The Castlegar Sun

Wednesday, February 8, 1995

Wednesday, February 8, 1995

The Castlegar Sun

Page 7B

Council seeks
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Michael Heard explained how Castlegar got its name at last week's Kiwanis meeting.

Castlegar's origins unveiled

HARRY KILLOUGH
For The Castlegar Sun

Michael Heard was the guest
speaker at the regular Kiwanis
Club meeting last Tuesday night
This distinguished gentleman
spoke at length - as Irishmen
know so eloquently how to do—on
the subject ‘What's in a Name?’

“All Celtic peoples love con-
versation;” joked our speaker -
and then proceeded in fine form,
as well as any Irishman who ever
kissed the Blarney Stone

“The surname tells where
you're from,” said Heard. “If
your name is Lynch, you come
from Galway.” Then he explained
that the term ‘lynching’ comes
from an incident where Galway’s
Mayor Lynch—being a cost-effec-
tive gentleman—took it upon him-
self to hang his own son for
raping and murdering a fisher-
man’s daughter.

The truth is, Heard had come
to expound his well-researched
theory on the answer to our focal
riddle: What is the origin of
Castlegar - the name of our fair
city? Like Sherlock Holmes with
an Irish lilt, he proceeded to set
down his clues.

And before the evening was
over, he had come closer than
anyone to date at solving the
longstanding mystery

He began by saying that immi.
grants naturally tend to name
new places’after the cities from
which they came

“There are 23 Londons and 17
Southamptons—as well as many
Parises, Hamburgs and Berlins, *
he said, “but there's only one

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First our speaker quoted from a
research paper by B.W. Henry
“In the village of Castlegar is
Castlegar Castle which is now
nearly entirely in ruins, on the
back of which is a handball alley
used by the villagers. This is sup-
posed to have been built by the De
Burgos, and is called Castlegar
from the Irish ‘An Caislean Gearr’
or the short castle, as nobody is
supposed to have stayed there for
more than one night.”

In other words, it was a “short-
stay” castle on the way between
Galway and the next city. Then
Heard produced a copy of the
1855 register for the parish of
Castlegar (near Galway)
obtained by his sister who lives in
that fair city.

He believes it very likely that
Castlegar, B.C. was named by a
member of David Thompson's
party or some early day surveyor,
boat captain, train engineer, or
section foreman who came from
that quaint little parish of Castle-

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gar, Ireland.

If any local person remembers
hearing of a name that's on that
list, then we may know who
named our city

“The Féeney family from
Salmo and the Newell family
from Nelson are two names
appearing on it,” added Heard.

At question time, our speaker
began to shoot from the hip with
his lively sense of humor. At this
point, several good pioneer
names went down in flames—and
I was told that my name is not
Irish after all—but Scottish. But
all was in good fun.

Then we ended by joining our
speaker in a somewhat shaky but
recognizable version of that
quaint old Irish tune

“If you ever go across the sea
to Ireland

Then maybe at the closing of
your day

You will sit and watch the
moon rise over Cladaugh

And see the sun go down on
Galway Bay.”

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Castlegar council wants the
federal government to amend the
Charter of Rights and Freedoms
so that intoxication cannot be
used as a defence of a crime.

Council made the request: in
response to a letter from the
Smithers council.

Councillor Ron Armbruster-
said in recent court decisions
those charged are being declared
innocent because of the state of
their intoxication at the time of
the offense.

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Even sweepers
build cathedrals

Father-Dunstan accepts any
help—even from columnists

“I gave a various gift to each,

‘To charm, to strengthen, and
to teach.”

- Longfellow: ‘The Singers.”

Last December, after finishing
my teaching session at Westmin-
ster Abbey and just before leav-
ing for home, I took a stroll
around the quiet aisles of the
Abbey Church to reacquaint
myself with the work of Father
Dunstan.

There are 20 of his 800-pound,
high bas-relief sculptures ranging
around the recessed walls of the
unique Benedictine church locat-
ed on top of the hill overlooking
the city of Mission.

