Vol. 1,'No. 33

Squamish, B.C., Thursday, March 1, 1951

Price 5c

PIONEER LOCAL

RESIDENT PASSES

A pioneer resident of the Squam
ish Valley, David Galbraith passed
away on Monday, February 24th,
in St Paul’s Hospital after an ll
ness of several months

Mr. Galbraith, who was 89 years
old. was born in Ontario and came
to BC as a young man — Before
coming to Sqttamish in 1902,
resided in the Fraser
Victoria B.C

he
Vallev and
During his long residence in
Squamish. Mr. Galbraith
several businesses.
the general

owned
He purchased
Mi.
Mashiter when he came to Squam
ish and opened a botel
in what is now the Empire Mills
office and bunkhouse.

store owned by

built and

Mr, Galbraith leaves three daugh
Mrs A. McRae aud Mis F
Buckley. of Squamish and Mis. S
Blake of Edmonton. four grand
sous and two great grand children

ters,

Funeral services were held in St
John’s Anglican Church Squamish
Wednerday
arv 8, with Rev. C. HO Gibbs
officiating. Pallbearers
Atlan, P. Brennan, W. Holland,
W. McCush, F. B Scott and C.
Tatlow. Interment was in Garib
aldi Cemetery

LEGION TO HOLD CARP
PARTY AND DANCE

The Canadian Legion is plan-
ning a gala evening for Friday,
March 2nd in the Community hall.

aS Sin okin

Were J.

There will be a whist drive star
ting at 8 p m., and there will also
be cribbage for those who preter it

The card party will be followed
by a dance and there will be a sve-
cial floor prize given at the dance

All proceeds will go towards the
building of a Legion Memorial hall
in Squamish.

Pebru--

Around Town

Work on the uew fill below the
drug store is The
drain pipe is being laid preparatory

progressing.

to filling in the slough.

Pla
well under way

the 24th of May are
The Bean Jar,
now ou displav in Mackenzies Ltd

ns for

is

aud each week it witl be moved to

a new location in another store in
Squamish Don’t forget to make
vou! guess.

Work in the Squamish School,

delaved for about a month bv the

had weatner, bas now recominenc-
ed. A small crew are working tnere
and

to he

e .
now, pourtne cement, more

men are expected working
there soon The work seems to be
slowly but ance
is fl.ished the

rest of the buiiding wiil sapidly

(|) brogressing very
the cement work

take shane.

Spring must be just around the

corner We saw several child:en
pass the Abhvance office the other
day with armloa:ts of pussv wilows
and several people have reported
that snowdrops and primroses are

blooming in their gardens

The a Der “Mar~ oe is'tap.
idlv being altered to become a store
Mr
jready built the cuvboards and ¢

again Glendenning has al
COU
ters along one side of the building
and is) working the other at

present.

ou

A special meeting of the village
council was held on Tuesdav might
‘The
rate se. for 1951 will be the same

to pass the mill rate bvlaw

as last vear, 17 mills on the dollar.

J

Tne Mamquam bridge has heen
closed to. traffic for
while repairs

almost a week
are being made. Piles
are heing driven to replace the
vents which were damaged in last
J] H Dawson is

in charge of the repai's

vear’s high water.

Leonard Fowler, of Pemberton,
spent the weekend with h's parents

the A. Fowler's

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ee news, and

Consumer Expert

)

“The basy Canadian housewife

hasn’t tin,e for much experiment
Ing so I do it for her,’’ savs Alli
son Grant, the CBC's consumer |

expert and women’s commenptator
Here she is examirving new kitchen
equipment hetore telling her listen
Testing new gadpets
Her broad
new food laws

ers about it
is just part of her job

casts cove: tips on

housekeeping, Canadian women | ip

the a ade ie ‘en
duities she yets on a no-t of topics:

Mrs Duerday af
tervoons at 1:45 on CBR ~~ She has
helped solve many listeners prob
her
z, either bv her own research

Grant is heard

Jems 1 two vears of bioad
castin
or by bringing other experts to the
But still

problem of her own:

microphone sne has a
how to find an.
electric stave with an oveu veu can

reach without bending over

New Business

Opened in Town

A uew business came to Squa
mish last week wheu the Squamish

Dairv Lunch opened its doors last)

daturday.

The “milk bar’* is overated bv
Mrs L. Goodale of the Squamish
Dairv and carries a complete line
of dairy products as well! as ice
cream and ice cream novelties.

The new business is located in

the former post office buildine and

looks quite different after being
comoletely decorated The white
walls set off the light varnished
cupboards behind the multicolored
tile covered counter and the bright
red seats ov the counter stools add
The
redocorating was done by George
Aalten

The Dairy Lunch will also stock
delicatessen toeds end serve light
lunches as well as ordering any ice
cream novelties,

a refreshing note ot contrast,

such as bars and
Dixie cups for special accasious.

WHO WILL BE THE
1950 GOOD CITIZEN?

The awaid for the “good citizen’
/of 1950 will be made at the annual
| meeting of the Squamish Recreat-
ional Association on April 3rd

All
in writing and the reasons why the

’

pominations must be made

nominee is considered suitable for
the award must be stared! Noniina-
tions should be 1n the hands of the
secretarv, Mrs Ruth Fenton,
before March 7th

The award was instituted in 1947

on OF

and in that year it was presented to

|A R Thompson for the work he

had done with the young people
The following vear Mrs J L, Bud-
gell was the recipient, for the greac
job she had done while there was
no docio: in Squamish

Ini 1°44 the award was given to
the late H.A Munro,

ih tron

in recogni-
of the manv vears he had
|worked for the betterment of the
community and bis vears of service
witb the yoluntegr firedepartment.

Theresgst be several members
of the community who are eligible
for the award There are mat. Who.
have work heh hacetons heat yr prove
ments and it is only hy the nomina-
ation of one or several of these that
tne good citizen for 1950 can be

selected

MY BONABELLE WILL
UNPERGO INSPECTION

There will be no sailimes of the
MV Bonabelle on Tuesday, Wed
vesday and Thursdav. March 6, 7
and «8th,
annual

for purposes of aniutal

governmeut steamship in-
‘spection

The boat will leave Horseshoe

~, Bay as usual on Mondav evening,

, March Sth for Britannia, Woodfibre
and Squamish, and wil! immediate-
ly return to Vancouver from Squa-
mish, leaving at 10:30 p.m

The Bonabelle

her reguiar

should resume

service again from

Squami-h Friday morning.

ESTHER CHAN—oever CBR