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here are no great mone
uments standing -i

~ community parks, no.
. streets or avenues that bear his.
“fame, no day set aside to
‘honor one of the greatest Cana-
dians to fight in the First World .
War. But.Cyrus Wesley. Peck:

“— better known to family and:
_ friends as ‘Cy’ — was by all
_ Measures ahero: »

‘The trouble is, as s the people
“who lived in and around. the.
~ Peninsula who knew him grow
older. and die, Cy’s story i is Ay.

BC hee oe say:
- they i are not ‘happy: with a pro- ©
f th

BE in 1871 on ee
to the n northern West Coast i in.

16th Canadian Scottish’ Battal-
ion where, his son Edward told -
- The Review, he showed: his
“<) troops: what: true leadership "
was all about. .:

“He was almost worshipped
by his men — because he was
the kind of man who would ©
never ask them to do some- .

thing he wasn't willing to do.
himself. He led by example,‘
and he was almost legendary
in terms of his courage,” Ed-
ward shared from his Vancou-
ver home last week.

A bear of a man, Cy stood |
broad. across. the: shoulders a.
and could look very forebod-
ing when standing with his .
huge forearms crossed over
his. barrel-like chest. But he
was soft spoken and not one lo
waste words, ~

“When he did have some-.
“thing to sity, it was worth fis-
Aening to,” Edward said, -

Cy was legendary amongst Were eo RS TRS i
the troops, but his true test of German position atop. a hill thal Brits sh Army forces and

bérland to Saturna Island a
~The: proposal came ‘from ©
‘the Gulf Island stakeholders |
committee, and. will go ‘to. the
“BC Ferries board.
“Glen Brown, eietitie vice
president of. InterIsland Ser-"
“Vices; said the change would:
- be disruptive to some Ferries
personnel at Swartz Bay, but
“the proposed service is ex-
‘pected to be more economic:
and provide better:service to.
customers, ‘There. is. no. ex-
“pected change in the number’
"of employees. He put the early
savings.estimates at between
$1 million and $1.5 million. |
But a number of BC Ferries.
staff are voicing their objec-
tions .about. the proposed |
change
In an open letter to Curtis
Eaton, chair of the board for
BC Ferries, Dave Peck, sea. -- - ;
-manon: the’ Motor. Vessel,

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would need to succeed. Yueen, obj 3
‘courage came on the day that known as Vimy Ridge. * the French had failed (o defeat All four Canadian troops” Cy then led his men into bat: Mn ST ae tedlolie
Canada, first became recog: There, in the pre-dawn of over several months and ala were assembled together for le— advaticing his trooptothe crew members do not want to
“nized asanation, ~ Raster Monday, April 9, 1917, ; “high cost of lives, ~ the first time as an indomitable - mournful sound of Scottish move, and it would not be eco
“Lt Colonel Cyrus Peck led. Canadian soldiers launched an Prior. to. the attack,’ Cy force under the leadership.of — pipes carrying: out over. the .

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