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A Powell River Company Christmas Holiday celebrations and activities filled social calendars during early days of Townsite
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bachelors with liberal helpings of turkey, plum pudding and Christmas cheer. Powell River Company’s social committee, chaired by John MacIntyre, organized two outstanding Yuletide events: Kiddie’s Christmas Tree gift-giving and the Papermaker’s Ball. In Townsite and surrounding areas, all children under the age of nine received an age-appropriate Christmas gift at the Christmas tree event, held first in Central Hall and later in
During the early years of the Powell River Company Townsite, Christmas was a quiet affair. After the last shift before Christmas, hundreds of young, single construction workers left on the Union Steamship for the bright lights of Vancouver. The overnight boat journey was one big party of drinking, gambling, singing of songs and the telling of tales. To the majority of workers, Vancouver was home and Powell River was a place to leave as quickly as possible. The few single men who stayed behind in Townsite either held parties at the cook’s shack, had a rip-roaring time at McKinney’s Powell River hotel or played pool at Harper’s pool hall in the Sing Lee block. The cook’s shack was not only a place to eat for the construction workers, but the headquarters of their social lives. After the last meal was served on Christmas Day, tables were cleared for card playing and an accordion or fiddle provided toetapping background music. In 1911, the boys passed the hat around and collected $125 to buy a piano, which became the centrepiece of their musical entertainment. Early religious services were held in the cook’s shack and carols were sung around the newly purchased piano. Protestant services were later held at St. David and St. Paul Anglican and St. John’s Union churches, while Catholic services were held at St. Joseph’s Church. Sunday school children attended special carol services where the Powell River Company generously donated oranges and nuts from the company store. The few families who stayed behind started the tradition of house parties throughout the holiday season. Bachelor parties were led by a dashing Joe Falconer. The young men called at every Townsite house where Christmas lights blazed their welcome and, in return for singing carols around the piano, the hostess served the COURTESY OF POWELL RIVER HISTORICAL MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
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Dwight Hall. Frank Haslam from Townsite, Ina Lloyd (McNair) from Stillwater and Stuart Lambert from Paradise Valley attended this exciting event and waited with anticipation as a jovial Saint Nicholas (John McLeod) handed down a gift from the decorated Christmas tree. Gifts included toy cars, dolls, a working bucket crane, a wooden stick horse, teddy bears, a musical merry-goround with horses and pigs, a Tinkertoy construction kit and a horse pulling a cart. In the early years of Townsite, the Papermaker’s Ball was held in the month of December in Central Hall. Using flash photography, Rod Le May captured the third annual ball on film in 1915. Later, this event was combined with the Scottish tradition of celebrating Yuletide festivities on New Year’s Eve. The Papermaker’s Ball became the most important social event of the year on the Townsite calendar. The ball’s reputation for excellence in dancing and the outstanding beauty of the exquisite dresses worn by the ladies resulted in friends and families leaving Vancouver to celebrate the new year in the fledgling town of Powell River. From the early 1920s, house parties were held on Saturday nights to practice Scottish country dancing to a windup phonograph. These informal parties led to the formation of the Old Time Dance Club, which had 270 members in the 1940s. “Ma” Alexander taught Scottish dancing to generations of Townsite families. It was this core of expert dancers that made the Papermaker’s Ball such a success. Dresses were purchased at Madame Loukes’ exclusive 5th Avenue Dress Shop on Marine Avenue in Westview Village. Loukes sold top-of-the-line dresses purchased on buying trips to Vancouver and New York. Her taste was impeccable. “Madame Loukes had an elite store with high-fashion goods in Westview; she had no competition in the area,” said Ruby Roscovich, who turned 100 in 2016. “She catered for an exclusive clientele of mill management and professional people. Local people wanted to dress in elegant clothes for events such as the Old Time Dance Club and the Papermaker’s Ball, which were held in Dwight Hall.”
