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, 1970

SAANICH PE

SNINSULA AND GULF ISLANDS REVIEW

PAGE THREE-

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75-Ton Ketch, Helps Mark Birthday

The mood is festive as North
America’s oldest corporation
celebrates its 300th anniversary.

The Governor and Company oi
Adventurers of England trading
into Hudson’s Bay, has emerged
in 300th anniversary finery
Hlustrated by Ronald Searle,
creator of that infernal English
girls’ school, St. Trinian's, and
illustrator of many films in.
cluding “Those Magnificent Men
in Their Flying Machines.”

Searle’s. irreverent cartoons.
including a whimsical in.
lerpretation. of the Cornpany’s
famous: coat-of-arms, decorate
posters, banners; shopping bags
and other display. materials for
use throughout the Company’s
stores in 1970.

‘The drawings are from a forth.
coming book, ‘‘The Great Fur
Opera,’’ a ‘‘backstairs”’ view. of
Company history on which Searle
collaborated with Kildare Dobbs,
Toronto writer, editor, essayist
and television. personality. The
book will be released in May by
McClelland and Stewart. Limited.

The Bay has also announced
-other. intriguing, festive and
thoroughly
projects to celebrate its third
centennial.

contemporary -

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With more than forty bocks
and films to his credit, Ronald
Searle takes an amused look
at the Hudson's Bay Company
Coat ef Arms. This is one of
more than 50 drawings ap-
pearing in the new whimsical
backstairs history of Hudson’s
Bay Company ‘The Great Fur
Opera’.

One of the most unusual
projects has. been the building of
a full sized replica of the 75-ton
ketch ‘‘Nonsuch’’ which made, in
1668, the historic voyage to the

“new world’’, the result of which »

BY SHIRLEY TOMSETT

Cubs and ‘scouts will hold a

bottle drive in Sidney on Satur-
day next. Ted Robinson reports’
that. we’ lost about 150° dozen”
bottles in the fire at the shed on.
February 27. We just couldn't
_ afford that loss; so won’t you’
please clean out your corners and —
-. put out any pop and beer bottles -
oo you: may have for us. Someway -
Swe! ve Just got t to pay for'o our. new :
Chall:

How - about a big work ‘party

“McLAR EY.
2k. cu. ft.

or

FI UIGIDAIRE | .

REG? 282.75

AUTOMATIC DISHWASHER’
eee - Now: 199:95

“this’ week-end? We want Dads

and any other willing hands in the
community to know that we have
high hopes. of lowering the
building onto its foundations.
There will be a clean-up where
our cubs and scouts go camping

at camp Barnard.on Saturday, .

April 11. Please . bring saws,
shovels, axes and hammers, ‘and

a pick-up truck if you have one,
: but please t no 08s: and makeé a

was the opening of Western
Canada to commerce.

Built in England the ship will
visit ports along the St. Lawrence
Seaway and the Great Lakes in
1970 and eventually be taken. to
Winnipeg to form the nucleus of a
transportation section in the
Manitoba Museum of Man and
Nature. She was loaded on board
a freighter last .week for a
“Piggy-back’’ trip across the
Atlantic.

Christopher. Chapman, well
known Toronto film maker, has
been hard at work for almost two
years producing and. directing a
film on the relationship. of .the
Company and the fur trade to the
development of Canada. The film
will be. premiered before Com-
pany staff on May 2 and later
released for television and
theatre use.

Chapman’s films
‘Quetico,” “Essay in Film,”
“Persistent Seed,’’ ‘‘Saguenay”
and the Academy Award winning
movie ‘‘A Place to Stand’”’ which,
showing at.the Ontario Pavilion
became one of the feature
exhibits of Expo ‘67.

