GENERAL GROCERIES
IMPERIAL GAS and OIL

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“Pe 23 Colwood, B.C.

COLWOOD STORE

SIDNEY CASH & CARRY

W. W. Gardner, Proprietor
Complete Line of Groceries

PHONE 91
Sidney, B.C.

STAN'S GROCERY

STAN WALTING, Proprietor

GROCERIES and MEATS
We Deliver to All Districts Regularly
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Phone Sidney 181

SIDNEY, B.C.

Phones: Sidney (Day) 6; (Night) 60-Y, 152-Y

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Mitchell & Anderson
Lumber Co. Lid.

All Kinds of Lumber, Mill
Work and Hardware

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SIDNEY, B. C.

Phone 31

LOCAL MEAT
MARKET

A. D. Harvey

Dealers in

DRESSED MEATS
FISH AND
FRESH VEGETABLES

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SIDNEY, B.C.

TENTH EDITION

cafe at Prairie Creek. Gazing meditatively
at the sleek pink carcasses, Thorne lifted his
slender steel probe, placed it between the
ribs of a fat porker and pushed. To his
unbounded amazement the pig began to
leak! The defunct animal exuded a stream

of amber liquid which smelled suspiciously

like whiskey. Jabbing another pig at ran-
dom produced similar results, causing the
inquisitive officer to investigate the balance
of the load. Within each innocent looking
porker was a rubber bladder containing two
or three gallons of whiskey. The mystery
surrounding another flow of liquor had been
solved!

As I strode through the crinkly heat haze
and caught a glimpse of blue water through
the pines I began to long for the damp cool
ness of the Northland’s forests. A stray
copy of the Edmonton Bulletin only intensi-
fied the longing, for the front page carried
an account of Indian Agent Conroy’s visit
to the motley tribesmen of Great Slave
Lake. If the call of the wild had been
dormant it now cried out with redoubled
force. A week later I was back in Edmon-
ton, pledged to go north to Peace River
Crossing and open a trading post for the
Grenfell interests of London—later to be

taken over by Lord Rhondda.

HUMANITY ON THE Move

It was a magnificent August day as I
boarded the stage for Athabasca Landing,
jumping-off place for the North. There
were six passengers in all, some, like myself,
connected with trading outfits; others bound
for the prairies of the Peace in search of
homes, and the inevitable real estate specu
lator who'd already smelled out possibilities
of easy money in this promised land.

Along the hundred mile trail that wound
through thick pine woods and over undulat-
ing parklands there streamed a constant
caravan of wagons drawn by shagannapie
cayuses driven by dark-skinned descendants
of those coureurs de bois who'd originally
explored the land. Attired in cowboy Stet-
sons, fringed buckskin coats, cottonade pants
and beaded moccasins, they lolled on their

loads as though they hadn’t a worry in the
world, little realizing that within a short
few months th’s Athabasca trail was to
become the highway for a covered wagon
trek that was to transform the country to
the northward and forever end that carefree
life they loved.

Next evening we topped the spruce-clad
Tawatinaw Hills and saw below, enshroud-
ed in the glimmering heat haze where‘n
wisps of wood smoke floated languidly, the
far-famed frontier scttlement of Athabasca

AVENUE CAFE

Frank L. Godfrey, Proprietor

Stage Depot -I- Taxi Service
NEWS DEALER
“Tf It's Published We Can Get It!’
THE SHOULDER STRAP ON SALE HERE

Sidney, B.C. Phone 100

WILSONA INN

Mrs. A. Wilson, Proprietress

FISHING — BOATING

Home Cooked Meals
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Reasonable Rates
A Good Quiet Place to Spend
Your Holidays
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Deep Cove, Sidney, B. C.

WHEN IN SIDNEY CALL AT
BAAL’'S DRUG STORE

For Local Souvenirs, Films, Photo Finishing,
and a full stock of Medicines and
Drug Sundries.

BEACON AVENUE SIDNEY, B.C.

The pioneer “Peace River” across the 75-mile portage, took settlers, surveyors and trappers as far
west as Fort St. John and Hudson's Hope.

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