Harvey Doll celebrates 100 years

THE TERRACE Regional Museum Society and the Terracview Lodge are throwing a 100th Birthday party for long-time Terrace resident Harvey Doll,

Doll turns 100 on Dec, 21, and the celebrations will take place that day, from 2-4 p.m. at Terraceview Lodge. Friends of the Doll family are invited to be with Har- vey on this special day.

We've planned a wonder- ful afternoon with entertain- meni, a special guest and lots of birthday cake, kindly donated by local merchants,

And now some history of the Doll family,

Harvey Doll and Caroline Beachler Dentinger Doll ar- rived in Terrace in 1927, the year that Terrace was in- carporated into a village.

Harvey Doll was born on Dec. 21, 1896 in Ontario,

Harvey came from a fam- ily of seven children. Many of his brothers and sisters also have enjoyed tong. lives, some living past 100. All are deceased now save for his sister Irene in Al- berta.

Harvey remembers having to work bard all his life. In fact be thinks he started working as soon as he was bom, saying *'we kids had to work as soon as we were able to pack wood.”

Because he was needed to work, Harvey quit school at age 15.

During World War I Har- vey worked first in a shell factory and then in the Grand Trunk freight sheds.

In 1917 he married Caro- line Beachler Dentinger and together they moved to Al- berta,

Caroline was bom in Ontario in 1891, and first married Anthony Denlinger. They bad three girls, but while the children were still very young, Anthony died.

When Caroline and Har- vey moved to Alberta they took up land just north of Calgary, in Didsbury, Har- vey had a job operating a steam thresher, while Caro-

line worked to supplement

their income. - In 1923, Harvey and his brother-in-law Tony

Hobenshield moved to Woodcock, BC, through a CNR colonization program.

The Dolls farmed while in Woodcock, and they had a pet goat that played with the family. One day the house bumed to the ground and they lost everything, but the children were safe at a neighbour's house.

In 1924 the Dolls moved to Cedarvale. Harvey cul and sold railway lies, shakes

- and poles, which were

shipped by rail,

They eventually sald their property and moved to Ter- race in 1927, for better schooling opportunities for their nine children.

The Dolls lived in the Car- let place in Thornhill and the children went to a small school on whal is now called Queensway Rd. Miss Pearson was the teacher.

Caroline Doll gave birth to her last child around this time, but there were com- plications and she had to spend three months in the Prince Rupert hospital. Two of her daughters, Irene and

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Marjoric, were hospitalized at the same time,

Later daughter Lorraine died of spinal meningitis and the family slept in the hay loft while the house was fumigated,

The Dolls bought property on Brauns Island. Caroline made butter and cheese, as well as sausages and soap,

She also did sewing for others and hooked rugs.

Then came the year of the big flood in 1936. Families were forced off the island and had to live ina com- rmounity ball.

The Dall’s house was lost, but the family rented a house in town. Caroline worked as a midwife, delivering many Terrace babies in her own home.

Harvey worked in the mill

THIS PHOTO of Terrace pioneers Harvey and Caro. line Doll was taken in 1924 or '25, Caroline is holding Marjorie, and in the front are Clarence, Stanley, Lor- raine, Jean (Virginia) and Gordon, standing in front of his father.

and took half his wages in lumber which he used to build a home on Park Ave. Today the new «medical centre is located there. Asound World War Il the family. maved= ta. Prince Rupert so Harvey ‘could work as a shipwright. After the war they retumed to Terrace and Harvey did car- pentry work, and they took in boarders. Caroline also

went back to: nursing, taking |

paticn(s into her home. . The Dolls ‘were certainly

true pioneers who -experi-

enced many hardships. Isa challenge lo raise such a large family with so few amenities and: so little moiey, , oa On his birthday we thank Harvey for all he’s contrib- uted ta Terrace and for ihe stories he leaves behind.

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