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CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 24, 1980

/ Wedding Bells

Markin - DaCosta wed

at St. Rita’s church

Earrings, worn by the bride's mother at her own wedding, were also worn by Elizabeth Ann DaCosta when wedding vows were exchanged with Philip Harold Markin of Tarrys, The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel DaCosta of Castlegar and the groom the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Alex Markin of Tarrys.

The wedding took place April 19 from St. Rita's Catholic Church with Father Guinan officiating. During the service organist.Mr, Rudy, Baff played. "You

. Light Up My Life.”

Given in marriage by her father, the bride worea Lowa of; white nylon over taffeta featuring a long train. The yoke of the bodice and inserts in the long, full sleeves were of lace’ embossed with tiny pearls and sequins. The high neckline

sleeves and train were edged

with fine pleating. A lace

standup headpiece held the bride's waist-length veil edged

with daisics.

She carried a rose bouquet of trailing red roses and

baby’s breath and greenery.

Maid-of-honor was Miss Vicki Wayling of Castlegar with Miss Linda DaCosta of Castlegar'and Miss Margie Pattolo of

Hinton, Alta., as bridesmaids.

All were identically attired in floor-length gowns ‘of

They carried

carnations ' with baby's Breath.

of pink and white:

Flower girl was Miss Rebecca Jardine and ringbearer, Master Sheldon Sears, both are of Castlegar.

Attending the groom were best man Mr. ‘Allen Markin of Castlegar with Mr. Tom Tarasoff and of

Castlegar ushering.

The men wore dark grey tuxedos with grey ‘and black

pin-stripe pants.

At the reception, held at the Fireside Place, the bride's table was adorned with silver goblets, and candle holders with

white candles.

Attending “the guest book were Samathe and Kevin

Jardine.

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Freshly cut Sonja roses adorned the top layer of the bride's three-tier wedding cake decorated" by the bride's

parents.

Master of ceremonies, Mr. Carl DaCosta of Abbotsford,

COURT'S -|@ DECISION

John Hedman had lost his job asa truck driver, Both he and his wife were beginnin ng to have a hard time paying of the monthly bills on what Janice was bringing home from! Ber otfice j job. a

wy Pay Gus of these bills” John told her “I have ee ‘to find a a job —

soon. “You will, darling,” she comolen “You'll find exact- yt he job you are looking or I x just know it.” e didn’t. In fact, he didn't Ane anything at all ‘and most of the bills were be~

moon happened. Janice had ust cashed her ier and man- the month's

She iten drove to the supermarket to buy groceries with the iittie w money that she had left. On the way home, she was involved in an auto accident in which a young teenager was injured, eee ere a appene e er tar i cold yeah Hp eve! ing wo ; that the t insurance would cover the accident, suddenly he remembered. The auto insurance cancel- lation“ had been one of the unpaid bills,

John dashed to his desk and began fingering through the bills, He found it but ¢ policy had expired sixteen days before. emembering that he had a 20-day grace

age rent,

by David Charleston

period in which to pay, he now had four days to make the payment.

The next morning, he hurtied down to a_ local trucking firm and reapplied for a job. He was this time but it un! another two weeks that he -would receive his first pay- check. Explaining the sit- uation to his new emplo: ery he asked for an advance, employer then called the insurance agent that John had been seeing from time ta time about his insurance needs and the agent verified John’ 's predictament. John was allowed the advance and he quickly sent the payment in to the company.

But the

What did decide?

Since John had made the

the Court

accident happened before the

payment was made was not

enough to justify the com-

pany refusing to cover.their

paylng clients. The insurance

company must cover the ledmans.

read congratulatory messages from Azores, Portugal, France

and Montreal.

Proposing the toast to the bride was Mr. Ed MeGauley of

Castlegar.

Grandfather Reikoff, 87, said Russian G

“The couple, who’ now reside in Tarrys,, “travelled to |

California via the Oregon coast for. their wedding trip. Guests were from Powell River, W

P Alta., ell Radium, Sorento, Kamloops, Trail, Salmo and

Nelson.

Bedwin-Walter families united in June ceremony

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Trail, was the scene of a June 14 wedding uniting in marriage Karen Walter, daughter

of Mr. and Mrs, Rudy Walter

and Robert Bedin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luigi

Bedin of Trail.

Father Jim Ratcliff officiated at the service with music by organist Beverley Vianich. A solo, was sung by Mr. Roger Maio

of Trail.

