{ Bs CASTLEGAR NEWS, April 14, 1982 ~Sanderson continued from B7 Sanderson interested Fred Hume of Nelson and a man named Cowan, of Revelstoke, in joining him In building the steam catamaran “Dispatch.” It was a twin-hulled ... one of the earliest lake captains _ itself, and the duty, since the steel and’ all materials necessary for the building of the rallway between: Castlegar. and Nelson had to be carried by water. Thus the boats ran night and'‘day, stopping only to load and. unload or take on d: d for the a. sternwheeler and the first tocarry on the Arrow Lakes between Revelstoke and Sproats’ Landing {just beyond the present railway bridge). Just before Sanderson died, the Women's Canadian Club of Revelstoke commissioned him to build a model of the Dispatch which is now exhibited in the archives in Victoria. In 1890, with a great increase in lumbering and mining in the Kootenays, a company was reorganized by these three men under the name of Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company and, in order to comply with stiffening Canadian regulations, Sanderson went to Victoria, sat. and passed his exams for his captain's papers, The new company built the steamer “Lytton” but since it soon proved inadequate to meet the growing transportation needs of the area, Captain Sanderson took a crew down to Spokane and purchased a steamboat he had heard about for $1,400. U: he did not h gh money for the duty on the boat, so he put the crew aboard, sent the customs man ashore for more whiskey and slipped out in the night across the border. In two trips up and down the lake, the boat had paid for Province’s first venison farm VANCOUVER (CP) — A casual discussion about what * would make a restaurant uniquely Canadian has prompted two young Fraser Valley men to plan the prov- ince’s first venison farm. There has been some un- official encouragement from provincial authorities and the B.C. Environment Ministry now in testing public’opinion on the idea of setting up a couple of pilot game-ranching projects. Organizations represent- ing hunters, naturalists and - conservationists largely op- pose the plan, but little is known about the actual ways and means of local farming of deer, moose and elk. Critics seem to assume that any such enterprise would be based, like Interior cattle ranches, on large hold- " ings of “wild” rangeland, much of it leased from gov- ernment. Ken Stewart, who with partner W.J. Stelmaschuk hopes to be chosen for one of the pilot projects, says in his case the operation would be confined to private land and would be almost totally self- contained. STUDIED DEER FARMS It would begin on an eight- hectare. parcel of private pasture land near Stewart's Maple Ridge home. Stewart has spent many weeks study- ing deer-farming in New Zea- Jand, where the business has been well accepted. He has sought out the arguments of crease in illegal hunting and poaching of all game species. ‘WOULD BE INSPECTED But Stewart argues that meat produced by game farms would require inspec- tion and certification just like beef, and illegal meat should be no more of a problem that rustled beef is today. Stewart would obtain his deer stock in three ways. He would capture fawns in wild- erness areas of large deer populations and bottle-feed them for the firat months; he would trap problem deer, such as those raiding Okan- agan orchards, and he would buy from ‘licenced suppliers in other parts of the world. “I'm sure a great many British Columbians would love to obtain the meat of wild game without hunting it themselves,” he said. “It’s a staple item of many menus in restaurants and pubs in Brit- ain, Europe, New Zealand and other places. Game ranching is one. way of heeding the scientists who tell us- we must make better use of all sources of protein.” In the formal application made by Stewart and Stel- maschuk to the B.C. Environ- ment Ministry, the pair say. that game ranching should not and would not conflict with the goal of provincial game management. his B.C. opponents and says he is doing his best to refute them. One common argument, he says, is that game ranches take over Crown land and deplete wildlife habitat. But Stewart says the ranch would bring a chance for presently unprofitable pri- NEW IN TOWN? vate land to be used ina new and profitable way without UT Us PUT losing its agricultural status. Opponents also contend OUT THE MAT that wildlife should be left undisturbed on wildlands and * should not be subjected to Management systems con- ducted mainly for profit. “I entirely agree about leaving wildland alone,” Stewart says. “But I also see herds of farm deer, moose or elk raised on private land as an agricultural business.” ‘is Wialeectboanr sae oie Py A third argument to the plan is that once venison be- JANICE HARDY comes a legal item on the 365-3842 market, it will mean a big in- t2= off ALL WICKER While Stock Lasts Town Squore — Trail (COLO EATON’S BUILDING) Mon. - Sat. 