TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

INSPECTING TOTEM POLESATKITWANCOOL
recently are (eft to right) Rufus Good, Edgar

Story below,

KITWANCOOL PROJECT

Pearkes visits Totem restorations

The people of Gitksan put on
full regalia for an extra special
visitor recently,

He was Lieutenant Governo:
George V, Pearkes, the fir,
such nqtable ever to visit
Totem Pole Villages. Lt.
Pearkes toured the villages‘dur-
ing his recent visit to the forth-
ern part of the province. —

President of Kitwancool vile
lage, Peter Williams, recalled
the only other person of like
Station whom the Gitksan people
had been to meet, the Duke of
Connaught.in 1912

At that time ae "<itlagers made ,
a long trek by foot and canoe
to the city of Prince Rupert.

In honor of Lt. Governor
Pearke’s visit, the village chiefs
and ieaders spoke words of wel-
eome in their native Gitksan
tongue while villagers put on
a feast unparalleled for the oc»
easion, -

In Gitksan tradition, all food
uneaten during the feast had to
be taken home and eaten later...

n of the Sceena Totem Pole

storation Society, toured the
villages, examining the work of
the Society in restoring ancient
Indian totem poles,

He was accompanied by Mrs,
Pearkes, aide de camp Come
mander Dixon and Mrs, Polly
Sargent, president of the Rese
toration Society.

Adverse publicity regarding
the work of the Northern B.C.
restoration group was recently
put down when wood experts ex.
amined the. restored carvings and
termed the joh “unimpeachable.”

A United States wood nathol-
ogist with a PHD in wood pres-
ervation, examined the totem
poles last spring and has pre-
pared a white paper for presen.’
tation at a restoration conference
in Wrangel, Alaska next year,

He claims in the report that
the Skeena Totem Pole Restor-
ation Society has produced some
of the best work anywhore int the
world.

one honour Mr, Pearkes, Pat.
fo

Tops gals toppers
a halloween event

The. members of Terrace
T.O.P.S, wore topppers to last
Thursday’ § meeting and three
of them topped the rest,

Tt was a Hallowe'en Mad Hat.
ter's feature with home made
hats ranging everywhere from an
edible apparation made up of
radishes, olives and carrot
sticks; to a billowy leghorn hat
fluffed out with facial tissues
and bedecked with mink and but.
terflies,

Hat owners held a fashion pare|:

ade during which they were jude
ged for originality, humour and
beauty. Judges were Cathie Fras=
ér-and Kathy Handel.

Prize for the most original hat
went to Barbara LaPierre for her
delicious h’or d’oevres a la cabe

‘page, Audrey Taylox took the
prize for the funniest hat, one
made of tar paper and a waste-

the prettiest hai,

A new contest for the month
of November will divide the club
into two groups to determine
which team has the best losers,

Jean Veysey and the other ly
Rath Hallock.

T.O,P,S, (Take OffPounds Sen
sibly) meets every Thursday
evening in the Skeena Health Unit
assembly room, New members:
are always weleome. If youhave
a weight problem, now is the
time to join the group and slim
down for next summer, *

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THESE MEN BUILT BS:

There were 16 tnton war cas
noes -in Fort Rupert Harbour
when Jobn Muir -arrived —and
16 poles on the beach, each with
a human head. {impaled on it,

Because Mrs, Muir waa the
first white woman to land there,
the anor dare her B chalice
of any two e es,
She declined, y trop

This. is part of the story of
pioneer coal miner John Muir
and his family as recorded by
his son Michael,

John Mnir was Scottish born
and raised as a miner, But in &
1848 he signed on with Hudson's
Bay Company and brought his:
family to Vancouver Island in

sawmil.,

they took over the estate of Capt, -
W.C, Grant, the first settler in-
dependent of the Hudson's Bay
Company on tho Island,
They built a fine farm with
a datry an’ imported cattle, Th Then
they bow ut the engine from
wrecler steamer and set up a

: Mules: as “the. ont: tip :
Mra, . Muir - died in 1875 or
-John. ‘Mati: ine’ 1889,
‘Femembered as one of the most
Victoria, representing Sooke, _ [respected ‘of Victoria district

The Muir farm, ‘Woodside, | pioneers, .

a/was well known; so were “the | BC, Centenatal’ Cmte

The famtiy ‘taainess. ‘prose
pered, Jolin Mulr became: a
magistrate and fn 1856 amember
of the House «of Asgombly at

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HAVING - BILL PROBLEMS?
Why not ‘consolidate?

WANT TO BUY. A NEW CAR,
SKI-DOO, FURNITURE, or any.
WORTHWHILE PURPOSE eee

Good, Lieutenant Governor and Mrs, Pearkes.

basket, and Wendy Wellwood had |’

One group was headed up by! &

the salllng vessel Harponer,

He landed at Victorta with hig
wife, four sons and a daughter
and a group of friends and rele
atives — in all, a party of sever-
teen.

They soon departed for the
mines at Fort Rupertwhere Muir
sunk a shaft and Indian troubles -
resulted, .

The Indians wanted compensa=
don for thelr land rights,

This was no sooner over than
labour problems. arose with the
white workers —among them
Muir’s son Andrew and his
cousin, John McGregor,

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. Soon they were producing lum=
They not only objected to some

|| phases of their duties, but they pee for ihe coasts the Orient and
felt the company store was take an :
ing ail their wage.

The two young men ‘organized
Vancouver Island’s first strike
and were jailed for six days.

The family.stayed at Fort Rupe|- More than ‘30, 000 homeless.
ert less than two.years,. After|people in Calcutta, an Indian
a short sojourn in Nanaimo, Muir] city of 3,500,000, sleep on the
moved to ‘Sooke in 1854, wherel streets every mia.

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The Society, working with funds
provided partially through Gov=
ernment grants and partially
through private donors, will soon:
launch a campaign for financing’
of its next major undertaking, |-
Idcated at Kitwancool,

Tt is estimated that close to
$10,000 will be required for the
resteration job there,

Totem pole carving is a na-
tive Indian art that has all but
ceased in the Gitksan villages.
Some of the remaining . poles:
are estimated to he close to |
200 years old, aap

ey have been a- soured ét :
great interest to residents of
the Skeena valley for many years,
and have recently attracted nu
merous camera carrying Amer-
iean tourists.

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