”Comer F. T. Whiteway arrived to take Oven 21. loo0motive
foremanshlp and Company plans were made to remove the
sixty—foot high smokestack landmark above the roundhouee
. . . .Yet therailway recognized that godd things did come out
of Rivers, for native-born Robert H; Tivy was named Mari-
time region assistant superintendent

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The same fifth-decade year was accompanied by
problems not unlike those existing fifty years before (dog-
control, policing and scholastic needs). It marked the end of
journeyings for early inhabitants Mrs. , Wilfred Parsons
(Annie Brown) at McGraw, N.Y.; for septuagenarians Garfield
Ferguson (one of Rivers’ first five bombers) at Nakina, Ont,
Arthur W. Johnson (ex~railroa.der and former councillor) in
Winnipeg, T. R. Grieve (one—time clothier) at Campbell River,
B.C.; for octogenarian James Glufi. It brought to McKenzie’s,
this community’s original business enterprise (now in its
fourth generation) a half-century—of—eervioe‘celebration; it
witnessed the premiere installation of natural gas at the home
of Thomas McKenzie (no connection with‘ the firm—name
previously mentioned) and thequalifying-of Pte. W. L. Cowell
(EUR) 38 the Canadian Joint Air Training Centre’s 10,000th
paratrooper —— the twelvemonth that saw’constmotion begin
on a new Canadian Legion hall, an IGA Supermarket and‘an
United Grain Growers elevator, renovation of the Alexandra
hotel (wherein the third storey was removed), presentation to
town and district of a. Kiwanis club ambulance, a two-hour
Airport visit of Hollywood's Charles Laughton, appointment
of (ex—Councillor James Hesse! to a newly—created works
department post and the subsequent election of Mrs. J. A.
Gilchrist as this town’s first woman representative at. the
civic table, along with the new faces of M. K. Shannon and
Dr. John Zmetana.

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The half—century point in this obmmunity’s history
saw recorded a repetition of earlier departures relative to
education when temporary classes were held in a. remodelled
United church — and a memorable event in scholastic annals
with the oeremonious September 20 opening of Rivers
Collegiate as Ivy Miners’ Day (in honor of the local teaching
staff member who now retired from thirty—vsix—anda—half
terms of duty) : into the presence of provincial premier D. L.
Campbell, Nick Mandziuk MP, M. R. Sutherland MLA,
Commanding Ofiieer Group Capt. R. 0. Shaw and other
CJATC officials, Rivers—born Anglican church rector Denis
Roberts together with second—generation (ax-pupils, Miss

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