& 6A . PEACE POWER SOUVENIR EDITION yama supervises installation of huge 500,000 voll trans- former. the future is here. (Because of the power of Peace) . Japanese know-how makes contribution to Portage Moun- tain Powerhouse facilities. Here Toshiba engineer 4. Maru- Prosperity will come with Peace. To your town and to our Province. There'll be bigger payrolls, bigger paycheques. New commerce and new communities will spring forth. That is the future for British Cylumbia, And the future is here! Because of the power of Peace. Canadian Park & Tilford Distilleries is proud to.be part of this exciting period in- the growth of our Province. For many years, now, Park & Tilford have been creating their products locally and morketing them nationally. Soon, many more B.C. firms will find it possible to do the same. oe Peace it's Wonderful Born In B.C. —Honoured Across Canada , a | At — aa | DISTILLBRIES ee ee TILE VOIR DIST | Tare er it | L._| RE 7 - == a AI Lon ee MEPL a DOL he igre tttr~-——~ North Vancouver, B.C. This advertisement is not pubtished or displayed by the Liquor Contro! Board or by the Government of British Columbia, ya oo oe . o - = ce - a joint venture of | _ Al Johnson Construction C PWA Asks | For Routes In. Interior Pacific Western Airlines will soon be terminating its special mainline service to the Peace power project at Hudson Hope. But the airline, Canada’s third larg- est, is hoping to continue serving Central British Columbia. Tt has recently applied for lim cences to operate a scheduled service from Kamloops to Prince Rupert, stopping at Williams Lake, Quesnel, Prince George, Smithers and Prince Rupert, It had earlier applied for a Hence to fly Vancouver ~ Kam- loops - Calgary and another to extend its present service to Pt. Hardy, on Vancouver Island, to Sandspit and Prince Rupert, REGIONAL LINE Pacific Western was recently designated the regional carrier for Western Canada, Officials feels that the Kam- loops - Calgary service would be most beneficial for travellers across Central B.c. wishing to fly to eastern Canada, since it would eliminate the needfor them to fly west to Vancouver before going east, The airline wotild use the Boe- ing 737 jet now being built for it on the Vancouver « Kamloops~ Calgary run, while Convair Jave= lin jet-props woluld handle the other routes, SERVE REGION The compnay sees the new routes as consolidating its in= terest in the, region it has been serving almost since the Incep= tion of the Peace Power project. The airlines operated on con= tract with B.C. Hydro initially aml then began a regular sched-|" ° uled operation in January 1965, From then until the end of August this year PWA flew 27,— 145 passengers and carried 303,- 000 pounds of freight to the dam site. : ‘PEAK YEARS The two peak years were 1966 and 1967, when more than 10,- 000 passengers were carried|.. each year.-In 1966 PWA flew in 244,000 pounds of freight, and in 1967. 282,000 pounds, . BC, Hydro built the airport and PWA. Installed radio navi= gational aids that allowed the pilots to operate on instrument regulations. There were no accidents dur- ing the entire period, “JET PROPS Initially, service was provided by DC-3s, which were ‘replaced first by DC-6s and finally by Javelins, the jet-prop version of the Convair which made the |] trip between Vancouver and Hud-|- son Hope in two hours 15 min- utes, ° During the peak period, ser= vice was five times weekly, It has now been reduced to twice a week and wil! terminate Oct, 25. STARTED HERE * Serving the north-central area of B.C, is nothing to PWa, for it was started in the region. .PWA traces ‘its origins back to Central British Columbia Air- ways, formed in Fort St, James in 1946, The name was changed in 1953 and anumber of other air- jines were absorbed, The company went public in 1956 and now has about 1400 shareholders, almost all of them in Western Canada. The company has extensive operations in the Northwest Ter- ritories, where it was the prime carrier during construction o: the western end of the D, E, W, Duncan. Island To Share in — Peace Power Boom by GEORGE A. GUNSTON Publisher, Cowichan Leader DUNCAN — There is an air of expectancy and excitément among British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority engineers and staff on Vancouver Island, Expeetancy and = speculation arises from promise ofa power boost when Peace River energy is unleashed, : This inereased ower will merge with electricity flowing _from Mainland to Vancouver Is- Jand through B.C, Hydro’s ex- dsting submarine cable trans- mission system, - D.C. LINK Exeltement has mounted in conjunction with progressonB,C, Hydro’s high voltage direct current inter-comnection be- tweén the lower mainland and Vancouver Island, Focal point for the Island's direct current development centres on continuing construc- tion at the