Get Your Supplies for the Sick at The Kimberley Pharmacy 1 1 e KIMBERLEY, B. C. MARK CREEK STORE Kimberley Departmental Store Headquarters for Tourists Agents for Hudson Bay Blankets THE RITZ CAFE Kimberley Headquarters for Tourists 24-Hour Service Fabro Building & Supply Co. Ltd. If used in Building, we have it. e P.O. Box 79 KIMBERLEY Phone 46 GLOBE HOTEL FRANK CARLSON, Proprietor Fully Modern Kimberley, B. C. Page Seventy-eight Forks District, West Kootenay District and East Kootenay District. Headquarters, with the officers in charge, are respectively located as follows: Penticton, Sergt. D. Halcrow; Grand Forks, Sergt. A. Fairbairn; Nelson, Sergt. J. W. Hooker; and Cran- brook, Sergt. H. N. Wood. Principal towns of this division are Oliver, Summerland, West Summerland, Penticton, SERGEANT HENRY NICHOL WOOD N.C.O. in Charge of the East Kootenay Police District SERGEANT WOOD was born at Gateshead-on- Tyne, England, in 1889. Joined the B. C. Pro- vincial Police in 1914. His first station was at White's Landing, and later the same year he was moved to Willow River. In 1916 he was trans- ferred to Vanderhoof; in 1917 to Clayoquot. From there he was transferred to Alberni.in 1918. In 1928 was made Corporal, and in 1930 promoted to the rank of Sergeant. In 1931 he was transferred to Ashcroft; in 1934 was moved to Courtenay; in 1937 was transferred to Van- couver, and in September, 1938, was transferred to Cranbrook. Grand Forks, Rossland, Trail, Nelson, Cran- brook, Kimberley, Fernie and Natal-Michel. Coal mining, of course, is the greatest industry of this district which supplies the Province’s biggest proportion of the valuable fuel. Another vital part of the boundary country’s lifeline, however, is that supplied by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, which operates large plants at Trail and Tadanac. This firm operates the largest smelter of its kind in the British Empire. Gold, silver, copper, cadmium, lead and zine are refined here, and chemical fertilizer is produced from some of the by-products. This plant Operates on a profit-sharing basis between company and worker, and a visit by anyone passing through the Kootenays is well repaid. Its subsidiary concern, the Sullivan Mine, at Kimberley, is 20 miles from Cranbrook, and is the largest silver and lead mine in the world. It is from this mine that the smelter at Trail is kept in continual operation. Apart from the operations of the C. M. and §. Company at Trail and Kimberley, mining is conducted extensively at Hedley, Greenwood, Rossland, Salmo and Ymir, and in the district surrounding Cranbrook. The lonely prospector is still to be seen working his claim and making a good living on the creeks which abound throughout this south- ern part of British Columbia. Still one more large concern, the Weg Kootenay Power and Light Company, with its numerous power dams on the Kootenay River, is another factor in the building up of the Kootenay country. The Kootenay River, from Nelson to South Slocan, is a scenic revelry that is well worth a visit and is one of inspiration and wonder when one gazes down from the high mountain roads to the river. Here a dam, with rushing and swirling waters, tumbling down through control gates, and a little further on, more dams, with foaming waters playing around huge boulders — the whole representing Nature at play and a sight unsurpassed, — Running throughout the police division are numerous fertile valleys, including the Southern Okanagan, now famous for its luscious fruits; Grand Forks, for its fruit and vegetables; and, a little further east, the famous Creston area, fast becoming known as one of the most progressive settle SERGEANT JOHN WILLIAM HOOKER N.C.O. in Charge of the West Kootenay Police District JACK was born in London in 1901, but is actu ally a Welshman, having spent all his younger days in South Wales. He joined the R.C.M. Police in 1923 and was with that force for four and a half years. He then joined the B. C. Provincial Police in 1929 and his first station was at Pitt Meadows, the following year Coquitlam Municipality, and in 1932 he was transferred to Powell River. From Powell River in 1934 to Grand Forks with the rank of Acting Corporal in 1935, which was con firmed the following year. In January, 1938, he was transferred to Cranbrook and in April of that year was promoted to the rank of Sergeant. In September the same year he was again trans- ferred, this time to his present station. ——————— ments in Western Canada. Its farms bring wealth and happiness to thousands. To stand on the hill at Creston and gaze open-mouthed at stands of grain running for miles along the flat bottomed land is a sight appreciated most by the prairie man who thinks once he has left the prairie the wheat lands are‘behind him. Surely such an area gives promise of a great future. At various scattered poiits mixed farming is profitably conducted, the climate and soil being very suitable to this type of farmer. Timber is abundant. Saw mills, large and small, are to be seen at any point along the Boundary country. In all, this area represents a growing part THE SHOULDER STRAP