a6 Castlégar News March 1, 1989

A last look at Heritage Wee

Scenes from
the station

The Oldtime Fiddlers (above)
entertained visitors to the
Castlegar Rail Station during
Heritage Week; Darlene
McDowell (above right) of the
Selkirk Weavers and Spinners
Guild demonstrates the fine art
of spinning; Castlegar Mayor
Audrey Moore and Jeff Robson
of CP Rail (right photo) unveil a
plaque honoring the city, CP Rail
and the Heritage Society for
their work in restoring the
station; license plates from the
past loom above the heads of
visitors to the station.

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Technology overtakes
telegraph operators

SAINT JOHN
Pacifie’s reliance—on—the
dispensible are of telegraphy

The last telegraph operator
ass pounders" as they wer
laid off from Saint John div

the CPR, 1

Iway, on Nov

It was asad day kc

McCracken

rator anc
upersisor at McAdai

y in the
province

They knew for

itable

According 1 y © order in
McCracken’s bulgir crapbook, it
wa 1, 1971 that CP Telecom

n New Brunswick gave

Jon all of its Morse

he key an’ ounders,

ap out usands of

urgent messages wher telegraph

was the lifeblood'ofCPR operations,

fell silent. Skilled telegraph operators

were reduced t t more than
telephone jockey

And another art
said McCracken, “is lost to the F

McCracken, who retire¢
in 1984 af
took up ing
from high school in 1940. At that time
because of the Second World War, th

ou might

rom CPR
42 years with the railway

elegraphy afte

demand for telegraph operators wa
high

Being musical was one of the at
tributes of a good telegraph operator,
said McCracken. Being fast didn't hurt
cither — some operators could send
messages at up to 100 words a minute

The telegraph operator not only sent
and received vital messages about
railroad cargo movements. Otten, par
ticularly. during war-time, they also
dispatched urgent and unwanted per
sonal messages

They included War Department
telegrams informing families of
missing father, son or brother. All had

tobe hand-delivered

one Was missing in action,

jd go and the minister fir
¢ recalled. “If they were woun
ded you would just deliver it yoursell

Some women would break down and

McCracken, who collects railroad
memorabilia of all kinds, is doing his
best these days to keep the glory days
of the telegraph operator alive
east ensure the era gets a decent

ft

own research shows that at one

there were more than 130
elegraph operators in the Saint John
divisior

McCracken said the first record he
has of any railway telegraph operators
in-this region was-a W.-FNoble whe
entered service in 1895 and later
became an operator in the Saint John
office

Hiring for operator_pesitions step-
ped during the Depression but, during
the Second World War, men and
women were being signed on. That
when McCracken was hire

But by the late 1950s, the writing we

onthe wall

The telegraph operator was on the

the history be nd

Hendry Senetza, CP Rail's assistant terminal supervisor in Nelson,
looks at one of the old telegraphs on display at the Castlegar Rail

Station last week during Heritage Week

CosNews Photo

Historic house neglected

HALIFAX (CP)
derelict, the house of One of Canada’s

Fathers of Confederation is in a state

Like an gged

of desolation

One of the 14 such houses left, it has
been designated as a national historic
site. But the building Jonathan Mc
Cully called home between 1863 and
1877 now squats among wine battles
and torn bags of garbage

Some call it a national em
barrassment.

"It's a disgrace that a nation doesn’t
think these buildings are important to
us," says Elizabeth Ross, director of
the Federation of Nova Scotia

Heritage. ‘I think that’s shocking.”*

Ross says the house would be
“covered in flags” if it were in the
United States. But in Halifax, the only
covering on the McCully house is a
mottled-coat of pigeon droppings of
the sides of its greyish, cracked walls

Besides helping to form a country,
McCully also owned a newspaper in
Halifax that ofteh featured pro
Confederation editorials. He was one
of the first senators of the Dominion
of Canada

The three-storey house was built in
1859 and has a form rooted in 18th
century British classical tradition

McCully died in it in 1877

Responsibility for the upkeey of the
house lies with the City of Halifhx, but
it may not stand muchfonger. It will be
razed if restoration plans are not
produced soon

“There comes a point when we may
says Richard Mat
thews, the city’s planning and

have to do that,

development director

“We're beginning to get near it

In the last few years, the city_has
asked interested developers to come up
with restoration schemes. Three sets of
grants totalling around $350,000 are
available

