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

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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...

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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.

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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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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

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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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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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