THE BRITISH COLUMBIA SEPTEMBER, 1968 Runner

PUBLISH ~ D BY THE DEPARTMENT O F H lG WAYS VOLUME 5, N UMBER 3 BRITISH COLUMBIA'S FERRIES

COVER PHOTO Aerial view of Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal after the completion of Phase I of the reconstruction of the terminal. The new berth is on the left with its starboard dolphins braced directly back to the rock cliffs. This berth was con­ structed specifically for the Sunshine Coast Queen, which has recently become the mainstay of the Horseshoe Bay­ Langdale run. Behind the new berth is the two-level holding compound and its access ramps. Traffic bound for Langdale uses the upper compound, and N anaimo and Bowen Island traffic use the lower compound. In the background are the new park­ ing lots-one for public parking and one for crew parking-and the outside hold­ ing lanes, which will help prevent line­ ups on the highway during rush periods. In the planning stage for Phase II of the reconstruction is the rebuilding of the two original berths, extension of the two­ level holding compound, construction of an administration building, stores build­ ing, waiting-room, and foot-passenger loading facilities.

Courageous seaman, Clifford Carey, 21, received recognttton when the Honourable Wesley Black, Minister of Highways, and Mr. F. M. Aldous, General Manager of the British Columbia Ferries, presented the Royal Humane Society certificate for saving the life of a woman who fell overboard from the M. V. Queen of Victoria in March of this year. Seaman Carey swam from the lifeboat when a request for volunteers was made by the officer in charge.

The mail must go on! Mrs. Anne Hunter, left, and Miss Gail Dennison, British Columbia Ferries, Head Office, It's a long way down! "A" Watch, MY. Queen of Saanich, on lifeboat drill at sit proudly gazing at 17 mail bags, the Swartz Bay. day's work. 2 THE ROAD·RUNNER

Volume 5 September, 1968 Number 3

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Published Quarterly by th e British Columbia Department of Highways Victoria, British Columbia Ray Baine s, Executive Editor Arthur J. Schindel, Editor

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Associate Field Editors

This issue the editors of the Road Runner welcome A. R. Lirnacher Victoria the employees of the British Columbia Ferries Division Bill Ingram Victoria to its pages and its subscription list. N ow part of the D epartment of Highways, the ferry organi zation has Jim Winton North Vancouver nearly 2,000 em ployees at peak periods, 1,560 working Dave Wardell Burn side th e ships and 430 on shore. It has grown in a few years from a small service to a major system . It has carried J. W. Morris., Nanaimo some 20,000 ,000 passengers and 8,000,000 veh icles since M. Butler Courtenay 1962. G ood crews and shore personnel have helped this ph enomenal growth through difficult periods. Traffic Jim Harris Bridge Maintenance volumes are still increasin g and the problems of almost W. I. N. Higgins North Vancouver continual growth are still with us. But the records show we have a staff that can handle th em and we hope to Lloyd Burgess New Westminster see m ore of its members and the ir work in th ese pages. G. M. Vance ChilIiwack WESL EY D. BLACK, Minister. Jim Ferrier Kamloops Edie Smith ._. WilIiams Lake Murray Ramsay Salmon Arm The RR welcomes personnel of the British Columbia Dave Bowman Revelstoke Ferries to its pages this issue. The well-known service Al Desimone Vernon has grown rapidly since 1960 to a major ferry service with Fred Evans Kelowna 19 ships and 21 termin als. The winter strength is 400 Pete Fuoco Penticton on-shore personnel and 1,200 on the ships. During the Jim Chenoweth Merritt summer this is expanded to 430 on shore and 1,560 on Dave Roberts Lillooet the ships. Dorothy Wilkins . Grand Forks R. E. McKeown _._...... Rossland S. J. D ixey .. Nelson Fred Angrignon New Denver Irene Labelle Creston N . Molander Cranbrook Sam Caravetta Fernie John Edgar . Golden Steve Sviatko Smithers C. Bart sch Pouce Coupe Pat Tondevold Fort St. John Homer Good Terrace E. A. Beaumont Prince George Fred Bradley Prince George Jack Doddridge Prince George R. Stephenson Quesnel George Harper Vanderhoof H . R. Walke r.. . Burns Lake E. Lund Prince Rupert