For several centuries Hudson’s
Bay. Company -has.. featured
“medals on special occasions. This
anniversary is:no exception.

medal by Dora de Pendery-Hunt
of Toronto is as new as tomorrow.
It features the “‘Nonsuch”’ on one
side and the coat-of-arms on the
other.
“There will be many other at-
tractions of interest to customers
and | public. Store-wide
promotions, major. sales events

merchandise will all playa part
-in’ making...1970." a “year... to

Company | moves. into. ‘its fourth:

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century

| _ SPANISH. |

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23" B & W DEL UXE. TV,
NOW 249.9
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4 PEED. ee . - ee a of ae
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! ; with trade | ‘BY RISER - REG. 640.00
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WITH: COIL SPRING CONSTRUCTION

VINYL: DROP. BACK

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* CARTRIDGE TAPES:
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20 PERCENT DISCOUNT

included .

However, the design for the. 1970.

and-unusual: commemorative.

remember as the Hudson's Bay | month periods. of gestation.

Door Prize i
“Pop & Balloons for the kiddies

trading voyage to Hudson’s ‘Bay in
1668, returning the following summer
with the first cargo of beaver. skins.
-The result of this event was a founding
of the Hudson’ S. Bay Company. _

REPLICA OF THE NONSUCH built by
the Hudson’s: Bay Company to com-
memorate its 300th anniversary, has
been shipped to Canada from England.
The original ketch made a successful

Busy, Busy Ewe Has Six lambs In 15 Months
A sheep owned - by Mrs. Ron gave birth to twin lambs, the first
Evans of 1615 McTavish Road is. time that Mrs.. Evans had. known.
competing bravely in the fertility “more thana single birth by one of -/
stakes, and allowing herself little _her ewes. The following Sep-.
respite between the normal: five- tember a single black lamb was
: produced by. the ewe,. and this —
“week she brought forth triplets;

to the delight of the-whole family.

= “Mrs. Evans has two girls, 12
and nine years of age and a boy of.
six who are taking great interest

“in the. Easter - lambs. Never
before has one of the six sheep i in
the. flock produced other. than a a
single lamb in a-year.

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APRIL 2nd. “APRIL 11th.

: Sunday April 5th 10a. m.-5p.m.

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Files of the Review

50 YEARS AGO

‘been endorsed by a number of

Lumber Co. Ltd. added a cement

--given voluntarily by the people of

~having received

. facing the new entrant into public

: chairman.

The council of the Board of
Trade is in receipt of information
that there is a movement.on foot
to establish a ferry between Mill
Bay and Deep Bay, thus enabling
those: who wish to travel to
Duncan or other places up the
Island to eliminate the drive over’
the Malahat. This movement has

Boards of Trade in.the upper part
of the Island.
25 YEARS AGO —
_A notable local improvement
“was accomplished this week
when Mitchell and Anderson

sidewalk on the front and side of
their building on Beacon Ave.
Ample space was left for growth
of the ornamental trees in front of
the. structure.

The equipment of. Sidney
Volunteer Fire. Brigade which
‘serves the entire area of North
Saanich is kept in good working.
order. through the contributions

North Saanich... Members. ‘are
thoroughly trained and efficient,
instruction
through the kindness of the fire
departments of. Victoria. and
~ Saanich.

10 YEARS AGO :

There are. two major. problems

affairs, said Dr. C.H: Hemmings,
-chairman. of Sidney | village
council in: his address. to‘ Sidney.
‘Rotary. Club on Wednesday. “The
. first problem is to say ‘no’ when
asked to. enter public life, the:
“second is to get elected after
failing to say ‘no’,’ ” ‘he remarked.
oq truly believe v we are trying to
- build ‘a ‘new: Eton here,” said
Conservative provincial: can-
- didate:V.E. ‘Virgin at the meeting”
of the Central. Saanich. Chamber:

BEACON AV ENU E
PRICES EFFECTIVE

April 2,8, 4°;

We. reserve the right
to limit quantities

STORE HOURS:
Monday to Saturday
8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m,
Friday 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. |

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a KINSMEN THANKED
‘A letter of appreciation: to:
" Kinsrnen ‘Club for’ re-location : of
the - ‘Playground equipment ‘at
- Tulista Park was read. by:
{municipal clerk: Geoff. Logan at
: Sidney. council meeting, ‘The:
“Jetter was - "signed iby | ‘five
_ residents and was addressed. to,
Peter: ‘Deck, Tulista _ Project

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