Given in marriage by her father, the

bride’wore a long white gown

lace bordered hem. The gown, with its train, featured a Queen Anne neckline, French lace

bodice.and long sleeves. The

was also bordered with French lace. She carried a colonial bouquet of yellow roses and white daisies. For jewellery accent

she wore her sister's pearl necklace.

Attending the bride was maid-of-honor..; Miss Anne’ McGauley of Vancouver. and bridesmaids Miss Angie Walter of Castlegar and Miss Dorine Bedin of Trail.

All wore long yellow satin gowns with

“floral organza’ capes and carried colonial bouquets of yellow carnations and white

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Newmann

of Castlegar,

daisies, Flower girl Miss Nicole Anderson of Castlegar carried similar flowers in a basket. Ringbearer was Master Paul Anderson,

, also of Castlegar. Best man was Mr. Kent Almquist of

Trail with Mr. Dennis Bedin of Trail and Mr.’

Norm Walter of Castlegar as ushers. They im wore beige tuxedo jackets, dark brown trim © pants and vests in contrast to the groom's

beige tuxedo ensemble.

with French

fingertip veil

earrings and

UBC.

Miss Luciana Bedin and Miss Christine Bedin attended the guest book at Columbo Lodge which was decorated in yellow and white streamers and bells.

On the bride's table was a four-tier wedding cake made by her father. It was decorated with yellow roses and topped by a heart-shaped glass caketop.

Master of ceremonies was Mr. Fred Dalla Lana of Vancouver with the toast to the bride given by Mr. Eric Aitl tkin, of “Arm.

The couple travelled to California for their wedding trip. They will reside in Vancouver where they both will be attending

celebrate 40th anniversary

A surprize 40th wedding anniversary party was held July 18 at the Fireside Place in Castlegar, honoring Mr. and Mrs, Otto Newmann.

The host and hostess for the event were their son and daughter-inlaw, Mr. and Mrs. Herb Neumann.

Master of ceremonies, Vince Isley, welcomed the guests and gave: a little speech about the couple, whom he has know for over $80 years. He then called on Herb Neumann to present a toast to his parents.

Mrs. Venie | _Plotnikoff sang “The gz Song,”

16” x 20" group wedding picture of 40 years ago from their son and family. The gift from the guests was 40 silver dollars mounted in a frame and a 40th wedding anni- versary plate. Mrs. Joy Saun- ders presented the couple with a bouquet of flowers from the Knights of

and the Pythian Sisters of which Mrs. Neumann is a member.

The couple then cut their decorated anniversary cake and served it to their guests.

In charge of the guest book was the’ couple's oldest Deanna

prior to everyone sitting down toa d din.

Neumann. 7 of good wishes

ner. After dinner the hon- orees were présented with a

were received from Mr. Neumann's sister, Mrs. Elsie Engels of West Germany;

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ie tAve TO; goand pa my kid rother. this: week.’ I ‘don’t have to. Nobody in his right mind Aas to have anything to do with his relatives, . : From birth to death they

+ area pain in the arm, Whena

baby is, born, all the eye- brows go up at the choice of name, unless it happens to be one of theirs, or that of a rich uncle, :

Asked my grandboys the

* other day what their second

name was. - Balind,. who sometimes doesn’t know his anus from his elbow, promp- tly retorted, ‘William.’’ His second name was the same as mine, in case I'd be pleased and leave him something.

Asked the other guy, who knows everything, from why Gran’s crying to why Gran- dad is in a tearing rage. He muttered, “Chen.” I'd for- gotten. His parents named him that, don’t ask me why, because they were on an in- ternational kick, and Chen means ‘‘first-born.” Poor little devil. His fall name in Nikov Chen, Imagine what the CIA will do with that when they take over Cana- dian intelligence. Notice I spelled the last word without acapital. . ‘

Next time the relatives act like Little Jack Horner is when your kids get married. Despite the fact that the couple. has been living together for nine months, your blasted relatives want a church wedding, with the bride in white, a big recep- tion where everybody pre- tends.that the newlyweds are virgin, there are some adoles- cent speeches right out of the age of Victoria, and some-

body.cuts a cake that nobody would cat with a 10-foot pole. This costs roughly five to 10 thousand dollars so that the couple cas go on Sly- ing in sin, but with a paper tq. prove that'they’ré not.