3 "EXTRACURRICULAR" ACTIVITIES

Department Headquarters bowling team (left to right, back row-George Wagg, Jim Holmes, and Bill Ingram; front row -Herta Wagg, Betty Ingram, and Hilda Dewar) won the play-off of a 3D-night schedule of th e Victoria, British Colum­ bia, Go vernment Em ployees Bowling League, Second place was won by an­ other Highw ay team from the Location Peter Gelin, a Design Engineer with the Bridge Engineering Branch , enjoying a vi sit Bran ch consisting of Jim Camb rey ,George to Egy pt. In the background to the right is Ch eop's Pyramid and , left, the great Sphinx. and M onica Day, Cliff Ramsay, and Bob In eluded in Peter's vacation itin erary were Turkey, Italy, Spain, Portugal, M orocco, Standen. Holland, and England . Languages were no probl em as he speaks five. Born in Caucasus, Russia, he later graduated from the University of Belgrade. A ft er leaving Europe he practised structural engineering in Bu enos Aires, Argentina, where much of his work inv olved the designin g of earthquake-resistant buildings. Th e first timber thin- shelled roofs in America were designed by him and built for the Indus­ trial Exhibition in Buenos Aires. He arriv ed in Canada in 1953 and work ed for the University of Toronto, wh ere he designed an ex perimental m odel of a concrete shell roof structure. Peter joined the Department in December, 1959. His hobb ies are travelling and good music.

Lige Gurr is pictured here with a 43­ pound salmon he pulled out of the Bella Coola River last fall. Lige was Senior Foreman in the Williams Lake District for many years and was transferred in March to the Dock District, out of the New Westminster Highways District. He is now a Sto ckman in that district.

0(;{ 0(;{ 0(;{ Apparently everyone is taking to the skies these days. David Benoit, Fore­ man at Anahim Lake, has just purchased a Piper Aircraft 11 two -seater. 0(;{ 0(;{ 0(;{ For Vern on F oreman Jack A mies, a trip of a lifetime. Jack and Margaret Marie Sheldon, Clerk -Steno in the Wil­ Amics have just completed a five-week liams Lake Office, has a hobby that really trip to Europe, where they touched such pays. She recently won $350 at a local countries as En gland, Belgium, France, bingo game. f: 0(;{ 0(;{ Italy, Germany, Holland, Austria, and Iceland. Jack and Margaret at their Wh en Wayne Randell, District Engi­ Bill Fowler and his wife, "Winnie," beautiful home overlooking Lake Kala­ neer, R evelstoke, was transferred to have just returned from a holiday in the malka and the Coldstream Valley. Th ey Prin ce George, two paintings by a local British Isles. Bill, a long-time employee have a family of four daughters and one artist were presented to Wayne and his of the Department, is a Machine Oper­ son. wife Shirley by employees of the district. ator in the Lillooet District. 4 PEEK INTO THE PAST Paving Today

This is th e Lilley Bridge on th e Can im L ake R oad 3 miles east of Forest Grov e. Th e Pav ing Branch inspector Jim Taylor giv es Trucker R eid White a tick et! picture was probabl y tak en around 192 I . Department is (1/ present tim e reconstructing th e road around this bridg e and building a new Lilley Bridge.

Pav ing Bran ch Inspector Jim Ta ylor ch eck s th e " pull " on Project S-0267­ Gold River Road. Pavin g in th e goo d old day s. Notice the dapp er forem an standing in the background with a suit on.

The Lake Cowichan crew on a pave­ m ent patching operation on the South Shore Road, Lake Cowichan; left to Th ought to be the Kamloops District Patchin g Crew in th e late l 920'.1'. Beats patch­ right, John Buskey, Robert SCOII, Ge orge holes, doesn't it? For vintage car buffs would that be a Star ? Holman. 5 NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE

On August 20th the Kalum River Bridge on Highway 16 caught fire around 5 p.m., apparently from a cigarette dropped into the pier. The Terrace Fire Department had to cut several openings into the bridge deck, left, to reach the flames under the bridge . Bob Hale, Terrace Bridge Foreman, right, and his crew did the repair work.

The Camp Creek Slide, Wednesday, June 5,1968, which took the lives of four persons and blocked the road between Salmon Arm and Revelstoke for 72 hours. Thousands of tons of mud and debris to a depth of 15 feet were washed down, covering the highway for a distance of 600 feet. District Engineer Herb Coupe (foreground in hard hat) New radio satellite recently installed views the slide. Crews from both ends of the slide worked from dawn to dusk to get on Dunn Peak for radio communication the highway open for traffic. on the North Thompson Highway by Kamloops District Bridge Crew and two technicians from Headquarters. The nose-cone type of shell fabricated from fibreglass is 30 feet long, has a maximum diameter of 7 feet, and weighs 650 pounds. Both the transmitter and an­ tenna are housed inside . The satellite operates on batteries which need servic­ ing every three years.