Castlegar News __s7

March 1, 1989

Printed heritage in danger

To date, the institute has preserved some $6,000 books and pamphlets and
6,000 annual periodicals at a cost of $9.8 million. It will finish the annuals by

Ry KATHRYN YOUNG
OTTAWA (CP) — Robert Montague gently pulls a brittle yellowed page
from a 1890s Quebec government report and cups his fingers around it, It disin-
tegrates like adried leaf
Montague, head of a group that preserves historical works by photographing
them on wafer-thin plastic, smiled uneasily as he demonstrated the fragility of
Canada’s heritage.
“I'm not keen to appear in public as a book destroyer;"’ said Montague, There's the Wanted posters for Louis-Joseph Papineau, who led the Quebec
rebellions of the 1830s, and all issues of Jesuit Relations, the annual reports sent

summer and then start on quarterly, monthly and weekly magazines
DECADE TOGO
Montague estimates it will take 10 to FS years to get the rem ing 60,000 pre
1900 documents microfilmed ‘‘and then we'll be a century behind,”
The microfiche cards contain a treasure trove for histroy buffs.

exécitive director of the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions,

So far-the institute-has microfilmed.some 62,000 books, pamphlets, maps,
posters and annual periodicals published before 1900.

Copies of the microfilm are available for study at 32 research libraries across
the country, mostly at universities but also at some public reference libraries

ES ARISES

© of the emergency facing Canada’s printed states
Some documents may seem insignificant, but they're often the only evidence

by.early Jesuit missionaries.to Paris inthe 1630s,

Some microfiche Cards contain echoes Of current issues. An 1891 ‘poster op
posing reciprocity, akin to free trade, played on fears of the United States, It
shows Opposition leader Wilfrid Laurier and other Liberal politi
porters of receiprocity, laying out the State of Ontario on a map of Canadian

ans, key sup

“The institute exists becau
herita the tall, lanky Montague explains.

t’s not a widely known fact ... but printed-materials are endangered by the

environment, physical conditions and chemicals, primarily in the way paper is

of how Canadians lived

Old cookbooks suggest thé level of nutrition and fitness
made,"* Railway supply company catalogures record when new equipment was in

About six per cent of the material in a book is water. It reacts with sulphur
compounds floating in the air from cars and péllution and forms sulphuric acid,
whichis easily absorbed by wood pulp

Acid and another chemical used in paper-making, alum, turn paper yellow
and makeit brittle.

ROTS QUICKLY
“‘It simply rots really quickly,”” the soft-spoken Montagug says

troduced, Derital School records and fee schedules lor doctors reveal the state OF
medicine

David Bentley, institute president and an English professor at University of
Western Ontario in London, said putting all those documents on microfilm
benefits researchers across the country

For example, a student in Victoria needing a docunient from a small museum
in Ontario might never have been able to see it. Now, only a few minutes are
needed to locate it onmicrofiche ina university library

**L can set essay topics now for my honors class that | wouldn't even have
dreamt of setting before,"’ Bentley said in aninterview

Beniley himself has produced five editions of early Canadian poems in the
last two years using microfiche records — a task that would have been impossible
before the institute's project

Bentley compared the institute's
historic buildings like the Fortress of Louisbourg, the restored Frengh fort on

work to that of architects who preserve

Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia

“The public is very -aware of the value of restoring old buildings,’’ Bentley
said. **I don't think that same awareness has fully spread to the printed heritage of
Canada."

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than those produced afterwards. :
Montague turned the pages of a 1613 work on the voyages of French explorer

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Heat, humidity, moulds, insects and mice also'take their foll-on printed
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The non-profit institute was set up in 1978 by the Canada Council’ to
microfilm all of Canada’s pre-1900 printed materials. It evolved into a co-

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operative project and now receives funds from several sources, including research
libraries across Canada and the National Library in Ottawa where most of the
microfilming is done
PICTURES TAKEN

In microfilming, a large overhead camera takes pictures of documents held
open on a special tray below it. The process itself, doesn’t harm documents since
the light used to photograph them is brief and not Very strong. Most of the dahger
comes from opening the books flat and turring the pages

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film negatives. Each card — 10 centimetres by 15.centimetres — contains 98 pages
of text

The institute has produced about 121,000 microfiche cards so far — almost

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