And. the third occasion which ‘the relatives get their, arms into it, right up to thes!’ elbows, is when somebody ‘dies. This is when the real Christians emerge,

“Mom always said I co! have that tea service."”

“Well,

‘think. I'was there the day she: died ‘and she distinctly stated - (arm twisted‘: behind hey.’ back) that I. could have nat only the tea service but all the’! t linen.”" And so on.

I’ve seen all this, but not experienced. it. After: my

ed, enriched beyond our dreams, and with only a few grudges. We were all so

. young and unsophisticated that we let an aunt have a beautiful. chaise longue, which wound up as a period -plece. in, of all places, Australia, My aunt didn’t want it. :

This hasn't much to do with going to see my kid brother, but.I still think that he.thinks he got screwed (he was in Paris at the time) on the “family split-up, and ‘covets’the hand-carved stool my Dad made, which I trad- ed off for an upright piano of dubious vintage. Maybe not"

‘Maybe he just wants to see

. me Maybe he wants to apol- ogize ‘for all the times he

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mother’s death, my elder sister was . mutually ap- pointed arbitrator. And she arbitrated: ‘‘Two sheets for you, two for you. ‘Two blan- kets for you,’two for you. Two linen’ tablecloths for you, two for you.-Two beds for you, a dining-room table for you. Everyday ‘china for you, plus ‘the silver coffee pot. Good :china for you, plus the chamber-pot.” ‘And soon.

It was like being at an auc- tion, without’ any bids, and

we all went away rather daz"

trailed me all over town when I was seven and he was five. I would first hiss at him, then

shout at him, to go home. .

He’d hang on, a-block be- hind, crying like a fire siren, stubborn as a hound follow- ing a fox:

He’s challenged me to a game of golf. This. is quite understandable, It fits the pattern. I could always: beat him at everything, and he wants the masochistic satis- faction: of being trounced once more, before he retires to that wonderland of golf

plating brotherly visit ©

where everybody takes a Mulligan, everybody rides an electric cart to the next hole,. and everybody © discusses every shot at the 19th hole. .

On the other hand, maybe he wants to talk.bout all that money 1 borrowed from him when he had a’ paper route and I was a — well, a sort of freelancer.

Every Saturday night, I us- ed to,lock him in the bath- room, and freelance about two-thirds of his weekly take, so I could go to the movies. :

Saw him in Germany a few years ago, and he was still keeping track. He figures I owe him 28 thousand, 500 and some dollars, with com- pound interest.

Perhaps he just wants to remind me of all the girls he has taken away from me, over'the years. He never took anyone of any real conse-

. quence, but he took ‘some

very fine prospectives.

On the fourth hand, may- be he just wants torub it in to me that I’m a failure. He re-

tired ‘as a Colonel with a’:

chestful of medals. I quit as a Flight-Loot with four or five medals mouldering in the basement.

He has been at the beck and .call of generals, .am- bassadors, and such. He. is divorced — fashionable. [ am.married — unfashion- able. He in charming, multi- lingual, has tasted the flesh- pots of Europe. 1 am .a typical suburban slob.

Or maybe the poor litte fella just wants to see the brother he used to pillow- fight with, every Saturday - morning.

By NEAL HALL journalism student at C

Dad's. role. . it al

witha lasting commitment. e it is now a “relationship” i i tract

College, and a father.

Being a Dad isn't what

it used to be. To be a father once meant to be the un- doubted head of the family,

* the sole breadwinner who .. determined how well his’

they dressed.

Once a century ago the father was sole guar- dian of- his children. He could divorce his erring wife, turn her out of the house, and forbid her ever to see his children again.

Even at the beginning of this century the power of the father was supreme. ‘But the strong father now exists only in films: The Godfather, Marlon Brando, fascinated movie audiences in the role of patriarch who. ruled his family with brute force.

The role of father is one the decline.

In the last 10 years the whole Western system of patriarchy has been dras- tically revised. In the mod- ern family father has be- come just one of the family instead of its head. The family is now governed by consensus instead of by father.

Mum.rules the kids and takes responsibility for the household during the week, with dad serving as. mother's personal assis- tant on the weekend — he chauffeurs the kids, does

family ate or how badly: -"

witha

and if either partner fails to abide by the contract the deal is cancelled.

One in three Canadian marriages ends in divorce. Matrimony has become, as one journalist put-it, the -

tick eee

it has changed

ling and that children ex- “elude them from the ex- change’‘of ideas and people they were educated and trained to enjoy.

