TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1971

A BiG BOOST for Terrace Minor Baseball comes
in the form of a $680 cheque from the Terrace

bingo.

Elks Club. The money was raised at a recent
Presenting the cheque to Mrs. Joan

Clifford, secretary-treasurer of the league, is
Tom Kenna of the Elks—-staif photo.

In 1971, we can fly to eastern
Canada ‘in four or five- hours
from. British Columbia in
comfort every minute; but a
hundred years ago it "took a

_ good amount of determination
and ability to ignore
discomfort to cross the con-
tinent.

What was then Canada
ended in western Ontario, and
though there was a small box-
shaped part of Canada in what
is now southern Manitoba,
most of the continent north of
the 49th parallel was in
splendid isolation.

Nowhere was the isolation
more pronounced than on the
western coast, in a
widespread, thinly- populated
colony dignified by the name
British Columbia. To com-
pound the remoteness the
capital of the colony itself was
on the southern tip of an
island; detached from‘ the
larger part of the colony by
the Gulf of Georgia.

3-MONTH TRIP

A Mr. E. Jessop of Oshawa,
Ontario made a three-month
trip te British Columbia and a
Teport of his trip in his local
newspaper in February 1871,
told of an eleven-day journey
from B.C. and added, ‘He
gives no flattering account of
the country, and advises
Canadians to stay home.”

After that smug slight, the
article explained: ‘Victoria in
1884 contained seven-thousand
inhabitants, and. today
numbers less than three, and

' regularly--perhaps

Top judges picked
for music festival

Four adjudicators have been
named for the Terrace Music
Festival which starts here
March 16.

They are C. Howard Denike,
Phyllis Schuldt, Glyndwr Jones
and Audry M, Mellors.

All except Mrs. Mellors were

New head
for fish
and wildlife

The transfer of Regional
Protection Officer Joseph P.A.
Gibault to the newly-created
position of co-ordinator of
Buiding services for the
provincial Fish and Wildlife
Branch is announced by W.K.

Kiernan, Minister of Recreation

and Conservation.

In his new position Gibault
will be responsible for co-
ordination of guiding services
throughout British Columbia.
He will work ciosely with
regional supervisors and field
staff of the Fish and Wildlife
Branch, guides and guides’
associations.

He is married with two sons
and will make his home in
Victoria in the near future.

Creations Brigitte

judges last year.

Denike is director of Reynolds
Secondary Band, Victeria and
the University of Victoria
Concert Band. He is also a
former member of the Victoria
Symphony and teaches at the
Victoria Conservatory of Music.

ROYAL COLLEGE

Mrs. Schuldt, a native of
London, England, came, to
Canada as a child. She attended
the Royal College of Music,
London, as a_ scholarship
student.

After returning to Canada,
she has done some solo work but
specializes in ensemble music,
concentrating on the four hand
piano literature.

She is presently a member of
the University of British
Columbia music faculty,

teaching piano.

In addition, Mrs. Schuldt has
been an adjudicator at music
festivals in British Columbia,
Alberta and the U.S, for the past
15.years.

TOURED USS.

A third adjudicator, Glyndwr
Jones, achieved distinction at
the Royal Academy of Music,
London, England. He toured
the U.S, as baritone soloist in
company of Madam Jeanette
Christie of the Chicago Grand
Opera.

He has appeared as soloist at
Queen’s Hall, London, under the
baton of conductor Sir Henry
Wood. He also appeared as a
soloist wilh the London Sym-
phony Orchestra.

Anew adjudicator this year is
Audry Mellors who will judge

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speech arls. She holds dual
teacher-performer degree from
the London Academy of Arts as
well as a Gold Metal from that
academy.

At the present time, Mrs.
Mellors has her own studio for
private students and for the
past four years has been
Director of Drama for Marian
High Sehool in New West-
minster. : :

She has had wide experience
in drama, choral work, mime,
poetry, plays, public speaking,
and remedial work.

Music Fest picks officials

Bill Young is the new
chairman for the 1972 Terrace
Music Festival Association.

Other new officers include:
Nelson Gillis, vice-chairman;

’ Mrs, Edna Sheridan, secretary
and Mrs. Margrit Christie,.

treasurer.
The association will meet at §

p.m. Tuesday March 9, in St.
Matthew’s Church basement.

The public is welcome.

Complained the wife: “You
love football more than you
love me.’ Replied the
husband: ‘Yeah, but I love .
you more than I love
basketball.”

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in no respect is‘it as fine a

looking town as Oshawa.” .
- Today, Victoiria’s 189,000

residents could be excused for

‘taking exception to such . a

statement, —

The capital city a hundred
years ago took pride in its
macadamized streets and
gaslit sidewalks, but the
colony's public school system
had closed down in September
of 1870 for lack of funds,

_ BUSY PORT
Ships arrived in B.C.

reguarly for a New West-
minister. merchant who ad-
vertised having received a
large shipment of winter
clothing from Liverpool and
San Francisco, and five days

‘ later, on February 23, 1871

following the arrival of a ship
from London, was offering “a
large assortment of the
newest spring and summer
goods.”

The people of B.C. were also
implored to buy medicines
that were apparently nearly
magical. One such hostrum
addressed itself to ‘‘The
Nervous and Disabled, whose
sufferings have been
protracted from Hidden
Causes and whose Cases
require prompt Treatment to
make Existence Desirable.”’

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