nuary 13, 1972

: The following item has been sent to the Castlegar

H +News by Mr, T, Dor, of Tasu, In the Queen Charlotte Islands.

iNo source Is given, but the Pipedreamer found it an 1 Intrl-
y iguing story, so here it is:

Today there is no trace of-what was once one of the
‘most fertile, farming regions of Scotland. All that remains
are the sands... the shifting, restless, relentless sands of
‘Culbin,

Even now it’s an uncannily sad place, where all that

‘can bo heard is the sound of the wind sighing through the

pine trees, or the soft, sibilant whisper of the sands, Some-

times, too, the muffled chiming of a church bell can be.

‘heard, It sounds as if it is many miles away — but it’s not.
I's a church that is buried beneath the sand. ...

And when one of the weirdest disasters in the world

struck the barony of Culbin it was blamed on the Devil

The Pp farmers and fish of Culbin
: Were going about thelr day-to-day business as usual only a
{few hours before it happened. It was just a day like any
fother....

Even in the manor house, the Laird Kinnaird of Culbin
‘had no inkling that within a few hours almost five thou-
‘sand acres of land, and all its inhabitants were to disappear
for ever from the face of the Earth.

Almost 140 years ago, the Baron Kinnaird’s holdings
included his own mansion and estate, a large village and
church, sixteen tenant farms and the various crofts of fish-

ting or farming families. The laird’s territory was then a
‘ busy and prosperous area... and if some of the wealth
| came out of goods smuggled in from other P count

In
‘like nothing better than

the pipedreamer
By BRUCE RAMSEY

One local legend attributed the cause of the disaster
to Baron Kinnaird of Culbin having played cards against the
Devil — and lost.

The Baron's son, the last of the line and the only
survivor from the manor, served in the army but was killed
ten years later, almost to the exact hour that the disaster
struck, when he was sucked down into quicksand In South
Africa,

But the menace of the sands of Culbin didn’t end
then, For in the next few decades, many strangers to the
district disappeared there. One summer's day in 1905, a
man, touring the country by car with his wife and children,
stopped near the deserted, peaceful fooking shores there.
And while his family was playing happily among the sands,

Coffee Break ' :
Remember Those Days Long Ago

When ‘Girls Own’ Was Big Hit!

By Lols Hughes on over the orlee clothes,
quiet moments I id tuck the extra length
or under the skirts, th

{res and the laid's heavy gambling — well, those things
i were small enough in scope compared to what was going
yen in some other parts of the country.
So as the relatively prosperous people went about
! their normal business on that last day of Culbin, there was
‘ nothing then to warn them of the day-long calamity that
; was to overtake, cover, and eventually kill their com-
; munity.
i But as the day dulled, the wind, whipping in from
(the open vastness of the North Sea, blasted the tops off
! the sand dunes. The local people, terrified by the violence
: of the stinging torrents of sand, fled to the shelter of their
: homes and locked themselves in.
: Believing themselves to be safe there, the families
: huddled together around the inglenook and listened in awe
‘to the storm gathering strength.. Several times, some were
} smoked out of their homes as the shifting sands covering
: their chimneys, or else they had to leave because of flood-
sing [ting from of the dbars in the Find-
: horn Estuary.
: For the rest of that day and night the Culbin homes
: were blasted by the hail of sand until, alarmed by the
: pressure of sand on the doors and shutters, many of them
! fled from their homes and fought their way to safety elsa-
: where against the weight of the golden drifts.
: When the sandstorm ceased and the refugees of Culbin
: ventured back to their homes, the survivors must have been
: shattered by the sight that met their eyes. It wasn’t just
| @ scene of d it wos a | i
: scapel

Huge dunes covered the mansion and the home farm,

: area and. for, miles. around there was a desert where cree.
! there had been ferii d hot 5 }
2 Even this picture which they later described to their
i neighbors on returning was no longer true when they
called to see for themselves . . . for the dunes were on
the move and the scene was to change many times then and
| later.
Occasionally, the church steeple would be uncovered
— although its bell was said to give a muffled fled toll
: sometimes even when buried because of the movement
of the sand.
The mansion house, too, presumably because it was
the highest building in the area, appeared occasionally

as well as some of its orchard trees, still strangely Bearing.

fruit.