So women are de- manding more from mar- riage. They have the edu- cation, they havea sense of themselves as. significant,

The high rate of div- orce is in part the after~ math of the revolutionary

they have ‘a pay-cheque, and they have the pill. And if marriage doesn’t please them, they

1960s. Freedom of the in- dividual is now our highest ideal.

The sexual revolution is closely tied to the con-

shop- ping, and performs any other task mother thinks

Pp.

The decline of father began with industrializa- tion. As fathers left farm and family, heading off to work in the city, mother and children weré left alone in the house, In the early 1950s the automobile gave us the suburb — the commuter's paradise that father came home to after business trips; bearing

feeling more Father Christmas than a biological father.’

In the past 10 years especially the power of the father has been under- mined by sexual pérmis- siveness, the pressure of greater ambitions from women, and rising rates of divorce and separation.

Marriage was once the- original stronghold of the father. Matrimony was the institution that offered clearly defined roles for husband and wife.

But today marriage is no longer an institution

gifts for his kids — and .

pill, which sep- arated sex and reproduc- tion, and also separated marriage and reproduc- tion. Marriage and children used to go hand-in-hand, but more and more couples are opting to have no children’ or the one-child family.

And no longer is the father the sole provider in marriage. The two-career family is commonplace. ‘Women have begun flexing their muscles, stretching their minds, and seeking challenges that their mothers only dreamed of.

‘Women today have

leave.

Gone are the days of the despotic husband who turned his wife out of the house and barred her from seeing his children. Wom- enare no longer dependent on men and are leaving for reasons that only 50 years ago were unjmaginable by men: “You're blocking my ‘development” and “I've outgrown you” are now acceptable.

And when women leave they usually take the children with them. They

+. win custody of the children in 90 per‘cent of divorces.

Indeed, in the recent movie Kramer vs. Kramer

‘a mother deserts her hus- band and son in order to “find herself," and al- though the father proves

‘deserted Wives, but: not to

mother-child relationship. Researchers have studied that biological link in infin- ite detail and have all but forgotten the father-child one.

_The law overwhelm- ingly favors the mother regarding custody of chil- dren. It offera protection to »

deserted husbands. .- Once mother wins cus- tody of the kids, father

fades far into the back- ground. As one separated father put it: “My children live within a mile or so of me and go to schoo! in the same area of Vancouver, but short of standing on the pavement and watch- ing them go in with the other kids I have no means of contact with them at all.”

The consequences of the ti are .

» trol, had

When parenthood looms its head.

It’s a game we play. Every time the phone rings during M-A-S-H, my husband and | fake one another out. Last Monday, | won and he took the call.

..The tone of his voice made me tune out Alan Alda as he gasped, ‘‘Oh, my God! You're not serious! When?’’. He covered the recelver and shouted to me, ‘Get on the}

We're gi Pp

My. first reaction was how could that be when none

of our ciao Was married.

econd reaction was would my mother buy the old Sclence-Falr-Project-That-Got-Out-of-Hand theory. The cailer was our nelghbor who explained that our.

Yorkshire. fo terre got out, an

who wae never allowed out of the yard, inster poodie, who was too old to get

pregnant; did, al din a Sears box in the utility room were three poo oodles in Yorkshire terrler bodies — a virtual billboard for Planned Parenthood.

( What month was Murray born In?" she asked.

june. : I should have known,”’ she sald. ‘'A Geminl. They never finish anything they start.’’ ‘Just a minute," | said. ‘‘Are you implying that Murray [s not willing to accept pater responsi-

bilitles?””

On Joseph F. Killough ‘Part :

‘By JOHN A. CHARTERS

The Aug. 6, 1953 edition of the Castlegar News (then Castle News) featured this front page headline: “$20,000 Damage As Flames Raze

Erma

Bombeck

Wh are you akingn Every female dog In the' nelghborhodd has‘ Khown him." “That's not true, He lives a monk's existence:

behind a six-foot 'wall.””

