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TERRACE “Omineca”™” HERALD, TERRACE,

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® CENTENNIAL FEATURE

Our Founders...

W. J. MacDONALD

fs It was 1856 and a Cowichan ndian had shot a shepherd. A mepunitive expedition was sent forth te Cowichan country from meFort Victoria and it included 18 mamen from the settlement's mili-

Batia, captained by a young Scota-

maman, William John Macdonald. me 6©“‘We were met by 200 armed miindians with their faces black- @ened, who danced and shouted in front of us,” Macdonald wrote ater. .

me “But we marched on, taking no anotice,”’ The troops halted on a

meplateau and announced they

would stay there until the guilty man was given up. The man was pbrought forward, tried and pun- = 6Perhaps the incident was not meas boldly heroic as the young mscot made it sound because re- ords show 400 seamen and mar- Maines made up the bulk of the aetroops. But to Macdonald, just 26 and five years out from his mhomeland it must have been a mereat adventure. Born in Scotland in 1829 he

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joined the Hudson's Bay Com- pany and at age 21 gailed around the Horn surviving storms and near starvation. He Hved with 70 officers and men at Fort Vic- foria behind locked gates each night — but by day he would go riding around Beacon Hill.

He was sent briefly to the San Juan Islanda to establish a sal- mon fishery. But most of his life revolved around the settlement which began to outgrow its capa- cities in 1856 with influx of men headed for the Fraser gold rush, He had married in 1957 and soon left. the fur trade for the mer- cantile business, twice becoming mayor of Victories, then a mem- ber of the legislatures of both Vancouver Island and the unit- ed colony of British Columbia.

When British Columbia joined in Confederation in 1871 he be- ¢ame one of the first three sena- tors to represent the new sixth province at Ottawa. But he main- tained his home at Victoria and died there in 1916,

— BC. Centennial Committee

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Alcan Sponsors Kitimat Award “a student in Grade. XI ot

[Mount Elizebeth Secondary School

this year will qualify for a. schol- arship for further study at univer- sity which can total $2,000,” Mr.

H. Gwyn, manager of Kitimat

‘works, announced last week. “This

scholarship will be sponsored by Alcan’s operations in the Kitimat- Kemano area,” Mr. Gwyn sald.

The scholarship will be appor- tioned equally over a 4year uni- versity course at the rate of $500 per year, provided that satisfac- tory grades are obtained each year, If the student, on entering university, selects a S:year course, the $2,000 will be apportioned in equal annual grants over the 5- year period.

The award of the scholarship will be made solely on the basig of the highest scholastic standing as determined by regulations for provincial scholarships, No re- strictions will be placed on the award ofsthis scholarship in so far as the student’s choice of faculty or university is concerned.

Mr, J. Green, president of the Kitimat Scholarship Assoctation, expressed the thanks and appreci- ation of this association which has been very active in securing fin- ancial support for students who plan to attend institutions of high- er learning. He hoped that the scholarship would serve as a strong incentive towards higher academic achievement.

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