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NEW CN EXPRESS-FREIGHT DEPOT

CN brings improved facilities to province

Canadian National provides a The ney. express-freight shed specially for Canadian National vital link between Prince Ed- in roaslear anager need en to a light-weight design develop- into ation late in » en- abled CN to put inte operation |°* by railway ‘personnel.

When the warm weather of the new methods which had been Among other ultra-modern summer is gone and the tour- eavolved to handle express railroading techniques in oper- ists with it, CN continues to pro- freight with greater speed and ation at the new express freight vide important services to! efficiency. The building was de- terminal is a sophisticated com-

munications system. This speeds

Prince Edward Island, bring- signed with these aims in mind “in the consu commodit- | and dealing with the rapidly in- up the answering of customers

of Canada.

a ing. ‘onsuper ap { flow “this : om ve i@g required by the Island res-; creasing this tragic’ cats and enables instructions to} idepts and takingsout the pro- through, Charlot Ihe. passed on quickly. Supervis-

am! . ors are able to page any em- - {mew 190-fdot “long tuilding is | nioyee in the: building through in| bright and. airy and is heated | paul and thy ine |able to reply through talk-back junits installed at locations throughout the terminal. Adjustable ramps at the load-

ries, ae ae ton Canadian National's | the growth and development of for winter operation. Prince Edward Island was em- LIVE LOADING

zed in 1964 with the open-| One of the new concepts in ing of a new express freight shed handling express freight traffic at Charlottetown’ in the renov-| which has been introduced ating docks also help to speed up

“live loading.” | the loading and unloading pro-

station; and in the expansion of; All shipments are unloaded dir-| cedure, making it possible for Canadian National Telecomroun- ectly from car or truck to four-/ the dock c ieations facilities and services to| wheel dock carts. The shipments| and out of ks at any height. the provinces. }remain on these dock carts dur-| Canadian National's old freight Express freight—a combinat-|ing the time they are in the) shed, ion of express and less-than-car-|freight shed. This allows the|

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30 Years of Dependable SERVICE

to Prince Edward Island Car Buyers

The automobile dealer who wants to be in business 20 years from today, gives high emphasis to quality.

Quality isthe products he sells—quality in the workmanship of every re- pair job—and quality of service by a competent staff which turns customérs into friends.

Here at 8. R. Johnston Lid., quality has been our watchword. We have

"ure of our success is evidence by the fact 1965 is ploving to: be one of the most successful in our history.

JOHNST

a relic of the days of the |

% “ {to marshal! longer freight train more efficiently

The freight shed and other im- provements to CN fa¢ilities in Charlottetown are all paft of the railways’ long term plan to re- move outdated and outmaded | facilities in the continuing effort |} to improve services

In a province where the co- | ordination of truck and train has |become an increasingly impurt- | ant factor in transportation, Can- jadian National strives to pro- | vide the best pessible ser\:ce to

meet its customers’ néeds and | provide for further develop- ment

The railway has introduced

daily highway truck service be- tween the mainiand, Charlotie- town and Summerside This truck service has helped speed up the handling of certain ex- press freight shipments to and from Prince Edward Island Canadian National is a_ vital factor in the province's econ- omy. The railway offers incent- ive rates for farmers in ship- ping their potato crop to mar kets. With the failure of the United States potato crop boost ing prices across the cvountry, Island farmers shipped more. of their crop to the major Canad-

FOR THE

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of using quality

teries to such as boating

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CREDIT BUYING

WHOLE FAMILY IS EASIER

Enjoy the satisfacton

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ian. markets in the past few months than in the same period last year. CN made special ef- forts to provide for the unex- pected heavy demand for refers. in spite of ice in the strait and other winter transportation dif- ficulties

Theve are new developments in the frozen food industry and Prince Edward Island producers are anxious to stay in the fore front of the industry's advance Canadian National is anxious to do its part and the railway’ has been experimenting with new and more diversified iypes of equipment:to provide its custom- ers with the right transportat- ton for their particular product

TELECOMMUNICATION Canadian National Telecom- munications’ links with PEI are also important. Che CNT System prpvides P.E.I. with all the latest innovations in telecom- munications, including Telex ser vice, which can link Island busi- hesses with firms throuzhout Canada and around the world Demand for the CN-CP Telex service resulted during 1964 in an expansion of the tacilities which serve the province at Charlottetown. A separate ex-

change was established —wii th

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“DISCOUNT From All Prices Shown

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} ~ twice the capacity of the. prev- led during the visit of the Rovél and NCO’s Messes were est ious one. Canadian National Cowgrx culitgared with a jeta! ablished along with the Men's Telecommunications completely of 15,000 words ductag ati Cumeen to provide ailey cre: modernized the oxpentet pi visit. ing social activities change, equipping it with the —— ———$_$_$____. oceeded ai latest equipment in the oe of oa iteelt procteded at 8 direct, point-to-point written V t , communications e erans youths were enrolled in the units

The Charlottetown exchange puts P.E.I. businessmen into dir- ect contact with firms connected with the CN-CP Telex system which is part of a world-wide network of over 170,000 subscrib- ers Of this total, more than 6,000 are Canadian in such wiae- ly separated centres as Vancouv- er, St. John’s Nfld., Edmonton and Charlottetown.

During the visit of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to Charlottetown in October, the world’s press filed a total of; 158.790 words of coverage of the visit via Canadian National Tel- ecommunications’ facilities to all parts of the world. Busy CNT operators punched out a total of 66,000 on the final day of the visit-the largest file ever handled in one day in the Maritimes Facilities were also flooded with business for the Canadian Press and other news media: transmit- ting wirephotos round the world. The nearly 160,000 words hand-

rejoined militia

Although the first reaction of many when World War Two end-

ed was thankfulness it was over

and nearly everyone was in a hurry to get back in civies, a longing for the old way of life was not long in coming

Before many months had pass- ed imcreasing numbers of vet erans were getting back in uni- form with one of the peacetime units in Charlottetown. Soon the camaraderie, of wartime saw a surging interest apparent and local military units were in full swing

At that time the city had the 17th, Recce, 28th Light Ack Ack,

Signals and Medics. Officers

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-eplacing veterans who began to | drop out c» age or waning in- terest dictated But over the years technological advances in bomb techniques made _ the standard-type soldier almost as obsolete as a muzzie-loader and training changed to more of a civil defence brand

Invasion sparked volunteers

Prince Edward seen a variety of defense forces from the earliest days of French and English Imperia! troops to a handful of ‘Charlottetown Vol- unteers back 100 years ago

The Volunteers came into be-

Island has

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ing due to worry over_the Island being left with na tre“ ef all to guard agamst! the expected de- predations of the Yankees — who had ‘invaded the colony 100 years before that and took away the Great Seal and a cou- ple of government officials.

George Washington returned the officials with apologies but the Yankees kept the seal with no apologies

One company of volunteers grew into several and before long artillery entered the pic. ture. The latter years Of the | 19th century saw Islanders take pride in their batteries an@ this carried well over the present century

Artillerymen from here cap- tured top prizes in competition

with the Empire's best anc many times headed all Cana- dian gunners. An example of their tremendous ability: was

seen in the Second World War when Brig. G@.K. Peake caught in a jam converted his light ack ack artillery into a ground forc- es weapon and almost complete- ly demoralized the enemy at-

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