_ on the business, Now

. The home ofa local pizza emporium nd purveyors of draft
- beer as it was before such evils were ever intvented.. This is
the good oid Skeena hotel as it looked when it was the Philbert,

Terrace

Fifty years ago this week

ih DOE YELOF COTTON |

AN. Hoad, Boston,
dent of the Laminated
terials Ltd., and Frank
Leland, general manager of
the Westminster branch,
and R. Brealy, logging
su Rienlant were
g week on business in
; connection with getting a
supply of cotton wood from
the islands in the Skeena
below town for their mill at
Westminster, This wood is
superior quality stuff and
the company wants it badly.
’ In the past transportation
* charges have put a damj ME

oposed to float the loge

m-the coast or else float
them to tide water and then .

load onto barges. she i
ny can 0:

will ee, quite’ Little boost

tw the industry of this im-

mediate district.

News of the death of Mrs.
Riley's father at their home
_ is Vancouver, was received .

Mrs.
had lett to be at his bedside.
Mra, Riley's many friends
extend sincere s mapahy in
her bereavement,

Mrs. W. Cassell, who
last two ‘weeks
e@ was

pani
ars a ra

ter in-Ed- |

TERRACE
KITIMAT

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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 3212 KALUM ST., TERRACE, B.C.

Townsman

VOLUME 1, NO 5°

Lake on a fishing trip. They

report a
fine ou

Miss Janie and Wm.
Donald returned from a two
months holiday with friends
in Vancouver and Seattle on
Wednesday last and
- geceived a warm welcome
from their-friends. Billie is

aoe catch and a

- to be in Janres Richmond's

store for the summer
months

Messrs. Dover, Nash,
Corlett. and Nelson were
delegates to the Con-
‘gervative convention in
Hazelton last week and they
got home on Thursday, alin

best of humor over the
successful way - the
vention went off.

on

jumped or aatey with he
or safe
Grenni

con: —

. and a few hel

Serving Terrace, Kitimat, Nass Valley, Stewart and the Hazeltons

WEDNESDAY, JUNE §,. 1977

‘im the’ 1930's

‘siderable distance. They

were not injured but the
wagon was pretty much of a
wreck. ©

Whit Sunday musical
service in St. Matthews
church last Sunday morning
was attended by a large
congregation. Rev..

‘Robinson delivered a very

address.

appropriate
numbers were

Specia

coking down from the Terrace Hotel.
Johnstone collection)

rendered by Mrs. Haey, 2

quartette, « (Madams

Robinson and Attwood, Yon
Hess and Rey. Robinson).
Al she end of the service
ei Communion was
rated by Rev. Tid.

Rev.T.J. and Mrs. Marsh
celebrated the thirtieth

‘anniversary of their wed-

ding on Wednesday last. A
number of friends called
and all extend the best of
wishes. Mr. Marsh is in
pretty good health again and
able to be out doors,

Miss French sent
for. Conserva

hi
of

‘Music examinations held in
_ Prince Rupert this week.

The girls were Annie Allan,

elementary; Kathleen.

Burnett, primary; and

Janet Young or. The

mothers of the two latter

girls accompanied them on
e trip.

Mrs. Griffith of Prince
Rupert is spending a holiday
in town as the guest of Mrs.
A. Ross. The Bates left on
Wednesday to visit friends
in Shames for a few days.

The hospital auxiliary met
at the home of Mrs. Geo.
Dover on Tuesday afternoon ~
of this week. The .annual

eeting will-be -held. in the.
GW. A. Hall on Tuesday ~
June 21st, at 3 pm. A
attendance is ce is reques

Haida carver retains culture

SKIDEGATE,
— In a frame ‘gad plas lastic-
sheet hut on the of this -

Queen Charlotte island
ter Haida

tisHe hi

For almost. a year Reid
carving arraeg es

a 55-foot to

Before the arrival
whites and the vventual
erosion of Haida society,
Reid's community, like,
many others, confronted the’
ocean with ranks of carved

and painted totems. Those

and i
“Even tra in the
stairwells zsrped int

lying in shattered fragments
in nowvanished villages, the
-contained both of
magic or gins. and the

us of their crentors—
atill survives,” said Reid.

“all t
t art must be a

thing, or it is not art at all aut A

"Reid's totem pole will

the centre Hece 0 of a 10
edar bus!

contre. at the Skidegate

band's reserve.

Reid, 57, has been living in
Shes args pote a bas
carved since since ise.

The pole’s four main

a dgztssa
a
or bear—cover

a
9

. the

things must die, but.

ineas has started an a

biological range, said Reid,, -
and will breathe new life
into Queen Charlotte

craftsmanship.
While working on the
, Reid is writing a
boolr ‘on Northwest Coast

All the work coats money,
something Skidegate and
Reid are short of. The band
to the
general public ~ for
assistance to complete the
Skidegate totem.

’“It ia not Suirageous to to

ask society to support the
Skidegate’ house,”’ Reid

sald, a that society
shoud it an bono
to help revitalize one

Canada's most tmportant
artistic resources.