CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, August 14, 1975

"Famed Elgar Choir Founder
Passes Away in Vancouver

Charles E. Findlater, 82, of
‘West Vancouver, founder and
director of the famed Elgar
Choir of British Columbia, died
last Thursday at Vancouver
General Hospital,

inent music teacher
in Vancouver since 1918, Mr.
Findlater foundéd the Wesley
Sunday School Choir in 1924,
The choral group's name was
changed in 1936 ‘to honor
Engh composer Sir Edward

More than 6,000 young
British Columbians were mem-
hers of various Elgar choirs
over a period of 61 years.

Following tara of Be Cc.
during the twenties and early
thirties, the choir gained inter-

national recognition with its °

appearance at the 1964 Chicago
World's Fair,

During depression years
the group became known as the
“trying pan choir" because of
the spartan meal budget they
operated on in their tourist
coach train travels.

The first of 19 overseas
tours was undertaken in 1998,
“During this visit to the U.K.
the choir won top honors at the
Welsh Eisteddfod Festival, the
first of countless musical festi-
val awards the choira received
over the years,

Various Elgar choirs
‘crossed Ca in 1941 and

Very much a family affair,
the cholr’s activities were as
alsted greatly by the late Mra.
Amy Findlater and two daugh-
ters, Yvonne (Mrs. R. W. Bell of
Burnaby) and Betty (Mra, W.
G, Thompson of North Vancou-
ver). Mrs, Findlater served as
“tour mother” and often pro-
vided unheralded financial sup-
peat te deserving, talented

oer. Findlater prede-
ceased her husband April 14,

3,

Although Mr, Findlater
taught voice and planoforte to
private atudents and was en-
gaged professionally by various
schools, his work with the
Elgar Choir was completely
voluntary. Funds raised at
overseas concerts were given
to local charities, including
those of the Red Cross, Rotary
and other organizations,

Two notable reunions were
held to mark the 40th and 50th
anniversaries of the choir's
founding. In 1964 a full house at
Queen Elizabeth Theatre paid
tribute to the Findlatera when.
hundreds of former cholr mem:
bers presented a purse to the
couple, °

For many years Mr, Find:
later was executive director of
the B.C, Registered Music
Teachers Association and had
been active in Rotary Clubs in

for B Britain” program and ther
wartime charities,

Following a 1949 summer
concert tour of the U.K., Mr.
and Mrs. Findlater started a
continuing program of visiting
B,C, centres, large and small, to
audition and select young sing-
ers s0 the tour choirs would be
representative of the whole
province.

¢ In 1960 the choir achieved.
aremarkable cultural break-
through with a concert tour of
the U.S.S.R.

Highlight of Mr. Find-
later's ambitions for his choir
was realized in 1963 when the
group left Vancouver on P&O's
8. 8. Orsova on a round-the-
world tour. Concerts were
given in San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Honolulu, Tokyo,
Bangkok and+various-eitles+in
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Vancouver.

Born July 2, 1893, in
Buckinghamshire, England, he

* studied at the Royal College of

Musle, London, and moved to
Vancouver in 1918.

Constable .

Gets Moved

To Grand Forks.

“A ROMP constable sta-
tloned here for the past year
takes up new duties in Grand
Forks tomorrow.

Gst, Paul Buck was posted
here on Aug. 12 of last year
following graduation from the
ROMP training facility at Re-
ging, Sask. He was on, general
duties while in Castlegar.

Cot, Buck, a native of Oak
Lake, Man., was married on
‘Aug. 2 to the former Laurie

Andruff of Castlegar.

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It wasn't quite the ridicu-

lous and the sublime, but
near enough. , con-
trasiingpeareet Canada on
a Sunday in summer.

doing & the dishes,

Poked around the neigh-
borhood, shaking our heads
over the property develop:
ments, where entreprenet
were getting as much for a
sin, their grand-

+ single lot as
fathers had for a 160-aere

farm with house and bara.
rated with each

other over the fat that wed
both be millionaires if we'd
bought some of this shore

Driving along the shore:
road, spotted alot of activity,
+ Naturally, stopped for a look,
as ‘one always does in the

country,

Itwas ascubs diving expe-
-dition, complete with vans,
tanks, goggies, snorkels, and
man-from-Mars suits,

Hung ‘around to watch,
and asked some casual

juestiona from one of the

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ther Soibies and adjusted
their fippers.

