P.T. CONTEST SUBMISSIONS

Readers tell us where in province
they would like to spend vacation

During the recent Pacific
Tribune prize contest hun-
dreds of readers sent in en-
tries telling where they
would like to spend their
summer vacation this year.
Reaching into the .grab-bag
we have come up with these
typical letters (not contest
winners) which show the
variety of holiday places
which B.C. affords. We
found them interesting: we
think you will too.

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C. R., Vancouver, B.C.: f
would like to spend by vaca-
tion at Deep Cove. This place
is actually the Riviera of Brit-
ish Columbia.

Of all the pleasure spots in
our province Deep Cove is best
for swimming, boating, fish-
ing and lazing. The latter is
what I am best at and-I feel
that Deep Cove is the holiday
spot for me.

i. K., Galiano Island, B.C.:
I'd like to spend my vacation
right where I am, on Galiano
Island.

While somewhat. isolated
from metropolitan centres, it
has frequent ferry connections
with the mainland, Gulf Is,
larids and Vancouver Island.
The climate is equable, rain-
fall averages around 25 inches,
no mosquitoes or depredatory
animals (except a few ra-
coons), sea views, telephone
and power services, good
roads, excellent radio and TV
reception, water supply gen-
erally good, and prices of es-
sentials compare with city
prices. oe

Above all, it is a retreat for
those who desire surcease from
the madding crowd.

MRS. A. R., Thurlow Island,
B.C.; I was born in Vancouver
in 1909 and have never travel-
led farther than Boston Bar.

Reading about the progress
of Prince George, I feel that I
would like very much to see
it for myself.

A bus or train ride would be
a change for me. Living up
coast where I have been for
the past 16 years, one only
travels by boat or plane.

M, H., Campbell River, B.C.:
I would like to spend my vaca-
tion at Revelstoke, because of
the year-round atractions this
district affords.

Revelstoke has many scenic
wonders provided by the
Glacier, Hamber, Yoho and Mt.
Revelstoke provincial and na-
tional parks.

This lake - studded land
among the Rockies has! always
fascinated me. Since my travels

heve been confined to Vancou-
ver Island and the Greater
Vancouver area, I think this
trip would be educational as
well as interesting.

T. S., Cameron Lake, B.C.: I
would like to spend my vaca-
tion at Whitehorse and Mayo,
Yukon Territory, because it’s
my home and I haven’t seen
my folks for about 15 years.

I want to see the economic
changes there, and the dam in
the Mayo which has backed up
Mayo Lake where I used to
trap and hunt. I want to see
if there are any changes in the
silver-lead mines and how
strong the unions are, and I
want to see the nickel-copper
mine near Whitehorse, thé new
bridge across the river there
and the town that has been
built upon the other side.

L. E., Vancouver, B.C.: [I
would like to spend my vaca-
tion in the Windermere Valley.
In my opinion this is the most
attractive civilized area in all
of this most beautful province.
Invigorating air, always sunny
days, a background of.the high
Rockies and the emerald green
of the Columbia River . .
all these attractions make this
valley one of the most happy
spots in the world.

C.0.H.P., Vancouver, B.C. [
would like to spend my .vaca-
tion at Kelowna, or anywhere
in the Okanagan Valley, be-
cause you have the sparkling,
clean waters of the lake for
swimming, the dry hills for
hiking or riding and then there
are the warm summer days
for comfort. ’

Do not forget the many lakes
and streams for fishing and the
Kamloops trout, cooked fresh
over the fire for eating.

Only: two things of which: to
beware — woodticks and sun-
burn — but what a lovely tan
you can get.

There is nothing more
beautiful than the hills yellow
with sunflowers in the, spring,
with their delicious odor. ,:The
early spring flowers, the yel-
low bells, push out of the bar-
ren soil, giving promise of
spring. In the late summer,
the syringa blooms exotically
in white clumps on the hill-
sides, exuding fragrance with
the dusk.

