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YMIR HOTEL

J. D. Spiers and G. Clerihew,
Proprietors

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FULLY LICENSED
Dining Room in Connection
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Ymir, British Columbia

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THE CO-OPERATIVE
FRUIT GROWERS’
ASSOCIATION

OF WYNNDEL, B. C.

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WYNNDEL, B. C.

SIMON RONACHER

Manufacturer of

Ties, Rough and Dressed
Lumber - White Spruce - Fir
Pit Props

Phone 1, Invermere, B. C.

ATHALMER, B. C.

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Quesnel in the 60's

Sutherland? was at Lytton for some years
and was succeeded by D. McGillivray. J.
W. Burr was for a number of years con-
stable at Ashcroft °.

I left the service at the end of March,
1912 and took up farming, and was
succeeded by Const. Frank Islip ®. Yolland
had left 150 Mile about two years before
that, and his place was taken first by G. L.
Hall for about nine or ten months, then by
C. B. R. Palmer for a year and at the
beginning of 1912 W. V. E. Spiller 7°
came there as constable. A Provincial Con-
stable was first stationed at Fort George
early in 1911 previous to which I had
looked after that area and was in charge
until the incorporation of the city.

A.tways Got His MAN

I had some hard. cases to deal with at
times but I never took a bluff. I didn’t care
if a prisoner was as big as a house, even if
he was John L. Sullivan himself: if I had
to take him, I took him. I could always get
lots of help if I needed it to follow or track
a man, and I have had as specials some men
who are now serving the Province in im-
portant positions. For tracking I could also
fall back on Indians, who cannot be beaten
for that work. I covered my district on

horseback for the greater part of the year,
and in winter on snowshoes or with dogs.
I went up to Stuart Lake on one case with
two specials when we had to break our way
through with two feet of snow on the
ground. At one time I used to get an allow-
ance for my horse for five months of the

—Courtesy B. C. Archives.

year, $17 a month, but that didn’t last long.
It was a hard life but a healthy one and we
learned to put up with hardships.

In addition to hunting for offenders and
tracing out crimes we were called upon to
do a lot of things which never got into
reports and for which we never asked or
got any credit. Lots of little difficulties be-
tween neighbours we have been asked to
settle and we did a lot to prevent bad feeling
that would have been created by people
brooding over petty spats and jealousies.

7Was staff-sergeant at Golden at the time of his
death in November, 1925.

SLater became Chief Constable at Ashcroft in
charge of the Yale district.

*Killed some years ago in an automobile accident
on the Cariboo road.

Rose to the rank of Inspector. Now on pension,
resides at Salt Spring Island.

Dutch Creek Hotel
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Fully Licensed Premises

Good Meals at Reasonable Rates
Three Miles from Fairmont Hot Springs

Sixty Miles from Kimberley on
the Main Highway

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Phone Dutch Creek Hotel

Dutch Creek, Fairmont P.O.

CORONATION HOTEL

Mr. and Mrs. S. Ronacher, Proprietors

LICENSED PREMISES

Reasonable Rates
Excellent Meals

A HOME FOR THE LOGGER

Comfortable Rooms

ATHALMER, B. C.

Sheep Creek Gold
Mines Limited

Subsidiary Operations:
ZINCTON MINE

SHEEP CREEK, B. C.

(N. P. L.)

PARADISE MINE
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