The new Taylor River Bridge under construction alongside the Bailey bridge on the Alberni-Tofino Highway. Arnold Glover, Bridge Foreman, Nanaimo, is in charge of the crew under the supervision of Bill Bos, District Technician, Port Alberni. 6 Seismic Survey AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE

Pride of Department's air transport fleet, sleek Turbo-Beech lifts nose wheel of] during take-off at Victoria's Patricia Bay Airport. Plane was converted from a basic Beechcra]t 18 airframe by Department aircraft mechanics under direction of Hugh Thomas. Crews installed PT6 turbine engines, new tail assembly, tricycle landing gear, new radio and navigation equipment, and new interior.

Use of the refraction seismic survey is the latest technique employed by the De­ partment to obtain data about sub-sur­ face ground conditions. Lome Johnson, top, from the Materials Testing Branch, prepares portable seismograph for test Chief Pilot T. B. (" Bert") Toye, left, at the controls of the Turbo-Beech. Bert, who shot. A small explosive is detonated has logged many thousands of hours during a long flying career, heads a complement of electrically in the ground, and the result­ 8 pilots employed by the Department. Dispatcher and Link Trainer Instructor H. F. ing shock wave is picked up by geo­ (" Speed") Norman, right, handles bookings and flight arrangements, The four pas­ phones which transmit electric impulses senger aircraft logged nearly 400,000 miles last year carrying senior British Columbia to the seismograph and record them on Government personnel around the Province. film. Interpretation of the resulting plots enables the operator to "read" the un­ derground formations. In the lower pic­ ture Lome is detonating the small blast, seen in the background.

Greeves had been hurt in a railway accident and brought suit for damages suffered. Some time later a friend met him as he hobbled pitifully along on crutches. Aircraft Mechanics Glen Lamont, left, and Ian Freemantle servicing 450-horsepower " Can't you get by without crutches? " nine-cylinder Pratt & Whitlley engines on Beechcra]t 18 in Department's shop-liangar the friend asked. at Victoria's Patricia Bay Airport. Seven aircraft with full complement of pilots and "Well," replied Greeves, .. my doctor shop crew provide efficient air transport and air-photo service for British Columbia says I can, but my lawyer says I can't." Government departments.

7 SAFETY AWARDS, INFORMATION, RALLIES

Bronze-on-gold award was presented by L. A. Braddy, Regional Highway Engineer, in June to Burns Lake District for having worked since May 12 , 1966, and having accumulated 395,525 In A ugust, Saanich District Superintendent A llan F. Park pre­ man-hours to the end of July, 1968, without a time-loss accident, .1'01 ted a bronze and two gold salcty awards to three Saanich Back row, left to right: Chuck Rolston, Senior Foreman; Bob District crews. Shown are the Foremen of the three crews, left Veitch, District Superintendent; Mike Tetreuu, Southbank Fore­ to right: L. Croft, Langford Mechanic Foreman, gold award: man; Reg Swindlehurst, Mechanical Foreman. Front row, left R . Busby, Lan gford Road Maintenance Foreman, bronze award; to right: Hugh Carnie, Houston Foreman; Rene Betemps, Ferry; and G. Coward, Burnside-Sidney Road Maintenance Foreman, Ron Jones, Burns Lake Foreman. gold award.

Ed Braaten, chairman of Burns Lake Safety Committee, accepting bronze-on-gold award for The Creston Shop Crew of the Nelson District receivtng the silver award from whole district from L. A . Braddy, Regional the Honourable W. D. Black, Minister of Highways, for having worked 56,404 Highway Engineer. hours without a time-loss accident. A ccepting the award is Shop Foreman Earl Kline. The Minister also presented a silver award to Foreman Harry Haigh of the Creston Road Crew for a record of 106,707 hours without a time-loss accident.

Rene Betemps accepting bronze award from L. A. Braddy, Regional Highway Engineer. The Francois Lake Ferry Crew have worked Bronze safety awa rd was presented to Greenwood Road Crew by D. F. Martin, since Ma rch 12, 1966, and have accumulated R egional High way Engineer. Crew consists of, left to right, C. R auch, M r. M artin, 57,058 man-hours witho ut a tim e-loss accident W . Walk er, Foreman J. Les lie, J. M eKinnon, and H . Lesergent, M issing fro m th is to th e end of Jul y, 1968. pict ure were L. M orra ll' and S. Bambini. 8 WEDDINGS

