ATERTON - GLACIER f f«« The Summer Newspaper Serving the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park and Surrounding Communities Sept. 24, 1997 FINAL ISSUE OF THE SEASON Vol. 6. Issue 15 Up, Up and away - Colin Weir ofthe Alberta Birds of Prey Centre gives a male golden eagle its freedom in Waterton Lakes National Park. The eagle was one of thirteen raptors released above Knight's Lake. The eagle was found earlier in die summer with a severely injured foot and starving to death. Rescued by park personnel it was brought back to health along with the other birds by the Centre which is located in Coaldale. AB. The Bakers ofWaterton: 75 years What's Inside of business and civic affairs THE WAY IT WAS business in town under original family ownership. It is also one of Imperial Oil's oldest family-run outlets Roping deer WATERTON - The Baker family, residents of this in Canada and is one of the Royal Bank's longest Page 5 standing family clients. small, mostly three-season national park town, quiet­ IN THE PARKS ly celebrated its 75th year of business this year - a Though the company name and products have celebration to mark the occasion is being delayed changed over time, the thread ranning through the Glackr stud^ina IM until next spring. generations has always been of a business tracking rays It's a business spanning four generations, with the the evolution of the park and associated tourism, and Page 10 fifth already involved as summer help. It's the oldest of civic involvement It was William Baker, having brought his fami­ Waterton, reviews Plan ly over from England to the Pincher Creek area Page 14 in 1909, who literally set the groundwork for the family business. He did so by. taking out CARDSTON several long-term lot leases in the park, many just off Emerald Bay. Development called of But it was his son George who started the fami­ Page15 ly business which stretches to today. As he built his log home in the park in 1921-22, Closing delayed George saw how he could answer the needs of the ever-increasing number of cabin owners The Canadian Cus­ and construction crews working on roads and toms Border Service hotels. So on Feb. 22, 1922, the 22-year old, has once again George, bought a $500 Model T truck to begin extended the closing the trucking business, called Park Transport date for the Port of Company, which was to last until 1979. Chief Mountain bor­ Soon he opened a gasoline outlet and a car der crossing beyond repair garage beside his log house. Three years the normal annual later he moved to what's now a parking lot shut-down day - usu­ ally the third Sunday beside the Waterton marina - on one of the lots of the month. bis father had bought Spokesman Gor­ He seems not to have noticed the Great Depres­ don Luchia says the sion. In the '30s, he moved the garage (where closing will be bis son Rae cut bis teeth pumping gas) across extended so that the the street to what is now the Tamarack Village last open day is now see Built Ol 75 years Of SUCCeSS page 6 Sept 30. Operating hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS AND READERS - This Is** last issue *sf the murtm-Gteem mm Ttenm m4 see ym ®<B&year. from Sept 22. September 24,1997 Waterton Glacier Views lowed him around, and now Weninger has Parks in the blood he follows me by Dave McNeill needs. She has had only five children. Her grandfa­ around." years with Parks Canada, but ther was chief buffalo She began WATERTON - Josie Weninger always at the superintendent's ranger (the equivalent work again part- moved into her new position level. To back that up she is of today's chief park time in private as superintendent of Waterton the third generation of a fami­ warden) at Wood Buf­ business, then Lakes National Park a little ly which spent their careers falo National Park full-time under more than two weeks ago, with the organization. located in northern the federal gov­ succeeding the outgoing Ian A Metis, Weninger is one of Alberta and the North­ ernment's North­ Syme. only two aboriginal field super­ west Territories. Her ern Careers pro­ She brings to the job some intendents in Canada's 38 father was a patrol per­ gram. It was an expected and some unusual national parks; she is also one of son and later worked employment training and experiences. She six women superintendents in maintenance. She equity program worked her way through the throughout the system. Married lived in three different which gives ranks of the federal civil ser­ for 29 years to Allan she is a warden stations as she employees an vice particularly in the Public mother of three and a grand­ grew up - the first at opportunity to Service Commission which mother, with a formal education the age of four. She develop impor- trains, monitors and advises that ended after high school. lived in the park for jtant work experi­ the government on its staffing: She's the oldest of nine six summers. ence, but with no After graduating guarantee of a from high school, she job once the immediately married, placement is and Allan's employer, through. "You Winter in Waterton the Hudson's Bay have to earn it," Company moved them comments to Ft. Churchill, Man. Weninger. (The Bay, as it's now Apparently known, has run retail she did. She outlets across the began work with country, particularly in the country's the North, since 1673). Public Service Waterton There she went to Commission. work, cleaning at the New superintendent, Weninger, settling into the job She also worked Lakes local hospital. today's world you need to put with Health After three years of mar­ time into nurturing and caring Canada in Whitehorse, Yukon, riage, the family began. Three for them." and Yellowknife, NWT. Over kids in four years. "I made a several years she moved up For 12 years she was out of Opening December, 1997 conscious decision not to through the ranks of manage­ the work force, until the work until the kids were in ment until she herself was youngest started school. for information or reservations call: school," says Weninger. 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Her first Buffalo, still a CAP position. her family background, she job was with Parks Canada, as She moved back home and feels she brings to Waterton an superintendent of Batoche came up against certain extensive sense of what Parks National Historic Site in expectations of the aboriginal is about. As an aboriginal she Saskatchewan in 1992-93. It community and certain con­ anticipates she might have to Western and Chinese Cuisine, Homemade Burgers. was her first time working cerns of her staff that she deal with certain preconcep­ Soups, Salads and much, much, more... with Parks Canada since her "might not have park values tions about what she's like, Waterton Avenue (403) 859-2240 summer jobs in Wood Buffalo. paramount". The local com­ but she also feels that "there It also fulfilled a wish that she munity had a long history of are certain values that cut Bear Gtm& Boutique would eventually work again hunting in the park, and across all aboriginal people, with Parks Canada. though that was, and is, that you need to act as stew­ I^Mrts^ Sweatshirts^ Souvenirs Why Parks? "Because I allowed, some staff made ards ofthe land." grew up in that atmosphere" hunters feel the park wasn't as As a woman manager, she and because of the values her accessible as it had been. 'The believes she brings a partici­ patory style into play, a style which more male managers 4 No world heritage ceremony are adding to their abilities.