WOMENS’

ELSIE DEFALGUE:

Elsie Defalgue is stenographer to the Mill Superinten-
dent, which has been her job since her arrival in Cassiar
approximately 5 years ago. Prior to coming to Cassiar,
Elsie had been in Montreal and then in Vancouver. She
was not pleased with employment or wages in Vancouver, so
answered an ad. for a short order cook in Watson Lake.
During her duration in Watson, the thermometer dropped to
74 degrees below zero and in no wav was she going to
stick around and freeze to death so, she headed for the
Banana Belt ---?---- Cassiar, where she has been ever
since. Elsie's comment on Cassiar is - "I love it,
every aspect of it and I can't see myself leaving, it
seems as though I have found something I've been looking
for".

MARY ELHORN:

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The nucleus of a hospital could very well be the
nurses and Cassiar is blessed with pleasant, efficient
nurses coming and going fromeall over the continent.

Mary Elhorn is one of these girls, hailing from New
Zealand. Mary came to Cassiar with Elizabeth Troughton
almost three years ago. They came to Cassiar to save
money and to go to the Olympic Games in Mexico. However,
Mary never did pet to those Olympic Games - she did
something more exciting and daring - she met and married

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Ray Elhorn and they settled down in Cassiar.

Mary worked her way up in the three years, from
Nurse to our hard working Charge Nurse. She likes
her job very much and thinks the other girls are
terrific. She likes Cassiar more as the years go
by.

ROSE EBBINGHOFF:

Rose Ebbinghoff works for Gordon Edwards in the
Maintenance Control Office. She first worked for
Industrial Relations and was the one who helped
start up the training centre.

Roae came to Cassiar nearly four years ago -
unmarried. She planned to save money and travel
around Europe. After little more than a year,
Europe, at least Germany, came to her in the form
of August Ebbinghoff! They were married on July
15th, 1967 in Natal, B.C. Rose's home town. Last
summer another of Rose's dreams was fulfilled -
she and August spent five weeks in Europe. And
now the Ebbinghoffs are settled down and are
expecting their first baby this coming summer.

Three wishes granted in four years. Cassiar
could be considered a pretty good Genie...

SHARON _LEES

Sharon Lees is one of the many school teachers
responsible for educating the Cassiar children.