: ‘ LOCAL WINNERS have been named in the Great Christmas Card Competition . “Canadian: Cellulose judges, left to ight Stanley Humphries’ art teacher Mrs. Carot” * Couch, CanCel sccounjing secretary and union + sponsored by Secondary Schoo! Gayle Burli + seven Carilyn Briscoe, Russell Lundquist: -and Katherine Ross; a Roger Briscoe, Karen Mi Kinakin; age 11-to 34, Colin Markin, Neva: Evdokimoff and: Alexis Walsh, puervene was a winner with’ the com- ape. eight to 10, jer-Talt and Lori Ed Conray. Winners are named in order of first, second and third. Ages five to Ak sea ig ac nickel dollar to sters who entered the, Christ- mas car design contest. Who's coming to ‘dinner = on Parliament Hill?” By BOB DOUGLAS OTTAWA (CP) — Dave Farrell has plans for an unusual meeting between 14 prisoners and several cabinet ministers and MPs at a private dinner on Parliament Hill. The purpose, says the _. New executive director of * Prison Fellowship of Canada, is to show political leaders and senior i ser- their faith and prayer and this had ,transformed the atmosphere of the prison. Lorton is unusual in that the prisoner ringleaders took - charge, he said. But similar fellowship groups have sprung up in Canadian pri- sons and are having an. influence. ‘Farrell said prison fel- lowship is a non. -denomina- tional ion which en- vice officials that there is some hope in the prison system. Prison fellowship is a new group with close links to a similar organization created in the United States by former Watergate convict Charles Colson. Farrell is taking a two-year leave of absence from his justice department job to head the fellowship. He said in an interview * the prisoners at this Parlia- ment Hill dinner will be Christians and they will tell how their lives have been changed through their faith and fellowship with other believers-in prison. He plans to hold the dinner during a three-day seminar the prisoners will be + attending in the Ottawa area before returning behind bars. CHANGE NEEDED “It is a risk, you know,” said. the friendly, rugged- looking lawyer. People in- vited to the dinner might not be able to come or there might be some other hitch. But already two MPs have offered to take’a leading part in arranging the dinner.” But it’s a part of his vision of what prisons could be. Not only can individual men change their lives but “We should be changing an environment,” he said. Farrell, who has visited prisons as a volunteer for eight years, recalled a trip to Lorton Institution, near. Washington, D.C., in 1977. “We saw the prison had changed because the leader- ship of the prison had changed. The prisoners be- came positive instead of negative." : Briefly, two concerned outsiders had approached the prison warden about talking to ringleaders among the prisoners. The two had spent months ~ having discussions and running errands for them until the prisoners trusted them, LEADER ATTACKED _ Out of this trust, the leading prisoners made a ‘decision to “follow the Bible and follow Jesus,” despite a knife attack by seven other prisoners on one of them, Farrell said. They had form- ed a close group for.sharing Compliments of CASTLEGAR NEWS courages fellowship groups in prisons. He .is a Roman Catholic but there are repre- sentatives of several other denominations on the board of directors, Paul Hellyer, a former Liberal‘cabinet minister and Progressive Conservative MP, is chairman of the Cana- dian organization. . Although. the group | has federal prisons in New Bruns- wick, Quebep and Ontario, : Prisonprs attending the Ottawa-arga . seminar, will come from seven prisons in Ontario aris; Quebec. Prison chaplains wall also attend and the prisonsts will return to their indtigutions “with a challenge te) start and sup- port fellowship groups.” Farrelhsaid his group is not trying:to compete with any other organization work- ing in prisons. Some groups spring up spontaneously in prisons without outside impetus, he said. Groups of prisoners meet to read the Bible and “support each other.” “The bottom line is little groups of-men caring about each other. If these men are ‘coming together “we can just ‘been i "are rell has helped Shiains several‘seminars already at Aspirin DETROIT (CP) — Aspirin may be linked to the child--, ren’s disease Reye's Syn-, drome, two U.S. studies show. i ‘ Doctors at a Detroit con- ference on the disease say they recommend not giving aspirin (acetylsalicyclic acid) or other cold remedies of the acetylsalicylic acid family to change i in pri- son and the lives at their families.” ‘ A risky factor - —Concel Photo . November 1 Voss Lest We Fi » Mayor ‘nadie Moore will’ give the address Tues- day morning when people from all walks of life will take part.in a Remembrance Day service'to be held in Kinsmen Park at the site of the ceno- taph. : The service will’ pay, ‘tribute to the more than 100,000 who lost their lives in the First, Second and Korean wars. Store,i:and at: 10:30 a.m. under Parade ‘Marshal John MOrrow;: will match to.the Cenotaph! seo aurod The Cartons Coit ‘Castlegar veterans will-. + assemble on Third Street in . ‘front afi Wests’ Department non after which two minutes silence is to be observed ‘in honor of the dead. y Names read from the honor roll by comrade James, H. Leckie will be Barry F. Cleeton, Roy F. Foxlee, Ted Foxlee, Walter A. Houston, Earl Mulhern, Douglas .Me- Donald, Jack Frazer, Datton MacArthur, Samual Saprun: - off, Virgil Riley, A.J. Bute, C. . Kennedy, R.S; Horswill, H. Slater, W.T. Slater, Arth J. Killough, “L.A. Appleton and George Owles é Silence ‘will be. broke with'the teading-of Johni Mc- "” Creatsfn Flanders Field” by comriite? Edrl | Rourke, fol- lowed bye the. _ placing of. ity Band "will be! in wie fia Faatttenal “0; ward fe Soldiérs” ih be sung. * The. last post is to ‘be sounded by Darcy MacKin- PST : per- : eunge atid @groupa with ‘the gnothers'wreath laid’ by Mrs. Margie Peachey. 3 «'Prayern and scripture. : reading; will-then be offered by Rather;.Michael Guinan ; ; followed-by the hymn “Faith’ of Our.Fathers.”" A “band selection). the benediction by. Padre Desmond Carroll’ nd: the singing of God Save the TOM McGAULEY, aS ‘ond World Me navy. veteran anda mamber. of c -Queen will conclude the ser- ’ vice. Roya Legion, ro a poppy | on "Sheron Peacock. ay : 95 of the children had been * given aspirin or a- similar’ compound. That result was compared with 160 children who had the same viral disease but didn’t get the syndrome later. Only 114 had taken aspirin. or a related remedy. Bufferin, Coricidin, Citran and many other cold children from chicken pox or influenza. Reye's Syndrome strikes . the liver and brain of child- ren, usually after a bout of virus such as influenza or chicken ‘pox, and is fatal in about 10 per cent of cases, Doctors don't know what causes or cures it, 2 But Dr. Thomas Halpin of the Ohio department - of health. said that “aspirin seemed to be the risk | factor.” He said his contain Another study, done by ., the Centre for Disease Con- trol in Atlanta, Ga., found a “very strong association with aspirin” in its study of 83 Reye's cases in Michigan this year. An Arizona study found the same results, FOR CITY ALDERMAN VOTE studied 9B ceses of the syndrome in Ohio and found MATHIESON, M.A. | X Board Anew Fire Hall Complex © SERVED 2 Terms as Alderman © SERVED 5'Years on the Hospital — AGREE WITH — Looking for a new Alternate Route Roads & Sidewalks Look at Upgrading our Pool Help Promote our Shopping NOT IN FAVOUR OF THE REFERENDUM “e Neo | *4-Inch Spengerll ...........60+ TROPICAL FERN TABLE FERNS §-Inch, @ach ......eceeee ot 48 * Green Pepperoni *Coleus * Swedish Ivy * Wandering Jew _ Canadian Navy “MeGauley served with: the Royal Volunteer Reserve on board the destroyer Restigouch. “R less days, SICK GAME ‘ TORONTO (CP) room singing game for Re- membrance Day in which pupils line up in.. battle formation,,. shoot .at “each other and act as if they've lost parts of their bodies. in the fray. The game js in a 40-page booklet which cost $22,000 and suggests activities to commemorate Remembrance Day. i Clifford ‘ Chadderton, chief executive officer of War Amputations of Canada, said it is “a pretty gross way of teaching children what, war is all about.” - . Education Minister Bette Stephenson said she will review the booklet. * Cm * HUNTING VICTIM MONTREAL (CP) — f Walter Freud, a ‘distant Fr) | What became of Jim Secord? ** You've probably never heard of him. * But in this, my first “Sunday column * as the new. editor .of the Castlegar News, I thought I'd ask; because I really would like to.know. ‘| DATELINE f _CANADA ite <4 relative , of Sigmund Freud e° e Ontario education ministry has recommended a -class- and lifelong * Ppponent hunting dnd guns, “was ‘sho! dead ‘on his own land by.'a hunter who apparently. took him a bear.. tract Stinday when hg, shot.in the chest by a meres cast of Monttea * i ART AUCTION +; ‘HALIFAX (CP) — ‘Aloe Colville's -silk-screen “New Moon brought a price . of $8,600 at ‘an auction that raised more th $28,000 for Dalhousie Uj versity. - aap the duration of ww Tl in Jal anese jon camps. y e¥¢,,yourase, had only . Half-the $55,000 raised fs ‘was donated to Dalhousle’s ‘Medical Research. Founda- ‘tion and the rest went to the pon whose works were ald. j” Prices at the ® auction, Ey by John Phillips of outheby Parke Bernet (Can- jInc., were said to be 20 “cent. below .what they Ja:be for thie same works losses. are understated by a conslderable factor.’ us INVITATION ty to eight’ counts of traf- ficking in narcotics and were fined from’ $210 to $760 and placed on probation for 14 yumniv REGINA (CP) — Offi. .months, Six were also told ‘clals of( the Canadian Wes- tern Agribition cooked up .a “unique invitation. to a news xeniference. . They ‘sent* loaves | of Whole wheat bread to report- ers with instructions telling them to cut along the dotted _ line in the feing. . Inside was:.,9.), plastic * container with ‘a ngcroll of paper, inviting the scribes to a ‘news conference, brats ‘Can: \, ada’s largest livestock, show, " anys 1980 lly much higher so these opens later this month, so: * eres eign! * ) SCRAM' CASSIAR (CP): = Six “men have until Nc to get - Gut of town after"being: con- victed of. drug offencesin thi: they. can't return’ to town during the probation term. The town of 2,000 was built for and {s leased to their employer, Cassair Asbestos Corp. A Cassiar spokesman said the company is: worried about drug use in the town. Court was told-the men sold small:’amountsi of .co- caine, hashish and marijuana to undercover RCMP. officers CBC Edmonton wi nt an hour-long, ‘ration Seven men pleaded gull i in.a letter when we een to corres- pond.) Every year at this time I wonder Jim was a Canadian soldier in Hong | Kong in 1941. ‘) I first.met him in 1945.0n a train _ heading for Toronto out of Vancouver. I was a boy of 11; Jim looked ancient, - but, on reflection, probably was in his early 203 at the time. ! Jim gave me a few Japanese bank notes when my parents, sister andI got joff the train at, Winnipeg. He and ‘another fellow, Popeye, w were going on to Toronto. I have an idea Jim was .with, the “Editors are ‘peop DON HARVEY le, too — sort of” . . (Linus) . Royal Rifles of Canada when the Japanese took’him prisoner on Christ- ‘mas Day, 1941. Then again, maybe he was a Winnipeg Grenadier. Both :yegiments — or what was left of them By PATRICK CONNOLLY “SEATTLE: (AP) '— explosion in May is almost a memory now. But the vol- cano’s fury still haunts the Pacific Northwest, even as tourist promoters and sou- venir hawkers turn the-geo- “logic Armageddon into gold. ‘ The ashen slopes of the crumpled mountain in Southwest Washington now are usually cloaked in thick, muddy clouds. On rare cloud- Mount . St. Helen's earth-shattering’ life again the wight of Oct: 18, with an explosion that sent a cloud of steam and ash nearly 12 kilometres into the. sky’ and: obliterated a giant lava. dome that had grown on the floor of the’ crater. The unpredictable ‘moun- , tain puffed like a giant steam” engine four more times through Oct. 20, then fell silent: again, though -scien- tists say it’s justa matter of? time before it goes: agajn. However, they do not expect from helicopters on the. cra- Jter's rim to take the peak's + pulse with instruments. They . try,to determine when it will blow again. The volcano shuddered to . ByBRUCELEVETT THE CANADIAN PRESS It was just 100 years ago - when pens scratched in Ot- -tawa and Canada mortgaged sits future for.$25 million and * “25 million acres of land. The country’ was 18 is years old. The prairies were :in turmoil and there was un- ‘rest in the Maritimes. The far west was threatening sec- ; ession. And, to: the south, an- + other young nation was turn- ing hungry eyes northward ¢:toward the vast, empty, ar- ble acres that lay above the 749th parallel. It was against this back- : ground that’ ;the first Can- adian prime minister — ‘hounded from office by scan- * ‘:dal only to be returned in ‘triumph’ — forged the two lines of steel that were to keep his country intact. The contract establish- ing the Canadian Pacific .Railway Company was signed on Oét. 21, 1980. The alight - y ig of the | bomb force of the "May. 18 Half a year after that giant blast, a new fear has arisen — recently been liberated. (I don’t ask © about Popeye, who came back minus both arms and legs and a body full of shrapnel; he died at het, Jim told me either T about Jim.” Iknow he later ‘became ag ith in. thtige that. once were asl clear aren't anymore. Jim scared the daylights out of me on the train with horror stories ‘of life in the camps: fellows buried upright with their heads just above ground and Japanese soldiers. on horseback run-_ ning at them with polo sticks (or. would-be escapers buried alive in barbed wire; whatever they're called); ad nauseum.