- ESTABLISHED

1912.0

“Serving t the ‘Municipalities « of ‘Central Saanich, ‘North Saanich, the’ Town of Sidney. and” the: Gut Islands.

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- BIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR, .No. 3°

8 PAGES»

SIDNEY

, Vancouver Island, B.C.

Wednesday, January 15, 1969

. Sunserloten? . in advance, year $4. 00;

Copy

Transportation Company
~ Folds After 70 Years”

a Few. “readers will. remember —~

7 , the founding of C. and Cc. (Cam-
-eron and Caldwell) Transporta-
_-tion Services of Victoria in 1900
and only a.few recall when it

-. .Started carrying’ early airline

passengers between. downtown
Victoria and the airport.

Best’ report available to The
Review is that. of Donald R.
MacLaren of.Curteis -Point who

"“gtates that although-earlier air

services terminated in Victoria

Harbour and Esquimalt, it was

-in-Jate 1939 orearly °40 ‘that
Canadian Airways first oper-

ated a.hpassenger service into —

the. present airport.
Grow aircraft with fixed under<
carriages were used and carried
40 travellers. Ci and C, pro-

- vided : the terminal: transporta-.

tion in specially made limous-
ines, one of whichis reported
to have been a Pearce-Arrow,
The same ground service con-
tinued when Canadian Pacific
Airlines touk over in 1941 with
Lockheed 10's and again in 1943
when Trans-Canada Airlines,
now Air Canada, entered the
picture. Don MacLaren inaug-
- urated the TCA run and nego-
‘tiated the limousine service with.
Cc, and C. The relationship
established then continued until
-Tuesday night when C. and C,
turned over to Vancouver Island
Coach Lines.
Although C, and C, has changed

« hands several times over’ the

_ Barkley...

made dy this

Last run from the Victoria International Airport to the city was -
20 .year-old bus. late Tuesday, night and marked the
erd of nearly 70 years: GY operation by C,

td C. Transportation

Services of Victoria, Vancouver [sland Coach Lines, which recently
hougit out the old company, took over the schedule on Wednesday

‘with more modern equipment.

years, some of the early drivers
are still with the company,
George Fairey, Wally Steele and
BIN Heller are three who can
recall many interesting exper-
jenves. When the company first
bought a bus, George was one of
those. who in 1946, went to the
factery in Loudenville, Ghic, to
take. delivery and drive i to
Victoria.

Manager, despatcher and later,
public relations manager, Bob

Sinclair, worked for the: cam-
pany from 1985 until 1964. He
recalls that al} horse drawn vee
hic les wote-cone when he started,
but only just, and there was talk
et btinging them back in de-
pression years,

No one seems to know just
how jar the old buses travelled
but number 102, the secorl ane
bought in 1946 and recently sold

(Continued on Page 2)

‘Tackles Key Issue.

‘By H. V. GREEN.

‘Chief: Philip Paul of the Tsartlip Indian Band, “Brentwood. Bay, :
has’, this month been. appointed Agminister of Indian Vocational ..
It is a new responsibility but not a-new interest, for he. ~

‘Training.

has: for. some lime. heen ‘associated with -the Indian adult. education

program iscated in” the

campus.

tons throughout the nation, ..

“WuST ASL
THOUGHT.

= ‘tion alone does not. presuppose

‘progress,
. be done,”? said: Mr, Paul:

A gener ation ago. a “ scholastic

~ would ‘have ‘been’an unlikely. background for an-Indian Chief.” In the: a
past the lamp of education has shone but dimly. on Indian Reserva- 7 t
It is. indeed questionable whether the . Can:
general ‘public of Catiatia’ is yet aware that: there is'a new-found ©
urge among. the Indian ‘people: and their” leaders ‘for educational

Ewing “Building con ‘the UVIC ; Lansdowne

opportunities that have long been denied.

Progress
“More than. ever. before. ‘the

Indian: people are pushing. for a,

better “and” higtier “standard — of
education, -

“He
-Tecognizes, however, that educa~

quality, of. job. opportunities

We are making some.
but ‘much more can. 2

age,

office | and an executive chair

‘said: “cae ‘p

“at the present, time there are” “Ped

around -100 Indian adult. students |.
taking: courses at the Institute
of Adult’ Education.

Their “stu="

less and the’ professions. |:

is discrimination, | al-

“aah people do. not’ like to say
I

cn

‘Oyster Hunter
Obj ect Of Search

An oyster hunter who set.” “out * to Tow. FEO.) Deep Cove to
Saltspring Island became. the object of an intensive search

onday night.-

--The.-ROMP..vessel .M.P,: -Sidney- -and-Air- Sea

Rescue were both involved in the hunt.
However, Jack Sutherland of 11166 Chalet: Road took it all

in his stride: -

*E-told my. girl friend I was prepared ta stay

“the night over there but when I didn’t return on time she became

a little worried,

I was in no ‘difficulty; .-1.lit a

fire onthe

-beach and ate some sandwiches and when. the sea flattened
_out around 8 p.m. Irowed home, It took me just over an hour’?
_ Mr. Sutherland: prefers rowing tis. nine foot pram in order

io. obtain exercise, during the winter’ months.

“T do quite’a

bit of outside work,” he told The Review, (‘But when there is

_snow on the. ground . it “limits - physical activity. T

That's oie

reason why I rowed over to Saltspring."’
A number of residents on Land's. End “Road. observed the
- progress: ‘of the pram’s ‘inter-ishind voyage through binnoct-

lars...

