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The British Columbia Road Runner, June 1968, Volume 5, Number 2 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA JUNE,1968 PUBLI HED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2 " .. " Three pictures illustrating the placement of the centre span over the South Thompson River at Kamloops. The 252-foot span will join the North Thompson-Yellowhead Highway to the Trans-Canada Highway east of Kamloops. Beautiful Jewel Lake, about 134 miles long and one-quarter mile wide, at the foot of Roderick Dhu Mountain, 6 miles from the Southern Trans-Canada Highway near Greenwood. Louis Bosshart, a Swiss prospector, discovered the lake. Property sur­ rounding the lake, known as Long Lake City, was owned in 1897 by Arthur N. Pelly, an Englishman, whose original cabin still stands. In the 1900's and 1920's huge rainbow trout were taken from this lake, many weighing 30 to 35 pounds, and one recorded at 56 pounds. The presence of these huge fish in a small moun­ tain lake hundreds of miles from the ocean is unexplained. Cabins now dot the shores, and it is still a great fishing spot . A bandoned mines are visible on the surrounding hills. This spring the Grand Forks District has been clearing brush and improving the road leading into the lake, an effort which will be greatly appreciated by fishermen, rockhounds, and tourists alike . 2 THE ROAD-RUNNER Volume 5 June, 1968 Number 2 >(- >(- Published Quarterly by the British Columbia Department of Highways Victoria, B.C. Ray Baines, Executive Editor Arthur 1. Schindel , Editor >(- >(- Associate Field Editors A. R. Limacher ... Victoria Th e Departm ent of High ways no longer has the biggest Bill Ingram .. Victoria budget in the Government , but physically it is probably Jim Winton . North Vancouver still the largest single department and, certainly, one of the most important. M ore than one-fifth of all British Dave . Wardell .. .. Burnside Columbia Government em ployees work for the Depart­ J. W. Morri s.. .. Nanaimo ment of Highways, and its 34 or so districts are located M. Butler .. ...Courtenay in all parts of this vast Province. Th e record of dedication and public service by the De­ Jim Harris .. Bridge Maintenance partment of Highways has been good over the years, and as your new Minister / would lik e simply to ask for yo ur W. I. N. Higgins.. North Vancouv er co-operation in preserving , and even improving , this rec­ Lloyd Burgess .. New Westmin ster ord. For my part , / know co-operation is a two-way G. M. Vance ... .. Chilliwack street, and / would lik e to pledge my share from this direction . G. V. Sandiford .. Kamloops W ESL EY D . BLACK, Minister. Jim Ferrier _.... .. .. Kamloops Edie Smith .. .. Williams Lake Murray Ramsay ..__ ....__ .. .. .Salmon Arm Dave Bowman .. .. Revelstoke AI Desimore Vernon Fred Evan s . .. ..._.. .. .. .. .. .. Kelowna Pete Fuoco Penticton Jim Chenoweth Merritt Dave Roberts .. ..__ .. LilIooet Dorothy Wilkins ..__ .. Grand Forks R. E. McKeown __.. Rossland S. J. Dixey .._.. .. ...... Nelson Fred Angrignon .. .... New Denver Irene Labelle .. .. .. Creston N. Molander Cranbrook Sam Caravetta .. .... .. Fernie John Edgar .. .. Golden Steve Sviatko .. .. Smithers C. Bartsch . 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 Louis Kubos, Labourer, left, and H. Haigh, Road Maintenance H. R. Walker.. ..__ .. .. .. .._.__ . Burns Lake Foreman, display two hu sky crescent wren ches once used on E. Lund ... ..Prince Rupert wooden bridge construction in the Fernie District. Wr ench at left weighs /80 pounds and is 6 feet long . The one on the right weighs 60 pounds. By way of contrast, the one in the centre is 6 inches .long and weighs about 8 ounces. 3 "EXTRACURRICULAR" ACTIVITIES The Nintli Annual Curling Bonspiel for Region 4 was held in Prince George in March with 22 rinks com peting from Terrace. Smithers, Burns Lake, Vanderhoof, Princ e Ge orge, Quesnel, Mcbride, Pou ce Coupe, and Fort St. John, Th e bon spiel was arran ged by Pat Carr of Prince Ge orge, himself an ardent curler. Winner of the "A" event was th e Don Delainey rink from Pouc e Coupe, left photo. Th ey are, left to right, Lloyd K emple, lead; Andy Biegan ski, second; Jim Bell. third; and Don Delain ey; skip. " B" event was tak en by th e Alf McWillis rink from M cBride, right picture. M embers are, from left, Abe Paul, second; Alf M cWillis, skip; Ian A nderson , third; Handford Brown, lead. Centre picture shows Jim Stevens, Pouce Coupe District Superintendent, getti ng a ch alice to hold the troph y after the bonspiel, evell though the Pouce Coupe rink, for which he played, was