° Jim and I corresponded for several years, but I never saw him again. As the years flew past and I moved around ‘the country, we lost track of each other. But every time Remembrance Day rolls around, Nov. 11, I think of Jim with fond memories. If you're still out there, Jim, drop 1 me a line. Th, down ‘the dénuded slopes will cause floods and’ inundate communities along.the Cow. litz River. There are other reminders of the sunny Sunday morning when hundreds, maybe thou- sands,. of years’ of, geologic _ development. were compres: ‘sed into an awful instant. .On. Sept.. 80, more than four months after the erup- tion,” threé-more bodies in. the powdery ash, bringing “the death toll to .94,. with 25 people missing and. believed dei ad. The initial blist also de- vastated about: 988. square.” kilometres of ferest north of- that winter rains acres to the company. Rail- + way lines already built by the “ government or under con- struction were thrown in. On its side, the company guaranteed to cross the coun- try with steel. In addition, it would act as land agent for the i ig tall Canada on July 15, 3671. clause in the agree- .ment read: “The government of the Dominion undertakes to sec- ure the commencement sim- ultaneously, within two years from the date of union, of the the Settling - government‘ lands first, be- fore trying to sell off its own acres. SHIPPED OUT GRAIN In the beginning, Can- adian Pacific made its money shipping in settlers and their effects and shipping out the grain grown by earlier set- tlers. From there, CP has grown toa world-class indus- trial giant employing 115,000 . people with assets totalling $11 billion. « Itsinto everything from baking. to mining to real estate; land, sea and air transportation; hotels at home and abroad; lumbering, manifacturing. 1s the larg- i of .a railway rom the Pacific towards the Rock, and from logging, crews found’ or Ont. Rut, then, I'm getting old, too, and of my fortunate coer to have Day also reminds me My sister and I were “4 . federal, Energy ‘Minister. Mare Lalonde and Finance Minister Allan MacEachen to debate Alberta Energy Min- ister Merv Leitch and Trea- surer Lou Hyndman. *. He's also invited federal Economie Development Min- ister Bud Olson and Employ- ment. Minister Lloyd Ax- worthy as well as Dick John- ston, Alberta's intergovern- mental ‘affairs minister. None of ‘the ministers have replied yet. Kit * 2 8 -' NOPLANT ¢ * REGINA (CP) — The Saskatchewan Power Corp. will -not: develop a small hydroelectric’ generating’ plant on the Rapid River in northern Saskatchewan. Provincial Environment’: said Crown corporation did not a provide enough evidence to show the project's environ- mental impact would minimal and temporary. e * s NEW MINISTER ° FROBISHER « BAY® N.W.T, (CP) — Pe ates: WINNIPEG ( Pro-: vinclal ‘legislation’ is. being translated inte Fenech alewly but sure! i _ But at. the . rate’ ‘the government is moving, it will :. six .years before all Manitoba statutes and docu-’ torial g a) point a cabinet minister to deal with the Proposed split of the ments are’ fn both offictal - s Tanguages. . 4 ys a ‘Earlier this ‘week, the legislative assembly ap- proved = plan to divide the territories in half, a move advocated by native groups. The assembly says it will hold a territories-wide pleb- iscite on the division in two ears. « The Inuit Tapirisat of Canada first proposed creat- ing Ted in the eastern a report, by the Rapid River board of inquiry recommend- ed against the proposal. . The board said the Candida throughout the war. Dad wasa half of the territories because of the different language, ‘culture and economy of that _ area, techitical officer in the Royal Canadian us. given! 12. hours’ milit Dartmouth, N.S., expected attack. and Torbay with lived in Air Rorce and we moved a lot, always -livingout of suitcases, * ‘My! parents sold their household possessions in 1989 after we were itary quarters at Camp Borden, Ont., and-Dad was shuffled off to eastern seaboard against a- half- My mother, sister and I returned to : our hometown, Vancouver, to await the time, a year or so later, when we'd all be reunited, at No. 44 Service Flying Training School at Souris, Man. . We were only at Souris: a year when Dad was shipped “overseas” (as it was called then) — to Newfoundland, where he spent a couple of years at Gander Reconnaissance Squadron on convoy patrol over the North Atlantic, while it notice. to vacate to help defend the 1 Gerry Mercier says although’ it’s hard to find qualified trans- lators, the government hopes to have 1,500 pages of legis- lation translated by next spring. ‘That will leave 8,900 pages. The federal Progressive Conservative