ANGELO PASSERIN was married to The Balancing Act Miss Rosetta Marchesi of Kamloops in a .. Thirty per cent of all injuries were July ceremony. Angelo and his bride were fall s." presented with a lawn set by fellow em­ ployees of the Lillooet District, where .. The greatest single type of accident Angelo is employed by the Dep artment was falls, 22 per cent." of Highways. .. Fifty-seven of 177 accidents were falls, 32 per cent." To what do these statements relate? Timber scalers on logs? Workers in the frozen North? Neither. They are ex­ OBITUARIES tracts from studies of accid ent s in three All in the Department large inside operations in this service. of Highways were sad­ They can be duplicated in nearly ever y dened to learn of the depa rtment. Mo re people get hurt and death of J. H. A. (JIM ) killed on th e job from fall s than any other STEVEN on Jul y single cau se. 26th in Savona. Mr. What can we do about it? Hou sekeep­ Steven was Location ing is important, keeping work areas Engineer in Victoria clean and free from debris, keeping pas­ from 1948 until his retirement in 1956. sageways clear, removing trailing cords He originally joined the Provincial Gov ­ in offices. Most important - we must ernment Service in 1931 after working watch our step, wear non-slip footwear , for the C.P.A. for a time. He was born and use the handrail on stairs. Don 't in Killen, Scotland, in 1893 and came to fall down on the job ! Canada after the First World War. Mr. Steven is sur vived by his wife, Gertrude, and son, J. E. Steven, District Superin­ AWARDS tendent, Pouce Coupe. The Region No. 3 Constru ction Crew received the gold award fo r having Fern Rivard, better kn own as Car 2000, FRANK H. LEWIS died on Thursday, worked 96,000 hours without a time-loss married Laura Strand on February 17, June 20th, at Mountain View, California, accident. P. B. MacC arthy, Region al 1968 , at St. Anne's Church, New We st­ after a lengthy illness. Born in Victoria Maintenance Engin eer , pre sented the minster, Fath er Maclronald officiating. in 1900, he entered Government servic e award to Regional Con stru ction Forem an Laura is a nurse at th e Summerland Jo e Kobza and George Lipsack with the in February, 1938, as a Mechanic at Scraper and Shovel Crews. Hospital. Th e co uple have recently pur­ Stewart. While there he was also oper­ chased a home in th e area. In July, Fern ator of the rot ary snow-plough. In 1952 1:< 1:< 1:< was promoted to area supervisor by Ca­ he was transferred to Prince Rupert as The Beaverdell Road Cr ew received a nadian M otorola, so will no longer be Mechanic Foreman, a position he held bronze-on-gold safet y award from D. F . servicing D epart m ent of Highways units until his retirement in 1965. Martin, Regional Highway Engineer. The in the Penticton-Grand Forks area. crew, under Foreman N . McRae, is made up of S.. Houlind, M. Efonoff, Acting Foreman 1. "Davies, and J. Jackson. The The Rossland District lost a long-time crew went from April, 1962, until May, employee with the death of HELMER 1968, without a time-loss accident. HANSON in July at the age of 59 aft er 1:< 1:< 1:< a lengthy illness. Helmer, born in Sweden, started work with the Depart­ The Burns Lake District Road Crew ment in 1944. He is survived by his wife received a gold award, having worked Evelyn and two sons , Dennis and Gordon. since Ma y 12, 1966, and accumulating 257,647 man-hours to July 31, 1968, without a time-loss accident. WILLIAM (TRIP) TRIPLETT, age 1:< 1:< 1:< 63, Labourer with the Princeton Road Crew, died suddenly July 13th. Mr. A silver safety award was presented to the Prince Rupert District Bridge Crew Married August 17,1968, in St . David's Triplett had been with the Department for working 38,449 con secutive man­ Anglican Church at Celista were Aileen since 1950. He leaves a widow, Eliza­ hours without a time-loss accident. Bronze Johnson and Jimmy Lamberton. The beth, and one son, William. safety awards were presented to the ceremony was performed by Rev. Hum­ Prince Rupert Road Crew, the Queen phrey, of Chase. After a honeymoon trip to M ontana, th e couple will reside ill Charlotte Islands Road Maintenance MRS. VIOLA M. MULLALLY, Radio Crew, the Queen Charlotte Islands Con­ Salmon Arm, where Jim is a member of struction Crew, and the Q-2 Crusher the Salmon Arm Road Maintenance Operator, North Vancouver Regional Crew at Masser. Crew. Office, died Tuesday. August 13, 1968. 9 10-7 CLUB Chief Clerk Frank Howland Retires After 44 Years in Government Service