"You've heard of the tunnel of love? He Invented:

“I think your ‘little: mother’ doesn’t have her act together. and "has:nelther ‘the stability nor the un-- selfishness to raise these puppies. If you will bring them over here. Murray will ralse them as a single parent."’ -

ix. The first night, we photographed them from every angle. Murray moved from one to the other getting to‘ know them. He was going.to make a wonderful father.

o The second night he. refused to share his food with: them. When they spilled water ali over his bed he: crouched behind a waste can. He subsequently trampled them, bit thelr tails, rejected. them, barked In thelr. ears: _ and tried to abandon them. .

y. the end, of the " denianding, crled, ail night,:

week the pupples were frolicked all day and were.

driving. him); crazy. . When" we returned them to the mot! ia ur: neighbor snapped, ‘'What happened to.

Kramer ¥a. Kramer?”

Dustin Hoffman wouldn't have been such a hero’ E elther If his chitd hadn't been paper-trained. .

Reflections & ~ Recollections

Sawmill Near Ki

It told how a sawmill, three imiles south-west of Kinnaird, owned by Albert Kelly Lotze of Northport, Wash., had been “completely

destroyed by a fire of un--

known origin with damage estimated at $20,000.”

It then went on to say that the Castlegar forestry suppression crew, after bringing the fire under con-

da guard

le ruins for several days. : “The fire apparently be- gan in the mill itself,” a B.C. forestry officer (Joe Kil- lough) said Friday, spread to an adjacent pile of slabs and edgings heaped up some 40 feet high. The sur-

rounding bush was also.

threatened’ but the. flames were quickly contained in the smoldering rubbish pile and kept under control.”

“The fire was first no- ticed about 10 o'clock Thurs- day, the article continued,

“when the flames became ©

visible to Castlegar resi- dents. The Forestry Service, thinking at first that it was a forest fire, rushed its 20-man suppression crew plus some 40 hastily recruited district residents to the scene, and prevented the flames from

* tended since last fall, was

completely levelled. All the mill machinery, two diesel power units and the mill buildings were consumed in the flames.”

The balance of the re- port is given by “an eye witness, J.A. Charters, a local high school teacher, who

ibes his

“and:

And so, on with the sary © of ‘a

unexpected (twe

hour trip to put out a ‘pot fire’ last Thursday night, materialized into a peep-hole view of the south-west corner of Hades.

That modest, maidenly blush on the hill above Biye- berry turned out, like many

he fire was fir-

" st noticéd “at” 10

o'clock when the. flames became visible to Castlegar residents.”

other such blushes, to be entirely deceptive. The. offer - to help crush the ‘spot’ quickly (“it will just be a couple’ of hours"); the rush home to change, the half-

of voices

_erew, who had

huge pile of sawdust and edgings roared, crackled and hissed, all but drowning out the ring of axes and shouts of men,

While the- suppression already ar- rived, cut fire guards and we new arrivals put out some of the million fire-fly embers which were settling every- where, orders came to set up the pump.

With Rino Manarin and.

Doug Burrows ‘lugging the

pump and others r4 hoses, grub-hoes and shovels, a party clawed, scrambled, tumbled and swore its way, aided by the treacherous, flickering light of kerosene lanterns, down through dead trees and windfalls to the stream below.

Quickly a dam was built and a hose snaked around the upper flank of the fire where the ail itself was already a

of professionals and volun- teers, the clash of tools and, roaring motors against the darkness of the night all were but a prelude to the Pur-

_gatory of the most bone-

shaking, tooth-loosening ride T've ever had.

Even with Albert Hes- kith's skillful. manoeuvering up the agonized goat track until our ears popped with the altitude, I could still remember tank-testing grounds which had been easier riding.

On our way up we met three or four incautious gen- tlemen who had been drawn to the fire by curiosity and who were returning home. They were immediately and

ip and experiences.” ‘

Like a number of other citizens, I had seen the glow

in the sky and, having had °

some experience in fighting forest fires, hurried there- fore, over to the forestry station to offer my services, The is.a

only beginning to be felt. More than six million chil- dren in the U.S. live in fatherless families. In Can- ada there were 878,000 children in homes without fathers in the census year 1976. The figure is prob- ably now close toa million.

Marriage has become iner ly difficult,

equal access to and careers, and the mod- ern wife finds it increasing. ly difficult to live a domes- tic life of looking after the home and kids. Says one former career woman: “Sometimes when I'm scraping the egg and ket- chup off the morning dish-

es I think back to the .

business lunches I used to have, and I can't believe T'm the same person.” Many young women find that marriage is stif-

to bea loving parent, the mother returns two years later and re trieves her son. The judge decides the mother should have custody because it is in the best interests of the child, :

The. courts are reluc- tant to consider fathers as primary caretakers. Fa- ther has been nudged aside by a dominant trend in modern p: which

tense, and neurotic. The complexity of the modern world may be making the two-parent’ family obso- lete.

