PAGE 24, THE HERALD, Wednesday, September 1, 1976. — PROGRESS EDITION

TERRACE -

a . TERMINAL city To A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR FOREST INDUSTRY |

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_ Forestry - Mining ©
_ Backbone of economy

Before the turn of the the ground, and farmed the
century, native Indians used benchlands and the village
to meet in a pleasant valley of Terrace began. .
at the confluence of the ~
mighty Skeena and lesser ‘, Today,. sport fishermen

Pres

. A _.-... Kitsumkalum rivers: They’ have replaced the Indians
ne -- traded and rested and some With their spears, modern
me . . strayed to settle on the . steel and concrete bridges

ys -- fertile bottom lands close to span the route of the river
% ; the waterways’ which ' beats, and homes and in-

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ne .-* provided transportation and - dustry ‘are encroaching on,
. me the all-important salmon the early settlers fields. But
. fishery. Later, settlers the lumber and minerals
vs = .wzakrived on their way from that first attracted men to
" “the coast at Port Essington, the area still remain and
* and soon river boats plied form the economic back-
ihe Skeena, men cut the bone of the District.
towering cedar trees, mined Municipality of Terrace. .