WILLIAMS LAKE HOTEL LTD. MAPLE LEAF CAFE G. V. PAYNE, Proprietor A Good Place to Eat When in Williams Lake GOOD FOOD WHITE HELP ONLY QUICK SERVICE Open from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. WILLIAMS LAKE - - tment that he used in his services. As example of his tolerance I have often ywn him lead a drunken man home.” His Tracic END His life ended tragically. He left his ish in Rossland, on the advice of his hop, to pay a visit to England in 1901. ) one knows exactly what “prompted him get off the train in mid-winter shortly ore the train arrived at Montreal and Ik. He could not then have been in full session of his faculties. One morning ly in January, 1902, a farmer driving ng the Sault au Recollet Road saw him Iking with difficulty on the ice and took n to a physician living nearby. At his juest he was taken to the famous hospital Notre Dame in Montreal. His shoes d to be cut from his feet, which were dly frozen and had to be thawed out— agonising proceeding. He joked with his rse, while this was being done. Morti- ation and other complications followed d, though his mind was clear until the d, he died. It was reported at the time his death that he had adopted the man Catholic faith but the nursing ters denied that this was so. He died as irageously as he had lived. While most of the material for this bute to a great man has been collected m the lips of those who knew him, I am lebted to a small book “Father Pat” by rs. Jerome Mercier, an English rector’s fe who paid a long visit to British Co- nbia a few years after his death and 10, by a curious coincidence, I met at > rectory in the lovely village of Bredon Worcestershire, England, after her re- rn from B.C. at a time when she was ll of the story of his life. In a fine Jubilee ue of the Rossland Miner published in ssland within the last decade much space s devoted to the story of Father Pat. IN MEMORIAM A monument was erected to his memory the main street of Rossland in the shape a lamp and drinking fountain, the sub- ‘iptions being raised by the miners and me of the Pear burions coming from ex- ners as far away as South Africa where ey were playing a part in the Boer War, SURTEENTH EDITION B.C. “In the Heart of the Cariboo” THE “MAPLE LEAF” offers every modern convenience to the Traveller, the overnight guest or the long-term patron. Cafe, Coffee Shop and a Genuine air of Hospitality. Licensed Premises BENNY ABBOTT and BILL TOWNS, Proprietors WILLIAMS LAKE B.C. men like Colonel Leckie who had known him during the gold excitement years. Among the inscriptions on the monument are two: Whose life was unselfishly devoted to the welfare of his fellow-men irrespective of creed or class” and “His home was known to all the vagrant train; He chid their wanderings and relieved their pain.” Close by this monument, perhaps as elo- quent and even more touching, is a cairn erected to his memory by the miners them- selves. This consists of specimens of all the rich ores produced by the mines of Ross- land, each in its own division and labelled with the name of the mine from which it was taken. “He was a pioneer whose career and personality endeared him to the Kootenays”, wrote the Toronto Globe in the course of a tribute to Father Pat’s memory. There was not a trail through the mountains, not a road through the valleys, that he had not ridden or trudged over, and always on errands of mercy and of love. He had been the friend and confidant of every pioneer and prospector who has lived in the Koote- nays for fifteen years.” His body was brought back to British Columbia. The coffin was placed in the Cathedral Church of New Westminster where crowds of people came to pay the last tribute of respect and affection. On a lovely afternoon he was laid to rest in the pretty cemetery on the hillside beside the wife he had loved so dearly and the child who had breathed its first and last at birth. A LITTLE boy of no more than eight was being cross-examined by the prosecuting lawyer. “Did anyone tell you what to say to this court?” “Yes,” was the soft reply. “T thought so,” gloated the prosecutor. “Who was it?” “My father,” the boy answered mildly. “He said that the lawyers would surely try to tangle me up, but as long as I stuck to the truth I would be alright.” “HI! Didn’t you read that notice at the end of the field?” “No, sir. It said ‘Private,’ so I didn’t like to read it.” A. L. STUART GENERAL FREIGHT Williams Lake and Redstone, B.C. PAT'S TIRE SHOP P. C. HOSEY, Prop. Specializing in Tire and Tube Vulcanizing RECAPPING SERVICE Home Oil Agents B. F. Goodrich Tires WILLIAMS LAKE B.C. _ WILLIAMS LAKE GARAGE Agent for INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS Home Oil Distributors x WILLIAMS LAKE, B. C. =i es ee O’'LEARY’S HOTEL FULLY LICENSED WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Phone 14 P.O. Box 19 QUESNEL BROS. GARAGE FORD SALES — SERVICE Genuine Ford Parts and Accessories —Firestone Tires— Repairs to All Makes of Cars and Trucks Wrecking Service WILLIAMS LAKE, B. C. at Es Page One Hundred Twenty-seven