Being a father isn't what it used to be. But being a mother isn't what it used to be either.

There is one thing that is the same — children. They are a constant source

d and emo-

has concerned itself, al- most obsessively, with the

of tional reward. V Sun

view of (to me) a very different and frightening kind' of fire and an eye- opening view of another one of our local pioneers,.former Forest Ranger Joe Killough.

‘invited’ by the ranger to get changed and return again to become more actively involved.

In the meantime, the fires of heii far above vori- ited flame and sparks into the sky, died and vomited again. ‘A wrong turn, a reverse, then the right one, twisting still higher, and then, around the corner the whole hill appeared to be ablaze — a dramatic show against the stark background of ever- greens and higher hills. A

dying

skeleton. Then a hustle past the blackened fuel pump lit by its own burning frame- work, and across another sea of sawdust, the opposite to that which we had just left.

Even at this distance the sea of orange and blue flames was uncomfortable. Ranger Joe Killough, who was. dir- ecting t the operation and try-

except the fire-rusted, machinery, twisted chains: and a few blackened beams.: In spite of two strong fire- hose jets, the fire still burned: like an angry volcano. The: police dog arrived but could. find nothing. With ail the: movement there the previous: night he would have been’ more successful on Columbia’

crush him and play safe — Bal fire is treacherous and more dangerous than any human enemy. More ‘ fire-guards, therefore, and more water,

might lie for weeks only to be fanned into an even more destructive blaze.

During the night Mr.

With the coming

of dawn, grub, and

new crews, little was left of the mill. Weir had pulled his suppres- sion crew out and returned to camp, only to leave almost at once for the blaze at Kres

‘tova. One of life's little

merry-go-rounds. One further episode of - the night is both - worth

ing t ther man's job as well, suddenly disappeared with a gang into the smoke, seeming miles away in this strange inferno.

More hoses were at- tached and several of us were sent back to the road side of the fire to pour literally tons of water on the closest flames, which it seemed, only annoyed them slightly. Sim- ultaneously, while one hose held the flames back, and another kept a constant drenching spray on them,

men began cutting down the tall.evergreens which blazed like giant torches, felling them into the fire so that they did not fall across the road and block it, or start new fires in the forest below.

With the coming of dawn, grub, and new crews, little was left of the mill

and very reveal ing about the man whom we will be writing for the next two weeks: Picture a police car racing up in the dark, trying to avoid the flames and running over fire-hoses under pressure in the pro- cess. Then picture an ordin- arily (and deceptively) mild-

than his own fire, taking’ eight-foot leaps toward the now unhappy offender and expressing his heated feel- | inge at avery jump.

No damage was’ done, fortunately, and the fire’ again took over the centre of. interest. i

End of this story, but: neither the beginning nor the end of the story of a very* interesting man, and another’

facet of the history of Castle-

gar.

How Robson cr came by its name

An intri

as a bus-

from the past is whence came the community names Castle- gar, Kinnaird and Robson.

‘When it comes to Castle- gar and Kinnaird, to is dif- ficult to separate legend from fact, but with the latter the issue is quite clean-cut.

In the early years of the last decade of the 19th cen- tury, B.C. had for its pro-

vincial secretary, the Hon. °

John Robean: :

ot his ser-

waa the locality which was

tling ae a ranspeuation system for the Kootenays was named after him.

. At that time all activity was on the north side of the river and there was no West Robson. 2

Castlegar owes its name to either Scotland or Ireland. Ther ica theory that goes something like this:

Tt was typical day in the early 1880's and a typical mining party camped by a tiver in the vast and only

partly explored wilderness of what is now called British Columbia.

The leader of the party, with an understandable nos- talgia for his native land, de- cided to name the camping spot after his beloved fields of Ireland.

Pointing to the ground near where his tent had been erected, the leader of this party looking for the riches of B.C. earth,” pronounced a name and the name is still remembered, more than 100,

years later. “This place," he said ‘‘is Castlegar — little Castle."”

‘And so was named the site of the most progressive town of the West Kootenay. .

How Kinnaird was’ named is still not definitely known. Some say it was: named after an early settler while others claim it was named after a Lord Kinnaird: of Scotland. They say the CPR named its one-time stop at Kinnaird after him.