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Jamie Greenwood

_ Jamie Greenwood has a

really busy summer planned.
First it’s a trip to Vancouver
to visit grandma and then
visits to Surrey and

“Squamish to see some
cousins before returning to
Terrace. The next day, says
Jamie, plans call for a trip to
Prince George, Edmonton to
see the mall, Calgary to visit
grandma and grandpa and
finally Drumheller to see the
dinosaur bones.

Jaymon Brouwer

Jaymon Brouwer is head-
ed for a visit to the Edmon-
‘ton. Mall via Dawson Creek
before going to the lower
‘mainiand to visit some
friends.

_» Howare yougoing >
to spend your summer _
| holiday?

Chris Woodword

Chris Woodword Is headed
for a soccer tournament in
Quesne}! this Friday. Chris
plays for Skeena Sawmills in
the under 10 division of Ter-
race Youth Soccer and he
says the trip to Quesnel will
be the highlight of his sum-
mer. -

Terry Gent

Terry Gent is going to visit
his uncle in Estevan. Terry
says he likes the farm
because he enjoys playing
with the animals.

Jeremy Bliberdorf

Jeremy Biberdorf is going
to spend a few weeks in Van-
couver with friends, but most
of his time will be spent right
here In sunny Terrace.

Chance Healey

Chance Healey is going to
stick around Terrace
because that’s where you
can have the best fun. He
says the best place to play Is
down by the river.

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To the Editor;

Letters’

To the Editor;

I wonder how. many people
living in the Thornhill area are
aware that the area was named
after the first white man to settle
along the Skeena between tide-
water and the Big (Kitselas) Can-
yon, I have ‘known a lot of the
Thornhill story for years, and

.. have lately been trying to fill in
- some of the blanks.

_.»-Thomas. Job Thornhill was
. born:in England in 1855 and
- Came out to Victoria with his

parents in 1858. He was the
oldest of three brothers, and we
have no record of what happen-

ed to them. When he grew up

(now quoting George Little) he
became a blacksmith, operating
a business in the Fraser Valley.
Here he met Eliza, sister to a
Kitselas native chief, who was
well known in the early days in
this area as Walter Wright. Liza,
like many other native people,
went to the Port Essington area’
at the mouth of the Skeena every

Democracy
in. danger

Last week’s turn of events in
the legislature took most people
by surprise..I was not among
that group. It was only a matter
of time before even a-Cabinet
member would be unable to
stomach what is taking place in
British Columbia. Perhaps
Brian Smith will not be the last.
- The fundamental cause of the
former Attorney General’s

resignation from Cabinet was.

his fear of the Premier destroy-
ing the independence of the of-
fice of the Attorney General, as
he so cleverly has done with
MLA’s through so-called
‘regionalization’. Actions by
Vander Zalm during his few
short months as Premier of this
province have placed our
democratic constitution at risk.

When ‘regionalization’ and
‘privatization’ were first born, I
warned of consolidation of

. power by the Premier’s office...

of the hint of totalitarian rule.
The move by Brian Smith cer-
tainly confirms in my mind that
this consolidation is becoming
even more of a reality. It’s one
thing to usurp the powers of du-
ly elected representatives, but
it’s another to seek to undermine
the independence and neutrality
of the office of the Attorney
General,

It is absolutely ironic that the
front page of a recent newspaper
printed the Brian Smith story
side by side with Mikhail Gor-
bachev’s address to the first
Communist Party conference, in
which he called for ‘democracy
now”, I believe we in British
Columbia should be calling for a
little of the same. Don’t you?

Sack J. Kempf, MLA
ann -Omineca.

Filling the blanks —
in Thornhill history.

fall t to work in the fish canneries;
and it appears that, after the
canning season ended, many
natives were taken down to.the

Fraser Valley to pick hops, Here , oe

Eliza and Tom met and were
married, and Tom came back

with her, as close as we can —
figure, in the spring of 1892. He
built his log cabin along. what is ©

now Queensway, about halfway
between the two bridges which
now span the Skeena. It was in

1892 that the Hudson's Bay. . /

Company made their first suc-
cessful attempts to organize
regular summer boat service be-
tween the coast and Hazelton.
Tom wasn’t a robust man, he

suffered severely from bron-
chitis, and could do no hard
work for any lengthy period. He
did, however, clear enough land

to have a nice vegetable garden, ©

with a few fruit trees, anda love-
ly flower garden — likely learn-
ed from his father, who was a

gardener in Victoria. He also .
likely cut a bit of cordwood for ©

the steamboats, that had made
his waterfront one of their
scheduled stops, just before.
pushing up through the canyon.
When my father, as a young
man, came into the area to trap,
in the fall of 1893, he found
Thornhill well established, and
spent a good deal of his time
there during the winters. He also
found that Eliza had established
a trapline south in the valley,
taking in what the oldtimers call-
ed Eliza Creek. Some outsider,
with no knowledge or considera-
tion of the early hisotry of the
area renamed this creek Sockeye
Creek, and I have been waging a
running battle with the govern-
ment over this for years. | would
like to see some Thornhill
group, such as the Thornhill
high school students, put
pressure on the government to
recognize the importance of

preserving historic names, For _

details, phone or call on me.
Thornhill Creek was the first
landmark named after this early
settler, then Thornhill moun-

tain, and now, of course, the ~

Thornhill area, and so many in-
stitutions in the area bear the
name Thornhill.

Eliza died suddenly from a.

heart attack in 1907, and Tom
Thornhill passed away in July,
1910, in the Prince Rupert
hospital. I do not know where
either was buried.

I pass on all this information
believing that there must be
residents of the Thornhill area
who would support the idea of

erecting a cairn or memorial .

stone in his memory. | can still

give the location of his log cabin ~ oe

within a few feet,

F. Frank -
_ Terrace

Editor's s ‘note: Anyone having -
information they wish to pass
along to Mr. Frank can contact _-

him at P.O. Box 325, Terr
B. C. ‘V8G 4Bl. _

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