One of them, Alan Foster, reported thathe cuuld see

Mr. Sutherland's campfire and later’watched while the RCMP;
vessel” made a search of the Cape Keppel area... :

tin en

‘Water Supply Maintained
Despite Cold

Water users in the Deep Cove
Waterworks District who live at
the higher elevations have been
short of water for brief periods
on two occasions inthe last 1
days.

A break in a line at the Swartz
Bay Ferry Terminal resulted in
a considerable loss of water and
a drop of pressure throughout the

system, The 50,060 galion ree.

serve tank was cut-in to meet
the requirements but its level fel!
dangerously low before the break
was repaired and normal flow
restored,

Second emergency arose when
a break occurred just off the
main line as it crosses the air-
port. It was two-three hours
before the repairs were made
and ayain users in the higher ~
areas -expertenced either low

‘ pressure service or abrief stop-

page.

According to. Watson Smith;
district engineer, the recent cold
spell has posed a number of

problems but the proper ‘mant«:

‘pulation of valves and frequent

3) asitding Up” :
at 80%-In sidney

Building permit, values forthe |>
“Town of. Sidney. increased . 80% |:
~ in 1968 over 1967 values. “ a

“The new figure of” $2,543,886 | ‘tr
“was an all time high for the [Mr. 1

_ town and exceeded. the previous.
year's total by over one million: :

- CHIEF. PHILIP PAUL ue

= will be- given 2.
for. parking on

dollars

: Even the weather ¢ experienced

in. Derember did not slacken the

pace as. values. for. that month |.

were $147, 415, up irom $87,
288° far the “game month Jast
year.

“Bay Reserve.

impaired. “drivin

‘and fined © * $350,

driven by John E.

dar kness. .

‘Both vehicles ‘were heading north |

Th the ‘resulting
collision ‘both | Mrs. James and—

treet pe
Pow was pro~
“ceeding west on Mills Road when:
_it-struck a parked car which the |
driver ‘stated ‘was not seen in. the =
-Owher of the parked co
‘vehicle, Erwin Lobb of: Victoria,’
_ violation notice ;

ae "| ion of East Saanich ee 1a)
“entered Patricia Bay pad in-.-

‘on the: highway: and as Graham ~

changes of level in tanks pre« ©

vented serious troubles.

In Central Saanich

Fire Department Unrest Is

City fiewspaper statements in-
dicating deep unrest within the
ranks of Central Saanich Volun-
teer Fire Department have been
emphatically refuted by Mayor
A.M. Galbraith, Alderman Philip
Bent and Fite Chief Den Facey.

The article in question refer~
red to the curtent Sidney and
Notth Saanich dispute and stated
that the Central Saanich volun-
teers will demand a vote on the
manicipal fire committee, and
that the avpoiniment of a paid
fire chief will be requested. It
was assumed that council will
stronely resist the request.

Fire Chief Don Facey, who
was te-élécted to his office iast

week, said that the press report
is a complete fabrication and
there is no foundation for the
statements. Relations between
the fire department and the mun-
icipal council are excellent, he
assured The Review,

Spokesman
Information was said to have
been obtained through a‘ ‘spokes-
man for the fire department,”"

but, said Chief Facey, “T know

of no one who would have spoken
in those terms.’ He mentioned
that the firemen’s only concern
is for the purchase of a new
fire pumper, a matter that was
deferred by council for the con-

sideration of the incoming coun-
cil in the 1969 budget.

Another false assumption no-
ticed by Chief Facey was the
statement that a representative
of the fire department sits with
the fire committee Dut has no
vote. ‘All the officers may sit
with the committee, and also any
member of the Association if he
so wishes,”' he remarked,

So far fram resenting the lack
of voting power, he remarked
“] feeltnat we have far more
influence without vcting power on
the committee." He entirely
rejected the inference that there
is trouble in the department.

Protection

Mayor A.M. Galbraith was
equally confident, and appreciat~
ive of the services of the fire
department. “So as Tam
aware they wish to have add-
itional equipment and fire hyd-
rants for better protection, and
this is certainly no matter for
cuntention,’’ he remarked. He
noted that there is a capital
equipment fesefve for new
equipment and provision for 4
new pamper in the provisional
budget.

Alderman Philip Benn, chair<
man of the fire committee fat

far

d |
tour! years, said there have been

nn discussions on the appointment
of a paid fire chief or on the

question of voting powers isr
representatives of the fire de«
partment.

“y was very surprised to read
that a spokesman for the depart-
ment had given sach information
to the press. We enjoy the most
harmonious felations with the
department and have every rea-
son to be grateml for the volun-
tary services of the officers ari
men,’ he vemarked. To his
knowledge there is definitely no
appearance of unrest in the de-
partment.

VANCOUVER FERRY ,
GULF ISL FERRY,

SIDNEY aa

Fault:

accifent at the corner
Poad at 3.0% a.m.
was southbound

steering mechanism if a big Capital
Fre:cheways trailer truck was the cause of an
of Highwav 17 and Wain
fast Thursday.
from the C.PLR,

The vehicle
fretent ferty

terminal asd when the loss of steering ocestted,
it overran an island, broke. trough. a heavy tier
crete tailing amd slid down the a

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