Each measures about five-feet
square and about 10 inches deep.
Each represents some saint
and/or event in the history of the
church. Each is a declaration of
the skills, devotion and tenacity
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individual.

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forced cast in concrete sculptures
was begun a dozen years ago and
it took a year to complete the first
one after the cartoon (full-sized
drawing) had been drawn. When
the work was finally finished and
hung in the church, the monks
built a studio for the sculptor
with a hoist, adjustable box-table,
water, adequate lighting and dou-
ble doors. Production time per
unit was reduced to six months
while designs became steadily
more sophisticated and skills
more finely honed.

Board
seeks
rezoning

Castlegar school district wants
to rezone of piece of property
next to Twin Rivers Elementary
School for use as staff parking.

‘The property is located at 631
6th Ave. on the north side of the
school and is presently zoned
residential. The school district
wants to rezone the property to
Schools, Institutional and Public.

Mayor Mike O'Connor noted
that residents in the area have
expressed concerns that the prop-
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suggested city staff ensure the
parking lot has proper drainage.

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The first sculpture, “Abraham
and Isaac”, stands on the wall at
the right of the main aisle just
beyond the big glass entrance
doors. Abraham, his knife raised,
is about to sacrifice Isaac, his

ofly son, but is restrained by an

angel who holds back his arm,
The forms are rather static and
stilted, like early medieval stone
carvings, but the skills are
already evident.

Only a little less surprising,
when I come to think of it, is the
fact that Father Dunstan will
accept any help that he can get so
that I have had some small part to
play in all other 19 sculptures,
and this reminds me of a story: A
medieval traveller arrived at a
city where he found hundreds of

She drew herself up proudly,
smiled and gestured toward the
huge structure and said: “I am
building a cathedral.”

And so you have them, these
“cathedtals” on both sides of the
aisle, in the trancepts and at the
front of the choir: Michael the
Archangel guardian of the Peo-
ple; Pope Gregory the Great
writing the life of St. Benedict in
his “Dialogues”; St. Peter stand-
ing defiantly in the bow of his
fishing boat, braced against a
stormy sea; John the Baptist bap-
tizing the Israelites in the Jordan;
the dying St. Benedict, supported
by his monks and St. Paul
addressing the men of Athens
about their “unknown god”.

In the right trancept (side aisle)
Sir Thomas More sits in his cell
in the ‘Tower of London the night
before his beheading, while his
wife and daughter beg him to
make peace with the king.

Across from them, the Canadi-
an Jesuit martyr, Father Brebeuf,
writhes in torment while two
Hufon Indians, engulfed in
flames, suffer on his left and a
totem wolf Iroquois howls in tri-
umph on his right. It is a dramatic
piece and shows the steady evo-
lution of Father Dunstan's sculp-
tural and dramatic skills.

My two favorites are a mount-
ed St. Martin dividing his cloak
with a naked beggar, and St.
Frances of Rome feeding the
children. The Roman soldier-
saint’s horse, through the magic

people at work building a Gothic

of appears to leap
our of the sculpture, while the

da stone

doing?” The mason answered
shortly: “I’m building a wall.”

He then approached tle car-
penter. “What is it that you are
doing?”

Without turning his head, the
carpenter said, “As you can see
for yourself, I am building the

ceiling.

Finally he approached an old
peasant woman who was busily
sweeping up the stone chips and
wood shavings with her twig
broom. “And what are you
doing?”, he asked.

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St. Frances is the very
essence of womanly nurturing.

These sculptures represent
only a fraction of his artistic out-
put. He is presently grappling
with the problems of an eight-
foot tall, free standing statue of
the Annunciation, as well asan
epic poem and a movie dramati-
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Continuing Education at the
campus nearest you

Program applications
The Nelson Campus invites
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Nursing program
At the Castlegar Campus,

program are staging a cut-a-thon
Feb. 14 and 15 in the Hair Salon
at the Nelson campus.

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The next meeting of the Selkirk
College Board will be Tuesday,
Feb. 14 at the Trail Campus, The
meeting begins at 7:15 p.m. and is
open to the public.

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