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The biggest contract let by |harbor, from high water mark, |fenders, ladders, bollards, elec-| pleted Bras d'or Bridge in the outer end will extend east trical lighting, power and tele-|Breton, and the Canso

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lic works, for harbor work in ‘and west for 300 feet. Along the phone systems for connection to | way. Prince Edward Island, during | east and west side dredging-will |ships, water supply and com- 1961, will go a long way to giv- | be carried out to a depth of 26 plete fire

feet and at the outer end to 33 feet. : The wharf: deck is to be sup-

ing the port of Charlottetown a big stride toward a face lifting.

The project valued at ap | proximately $1,500,000, will see) ported by steel ‘‘H” and the erection of a new wharf for | tubular steel piling. centre the Charlottetown based ships portion of the wharf will com- of the department of transport, | prise solid fill, with asphalt pav- replacing the old Marine Wharf | ing. Around the east, west and which has been used by the de- south sides of the filled portion, partment for well over 50 years. a concrete deck will be poured,

The new wharf will occupy a Along the west and south sides,’

site at the foot of Queen Street, this concrete slab will be 100 on the area extending about 50 féet wide, and ‘atong the east 50 feet west of the Buntain and (feet, the whole area will have a Bell wharf to the Charlottetown | depth of one foot.

Yacht Club property at the! For fendering the outer sides west. The area involved. was of the wharf. will be sheathed formerly occupied by the de-| with creosoted hardwood and funct Queen’s Wharf, which was Softwood piling. The wharf originally Peake’s No. 1 wharf, | equipment to be provided in’ this and the recently demolished | portion of the contract, includes,

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PLANS PREPARED

Plans and specification for started early in November were prepar- ‘ed for the district office of the

|harbors and rivers engineering |

|branch of the department, of public works, by Halifax firm of Whitman, Benn and Associat- es, represented on the job by the recently retired federal dis- trict engineer, Clive Currie. Representatives of the con- tracting firm are Edward Turn- er, as district manager and Harry MacKenzie, project en- gineer. Both of these men have had considerable experience on large harbor and river projects. The latter having been project engineer on the recently com-

Pickard wharf. so eeeaeenememmanenmnmennmaeet te a

TWO-YEAR JOB

The project which was let to the Northern Construction Com- pany and J.W. Stewart Limited of Vancouver, B.C., does not in- clude Buildings, and is expected to take clese to two-years to complete.

When completed the new wharf will provide adequate. berthing facilities for the largest of government operated supply ships or icebreakers.

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i portion of the contract | which is now underway does an | buildings. Tenders for these Lexpected-to be called early in 1962, and the job let sometime during the summer.

Buildings planned are an ad- ministration and stores build- ing on the north portion, and on the east side, machine shops and a shipping shed.

MOST EXPENSIVE | Local department officials

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fully completed with buildings,

well over the $2,000,000 mark. The only other project which

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Labor Union

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From a modest beginning in 1902 of six members, the La- bourers Protective Union, No. 9568, in Charlottetown, which | ik first met in an old stable be- hind closed doors, has now ex-

panded to well over 500 mem-

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The six original, are now charter members, and all take an active interest in the organi- zation. They “were: J. MacNal- ly; E. Gallant, F. Collins; J.

Rush; and Matthew McCourt.

Looking back at the past, Le-: muel T. Rush, a past president and now recording secretary: of the PU, said ‘“‘these six pion- eers, can look back over the years and derive a great deal} — of satisfaction at the current re- sults of their foresight and spadework.”’

FIRST UNION

The LPU was the beginning or organization of labor-in Char- lottetown, and today in this lo- cality alone there are some 15 labor unions, and the provincial

government ow contains a de- ‘partment of labor. Mr. Rush poi out, that

“from the beginning of the LPU, 60 years ago, labor has been on the march, and the LPU in par- ticular, now has obtained bBar- gaining rights with the local sieamship and stevedoring agen- cies, thus bringing about a num- ber of improvements for its)

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It has been a few short months since I have become the owner and

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manager of Island Furriers Ltd., yet I feel I can draw with confidence on the past business reputation of this firm to maintain th f Islanders.

26 years. .

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“Our merchandise will continue to be of thé same-quality of the past © . only highest quality furs and sportswear (Lansea, Nat Gordon, Sportcraft, Kay cluded in our store.

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Young in Terms of Management| .... yet Old in Reliability!

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community!

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We are proud of our heritage ond of SWE City of Charlottetown .. .

accomplishment as we see our City grow. |

WE FEEL it is our duty, and that of every con- il scientious business man, to conduct business in a manner / < |

that best serves our customers, and to increase our facilities |

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to the utmost of our ability. ,

FOR 152 YEARS it has been our privilege to serve the men, women and children of this province. Serve them in such & manner tha t our good name is passed on from HI father to son, mother to daughter, as one of the most re- liable drug stores in this province , . . and probably the

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