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m, = 364-1321 fired boilers from along the lake edge. When the CPR bought out the Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company, Captain Sanderson was retained as pilot and interpreter for he knew two local Indian dialects, as well as Chinookin, the trade language of all the coast tribes and merchants, In 1894 Captain Sanderson left the company, bought the small stern-wheeler “Marion” and continued carrying passengers and freight up and down the lake. About the same time he filed a claim on a mineral spring on the shore of the upper lake about 18 miles from Nakusp. He had seen the steaming sulphurous water. pouring over the rocks during cold weather during his early freighting days and his curiosity had been aroused by the Indians who feared it greatly, describing it as the work of a devil “cilltes.” “Put-em snake in water, turn-um white; put-em frog in water, turn-um white.” Unimpressed, the Captain had gone ashore, taken water samples for testing and found that it contained salts suitable for curing and related’ The re, when the freighting business was slack the Captain and his crew bored wooden pipé, first by. hand, then with water power, and led the water to a “dugout” where people with rheumatism could come and bathe away their ills, He called the name of the place Halcyon, meaning “idylically calm and peaceful.” It was one of his favorite places on the lake and became'a very popular spot. for visitors. both p and limited, so Captain Sanderson. decided ‘to’ expand ‘and improve the operation. - alts t Thay He d Nate Loy’ of Rossland and Bruce (Captain Sutherland) carrying a girl who couldn't walk off the Minto, Two weeks, later she ‘walked ‘back on without difficulty. But I, guess it was really prohibition that fixed | Halcyon.” i . Still, it must have been a busy place 80 years ago, for besides the hotel and spa, there was a shipyard, a’ boiler works and a flourishing bottling plant run by a John McNaught, a Scottish lawyer. ° : Rossland, at the turn of the century, was a rapidly- growing boom town and two general Englishwomen, Misses Mary and Clara Waite, decided that it might be'a desirable location ‘for a ladies’ dress and millinery shop. They therefore took a ship across the Atlantic, the CPR train to Revelstoke, then down the Arrow Lake by: steamer. to Sproats’ Landing. and from thense to. Rossland by stagecoach. They had hardly arrived in Rossland when Mary contracted a very painful form of rheumatism and, on advice, they went to Haleyon for the waters. -s Here she met, was courted by, and accepted, Captain Sanderson, The wedding date was set for Oct. 20.and it was to bea grand affair. A special boat brought guests, together with several cases of champagne and two ministers, from Revelstoke to Halcyon. Pye When'the Captain was asked for the licence, hé was able to produce a captain's licence, a hotel‘:manager's licence, but no marriage licence! The much-discomfited Miss Waite was therefore obliged to preside at her wedding celebrations without a wedding. f -However, five days later, the couple was married in Nelson by the Rev. Akehurst and all was well. Times have indeed changed. 4 f ae Sister Clara Waite was married shortly afterward to Charlie Johnston, a CPR lineman, and they built a hotel at Waterloo, ‘a town downriver from Tincup Rapids' (across from Brillianty on the Columbia River and about where the Castlegar dump is located today. 2 Craddock to join him in a partnership and. together they built the first Halcyon Hotel and sanitoriumi. It had, as well, one concrete “plunge” — to be used by the women at one time of the day and men at another — a bar ‘and a resident fiddler enhanced the social scene. Mrs. Sutherland, in speaking of it, said, “Oh, it was a nice place — all terraced with logs and planted with roses! Many people received relief there. I can. remember Osborne ‘A little later they abandoned the hotel, joined the Alaska gold rush with moderate success. and then’ moved to the United States. It was a very busy time here at the turn of the century. 4 Inthe meantime, shortly after the birth of their daughter, Marion, the Sandersons left Trail and built a house and lived briefly in Nelson, but Arrow Lakeé‘and Halcyon still had a powerful pull, so Captain Sanderson filed on a lime outcrop Al ‘on the lake below Halcyon Mountain (now Odin and .Thor) and built a ‘huge. lime kiln there. The quicklime from this kiln was carried by CPR steamers for several years‘and was used extensively in smelting operations of the CM&S8 in Trail and many of the early buildings about this area, including the Hotel at St. Leon, the Revelstoke courthouse and the old Central Hotel, in Revelstoke. sahabli d is, ahighly p and a’ difficult. product to, handle so that the kiln was abandoned after several years of operation and the Captain then spent a year perfecting a rotary steam engine. He made two wooden models of the engine and patented it under the name of the Sanderson Economator, but, like so many promising ideas, it was never developed commercially and the models were later lost in a fire. In the period between 1907 and 1914 the Captain took over the self-propelling dredge operating between the upper and lower lakes and recalls these as happy times when, on every holiday — even on weekends — the family would take the train and join the Captain on the lakes. In 1919, after his daughter Marion. married Osborne Sutherland, captain of the tug “Irene,” built by the Genelle Lumber Company for a mill'at Leslie, Captain Sanderson bought the hull of the burned out S.S. Kootenay, set up a machine shop on it and operated it until his death in 1924. His last wish had been that he be buried at his beloved Halcyon, therefore Captain Charlie Johnston, his old friend, took the remains of the Captain across the lake in his tug “Secord” and he and his friends carried the coffin up the hill. ‘The cortege was met by Brigadier-General Burnham, then proprietor of the Halcyon spa, dressed in full uniform and military decorations and he, accompanied by his nurses and staff, followed the. coffin to the little cemetery. where the ‘ Captain had helped bury several of his old comrades. Thus, at age 75, ended the colorful career of Captain Robert Sanderson — sailor, inventor, builder, prime mover, pioneer, “wonderful companion and friend.” . 