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Community celebration The Papermaker’s Ball lasted a full eight-hour shift and ended at 4 am. Ladies received a dance program and a prospective partner pencilled in a requested dance. Popular dances included the Quadrille, Gay Gordons, Strip the Willow, Virginia Reel and Eightsome Reel. Couples dressed formally and danced to a live hometown orchestra; on special occasions the company shipped in an entire orchestra from Vancouver. An added attraction in 1939 was the Powell River Company pipe band, who looked splendid in their new
MacGregor tartans, as they piped in the new year. In 1928, for the first time, the Papermaker’s Ball was held in the newly built Dwight Hall. Electric lights were used to decorate the spacious new facility, built at a cost of $125,000. The stage was decorated with a bower of coloured lights and artificial roses, while Chinese lanterns were strung around the walls. In a separate room a light supper, catered by Rodmay Hotel owner Batt MacIntyre, was served with punch. Carnival hats, rattles, horns and noisemakers were distributed to merrymakers a few minutes before
midnight. The new year was brought in with cheering, loud beeps and squeals from the noisemakers, followed immediately by the boisterous singing of “Auld Lang Syne.” After the supper was finished, dancing continued until 4 am and ended with the home waltz to the tune of “Keep the Home Fires Burning.” Just as dawn was breaking, after a hearty breakfast, a few hardy souls played their very first golf game of the new year on the company’s nine-hole Townsite golf course. Powell River Digester has no record of any player scoring a hole-in-one after a night of revelry at the Papermaker’s Ball.
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THURSDAY Spirit of Communit y Choir gets together from 7-8:15 pm on Thursdays at Powell River Academy of Music, 7280 Kemano Street. Everyone is welcome to attend and join in.
UPCOMING December 31 Royal Canadian Legion Branch 164 hosts a New Year’s Eve dance, with music by DJ Zane, at 7 pm on Saturday, December 31, at 6811 Alexander Street. Admission is $25 per person.
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HERE WE COME A-CHRISTMASING: Members of Brooks Secondary School’s band, conducted by Paul Cummings, bundled up and braved the cold night to take seasonal music into the streets of Townsite recently. The 20 instrumentalists were also seen at Patricia Theatre and Townsite Brewing. DAVID BRINDLE PHOTO
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BRUNCH FOR A CAUSE: Costa del Sol Latin Cuisine co-owner Sarah Salome [left] and server Shauna Andrews open for the restaurant’s first brunch service on Saturday, December 17. For the remainder of 2016, Costa del Sol will donate 50 cents from every brunch sold on Saturdays and Sundays to Powell River Community Resource Centre. DAVID BRINDLE PHOTO
Around Town from page 5 and six, meet from 4-5 pm. Brownies, ages seven and eight, meet from 5-6:30 pm. Girls nine through 15 meet from 6:30-8:30 pm. For information, call 604.483.3234.
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Kiwanis Club Kiwanis Club of Powell River meets at 7 pm every first and third Tuesday of each month. For location a n d m o r e i n f o r-
GRACIOUS DONATION: As part of Shoppers Drug Mart’s annual Tree of Life campaign, employees Donna Kent [left], Chris Chernoff [right] and pharmacist/owner Kim Hopper [second from left] recently presented Grace House executive director Julie Chambers with a cheque for $3,126. The funds were donated by Shoppers Drug Mart customers.
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Pow el l R i v er P u bl ic Library hosts free board game nights from 5-8 pm every Wednesday and Friday at the library, 4411 Michigan Avenue. Open to all ages. Participants under age 10 must be accompanied by an adult. No registration necessary. Call 604.485.4796 or email szagwyn@prpl.ca for
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population overall. The CPHO report is sorted into three sections, the first of which includes six mea su res: How hea lt hy are we? Life expectancy at birth; low birth weight; perceived hea lth; communit y belonging; and perceived mental health. In futures articles, we will discuss the other two sections: Influencing our health and How are we unhealthy? For now, let’s look at life expectancy at birth. This seemingly simple measure is complicated by many factors, including genetics, lifestyle, diet, access to healthcare, education and income, and rates of disease and conditions. In 2012, the average life expectancy at birth in Canada was 82 years, but this in itself is only an average. Over two decades from 1991 to 2011, men’s life expectancy went from 75 to 79 years and women’s from 79 to 84 years. Gender is obviously a factor, but so is income, which is related to life expectancy. And if we consider indigenous populations, we find that they tend to have lower life expectancy than nonindigenous groups. Un d e r s t a n d i n g h o w we are healthy and what t h reatens t hat hea lt h makes this an important conversation. To read the CPHO report or to learn more about health indicators, visit healthycanadians.gc.ca. Paul Martiquet is the medical health officer for Sunshine Coast and Powell River.