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d land- —

by ie
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collected guang my grow- iy

in
f Yip gra ndmother had a
Bits love Pot books and the
t moment In any vis-
it ‘) her home, an or al
homestead in Alberta just
outside of Pincher Creek,
would be if she parted with
one of her books: not only
be kept tertering with the
of the pedals; they also pro-
tect the skirt from becom-
ing soiled or dusty on the
floor of. te car,

An overall made of
khaki cloth or other heavy
material is a useful article

enerally ended up wif
Bi books for young,
fialee

Recently I ened
through one of the books,
“The Girl's Own Anni
It consisted of boun certs
es of “The Girl's Own Pap:
er and Woman's Magazine’

picture dre of the ong, lady Sady

formed ino our minds. Sem.
how I feel she would not
of

a

cular page caught -my eye—
Hints 1.

tical garment for motoring

and his wife was swimming, Steven Adamson went to
sleep in the sun.

Perhaps it was the silence.that wokened him... an
unnatural broken only by the plaintive’ distant cry of 9
curfew. When he stood up to look for his wife and child-
ren they had vanished. His shouts echoed across the Culbin
shores, pul there was no reply. ‘There would never be any
reply. Fo he foll i their fe tight from
the’ ‘isters edge to the high sand-dunes, they stopped
suddenly. tt was almost as If they had walked Into the dune.

The mound of killer sand had apparently swallowed

them — and the only trace was a brightly colored beach
ball half hidden in the sand dune,

Nine years later, the government took staps to prevent
these sands from doing any further harm, by planting a
four tt { acre forestry pl

But Culbin still has its mysteries — like the Incident
that happened four years ago, when three forestry workers,
walking through the plantation came across 8 cottage.

There was nobody in there, but the furniture and every-
thing looked as if the place had been occupied until only
28 few hours earlier. But ‘the forestry workers knew that the
house had not been there before, there had always been
& row of sand dunes standing on the spot.

They hurried to report their discovery to the local
authorities — but by the time anybody arrived to investi-
gate their discovery, the sands had moved again.

The cottage had disappeared once more.

Community Arts Council Gefs
Funds from B.C. Cultural Fund

Grant money totallin,
$1,205 has been receive
from t the B.C, Cultural Fund
by the Castlegar and Dist-
Lis Community Arts Coun-

ou the money will be dis-
tributed to a number of

Ings throu pout the year.
oa) of an organ-

king ‘oup for the
Arts Si feat, fr te ite
spring was cor-pleted with
ie SHS Drama Club, the Hrs. Ho Whittaker, Mr.

the SHSS Pauline Paulson,

Desie Crawford ine Charge
paintings and Mrs, Ruby
raha eoe ing after a weav-

in
irs, Ar ‘Arlene Ommundsen
i focrsinainn of the child-

school”
die to be held during
the Ke Days activities. Con-
tact with all
District

The Community. Arts
Council budget also include
ee money fe to

resented in June to
Meee junior and senior high
school students, for a ‘sum-
mer Program including a

ct has been made

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« . HE SCORES | 1

A Busy Week of Sports af Stanley Humphries

It's been another busy
: week athleti at Stan-
ley Humphries, Rocket-
were defeated by the
Naeon Bomberettes 31-26,
high scorers: w: ere im
Pacholzuk ue and Chriy. Fits:
atrick: with 8 points each

oar malnutes left, th nme
le: e game
atill tied z

‘The Grand Forks bo:
defeated Trail 44-41 in o' ‘a
ertime

vincials Vancouver.
Grand Forks by defeating
has helped the Rock-
or ino tine leagus: eet-
m
ing this year between iL
Crowe: Aap SHSS takes
at J. L. Crowe and
pie takes place at J, Li
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phy at 7 and the boys. at.
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Xonkin finished
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Junior
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On Jan. 6, junior
Rockers defeated a7 with
a score of 69-26. Manuel De-

pied made 22 points in that

Meanwhile, the junior
Rockettes have been ‘pract-
feing hard and are looking
forward to thelr first game
against Grand Forks next

Coste rar
with too sblee were Mure
22, Price and Eddy zenrolt

eed singles wore
Ke! Alex
Josafatow, Kevin Moran and

2 ES ie cat
. Earp foe
Bae ie ate

been a very enjoyable and -

challenging year of curling.

Castlegar Author Publishes
Book of Religious Poetry.

A collection of poems,
“Mount Up On Wings” isa
familiar book now available
locally and is the work of
author pucy Ellen Eaton, a
resident of this area since

Mrs, Eaton, who said
the lore of olden

Mrs. Eaton spoke

While
at Iength on her work, she *

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