3 He is survived by son. Robert, of Calgary and daughter Marion (Mrs. Osborne Sutherland) of Robson. My thanks to granddaughter Ann Croft of Winnipég, for much of the material in this article, as well as Captain and Mrs. Sptherland, Helen McLeod, Gilbert Fowler and Johnston. : ‘Sixth Annual West Kootenay MZe SPECIAL DOOR PRIZES Trip for 2 to Reno 20” Color - Magnasonic TV . ess org ins ve Friday, April 23 = Saturday, April 24 10 a.m. -.10 p.m. 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. Sunday, April 25 “oo I p.m. -6 p.m, Over 100.Exhibitors Ethnic Crafts & Musical Entertainment Cars & Boats Craft Tables Pancake Breakfasts Sporting Goods Huge Home & Garden Show Bavarian Gardens Free Draws : Juried Art Show Family Shows . (with Magicians & Jugglers) Cash Draw ‘Sunday, April 25 $500 Cash Draws Friday, April 23 & Saturday, April 24 Proceeds to, West Keotenay Boy Scouts $1000. During the 10thA _.@ e e ‘ 2 e Join in this Fun Happening : sary of Multi-culturalism & | * the 75th Anniversary of Boy Scouts of Canada CASTLEGAR ARENA COMPLEX —_, CASTLEGAR SELKIRK LIONS CLUB VSS RAUCRND SAR ENE ey tyoNpa coven eAtaUnresejeutnimegneapeaveen RuamameesTC TANT you with know how "clothes with a young splri T-shirt has a crew neck and a nautical motif. + J.J.'s continues to pride in their collection of dazzling colour combinations of khaki, royal, fad and white ‘selected for nd: Sandy Hill of The Bay models pleated harem knickers Marvelous natural cotton and ray and vibrant colours with exotic Z Pipi es prints and rich stripe: on. fashions exclusively styled. Fun clothes in glorious s. Our choice of the seasons best, lots Spring fashion options reflect right to choose The beauty of this spring's dressing: is in its broad range of fashion clothes, and the options that reflect the freedom of the women, ‘who is more of an individual than ever before, Whether they opt for a slim, leather. mini or o long and loose floating gown, more and. more women are exerting their right to choose in fashion, as they are now -doing in many facets of their lives. So, what you'll be seeing most of in spring, 1982, is in chi to wear, wheth what each womai short'or long, slim or loose. Perhaps the most important thing to remember will be that appropriateness is irrelevant. The variety of fashion options for this spring begins with the — many lengths of skirts and pants.’ High-rising pants, skirts, and dresses are turning up in full, blouson shapes as well as in slim silhouettes. Hemline length varies from below the knee up to - mid-thigh for both skirts , and dresses, In pants, it rises from the new mid-calf cropped h leg, in Hocking or tishnet in the brightest of colors or in pristine white, -And, almost-flat shoes are almost always worn with these new short lengths, espbcially those with low-cut vamps that further lengthen the leg; Other great fashion op- tions are the long, loose pieces — skirts and culot- ‘tes — that fall in gentle Pleats from the waist to ‘mi to and knickers; and then on up to Bermuda's. and the sexiest of short shorts. Easy dressing This year's version of | last year's over-sized tunics are the easy dresses that just reach the top of the knee. and are bloused over a wide waist sash or are belted with low slung wraps that make the hip the focal point. . . Proportion plays an im- rtant part in this spring's Felaxed’ mood, with the simplicity and comfort of a longer tunic over a short, - ; slim skirt. Soft-falling, unconstruc- ted tops or jackets slide over the hips to mid-thigh and are worn over knee- length narrow skirts. The shapes are fuller when short is shortened to mid-thigh or more, and silky sweaters or neat, waist cropped jackets complete the proportion correctly. + What this trend towards shorter lengths means is that we'll be seeing more and more legs bared. There will be a reap- pearance of the decorated or longer. mid-calf or longer. There are also loose and flowing jackets that stretch to finger tip length to com- lete a lovely long-over- long proportion. Pants, too, make‘an ap- pearance in new, graceful shapes, and almost look like skirts, especially those that fall to somewhere between the ankle and the nee. Featherweight fabrics In spring, 1982, designers will be using featherweight fabrics, luscious linens, silks, cot- tons and cotton poplins, even ultra-thin wools and gabardines. There is also an easy mixing of texture, such as a silk dress wrapped at the hip in suede or a smooth silk skirt topped with a nubby linen jacket. , Colors range from either bold and bright to earth- toned water color washes, grays, rich red clays, and subtle golden tones. Patterns are paired, combining stripes and dots with floral prints to further expand the wide range of choices for today’s woman. . “ Section C Wednesday, April 14, 1982 Classified in this. Section fashion! Anna | Caligiuri models a Primrose wool spring coat in an aqua color available at Alfonso Apa Ladies and Men's Wear,-. Joanne Turner of West's Department store, modelling a three piece, cream and bla shantung suit 3rd Dimension.