elim inated, DEPARTMENT DRIVER BUILDS 50-FOOT INDIAN RACING CANOE Chris Tom, Truck Driver on the Burnside-Sidney maintenance crew, has just completed a difficult one-man task--construction of a 50-foot Indian canoe. Chris is shown with his little helper, nephew Guy, standing beside the II-man racing canoe hewn Following a presentation at Headquarters in May, Mrs. Edith Val en poses with Assistant Deputy Minister F. A. Ma cl.ean, left, and Comptroller of Expenditure A. E. Rhodes. Mrs. Valen was secretary to the HOIl. P. A. Gaglardi, former Minister of High­ days, for 14 years. After the Cabinet changes, Mrs. Valen was appointed secretary to the new Minister of Industrial Develop­ ment, Trade, and Commerce, the HOIl. Waldo Skillings. Peter Yakimovich, of the Computer Pro­ gramming Section, Headquarters Location Branch, is already a well-known figure in Vic­ toria's entertainment world. An accomplished piani st, Peter has entertained in Seattle and Vancouver. He has helped write two chil­ from a single white pine log. The log was loca ted in the Nanaimo dren 's movies, both presented in the Bastion area and was towed to Chris's home near Sidney behind a small The atre, and songs he has composed have outboard. It took two years for Chris to build the canoe, roughed been pre sented on C.B.C. radio and television. He is currently out with a chain saw but carved mainly with an adze. It W;J.S musical director of the famous Gerry Gosley's " Smile Show," then sanded to a smooth, even finish, which now resembles plank­ and his Jazz Ballet, composed some time ago, has been performed ing less than I inch thick . The canoe will be racing in both at the Butchart Gardens Sunset Shows. More will be heard of British Columbia and Washington this summer. Peter when he comes out with his own Rock group in September. 4 PEEK INTO THE PAST Out of an earlier age when labour was cheap and machines primitive are these nearly half-century-old photographs of a construction and paving project on the Pacific Highway. Picture on the right shows small gas tractor and pull grader .. preparing subgrade " in 1921, and the other one was taken in August, 1923, at the laying of the last concrete panel at Cloverdale. Note the Union Jack ap­ parently raised to mark the historic com­ pletion of this early concrete highway. The Yale toll gate in 1939 showing traffic moving west to­ ward Hope. 5 HISTORIC TREE DIES ... FELLED AS HIGHWAY HAZARD An unusual experience for Maintenance Foreman L. Lindsay and his Cloverdale East crew, New Westminster District, came up May 29 when they were given the sad job of cutting off the top of the old 2oo-foot Douglas-fir tree on Highway 401, known as the .. Perkins Tree." Dave Donaldson, Traffic Counter Technician with the Traffic Branch, is shown .. tuning in" the vehicle detectors at the permanent traffic count station on the Trans-Canada just north of Victoria. Near the Surrey-Langley border on the Trans-Canada Highway right-of-way, it was last in the news when the freeway was being built, and 10 acres of land belonging to Charles Perkins was used for the highway. At the request of Mr. Perkins and his friends in 1960, the former Minister, P. A. Gaglardi, assured them that the tree would be spared, and the east-bound lanes of 401 were diverted around it. In 1919 or 1920 Mr. Perkins had planted English ivy at the base of the tree as a memorial to members of the Piling being driven in the cofferdam at original Aero Club of B.C. who had the site of the new Bulkley River Bridge served overseas from 1915 with the Royal at Smithers. Ron Garnham, Traffic Signal Techni­ Flying Corps and later in the Royal Air cian with the Traffic Branch, Victoria, Force. Vandals have twice set fire to the uses the recently acquired ladder truck ivy in the last few years and charred the S-3245 to carry alit emergency repairs on tree badly. The ivy survived, but the Convalescents a street-light north of Duncan. tree has gradually died. The highway TOM PERKINS; deck hand on the crew cut the top portion off, leaving a Kootenay Lake Ferry, is recuperating 30-foot stump. Mr. Perkins, 74, a re­ from a broken ankle. tired farmer, has lived in the area for the past 60 years and estimated that the tree 1:< 1:< 1:< A new mechanic in one of the district garages complained to the Engineer: was 270 years old. The crew presented OSCAR ANDERSON, Machine Oper­ .. I've been working here for a week now Mr. Perkins with a section slab of the ator on the Nelson Crew, is convalescing tree, and he states he may plant some and I still haven't been given a work from an eye operation.
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