terminal station four miles north of Duncan, As an authorized — visitor I was soon caught up in a web) ie Bae = Earlier this month B.C. Hydro work teams installed first of two synchronous condenser units to be piaced in service at Vancouver Island terminal station four miles north of of transformers, synchronous| in their work, talked a language - condensers, reactors, harmonic filter banks, capacitors and the like, . Hard-hatted engineers, ob- viously with an intense interest va tyes 23 GUNSTON New Power System “‘Electrifies ” Potential fo by GARY N. WHITE Smithers Interior News ‘SMITHERS — Peace Power, ‘The very words conjour up vie sions of extensive Industrial de- velopment, progress and better- ment, and rightly so," .. Don't be disappointed though if the Lights fail to burn any brigh- ter. Don’t expect factories and industrial complexes to mater- lalize from nowhere, * To most of us, the advent of Peace power willhave litile more Impact than the appearance of this very supplement you are reading, You will think about it, and very quickly it will leave your mind, You won’t forget about it though, ot - Peace power will require long years to bring about the mani- fold benefits it holds in store, Many results are underway al- ready, with very little fanfare. The developers of the mylb- denum mine at.Endako knew it was coming, They had to have Bridge River power in’ the In- terim, and now the Peace will enable the system to handle the inereasing demand. : Those who planned the opera- tions and community at Granisle will have taken dts coming into Line. 4 oy consideration, You can be sure that the availability of Peace power plays an important part in the planning of the huge Bulk- ley Valley Pulpand Timber forest utilization project which is de- veloping at Houston. -Peace power is a factor in the deliberations of numerous major development corporations who are even now studying the poten- tlals. of the Bulkley Valley and other areas of West CentralB.C, But, Peace power is nota mir~ acle, or .a transformation near- Iy tled up with a string, It ts opportunity, Opportunity extend- ing throughout the north country on thin strands of wire. It isgreat opportunity, ' No,.the lights won't burn any brighter, but the entire north wil] be electrified with potential, The opportunity has been brought inta being; those withambition, vision and courage will be the ones who will do the things that will spark the development. With develop- ment will come thegrowth and the prosper ily, Perhaps, as these things come about, we may yet see the lights appear to glow a little more brightly in West Central B.C, ___ Peter Kiewit Sons Company of Canada Ltd., Dawson Construction Limited 0, of Canada Lid., difficult for a layman to under- stand, : : But even a layman could sense indisputable ‘evidence of | progressive activity towards J serving Vancouver Island con= sumers with maximum eleciric } power, . ; Anew terminal building sec- § tion neared completion; work teams were assembling a new synchronous condenser withal- 4 lied equipment recently import- @ ed from Japan; new direct cur- & rent robot type reactor-re- sistor units e#linted in the sun; j and several acres of land were cleared ready for expansion, INTEGRATED e The might of Peace River farce ' to burst from the mammoth WAC. Bennett Dam will reach Bg Vancouver ' Island through an integrated system, , ; Kt will materially augment Is- @ land = electric power and mean & greater source and security 3 of power for industrial, com- JM mercial and residential ac- 3am tivity, ‘ 7 Number of customers on the im Vancouver [sland region in-\Ri™ creased by 5,249 or 4,4 perm cent for the year ended March] 31, 1968, NEW LINES — A total of 116 miles of new gig distribution lines were placed in service on the Island in th Bag same year, i On Vancouver Island, electriciy heating is being installed injay about 20 percent of the new Ei houses and 50 per cent of new.aag motels, apartments, office build-.3 ings and schools, + district, In Duncan power ; eovering the area bounded | by North Cowichan, Duncan, & Mill Bay, Gulf Islands and:@ Shawnigan, electric power load @ growth has doubled in the past @% five years, ‘7 Duncan district alonehas con-‘9m tributed. a 5,6 per cent customer increase for B,C, Hydro ln thew last 12 months, oc, fh - EYE FUTURE H Introduction of Peace River‘ Power into Vancouver Island's iag system will benefit ‘thousands Si of Workers involved in industry am and commerce where electicity i: aa used, ‘ ‘- At Crofton, nearly 1,000 work-: ers, paid annually $8 1/4 mil lion, will gain added security fort themselves and their familles: as Business controllers, with o1' e eye ta the future, will more con‘ iim tidently expand, safe in thé knowledge that the oncetrouble! some problem of enough electr iv am power has been brought ta heel: a