Frank Howland, Chief Clerk in Head­ Douglas Building, and more than 150 quarters, Victoria, has retired after 44 employees of Highways and Public years service with the British Columbia Works attended the fete and paid tribute Government. to his long and dedicated service. Among the gifts and presentations, framed and inscribed, was Mr. Howland's original notice of appointment, drawn up when he was first taken on with the De­ partment of Public Works as a messen­ ger April I, 1924. Shortly after his original appointment, Mr. Howland went into the Department of Public Works General Office as Junior Clerk. After various promotions he was named Chief Clerk in 1935, a position Frank cuts retirement cake at High­ he has held until his retirement. ways employees' farewell buffet. With In 1955, when the Department of High­ him are, left to right, the Honourable W. N . Chant, the Honourable W . D. Black, ways was created, Mr. Howland's general and Mrs. Howland. office retained the records and files and became the hub of both Highways and Public Works. In 1924 the mileageof black-top roads in British Columbia was 189 miles; to­ During his long career Mr. Howland day there are approximately 7,000 miles. has served under 14 different Ministers The expenditure of the Department of and eight Deputy Ministers. Public Works in 1924, which included Actual retirement date was Septem­ His hobbies are fishing and gardening. roads, bridges, government buildings, ber 30th , but he left the Department etc., amounted to $6,333,342, about half August 9th to begin a period of well­ In the latter field he has specialized in that for loan repayments. earned holidays and retirement leave. chrysanthemums and has entered blooms Last year's gross expenditure for the On that date a buffet was held in the in Victoria" mum" shows. Department of Highways alone was $105,744,860. In 1924 there were 39,472 motor­ vehicles registered in the Province. In 1967 the figure was 850,000.

LOUIS SCHULLI, Transfers Mechanic Assistant, WA YNE RANDELL, District Engi ­ Princeton Shop, re­ neer, Revelstoke, was transferred to tired June 30th. He Prince George in May this year. Two was born in Winnipeg paintings by a local artist were presented and has worked for to Wayne and his wife Shirley by em­ the Department since ployees of the district. 1930, except for a UUU period of army service during World War H. Louis is married with one step­ R. J. KOBZA, formerly Regional Con­ son. During a farewell party and dance struction Foreman, transferred to Fernie on an evening in June, his fellow employ­ District as Road Maintenance Foreman On June 28th Leroy Vigue drove his ees presented him with an illuminated 3. truck i1l10 the Revelstoke yard for the model locomotive. last time. He handed over his hard hat LANCE PARKER has transferred to Senior Road Foreman Frank Praill from the Terrace District to the day­ and went i1l10 retirement. Leroy has labour project on the Queen Charlotte moved to his new home in Kelowna and Islands after the resignation of Bill Mor­ is looking forward to lots of fishing. rice.

HARVEY BAILEY, It seems a District Superintendent in who worked for the Region 2 who spent some time in the ALEC MARR, Sign Department of High­ local hospital recently had a strange Painter I, retired in ways, Falkland Dis­ hobby. The word is going around that May. He was presen­ trict, for the past nine he spent his spare time speeding up the ted with a gold certi­ years, retired in intravenous feeding of some of the other ficate of appreciation March, 1968. He was patients. Needless to say he had to be and gifts from his presented with a gift released quickly before he started super­ fellow employees. on behalf of the staff. vising the operations. 10 TRANSFERS PROMOTIONS