government started the translations last spring after a Supreme Court of Canada ruling invalidated Manitoba's English-only Offi- cial Languages Act. was back to Vacuiver for the rest of I was at a Sunday schoo! camp on Vancouver Island in August,’ 1946, when I heard the Japanese surrendered. What joy. I skipped out of camp early and cursed the slowness of the ferry taking me back to Vancouver. I thought dad would be at the landing waiting for me. But it wasn’t to be. We didn’t see dad until weeks later bad when he and some of his buddies flew No. 10 Bomber and the last Liberator bomber from Torbay . toPatricia Bay, always just a skip and a jump ahead of a communique from air force headquarters in Ottawa that was trying to catch up with them to order them to stay-in Newfoundland. Jim Secord, as I recall, got off witha severe beating following his one bid to escape from the Japanese. Dad was luckier in out-foxing his superiors in “Ottawa: He was greeted by grateful loved ones, eléns is sleeping giant — trees like toothpicks. Dam- age estimates included $30 million to farm machinery from ash grinding up en- gines; $102 million to repair highways, and millions of dollars to clean up commun- ities choked with ash.” PEOPLE FRAZZLE __ The blast also left people -frazzled, and psychologists ‘say they don’t know how long the, trauma of uprooted, disrupted lives will last. “There's always some kind of crisis feeling at first,” says James Jordan of. the Wash- ington state department of commerce and economic de- velopment. “It’s not as bad as we thought.” . And tourism officials hope "PR was born However, the federal government didn’ n't have that part in_writing and B.C. in- Fisted the commitment be. honored. It was a pledge impcs- sible to keep. It took 10 years just to form the company to build the railway and another five — in an incredible feat of such point as may be sel- ected, east of the Rocky Mountains, towards the Paci- fic, to connect the seaboard of British Columbia with the railway system of. Canada, and ‘further, .to secure the completion of such railway within 10 years from the date of such union.” B.C. had been flirting with the U.S., and Canada — anxious. to complete Con- * federation from sea to sea — had promised more’ than.the west ‘coast province. had - dared to ask. CLAUSE NOTIN WRITING There was reported: to have been an escape: clatise House of Ct passed the act of ‘incorporation on Feb. 13, 1881. . : Among other’ stipula- ting, it provided for grants of $25 million and 25 million _.est pr in the country, Impetus for a trans- continental railway came when British Columbia was admitted to the Dominion of which specified that if’ the undertaking appeared likely to bankrupt the new country, B.C. would not hold the fed- eral government to the letter of the pact. ee 1S — to lay the track. ‘ Ahead lay corruption and scandal so. severe it toppled the Conservative government of Sir John A. Macdonald and nearly secut- tled the project. Ahead, also, was rebel- fion i in,the’ prairie which, in- directly, , gave the faltering project a boost just when it. needed one most. The conception and building of the transcontin- ental railway was one of the: most colorful sagas. in Can- * adian history. Across this stage strode such giants as Sir the ‘eeaptions that at first kept tourists away can lure them ba “Tourism may improve even more when people hear that eruptions that followed the first explosion have been more a/nuisance than any- thing — and they have a certain scenic attraction,” he says. Bus lines run tours from Seattle and Portland to the volcano. And two temporary federal information centres near the voleano attract thousands of visitors a day, half of them from out-of- state, VACATIONS GOOD Washington state officials advertised in eastern news- 100. in the Maritimes at the time, attempting to fathom a time- table listing arrivals and de- partures in local times, when it occurred to him that there just had’ to be some way of equating Vancouver's, hours with those of Halifax. Louis Riel, messiah and rebel, gave a lift to the sagging fortunes of the strug- gling railway — albeit un- wittingly. Just at the time when the CPR was scrambling for additional funding, Riel’s Sas- katchewan rebellion flamed. William Cornelius Van ‘Horne, who once advised a worried creditor to sell his boots and buy CPR stock, pledged -his unfinished rail- way to carry troops and guns from Ottawa to the Qu'’Ap- pelle Valley in 10 days. » He made good, throwing track across _Tnuskeg and marsh — and d 2 papers that the state is a good place to vacation. Farming, too, was not hit as