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     . opened several years ago. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     NEW WHARF 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     $12 million wharf provides 
     
     facelifting for Chtown port 
     
    
   
   
    
     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, 
     
    
   
   
    
     | the project, which 
     
    
   
   
    
     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. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     --|inelude the erection of 
     
    
   
   
    
     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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     expressed the opinion that when | Provements were made to the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     fully completed with buildings, 
     
    
   
   
    
     the project will be the most ex-|can come near that expendi. | ans 
     
     pensive ever carried out by the |ture, is the Charlottetown Rail- | ture call 
     
     federal government at any har-| way Wharf, the reconstruction and 
     
     bor in Prince Edward Island. | of which was spread over a per- V 
     
     The final cost is expected to run |iod of years after World War 
     
     | Two and cost between 1.5 and 2 
     
    
   
   
    
     well over the $2,000,000 mark. 
     
     The only other project which 
     
    
   
   
    
     island furriers Itd. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Extending 442 feet out into the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Labor Union 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     exceeds 500 
     
    
   
   
    
     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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     Hens 
     
    
   
   
    
     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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     of entire deck system 
     
     of the West breakwater in creo- 
     
     and treated timber, also 
     
     replacement of ballast rock -in 
     
     the breakwaters. 
     
     Lower Montague - Replace- 
     
     ment of an 80-foot section ot the 
     
     West wall in creosoted timber, 
     
    
   
   
    
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     | section of the deck system 
     
     | the West breakwater. 
     
     Savage Harbour Wharf an 
     
    
   
   
    
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     | Breakwater - The wharf, rebuilt 
     
     |in 1960, was asphalt paved this 
     
    
   
   
    
     | million dollars. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     In 1965, MacKenzie's House of 
     
     Fashions will be celebrating a 
     
     century of service to the public 
     
    
   
   
    
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     members.” peore 
     
     During its life the LPU, was 
     
     only threatened once with dis- 
     
     anity, when in 1910 some of the 
     
     ‘members broke away and at- 
     
     tempted to form their own 
     
     This sil “last 
     
     led for about one year, when the 
     
     defectors decided to return to 
     
     the original body. . . 
     
     | Commenting at the opening of 
     
     the 60th year -of organization, 
     
     Mir. Rush said, “the six pioneer 
     
     members will always be regard- 
     
     @d as the men that set a good 
     
     example to labor, and the pre- 
     
     pent members look forward to 
     
     continuing to improve the sta- 
     
     us of labor in the years ahead.” . 
     
     t executive of 
     
     5 ‘Siaent, (Ut 
     
     Peterson; Ist 
     
     Lorne J. Mahar; 2nd vice- 
     
     t John E. Gillis; secre 
     
     - treasurer, William A. He 
     
     + recording secrefary, Le- 
     
     T. Rush; -at-arms, Ja- 
     
     E. McPhee; guide, J. R- 
     
     jee; house committee, Ger- 
     
     Trainor and George Reid. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     Mr. Charles F. Downe 
     
     President 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     It has been a few short months since I have become the owner and 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     lislan 
     
    
   
   
    
     79 Grafton Street 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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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. . 
     
    
   
   
    
     e “goodwill of 
     
    
   
   
    
     “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. 
     
    
   
   
    
     nd names in 
     
    
   
   
    
     Silver, etc.) will be in- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Charles F, Downe 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     priers lid. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dial 2-1273 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Young in Terms of Management| 
     
     .... yet Old in Reliability! 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
       
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
          
     
        
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     e Value of Any 
     
     SHOULD BE 
     
     MEASURED BY 
     
    
   
   
    
     ITS WORTH 
     
     TO THE . 
     
    
   
   
    
     community! 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     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 / 
     
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     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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     «+» . and with this pride goes a feeling of 
     
     longest established in Canada. Oe 
     
    
   
   
    
     a *t “ ti 
     
    
   
   
    
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     | WE. sincerely_cher hat conttdent: —_ —_— } 
     
     | ously guard it by continuing to offer you only the finest 
     
     merchandise . . . plus our person guarantee of complete 
     
     satisfaction. ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
               
     
       
     
         
     
         
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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