D. 1. F. (DON) MRS. PATRICIA JACKD. SUTHER­ MAcSWEEN has been NELSON has won LAND, Clerk 5, Of­ transferred to Kam­ through competition fice Ma nager in Ver­ loops as Right-of-way the position of Clerk­ non, has won the posi­ Agent from Smithers. Stenographer 3 in Vic­ tion of Clerk 6, Dis­ He joined the High­ toria. Secretary to trict Office Manager ways Department in Administrative Officer at Kamloops. Jack May, 1961. He was R. 1. Baines ( RR Ex­ takes to Kamloops a a Radio and Teletype Operator in Kam­ ecutive Editor) , Pat formerly worked in wealth of knowledge and will be missed loops and Prince George prior to joining the Appropriation Section of Highways by the Vernon personnel. He was a very the Right-of-way Branch in July, · 1966. Accounts. active member in B.C.G .E.A. as a mem­ He has spent the intervening years in Vic­ 'it 'it 'it ber of the Provincial executive. Jack and toria, North Vancouver, and Smithers. PAT GUNN was his wife, Margaret, have five daughters He is married and has a daughter. the successful appli­ and one son . 'it 'it 'it cant for a Clerk 2 -tI 'it 'it position in the North C. BILL PURDY ERNEST J. FAL- - Vancouver District has won the position AR DEAU transferred Office. Pat started in of Assistant Mechanic August 1st from the the District Office in Foreman in Cran­ Karn loops Crusher Ju ly of 1967 as a brook. Bill started Crew to the position Clerk-Typist. Her main outside interests with the Department of Automotive Mech­ are riding horses and going to night clubs of Highways at Clo­ anic in the Princeton and dances, especially when boy friend verdale in 1964 and shop . He started with Pete is playing in the band. transferred to New Denver in 1966 as a the Paving Branch in 1967. Ernie was 'it 'it 'it Heavy Duty Mechanic, where he spent born in St. Benedict, Sask ., is married PERCY WILLIAM two years. Bill was married in Irvins­ and has two sons and a daughter. He is town, Ireland, in 1943 while serving with pre sently hobbled with a broken leg, re­ CUTLER was the suc­ cessful applicant for the R.C .A.F. ; his wife was serving with minder of an overly enthusiastic fishing the R.A.F. They have three boys and trip . the Road Foreman 3 position at Rossland. three girls. 'it 'it 'it 'it 'it 'it Percy assumes his new LLOYD PEREPE­ duties after serving J. A. (JIM ) HOLMES, Per sonnel Of­ LECTA transferred five years as Road fice, received recla ssification to Person­ from the Princeton to Foreman 2. His service with the Depart­ nel Officer I, Jul y 1st. He successfully the Burn s Lake Stock­ ment goes back to 1946, when he started completed the Government-spon sored man 4 position on in the New Denver District. Basic Public Administration Course in June 15th. He joined -tI -tI -tI March, 1967, and has now successfully the Dep artment as completed the first year of the E'xecutive Yardman at Lillooet E. H. (ED) SWAN­ Development Training Plan. in 1962. Lloyd is married with a sma ll SON won through -tI 'it 'it daughter and son . He was a member of competition the posi­ WARREN HORSNELL, Draughtsman. the Kinsmen and a volunteer Princeton tion of Mech anical Location Branch, Prince George, won fireman. Foreman in Kam­ loops. He was pre­ through competition the position of Dis­ viously Mechanical trict Technician at Prince Rupert. He is Foreman in Prince enjoying the work and is taking an active George. He started with the Department interest in the local sport fishing. in 1948 as a mechanic in New Denver, 'it 'it 'it then moved to Que snel in 1953. He has S. R. DAVIES has won through com­ been Mechanical Foreman at Prince petition the position of Mechanic Fore­ George since 1955. Ed is married and man 3 at Pouce Coupe. Stan was em­ has five children. His hobbies are fish­ ployed by the Fort St. John Highw ay ing and camping. Distr ict as Mech anic Foreman I at Good -tI 'it 'it Hope Lake Camp (23 miles north of Cas­ ED SCHMIDT won siar ) for the past four year s. an Engineering Aide 'it 'it 'it promotion for the Re­ MICKEY POSTNIKOFF has won a gion al Office, Prince promotion from Machine Operator 4 to George, recently. Ed Machine Operator 7. Mickey has been was formerly with a member of the Grand Forks Road Construction Branch Crew since 1965 and is widely known The Rossland crew gath ered recently in Region 3. He is throughout Region 3. to wish Road Foreman Donald J. (Don) single and enjoy s ski-ing and fishing. Williams the best on his recent tran sfer 'it -tI -tI 'it 'it 'it to th e Golden District. Don, left, is JIM DEW has received his permanent shown receiving a gift from Clifford T . A. G. JONSON, of Courtenay, has Stockman' s rating in the Lillooet Dis­ Grieve on beha lf of all th e Rossland Dis­ won the position of He avy Duty Mech ­ trict. Jim was formerly a Yardman in trict employees. anic at the Lillooet shop . the same district. 11 ABOUT PEOPLE

MISS V ALE RIE LEN BOURGE­ ROBERT H. ROB­ CAMPBELL is the AULT has been work­ INSON was the suc­ cheery Clerk-Steno in ing on the Saanich cessful applicant for the Penticton District Survey Crew for over the Stockman 4 posi­ Office. Born in Trail, two years and has now tion in the Princeton Valerie was for sever­ decided to return to shop, commencing his al years a member of the University of Brit­ duties there July 29th. the Fruitvale drama ish Columbia this fall. Robbie was born in group. A graduate of the Trail Business Len, who is married and has three small Coronation, Alta. . is married, and has College, she joined the Department staff children, hopes to become a geologist. two smalJ sons . The move to Princeton in April. Valerie sews many of her own meant the end of an II-year hobby of clothes, plays the accordian, and enjoys restoring a Model A Ford coupe. the Okanagan swimming. BILL SOLBERG is now in Prince George as Engineering Aide G. (GORDIE) Mc­ with the Construction DONNEL, Transport FRED BRADLEY, Branch. Bill has work­ Operator, started with Timekeeper, Prince ed on the Stewart­ the Department in George District Of­ Cassiar, Chetwynd­ April, 1947, as a fice. Fred has been Hudson Hope, and Truck-driver. He is with the Department Prince George-McBride roads. He is married and has five since May, 1962. He married with two children and enjoys children and three is very active in ama- ~ hunting and fishing. grandchildren. His hobby is camping. teur theatre produc- tions and played one of the leads in a local production of Mikado this spring in Prince George. ROY JACKSON, Engineering Aide with the Location Branch, WALLY STEW­ is shown at work in ART, Maintenance ROY FORDHAM, Prince George on field Foreman, Port AI­ Clerk 4 (Office Man­ draughting and design. berni. ager Trainee) Prince George. Roy has been with the Department since May, 1961. Prior to his appointment to his present job Roy MRS. SHEILA worked as Regional Stockman at the LAWLOR, Clerk 2 in ALBERT CON­ Prince George Yard. He is married with the Nanaimo District NOLLY, Mechanical two girls. Office. Foreman, Duncan.

