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A town in
‘the making |

‘TERRACE _— Residents
~ in the community of Ter-
Tace saw their first car in

town in 1916; ‘‘The Stan-
Shortly
after ‘its arrival, the vehicle

was sent back,. recalled
one of Terrace’s first -set-
tlers,, Ted Johnson. ‘‘The
car just couldn’t keep the
steam up on the hills.”

py Daniele Berquist

The vehicle had been’
purchased to service the |
- ‘hot springs by, the Large
-brothers,
Ernie Large, ‘who was a

Johnson said.

steam engineer, worked at

- the time for George Little

~ who was in charge of the
~railroad. ‘“‘It was figured .
_ by the residents then, that

the. steam engine had been
brought in because of

their popularity,’’ John-
_ son stated.

~The next car that ar-

‘rived-in the village was a
* Model T Ford, right hand

drive.. “‘A real classic,”
Johnson said. The car was
brought in by Johnny

‘Campbell, who started the
first drug store located on

the current Terrace Hotel

‘site, or where part of it is.
- Before that, Terrace had a
. temporary drug store

which was set up in the

’ same place that Terrace

Drugs is now located.
“For all [remember about

‘it, the name could have |

been Terrace Drugs too,”’

. Johnson said: The first
drug store’ was started by

Dr. Trainer and a layman

by the name of - Billy

‘Bruce...

Johnson was just. a

young lad when he arrived

"in the area with his mother |
‘and.father in 1908. “Back
_then it wasn’t called Ter-

race at all,”’ Johnson said.
There was Kitsumkalum

and River Boat Landing, .
Eby’s -

also known as
Landing. Mr. Eby owned
a store, a post office, a
hotel and what not, re-
called Johnson. In 911

George Little built ‘the
- sawmill,

The first world war had

little affect on Terrace ..

since the village didn’t
have many people at that

' time. Johnson explained
that most of the people

were men, bachelors who

_ lived out in the country..~

Terrace started up

around 1912, Johnson -

said that’ George Little

owned a property of some |

160 acres. The site for Ter-_
-Face was originally chosen
to ‘be
since most of

at Kitsumkalum
the
businesses were built
there. However, the fellow
who owned the land was
holding out for a large
sum of money. George
Little donated so many
acres to the railway station
known then as the Grand
Pacific, and the growth of
a village began.

Terrace made its debut
as Littleton in honor of

‘

George ™ Little ‘who sO
generously donated some
- land. :The post office had

“to-teject the name since

somewhere else in
Canada, another .town
was named Littleton. The
Name Terrace was then
chosen because of the ter-
races around the hills and
the bench in this area.

When tragedy hit the

area with the great floods
in 1936, many residents
lost their homes to the.
fiery waters. Johnson said
that if a person was to go

.down Keith Ave. past the —

mill,. straight to the river,
one would be very close to
where Eby’s Landing was.
The river current caught a:

Pioneers. put Terrace
history i In perspective}

big bank and it’s part of
the river now, said
Johnson.

‘The second world war
was. a turning point for
Terrace. Just before the

war, the population of the

town. was approximately
300 people, Johnson said.
The army troops were
brought in and there was a
big army. camp here,
recalled Johnson. From
that time on, the popula-

tion just kept on increas-

ing, making Terrace the
special city that it is today.

Happy Birthday, Ter-
race, from a-man who has

"Seen you grow from the
time you were a village to

a town and now ‘a city.

Land lost
inthe river

TERRACE — Seven

_ children attended the first
school in Terrace in the

year 1911, recalls Floyd
Frank, a pioneer of the ci-
ty. . ‘

by Daniele Berquist

The building was
erected to serve as a com-
munity hall, a school and
a church. Am Anglican
minister by the name of
Marsh ‘was the first mis-
sionary to set foot in this
area. He arrived in 1908;
the same year that Frank’s
parents arrived in Terrace.
“My dad had decided to
move here that spring,
because he saw good op-
portunities’’, Frank said.
My father had trapped
during the winter time in
Terrace and did some pro-
specting as well. He was.
quite familiar with the
area, when we arrived in
May of 1908. _

“Also that same year,
word was out, that a
railway was going to be
started, the general con-
struction of it, Frank ex-
plained. My father realiz-
ed that once the railroad
was in, it would be a good
move.”

Two years prior to the

arrival of the Frank fami-

ly, Ed Eby located in this
area. He came from On-
tario, said Frank. Eby
worked at a fish cannery,
came up the river and

‘made Terrace his home.
“He founded a-store after

his name, Ed- Eby and
Company and Hotel.

