‘Dave’ S Garage

D. Chiulli, Proprietor

General Repairs
Cars and Trucks
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Acetylene Welding
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FORT ST. JOHN - -

Real Estate—Insurance

Life, Fire and Automobile
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Farm Lands Throughout Peace
River Block—Intended Settlers
Communicate With Us.

C. M. FINCH

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C.

Condill Cafe

GOOD FOOD
WELL PREPARED

is the only kind we serve

You will find this restaurant
not “Another place to eat’
but '’A place to eat another”

THE TASTE WILL TELL
FORT ST. JOHN

Vic's Shoe Hospital

V. L. WILLIAMS, Proprietor
Former Game Warden

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Shoe & Harness Repairing
Work Neatly Executed
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Box 84
FORT ST. JOHN - -

TWELFTH EDITION

Bedaux and his wife with de Duke and Duchess of Windsor, after Bedaux made his abortive
attack upon the Canadian wilderness.

The Napoleon of the Rockies had met
his Waterloo. The signal for retreat was
sounded. Trappers and riders, coming in
to Fort St. John, likened it to a rout. With
a two-foot fall of snow blanketing slippery
hillsides, and surviving horses sagging at
the knees or swaying under half-loads, there
was danger of the whole party being
marooned in the bush for the winter.

While exhausted horses wallowed south-
ward through the muskeg, Bedaux with be-
draggled ladies and hand-picked cowboy
sailors piled into five batteaux and commit-
ted themselves to the treacherous waters
of some unmapped stream. As though he
hadn’t tempted fate enough the ubiquitous
leader decided on still another attempt to
dramatise the expedition for the silver
screen. This time the spot selected was a
dangerous rock-walled canyon through
which wrathful waters writhed and tossed
in whitecapped anger to soar through a
dangerous chute where a granite pillar bi-
sected the current into two narrow foam-
flecked channels; only one of which was
navigable.

“One of the boats will go ahead with the
movie man and the camera and slow up
for the other boats to pile through on each
other’s tail. Cut your power right down
soon as you get over the first fall so you'll
get a close-up of the rest of us as we hurtle
past,” ordered the leader.

“The only way we'll ever get through
that canyon alive,” growled a grim-faced
packer who knew something about white
water, “is to let the boats through one at
a time. Then if one of ‘em gets caught the
rest won't pile in and drown the bunch of
us. I wouldn’t accept the responsibility,”
he added flatly.

“That's all right,” Bedeaux responded
airily, “Ill accept the responsibility myself.”
And with this cold comfort they prepared
to meet what many of them were certain
was their doom.

Again the pistol barked. The lead boat,
with obedient but chalk-faced camera-man
facing up-stream to depict the oncoming

flotilla, shot down the first chute. Caught
in the swift waters and swirled onward at
racehorse speed the pilot obediently cut the
ignition completely. With spluttering pro-
test the engine died just as the advance
guard of the scow flotilla leapt the crest
and bore down upon them. Bereft of steer-
age way, wallowing like a log, twisted
breathlessly end for end, the gaping movie
man stared wild-eyed into a sea of yeasty
froth when not engulfed in tidal waves of
hissing water, his ears assailed by the

B.C. CAFE

MARK WAH, Proprietor
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Lunches and Meals

Ice Cream — Soft Drinks

Confectionery

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C.

KIRKNESS
MEAT MARKET

Fresh Meat and Fish

Home-Made Sausage
and Meats

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