This was the real thing, no

question about it, and the
tanaion mounted ste:

getting fitted out for. the
Singers of tha depths:
octopi, sunken wrecks,
sharks.

‘There was only one female
in the group, an extremely
chubby ones and she had 20
much troul Squeesing into

Finally, purple in the face,
she was rei

‘Then their leader sp
peared. He had been ot
there, dearlessly probing: the

dangera of the

bara wreck,

He stood there, barking
orders,

em. iB
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nally, the big dive was
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[ Suaer and ed whe

jown. Then” they flopped
and snorkeled out, in about
two feet of water, to the
wreck, every nerve keyed,
every, sone alerted to the
perils

The assistant instructor,
who wasn’ beets the dive,
hed a with relief, pulled a

out of van, and
Oatted cheerfully with us.

“What do they do out
there?” he was asked. “Not
_a helluva lot” he replied,
“When you'veswum over the

it three

times,
that about i?

was an
there yeara before to serve
az.a dock for a boat-owner,

mi :
Couldn't help pondering on

why 20-odd people would
drive a round trip of 800
tiles from the city and get
dressed in’ Hallowe'en cos-
tumes to paddle: ‘around ‘in
three feet of water “explor-,
figs an old barge

‘Three hourslater, we were
stung ia the church for the.

Tat out of the Rata one
Norbina Carreiro
Guest of Honor

At Bridal Shower
A bridal shower in honor of

* Misa Norbina Carreiro was held

on Monday morning of Inat
week,

Corsages made by the.
hostess, Mra. Isabel Simpson,
were presented to the bride-to-
be, the mother of the bride,
Mrs. Silvino Carreiro, and the
mother of the groom, Mrs, Fred
Simpson.

Bridal bingo was played

* and prizes went to Miss Debbie

the big dive, sees ai
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here which underlin hin “4
silliness of the paroe te
guess we were as ing
prareitsly dressed fore fot
summer day as the divers —
shirts and ties and suits and
the people wero middle-aged
e people:
to old, with a sprinkling of
children.
But there -was a sense of
wing thee cose

the gel
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Catholic Church Here Uniting Two Longtime Local. Familes:

{ “two well-known and long-
time: Kinnaird area families
were united through marriage
when Lawrence Patrick Haley,
sdn,.of Mr. and. Mrs, Patrick
Haley, took as bis bride the
former Linda: Marie McGauley,
ddughter of Mr.: and Mrs,
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‘The young couple ‘ex-
clinnged their vows before Rev.
Father Trainor of Rutland,’an
uncle of the bride, with'the
altar decorated with baskets of
white and yellow mums.

Mr. Rudy Baff of Castlegar

red the wedding music and

the bride was given in marriage

bonquet a yellow sweetheart
roses ivy and
yellow and blue ribbons.

} The maid-of-honor was
Miss Barbara Wait le-

Misa pereee MeGauley and
Miss: [cGauley, both of
Castlegar, and Miss: Alt

Nair of Powell River,
All attendants were ident!-
cally ‘attired 'in gowns of blue
floral erepe with short, putly
sleeves, empire waistlines and
Npacetiness They wore gold
ts that were gifts of the

ice Mec-

bride and_each ‘carried a:

colonial bouquet of yellow.
muma interlocked with yellow
and blue butterflies and ribbon.
Mr. Girard’ McKenzle of
Prince George was best man
and daeate were Mr. John
and Mr. Harry Haley,
both of Castlegar, and Mr.
Randy Gascoyne of Surrey.
+’ For the reception held at
the Hi Arrow Arms, the bride's
mother wore a full-length gown

ai pink floral jaylon with a

ite and mauve

wi
f carnations ‘while the bride- *

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‘and her corage was of white
carnations,

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decorated with baskets of white

and blue’ mums,. and two:

Proposed by Mr. George Train-
or. of, Nelson,

Guests attended the wed-
ding were from Rossland, Trail,
Nelson, Kamloops, Silverton,
Kelowna, Kimberley, Vancou-
ver and’ Powell River, B.C.
Cheney, Colfax, Seattle, Ek-
well, Ephrata and Bellevue,

Wash., Eugene, Oregon, and
Hol i; Calif,

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dress with white accessori
the fall the young couple will be
golng to Vancouver where.both
will continue thelr studies at
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