ATER NRE RS Set PO SS General Auto Sales LIMITED Distributors for Chevrolet and Oldsmobile FRONT STREET, NANAIMO, B.C. Phone 1200 ELKS HOME No. 26 @ Visiting Brothers Welcome Front Street Nanaimo, B.C. “The Canadian Ex-Service Men‘s Organization” THE CANADIAN LEGION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE SERVICE LEAGUE Nanaimo Branch, No. 10, B. C. NANAIMO, B. C. PATRICIA HOTEL JACK ZUZIC AND LOUIS VOCINA Proprietors e LICENSED PREMISES Nanaimo, British Columbia she added, her sad tone barely above a whisper, “it was our honeymoon trip.” The young couple arrived in Dawson on June 20th, 1898. Arthur had taken in machinery and equipment for mining opera- tions. They had stopped at Lake Bennett, where they had built scows to float the machinery down the water route, and the couple had followed the scows by canoe. While they, along with many other stampeders in various crafts, were crossing Lake Lebarge, a sudden gale had swept across the waters, dashing the little vessels against the far shore where most of them were total wrecks. “All that saved our canoe, and maybe ‘our persons, from injury was a large sail that Arthur had run up near the bow. I was so frightened that I seized the bottom of the sail, and clung to it with all my might. Arthur shouted at me to let it go, but in spite of his commands I hung on for all I was worth! But do you know, the wind caught that taut-sail, and blew us, bow up, high and dry on the bank without a scratch! All the other boats hit broadside, ‘and many of the people were hurt.” After arriving at Dawson, Arthur Field had staked a claim at Number 19, Bear Creek, eight miles from town. It was shallow ground, and all opencut work. The claim turned out to be a real strike, and he put a crew of 50 men to work. The first spring clean-up yielded a hundred thousand dollars! “Arthur thought Dawson in the winter time was no place for me, so he sent me home that first September. My mother couldn’t see things his way, though. She said my place was with my husband, no matter where he was; so she sent me right back to him.” Her face glowed with pleasure as she told me of happy memories of her brief married life in the mushroom town. “The strangest thing happened,” she ex- claimed, laughing at the recollection. “Back in Hot Springs, before we left for Dawson, a girl I knew gave me a letter for her brother. He was George Matlock, and he’d been in the North for a year or two. No one I asked knew anything about him, so when I went home that first winter, [ carried the letter back with me. I had it, still, when my mother sent me back to Daw- son. One night, at a party at Mrs. Spencer’s 4 ee COWICHAN CREAMERY , ASSOCIATION DUNCAN, B.C. COBBLE HILL, B, (eh Cowichan Creamery Butter Cowichan Creamery Eggs Creamery Poultry Feeds Creamery Dairy Feeds "Forty-nine Years of Service’ ——————— | home, she introduced me to a handsome man from Circle City. Who should it lp but George Matlock! So I delivered the letter I had carried for more than a year!” “We joined the Sourdough Club thy winter, and made many good friends. There was Antone Stander; Roy Lund, the well known hockey player; Rose and Jack Blicks, and the Spencers. We had gay parties at first one home, then another, “Arthur bought me a pony and cart tp drive to town,” she reminisced. She laughed merrily as she told me about the pony, Nanaimo-Duncan Utilities Limited SERVING CENTRAL VANCOUVER ISLAND LIGHT — POWER Nanaimo Salt Spring Island Duncan Eagle Building Telephone 464 CHRIS. WRIGHT & CO. PREFERRED RISK INSURANCE REAL ESTATE Agents for Canadian National Railways Transatlantic Steamship Lines and All Air Lines 135 Bastion Street P.O. Drawer 23 NANAIMO, B.C. PHONE 8 183 Commercial Street CITY TAXI (Nanaimo) Lid. JOE HEWITT, MANAGER 5 & 7-Passenger Radio & Heater Equipped Cars for Hire Day and Night NANAIMO B.C. BOX 372 aoa Compliments of VALDES LUMBER COMPANY LIMITED NANAIMO, B.C. Page Twenty-eight THE SHOULDER STRAP