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Arvid Grants Born in Riga, Latvia, in 1921, Arvid was a WWII refugee to Canada on Marine Shark. His oil paintings surround you at the Laughing Oyster restaurant. Artist, sculptor, Vancouver Symphony flutist, philosophy professor at Simon Fraser University (PhD Philosophy, Cambridge), Art History and Painting lecturer at Vancouver Island University (MA Art History, University of BC, and Visual Arts, École des Beaux-Arts, Montreal), flute and music theory teacher, choir conductor and singer, writer, husband, father, granddad, uncle, mentor, and friend et al; a man for all seasons, who lived many lifetimes in one. He passed as he lived...peacefully (at home, December 13), writing a book, Abstraction in Art and Music. His wife Jan (née Bowes) and daughter Jennifer embrace Arvid’s spirit; as do daughters Ilga (Australia) and Ieva (Chilliwack), son Arvid (Nelson) and extended family. A private home gathering will take place to celebrate Arvid’s life.
Travis Lee Watson
March 30, 1981 - December 4, 2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Travis. He was predeceased by his mother Catherine Watson and grandfather Bill Watson. Travis is survived by his children Ashton and Kathryn Watson, grandmother Mary Watson, father Lloyd Chesney, brothers Ryan (Kerry) Chesney and Thomas (Veronica) Chesney, as well as many nieces and nephews. Travis was a loving father, whose children filled his life with love and pride. He was a kind and generous friend who touched the lives of many. A service will be held on Thursday, December 29, at 1 pm at Church of the Assumption, 7109 Glacier Street. We will also be having an open house from 4-7 pm on Thursday, December 29, at Julie's Airport Café, 7550 Duncan Street, for friends and family to celebrate Travis’ life.
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Louise Antonia Maria Grundle (née Culos) October 1, 1921-December 20, 2016
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Louise on Tuesday, December 20, 2016. Prayers will be held Tuesday, December 27 at 7 pm at Church of the Assumption, with a funeral Mass to be held Wednesday, December 28, at 1 pm.
Gary Wayne McCarter
My mom was born in Hay Lakes, Alberta, on Canada’s 60th anniversary; and was proud to tell you that she was "Canada’s Diamond Jubilee Baby!" The name given her (Grace Jubilee) was significant as it turned out to be a fitting summary of who she was. Her life was not easy, but she met difficulties with grace and a positive attitude, and was the first to say yes to an adventure. She was genuinely interested in other people; always ready with a smile, a hug, a helping hand, a welcome. She did not get to be a doctor like she wanted; instead she selflessly cared for her husband, and was the best mom and grandmother ever. Mom was so proud of her grandchildren, faithfully keeping track of each and every accomplishment. She loved her years of work in Sunday School in Campbell River. She will be missed by many; family and friends alike. Mom loved Christmas. The lights, the giving, the time together. This year she will be absent from Christmas with us; but she is home in Heaven in time for her first Christmas there. Mom we love you to the last star and back. Your life made such a difference to so many. We miss you.
You are always in our thoughts, filled with happy and loving memories. You are joined again with Mom, your true love, who we lost on December 1, 2016. May you hold each other tight until we can all meet again. Our love for you both is immense and never ending.
It is with great sadness we announce the sudden passing of our beloved Dad. Left to mourn his passing are his daughters Karen (Rocky) Gorham of Monroe, Washington and Valerie (Vincent) McCarter of Edmonton, Alberta, and grandson Taggart (son of Karen). He also leaves to mourn his dearly loved partner Lynn, loving sister Delores, many loved nieces, nephews and special friends. Our Dad was predeceased by his parents Robert and Agnes McCarter and sisters Marilyn and Audrey. To honour our Dad’s wishes, no service will be held. Please make donations to the charity of your choice in lieu of flowers, if so desired.
Angelina “Angie” Harris August 29, 1950-November 7, 2015
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Sadly, we announce the loss of our mom, Carmel Woods, who passed peacefully at home surrounded by her loving children. She was predeceased by our dad, Gerald Woods, whom we lost in December of 2013. We are grateful they are together again doing a Newfie jig. We would like to thank Doctor White for his many years of service to our parents and to all the home support staff who cared for our mom these past three years.
Jim (Maureen), Patti (Frank, predeceased May 6, 2016), Mary (Gary), Terry (Linda), Kelly (Damian), Kerry (Mark), your 10 grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and all your family in Newfoundland. No service by request.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to the staff of Willingdon Creek Village who did their best to create a home for my mother these past 7 years. We so appreciate the loving care given to my mother, and the support given us.
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Mom, our love for you and Dad is forever in our hearts and your spirit lives on within each of us. May you rest in peace.
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