Cont'd from’ page 6).

a - Bby’s Landir
_ that they would be chosen a3
‘the site for a station. and
; Bat George Little,

‘astute businessman that

he’ was, realized there: were .

profits. to be had
el ers | ‘than, a cash

; ow “wae called Littleton but this
- “name had to be changed as
- there ‘already was a Post

Office by this name in the

East. Terrace, which takes

ts name from, the ‘benches
lan ‘the ‘north. of ‘he

"2 town, rapidly: changed.

BS was no longer two iecrboat

. landings. passed by eager

Miners, trappers and

homesteaders. on, their way. ;

the interior;

site of the Safeway store; a
Post : Office. an general
- store’ where: the Co-op .gas

Be presently stand; an _
on: the site .of the = 2"

i now the. ‘Winterland :

- General Store: “a railway

2 station, pool tail, real estate

* office-and- homes. In 1912
the stréets: had been aid

trees® on

of the towns
" were

es dents

2 § e Little
‘ whe ¢ came from Ont ario., In-
‘the early. 5 ys ‘newcomers

7 ioned not to.
Pac -eritisize their neighbours. to
“other ‘réesidents as’ most” of

. them,’ were related. ,

At’ this \.time .a “Ferry;
located near the new Skeena
“Bridge, ‘connected. Terrace

who felt sure |

de depression.
; eommunity -had’. survived
extensive forest fires which

ing eof the founder, |
. aearse Mee. who. also ~

‘Many cost ae took

Terrace as it looked
‘around the Ume of
erporation. ;

in 1927 Terrace, a}
community of less than 300)

people, W was ag, jncorporated

formed. we was durin this

od that the old S
iver Bridge was built. For

‘the rest of the decade|-

Terrace subsisted on

logging and:a little farming ”

as Terrace weathered

waters Of; ‘the

With the ‘coming of World
War Two .new.:life was
breathed: into Terrace.

k place,

“So. far . the!

oii your,

‘Soh Year.

ace hi
floating down‘ the wild}
"swollen

-- to the Thornhill ‘and Lakelse. |.

Lake area; a region which: -

-was home for many pre-war ©...

homesteaders .
ith: the completion of the
Railway came the

. First-World War to which
-Terrace'sent roughly thirty

able-bodied men " ‘a sizeable.

Duar for he - small

“4 the di ‘ist Miot was: So stagna
It was during this”
_that the school  ueation wae

- decided, Both communities, ©
|) Kalum. (Eby’s Landing) and:
ah Terrace, | felt they were

‘the’ honour.

However, ©

B: in a
dae ork 20-20. A site was IB

between’ the -

This is. ihe present site oF

the School. Board offices at:

_ the corner. of Kenney’ and
. Highway.16. Many as udent
must have .begrudged the

_ decision. of ‘their elders’ as

they trudged unwillingly
: fromthe centre to of town to
school.:

In 1921 the Bank of

‘Montreal moved to Terrace © 4

and: eventually located at

-thecorner of Te¥eee-and

Kalum,; the present ‘site of
-- the Northwest Sportsman,
- [twas later closed due to the
Depression, .

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