The man
of many
careers

THIS WEEK 1] would like ta
-. $haré a story with you about Carl
Alphonse Langlols — a man
‘with a very interesting back-
ground.
‘Carl: is one of seven brothers
who served overseas during the
-. Second...World .War and. all
_ felurned safely.
He. was one of approximately
3,000 workers who came to
Kilimat in 1952 at Alcan’s begin-
hing.
He was born Jan. 6, 1916 at

Selkirk, Manitoba, the son of

Peter and Jessie Ann Langlois.
Jessie Ann’s father — John A.
McDonald’ — was from the
highlands of Scotland and came
from the famous McDonald clan.
He and cight other adventurous
and aggressive Scoll'sh boys stole
a small two-masted keich and
sailed across the Atlantic ta Nova
Scotia.. McDonald first worked
for the Hudson Bay Company
and then later settled at Selkirk,
where Jessie Ann was born.
Their three children = —
daughters Jessic and Kate and son
Jock — grew up in Selkirk.
‘Jessie Ann went to work as a
“chambermaid at the Merchant
Hotel, where fishermen used’ to
come and stay in the fall.

Tl was there she met her hus-
band Peter Langlois, who was a
fisherman,

. Peter worked with the Depart-
ment of Public Works and as a
fisherman.

Jessie Ann and Peter Langlois
were marted in Selkirk in 1912
and they had 15 children ‘who
jived.”’

Carl grew up in Manitoba, first

- at Selkirk then later at Big Island
on Lake Winnipeg.

He fished and then in 1934 four
of the Langlois brothers left home
and walked 32 miles across Lake
Winnipeg to Manigotoyen and
worked at logging camps for one
dollar a day.

They progressed to sawmills
and later gold mining towns in
northern Ontario.

When they weren't working,
they trapped and prospected in
Manitoba. .

. They. travelled by canoe in the ..

simmer, by Snowshoe in the
winter, and lived two and a half
years in the wilderness,

‘ When the Second World War
came, Carl joined the Princess
Patricia Canadian Light Infantry.

It was his second try at gelling
into the forces. The first time he
wasn't accepted and went out
“shooting squirrel”’ for $1 a pelt,

Carl arrived in Glasgow in 1940
on the Empress of Austria,

He served overseas until 1945
as a cook for an officers’ mess.

Six other Langlois brothers
served in that war: Cyril Peter,
who became regimental Sgt.
Major in the 10th Armoured Tank
Regiment; Edivin George, of the
West Esscs Scottish Regiment,
faken prisoner 12 hours after
landing in Normandy; Edward
Joseph, an RCAF mechanic for
one of the bombing squadrons
that raided Germany nightly
through the war; Elmer John, of
the Calgary Tank Corp,. landed
with 7,000 other Canadians at
Dieppe and was the only tank to
return from the bungled raid, be-
cause they spenl seven days in
their tank upside down and had
been thought dead; William
Henry, of the Royal Canadian
Artillery, supported the First Ca-
nadian Corps in North Africa,
Sicily, Italy, France and into
Germany; Arthur Hartley, went
overseas late in 1943 with the
Royal Canadian Navy on escort
duty with ships hauling war sup-
plies to Murmansk.

Three other brothers served in
the military or as peacekeepers
after the war,

And sister Jean Adeline became
a nurses aid during WW2, work-
ing at (he Major Hospital in Win-
nipeg.

Seven of the 15 Langlois chil-
dren are still living today — all of
whom served Canada with great
pride.

When Carl returned to Win-
nipeg, he worked for Manitoba

GoodRoads road construction and.”

rose ta superintendent.
In 1951, Carl met and married
his wife, Vi, in Selkirk.

IN the spring of that year Carl

came to B,C. and worked at any
job available in Vancouver. _

While there, he got a job as a
labourer for Kitimat Constructors.

He artlved in the aluminum city
early in 1952, travelling there by
boat,

After two hours: thore he be-
. came - labour -foteman. and: was
. later. made. a supervisor for. the

CARL ALPHONSE LANGLOIS and his wife Vi live in Terrace.
Carl graw up in Manitoba, but moved to Kitimat when Alcan be-

gan building its aluminum’ smelter.

distribution of all labourers sent
ta the different jobs in Kitimat... -

Al {his time three different ship-
ping companies — the CPR CNR
and B.C. Shipping —~ ptus two
airlines had 3,000 men on the job
transporting workers up « and
down the coast. oo

In the neighbourhood of 50,000
men were on the. move from Van-
couver to Kitimat and Kemano.

Carl left’ Kitimat.in 1953 and
returned to Vancouver. .°:

He went back into mining ex-

ploration and was employed by
different mining companies until

1972,

Then he joined the B.C. Corps
of Commissionaires, a veteran or-
ganizalion, and served with them
as a security officer until retiring

in 1981. .

Now Carl and Vi live in Ter-

race.

Their daughter, Lee Ridsdale,
lives here and. works at Mills
Mcmorial Hospital. as a registered

nurse,

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