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THOR M. PETERSON
GENERAL CONTRACTOR

HOUSING PROJECTS and
SUBDIVISIONS, REINFORCED CONCRETE

ALL TYPES OF COMMERCIAL BUILDING
All Types of Power Equipment Available

OFFICE es eetine batten. Men ets! 1007

PHONES: RES {o- eeees wt ee ee ee ee, OO
WARTIME HOUSING JOB _755
WOODWARD JOB 1209

P. O. Box 2028 Port Alberni, B.C.

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Contractors’ and Builders’ Supplies Lid.
Offers a new
Builders’ Supply Service
® Zonolite Plaster and Insulation (Exclusive Agents)
@ Building and Roofing Papers

@ International Paints
@ Plywood @ Mouldings

MONO-DOORS are now in stock
Agents for PEDLAR METAL LATH and BEAD
Warehouse locaied on Kingsway next to Somass Hotel

PHONE 1007 - RES. PHONE 970
PORT ALBERNI BRITISH COLUMBIA —

smelting town of Anyox, B.C., was on |
SPEEDWAY GARAGE fire, and the residents were in immediate |
SACHKO & SONS, Proprietors | danger of their lives. This town is built
GOODYEAR TIRES AND TUBES j On a precipitous mountain side, and the
| SHELL PRODUCTS only avenue of escape was by sea.
| ACCESSORES Without a moment’s delay, the skipper
Telephone 757 P. O. Drawer 2025 gave orders to cast off, and the engineer | eae |
PORT ALBERNI B.C. | dived into the engine room, starting the |} Bowl For Your Health’s Sake |
| engines with a roar. The skipper shouted _ |

down to him to “Give her everything | °
she’s got”, and the engineer did just that.

The normal time for a trip from Arran- PORT ALBERNI BOWLADROME

dale. to Anyox was about 414 hours

||

WITH COMPLIMENTS TO THE } cruising time. On this occasion the good | TMT,
~G. POLICE | boat outdid itself and cut the running oes ha 2 |
ee time down to 3% hours. The sight that Port Alberni, British Columbia

broke upon their gaze as they rounded a

W % C : C E C | point was indeed awesome. A sheet of

flame covered the hillside where the town

of Anyox had stood, and the shore on

111 FIRST AVENUE, SOUTH both sides of the harbour was a mass
* of swirling smoke and flame.

KNEEN & POWER

BRICK WORK CONTRACTORS

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| P.M.L.’s Arp in a VeriTABLe INFERNO MANUEACTURERS SAGENTS |
PORT ALBERNI, B.C. | a ; | BUILDING SUPPLIES |
Uhe updraft caused by the terrific heat P.O. Box 38 Phone 494
sent billowing clouds of smoke laden with _ |

3 : ; PORT ALBER -C,
blazing embers into the early morning ORT SLSERN : BE

sky. The roaring of the flames, and re-
flection of the blazing mountain side

Phone 526 Kingsway : = : 5 : = ; z
reflected from the water of the harbour, FIVE FULLY LICENSED CARS
KINGSWAY MOTORS LTD made it appear as if the entire universe f
: was ablaze. A veritable Dante’s Inferno. PHONE J IM S PHONE
HOME OIL PRODUCTS In the middle of the harbour, pathet- 5 BLACK & WHITE
Packard - Austin Cars ically huddled together on an old scow 1 3
PORT ALBERNI B.C. were thirty-two persons with a few 5 T A X I 38
meagre personal effects that they had COURTEOUS AND CONGENIAL SERVICE

been able to salvage before the roaring
wall of flame forced them to abandon
their homes. The scow had been pulled

MONDS || away from the shore by a tiny gas boat, ~~ > a =a 2).
OR | which was just able to move it. Tied to After you and your family have read THE
the scow, was a seaplane which had flown SHOULDER STRAP pass it along to your friends,

Plumbing and lleating in from Prince Rupert the previous eve- don't throw it away. They will enjoy reading it.
e

ARGYLE STREET

PORT ALBERNI, B.C.

ning with a Provincial Police officer

aboard. —— — 27
The P.M.L. 15 immediately went in

to action. Nothing could be done ashore.

PLUMBING, HEATING,

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The combined fire departments of all | KING EDWARD HOTEL |
SHEET METAL WORK | the Province could do nothing in the W. I. ROSENBAUM, PROPRIETOR |
a | face of such a blaze. Going alongside the | “RK Home Rway From bHomee |
scow, P.M.L. 15 took over the duty of || =~ “ome * : Ra
Telephone 180 | the little gas boat and held the scow and | LICENSED PREMISES
lane off shore till daylight. The women Box 246 Phone 733
PORT ALBERNI, B. C. | aa children were taken onto the police | PORT ALBERNI B.C.
|

boat and sent down below where they

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