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AL EDITION THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE :

a —— THE FORMATIVE YEARS

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Ballway Avenue was the busiest street in Williams houses are, from Rife’s Drug Store on the left, pool Looking from Borland and First Avenue, the Bank
Lake in the early days. In this picture, which takes‘ hall, government office, barber shop and T. A. Moore of Montreal is in the centre of this picture. To the
in from Oliver Street to Borland, the business ° store,

and now housing Cariboo Home Furnishings on the
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right is the then new Masonic Hall, built in 1926, of course, the Provincial Government building.

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Not much danger of traffic to those youngsters play- left represented an old firm in the Cariboo. Mr. si was slowly moving up the hill th 1923. ana “eventually beco: af. Tu:

ing on Williams Lake's busiest corner in the early Moore started his original store at Alkali Lake, thén Here is shown the Bank of Montreal building at the small building below Wien ea
20’s. This is looking up Oliver Street from Railway moved to 150 Mile in 1914 ana finally to Williams corner of Oliver and First. Across the street is the

(now Mackenzie). The big T. A. Moore store at the Lake. old Grand Central, later moved around the corner

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+ ; ; is ti a : 7 i ‘| veyed line, Just before the fire of 1921. From the left is the Lakeview Hotel. High board walks joined one !

This is another view Oat down to the rs time ig Crnienen was little more than a surveyed Elliot's Meat Market, Herb Spencer's new dance business entrance to the other. p
fete ie the distance with its fancy balcony. Rail- hall, the “ Big Store,’” Fraser and Mackenzie, and

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ey ae —- t and look Hotel was built by Bill Smith in 1920, and it is easy This is the old Borland Post Office and Store, opera wes located across the creek from the Bor
If you stand at the foot of Oliver Peck in time 35 to see the reason for the name. ted when the town started by Bob Henderson. It sata _
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