hard as first feared. The ash’s slight acidity may have helped crops by neutralizing the alkaline soil and letting the ground retain water from heavy rains in May and June. Eastern Washington pro- + duced a bumper crop of hops and the apple harvest was bountiful. Ash-covered fields produced one-third more wheat than last year. Ritzville, a town. of about 2,000, had tp reseed its ash-clogged golf course and still contends with gritty dust clouds when the wind blows. But it has proclaimed itself “Ash Capital of the years ag He called upon Sir Hugh Allan, who was attempting to finance the project with Uni- ted States backers in the early days, for funds to fi- nance his ‘re-election cam- paign, The move turned into the Watergate of its day when Sir John A. was ac- cused of selling the railway hise to United States” and, by next / summer, tourists will: find exhibits of photographs and movies showing how it was when the mountain blew. - Further east in ash-dusted Spokane, some. companies considering locating . there “cooled down” right after the eruption but “are talking again,” says Alan Edmunds, general manager of the Spo- kane’ Area, Development Council. . Spokane is about 450 kilo- metres from the volcano but should benefit, too, from people travelling to see the mountain, says. Barbara Brooner of the Spokane Area Convention and Visitors Bur-. eau. door for Macdonald's return, and, in the first secret vote in ageneral election, Macdonald did return. ' It took two years to tie up the loose ends and write the contract; it took two months..of sometimes wild and acrimonious debate to write the contract into the statutes. Liberals He survived the election, but not the ensuing scandal. A clerk in a position of confidence purloined ‘a -tel- egram the prime minister had sent Sir Hugh and sold it to the Liberal opposition for $5,000. It read: “I must have another ten thousand.. Will be the last time of calling. Do not fail me. Answer today.” . Macdonald and his gov- ernment fell in a vote of con- fidence and. the Liberals of A Aa ckonsi to the country the basic ity of his ise to took over. ° Fleming, engineer, who — because he missed a train one *day —“produced a plan for the worldwide system of standard time zones. Fleming was seated in the unity of Canada. For Sir.John A. himself, whose procrastination earned him the of 8 poor crof- _ter’s son who worked in stone and ruled the same way, counselled ‘caution in a time of and “Old Tomorrow;” the CPR was both a dream and a dis- an unheated railway station "aster. ment. His efforts to water down government promises to the West left ‘open the \ The ae painted the CPR contract as a massive giveaway to pri- “The problem is that we seared them before they could realize how neat the volcano was,” she says." Nearer the volcano itself, the ravages are easy to see. Yet, in the huge blast zone north of the mountain, life is returning. Deer tracks have been seen in the ash fluff. White and purple wildflow- ers poke up. Tree sprouts * appear. Most worried right now * are communities down from the mountain along the Toutle and Cowlitz rivers — Castle Rock, Lexington, Kel- so and Longview, with a combined population of about O cocted.” “The road is going to be built and proceeded with vigorously, continuously, sys- tematically and successfully, until completion and the fate of Canada will’ then, as a Dominion, be séaled.” Just before midnight on Feb, 1, 1881, the bill was given final reading. Senate assent was a formality. Ten years of scandal, and fear were vate t. more than a milion words were spoken in the House on the subject. The speakers’ list reads like a roll-call of Canadian history — Macdonald, Mac- * kenzie, Tupper, Blake . . . + Quebec wanted to trade its support for a rich price for the Quebec-owned railway. Manitoba insisted on modifi- cation of the bill. ‘The Liberals proposed a rival syndicate with less stringent terms. An ailing Macdonald had to be helped to his feet in the House. The railway would be built, he said, “notwithstand- -ing all the wiles of the op- Position and, the flimsy ar- sfangement which it has con- over. Five years of con- struction — based upon a decade of exploration and re- search — lay ahead. They ended in snow- dusted Eagle Pass in British Columbia on a grey Novem- ber day in 1885. Donald Smith, oldest of the four directors present, crashed a _ sledgehammer down upon a plain iron spike. It bent and roadmaster Frank Brothers pulled it out and replaced it. Smith hamme placement home It was, as Van Horne, said later: “As good an iron spike as- ° there is between Montreal and Vancouver...” dd the re- ..