In 1905, about the same
time that George. Little
settled in the area, Frank
stated, the government
opened homesteading.
“This is where people

could come in and stake

their land, My dad did just
that, along with a number
of other people.’’

Little roamed around
quite a bit before he decid-
ed to settle in Terrace. He
finished hewing railroad
ties in the area and in

_Terrace.
was a Swede who obtained

1911, he surveyed the sight
for Terrace, Frank said.
One year later, in 1912,
the survey was accepted by
the government. |

In the summer cf 1912,
George Little’s sawmill
was built and was
operating later that year.
The mill employed close to
30 people. Everything had
to be done by hand, recall-
ed Frank. Wages at the
sawmill. in 1915 were ap-
proximately 3714 cents an
hour, Frank said. The
average person made ap-
proximately $900 annual-
¥

Most people had a
garden of about half an
acre, Frank said. People
owned a flock of chickens

for the collection of eggs

and quite often a cow.
Food was stored for the
winter in a_ cellar
underneath the floor, ac-
cessible through a trap
door, The area might be
about 10 feet square and
was also’ frost proof,
Frank stated.

Around the. year of

1920, there was a general.

increase in. Terrace’s
population. That same
year the town was known
as the Cedar Pole Capital

of the world. Frank said.
the region had the most
beautiful cedars just right |
for telephone poles. .

“There was a large de-
mand. for them and
marketing of cedar ‘poles
became a big industry in
Olaf Hansen,

the contract to supply the

railway .with poles and.

ties, recalled Frank: This
man was soon known as
Tie Hansen, Eventually he
settled in Smithers.

Around 1924 the Old

Skeena: Bridge was con-
structed, creating more
jobs, Frank said.

The great flood of 1936

left many honieless, in-
cluding the loss of the
Frank family’s residence.
Frank stated that 12 acres

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. » Terrace Review _ Wednesday, February i, 1987 15 |

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‘Harminder Sanghera ‘lef and Ramindar Dosanjh, two guest speakers from Vancouver, ad-
dressed a public meeting on multicultural Issues held recently in the Terrace Public Library base-
ment. The event was a celebration of Multicultural Week In British Columbia (Feb. 16-21). Nirmal

Parmar is the chairman of the Terrace and District Multicultural Assoclation. Photo by Daniele Berquist.

Letter

To the editor,

‘Have you ever seen on | —

The National or The Jour

’ nal documentaries about

the “poor’’ people in the
United States, living in
shacks or sleeping under
bridges?

Yes, I have seen drunks
sleeping on sidewalks or

families living in run down”

houses with a lot of gar-
bage around. it, caused by

their own laziness and &

vandalism, but I. don’t
think ‘‘free enterprisers’’
are to blame for such
situations.. Those. TV

“documentaries” are be- @
ing exported abroad just &

to make the point that
‘‘capitalism’”’

should be replaced by
Socialism or Communism.
The United States are the
oppressors of ‘‘the poor’’

‘and only Karl Marx has

the solution, they say.
Just to keep the record
straight,
Have you ever heard of
**boloks’’? .
are tell you what they
. Boloks one can find

. on the outskirts of Rus-

sian cities. Tourists are
not supposed to see them,
but they are there. They
are a random jumble of
shanties, huts, and shacks,
made of old boards and
packing crates, The walls
are made of odds and ends

-of thin scrap lumber, then

filled with ashes for in-
sulation. Some of the bet-
ter ones are covered with
tarpaper or clay or plaster
on the outside. Walter J.
Ciszek, who was 23 years
in Russia, writes about it

in his book He Leadeth
.Me, page 185, published

by Doubleday.
~ Does “religion’’ pro-
mise people a-‘‘pie in the

-sky by and by’’ or does

communism? The ‘‘New
Man’* and his Soviet

- paradise are sure not to be

found in Marxist ruled

‘countries. I still prefer to

‘live on this side of the Iron
Curtain. We do not fully
realize how good we have
it and we should show
moré thankfulriess to our
Creator. Pray for the peo-
ple oppressed by op-

pressors.
Bill Homburg
Terrace, B.C.

is contrary
to ‘“‘Human Rights’? and &

this question:

EAN PET SSR TE

we te an eee ind REE EAR aE
A calebration of Multicultural Week (Feb. 15-21), sponsored by
the Terrace and District Multicultural Association, was held
recently in the basement of the Terrace Public Library. Comfort —
Osel-Tutu, board member of the Association and member of
National lmmigrant and Visible Minority Women, spoke on a
topic titled “Crossing Cultural Barriers”. — Proto by Daniele Berquist.

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