R. D. PURDY, our new Williams Lake District Stockman as FRANCES BRAN­ of May 16, 1968. Bob DNER has recently comes from Calgary joined the regional Convalescents and thinks Williams staff at Prince George Lake is the perfect as a Stenographer. CLIFFORD CLARK, Road Mainte­ place to live as his She is married, has nance Foreman at Fernie, recently suf­ favourite pastimes are hunting and fish­ one daughter, and has fered a heart attack and is convalescing ing. a flair for poetry. in the Fernie Memorial Hospital. i:l i:l i:l Grand Forks Associate Field Editor J. S. (STAN) DUG­ MISS KAREN DOROTHY WILKINS is recuperating GAN from Banff, Al­ TAYLOR, who star­ at home following an operation in July berta, joined the De­ ted with the Equip­ in the Trail Hospital. Dot is progressing partment in March, ment Branch in Vic­ and hopes to return to work shortly. 1968. He is working toria as a Clerk-Ty­ Her fellow employees in the district wish in the Regional Ma­ pist in March, 1967, her a speedy recovery. terials Testing Labo­ was married October i:l i:l i:l ratory in Kamloops. 5th to John Logan, a He previously spent nine years with the steward with British Columbia Ferries. J. TAYLOR, Saltspring Island grader Federal Public Works in testing labo­ As Karen is planning to stay at work, man, is in the Veterans' Hospital, Vic­ ratories at Banff. His hobby is ski-ing. the Branch wilJ not be losing its cheerful toria, and showing good signs of recovery He is married and has two children. co-worker and coffee-maker. from a lengthy illness. 12 SECOND NARROWS RESURFACING

Late in July the task of resurfacing the six-lane 4,200-foot-long Second Narrows Bridge was undertaken by day-labour forces. Plans calle d for the removal of the failing asphalt surface, to be replaced by a 2-inch-thick concrete overlay on the structural concrete deck. In order to keep traffic disruption to a minimum, the work was carried out on Project Foreman Ritchie Harold is a 24-hour basis with all concrete pouring shown here demonstrating how a gas drill done on the graveyard shift when two is used for drilling holes in which the Project Engineer Al Walisser checking bolts that secure the screed rails are em­ lanes of the bridge could be closed. Speci­ the concrete overlay thickness. bedded. fications allowed only one lane to be closed during the daytime. The asphalt surface was removed by grader scarifier and loader, upon which the surface was cleaned and roughened with a Tennant G 12 scarifier. This large machine, one of only two in existance, was brought in from Topeka, Kansas. Prior to concreting, the surface was also The pavement is broken up by the sand-blasted to secure a good bond be­ scarifier blade on the grader shown in the tween the old and new concrete. It was background. then thoroughly scrubbed and washed Mike Ditrolio leveling the screed rails. with a flusher truck to remove all dust and loose material. Concrete placing was by a Clary me­ chanical screed, which ran on steel rails bolted to inserts placed in the deck . Final finishing and brooming was done by hand, upon which the surface was cov­ ered with burlap and kept wet for fou r days prior to opening for traffic. Condition of deck after removal of Total crew averaged about 40 men, asphalt surfacing. Note foreign material with daily production about 600 feet of which must be removed to ensure good Surveyor Ed Skarrup and helper check­ bond of overlay. Jane. Highest production was 900 feet ing the level on the screed rails which of lane, which required 90 cubic yards have been set , The machine in the back­ of concrete. ground is the small scarifier cleaning the surface. The project was under the direction of Senior Materials Engineer E. E. Read­ shaw and Tony Locke, of the Materials Branch. Work was carried out by Bridge Maintenance District, R. B. Gilmour, Superintendent, and Al Walisser, Project Engineer. Bill Sainsbury was Concre t­ ing Foreman and Ritchie Haro ld was Day Foreman, with Bob Chown taking the afternoon shif t. This is the large scarifier which is used Work was completed on schedule in for removing foreign matter from the just over two months. underdecking. The rotary action of the blades, moving at 5,000 r.p.m., removes Burlap cover keeps the concrete from approximately one-quarter inch of mater­ drying and cracking during the four-day ial on each pass. curing process. 13 ON THE JOB

