Terrace

devastated by ’36 flood

YVONNE MOEN

A FEW WEEKS ago we
had the privilege of having
some friends from Prince
Rupert visit us,

They came to share with
us some memories, and a
look at a old photo album
from days long gone.

Our friends from Prince
Rupert were Denis and
Wenina Garon. Wenina is
the granddaughter of Ed
Eby, of Eby’s Landing.

Her grandfather Edward
(Ed) Eby was born Septem-
ber 22 in Ontario in the
Grant Township, Bruce,
Elemwood, in 1877, |

He headed west in 1892
for Banff, Alberta where he
was employed for one year,

Still working his way
west, he arrived in Van-
couver in 1896.

Then he crossed over to
Victoria and worked his
way up the island to Uclulet
where he found a job
Managing a general store.

The store was owned by
H.C. Brewster, who later
became premier of B.C.

In 1904 Eby went back to
Vicloria where he married
Vina Fayette,

From Victoria the couple
came up the coast to the
mouth of the Skeena to
make a start in Port Essing-
ton.

Their first child, Vernon,
was bom there in 1905
while Eby was employed as
a foreman in Wadhams Can-
nery,

The Frank family
heritage home ts still
sitting next to the
Skeena on about two
acres of land

But Eby wasn’t interested
in a carcer with the fish

packing industry.
In that same year, 1905,
te Kitsumkalum = and

Lakelse Valley had been
thrown open to land seekers,
and the first settlers arrived
to stake homesteads,

With the beginnings of
steamboat traffic in May of
1906, Eby came up to look

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REMEMBERING THE past: Mildred and Aileen Frank and Denis and Wenina
Garon stand at the spot that used to be Eby Landing. The flood of 1936 wiped out
Eby Landing and took away 32 acres of land from the Frank homestead,

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Skeena.

Also, 32 acres of fann
land has disappeared from
the Frank family homestead,
All of it washed away by the
mighty Skeena River.

The 32 acres of farm land
was mostly taken in the

around.

When the steamer pulled
in to a cul bank — about
one mile up river from the
mouth of the Kitsumkalum
River to lake on
cardwood, Eby decided to
galher up his belongings and

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come ashore to size up the
surrounding country.

The site was half way be-
tween Port Essington and
Hazelton and seemed ideal

1936 flood when the high
waters lasted for about four
weeks,

This land that was lost
was used by grandpa Frank

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This is the spot where Eby we feel sory for the Old Comfort
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By 1908, families like the been affected by the high Located on Lakelse Lake

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