The artists can live in a

riot of color, too, with drab
hills and blue lakes, set off
by the dark green of the firs
and pines.
MRS. N. E. S., Vancouver,
B.C.: I was there only once—
but I must go back to the out-
posts of the rugged, beautiful
Queen Charlotte Islands.

Some people call these is-
lands the Hawaii of the north

WE SALUTE CANADA
OF CANADA DAY — 1957

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because of the balmy winds
which blow about them from
the warm Japanese current.
But the winds bring torrents
of rain with them. In some
places the rains never stop and
the ground oozes with damp-
ness. These islands, as a re-
sult, are over-grown with
jungle forests.

The Haida Indians live here
—both the old generation who
remember the past and the
younger generation who want
to forget it. Loggers are plenti-
ful because of the valuable
stands -of Sitka spruce and
deep-tanned fishermen come
into dock when the fish run
heavily during the salmon sea-
son. — ;

One of the most unforget-
table sights on the islands are
the vestiges of the ancient In-
dian villages, long abandoned.
Their names—Tanoo, Cha-atl,
Skedans—sound as lonely as
the villages actually are.

Only a few totem poles are
left; one or two still stand tall
and upright as they did in
younger days; some lean dan-
gerously over the sea from
their look-out on the cliffs;
but most lie in the tall grasses,
their grotesque features cov-
ered with moss while their
wood disintegrates in the un-
ceasing rains.

In one or two places, the re-
mains of an old lodge can be
seen — seldom-more than the
corner posts — but even these
are difficult to find beneath
the moss and soon all the old
sites will be lost forever, swal-
lowed up by the raging forest
growth.

Not many people are left to
tell) what life was like in those

old villages. Only a few carvers °

still work in the traditional
idiom, using the rare agilite
slate found only in an almost
inaccessible quarry near Skide-
gate.

Old Granny Russ, daughter
of a famous Haida chieftain, is
now past the century mark, and
Mrs. Williams, the accepted.
leader of the old tribal songs
and dances, is crippled and
bent, too. :

A few story tellers are still

_ alive. Henry Young tells fam-

ous Haida legends’ of old in his
native tongue and his daughter
translates for him. But Henry
Young is aged, too, and unwell.
In a few more years, time will
have overtaken them also. Then
what will remain to perpetuate
their culture?

The young Indians want to-

forget their past. They are tired
of the years of endless dis-
crimination. They want equal
rights, the dignity which is due
them as human beings. They

are reluctant to keep alive -

those things which class them
as Indians, bound to the old
inequalities and injustices,

So little time remains before
the last physical traces of a
great culture vanish al-
together. I must return before
the death-knell.

CANADA DAY
GREETINGS

from the

Labor-Progressive Party

HE Labor-Progressive party extends greetings to

all working people on Canada Day. We hail the

men and women of. labor who came from all lands
and whose creative genius built our country.

British Calumbia celebrates Canada Day. in the
midst of preparations for the 1958 Centennial which
will mark the big contribution made by the Pacific
coast province to the building of Canada.

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Labor should resolve this Canada Day to play a
greater part in the affairs of the nation. United
labor action can win for Canadians a larger share of
the wealth made possible by modern science and tech-
nology. It can safeguard the country’s independence,
now being substituted by the old line parties of big
business. It can play a key role in the fight for peace,
to end the H-bomb horror, to recognize China and
establish friendly relations and trade with all coun-
tries.

United labor action can stop the giveaway -of
our natural resources to the U.S. It can win the great
struggles for higher wages which face organized labor
in B.C. this Canada Day.

Unity of labor will ultimately open the way to
a socialist Canada in which the working people will
come into their own as the true builders of their
country, the heirs of the wealth they have created
and the real leaders of the nation.

Unite on Canada Day to advance labor’s fight
for the interests of our country and its people.

2: B.C.-Yukon_ District
Labor-Progressive Party,
Nigel Morgan, provincial leader

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