burns Leake on Highs
way 16 between Prince Rupert
and Prince George,

**Old Ksan’” was originally the
brainchild of the ‘Skeena Treas
sure House Association, It calls
for the reconstruction an Indian
village and will be used as an
enlarged museum depicting
. | Indian life as it was before the

_| White. man.came, i. er ee an [Le
“it, will also. bea production}
=| centre for Indian handicraft both.

old and new, and a sales place
and distribution centre for super«
ior and genuine Indian handicratt. |

_- The idea of the Ksan Village
evolved through the suceess of +
the small Indian museum which
is built to resemble an Indian |.
communal house, Hazelton resi~
dents hope to expand the already
successful museum into a. sort
of Indian Barkerville,:

“The total ‘Old Kean" project, |
{a8 approved by the Federal Gov.
7 ernment last week includes: the

7 Ar restoration af the historle Thdian
f ; its authentic totem
Af tit friend poles, houses of fasts, workers,

stone-age and out-of-door exhibits

Give Yourself fe LUCKY BREAK _|and demonstrations of historic.

Indian life,

Also included is the develop.
so ment of campground and trailer

_ ; oe SO i space facilities; net income from
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Board or by the Government of British Golumbiz yehtch will go to the Indian Band

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happiness symbolize the

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; spirit ‘of.the. Christinad, season, With
ene these glad thoughts in qur minds, wo greet our friends ‘aid
the Holy Child, we wish that you neighbors, wishing onv:and all thé very bestof this bountiful, -
2a be filed with peace and gladness, OS eawatiful time. Miy your holidays be merry and’imarvelous!
omforted with hope, and surrounded by your loved ones, : Pe crn mit tinierendianien aprenden

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