Brushing on Lakeshore Road, Kelow­ na, are Ewald Hanet, Machine Operator Don Bryant, A iberni Grader Operator, The Electrical Crew, Larry Berkey, 3, with saw and John Flegel, Labourer, shown on the job. Don is active in the left, and Jim Cummings, on the job in with fork. Beautiful Okanagan Lake is Nanaimo District safety programme. the Nanaimo District. in the background.

Fueling bulldozer on the job are, left, Harbhaian Grewal, Engineering Aide Reg Martin, Road Maintenance Foreman George Boyce, Mechanical Foreman, 3, right, and Tom A arts, Engineering 2, and J. C. Chaplin, Machine Operator Port Alberni. Aide 2 on the Nanaimo Survey Crew, 13, both of the Kelowna District. are shown on the job.

Galiano Island Crew-Foreman Jack Donald Reid, a long-time employee Shaw, left, and Neil Wilson-shown on with the Vanderhoof Road Crew, with the job preparing a section of Parlier Pass Nanaimo District Operator Joe Baumel his grader . Drive for the 1968 paving programme. on the roller in the Nanaimo area. 14 LOCATION CREW

One of the very busy Highway Location Crews is the one currently working in the Lower Mainland area under the direction of Norm Hester, Project Super­ visor. Norm has an office staff of three draughtsmen at North Vancouver and a field crew of eight, whose working area ranges all the way from Hope to Rich ­ mond, to 15 miles north of the Village of Squamish. Dale Hunt and John McLaren are the crew's two transitmen, with Chris Gadsden as levelman and Nels Card, Ray Koebernick, Harry Newlove, Bob Andrew, and Don Powell as chainmen. In the office, Jack Benson is the Chief Draughts­ man, assisted by Draughtsmen Virgil Swanson and Gilbert Car­ riere. Ready and wiIling to tackle al­ most any type of survey, most of the crew's work has consisted of running the many photogrammetric Spring break-up, summer and winter condi­ control surveys throughout the tions all present special problems in the Anahim Lower Mainland. This is very Lake area. Left to right, George Reed, Wayne exacting work, requiring good Escott, Tom Engebretson, Milton Rutherford, organizing ability on the part of " . and Fred Elkins. the project supervisor and a high Location Project Supervisor Norm Hester. degree of accuracy by both field and office personnel. The crew has come through with flying colours.

John Ewanick, Machine Operator 11, washing Location office staff-Chief Draughts­ up after greasing the shovel. John has been Field crew-Nels Card left, man Jack Benson, centre, Gilbert Car­ with the Department in Fernie since 1951 and and John Mcl.aren. riere, left, and Virgil Swanson. has operated H-77 most of that time. He is married and has two children. His favourite sport is soccer, and he was a member of the Fernie United Soccer Club for a number of years.

" Mailman" Keith Gagne from Kamloops picking up Government mail in Salmon Arm during the postal strike. He was always on Field crew, left to right-s-Transitman Dale Hunt, Ray Koebernick, time. Chris Gadsden, Bob Andrew, and. Harry Newlove. 15 In 19 5 1 the Motor Vessel V acationland, 3,844 tons, came d own th e ways of the Great Lakes Engineering Company shipyard in R iver Rouge, Michigan , b u ilt to carr y au tom obil es and passengers across Mack in ac Strait. When the strait was b r id ged she was purchased by Quebec owner s and r echristened the Pere Nouvel. She was used between Rimouski and B ale­ Comeau across the St. Lawrence River, a run of approximately four hours. T he Pere Nouvel was subsequently purchased by the British Columbia fer r y sys tem to serve on th e Horseshoe Bay-Langdale run because the two ships in service there were u n able to meet traffic peaks. A British Columbia Ferries skeleton crew was sent to Quebec to take delivery ami bring the ship to British Columbia via the Panama Canal, an ocean adventure the crew will long remember. Prior to going into service the ship was corn­ pletely refurbished; mezzanine decks were added to the car deck to give her a capacity of 185 cars; a fast-service cafeteria, seating 212 passengers, has been installed to serve snacks and light meals during the 50-minute crossing. Repainted from stem to stern, renamed the Sunshine Coast Queen, a ll that remains is her former profile. She is 360 feet long and 73 feet 7 inches wide, largest in the British Columbia Ferries fleet.