ees a em ie Ratan tear as wR BRS Cierny iN * or 1" a es ¢ . | Henry Blanchard, Charilotte- ; . | town; Cyrus Gallant, Egmont | ‘Acadian MUSEUM 22 iRise Cina ‘ | Carmel. | | Keith... Pickard of Charlotte- | ,° ° Ms town was the architect of the 18 Digg ALELACTION | weer we timas's.” pe ; ee | Roches of Miscouche the fore- — - ’ man of construction. | Miscouche’s greatest attraction , ‘ 2 | + i its historic museum. As a s . ‘ winter works project, it was : started and completed in 1964, | Libraries Ser," fw Same ee could use : . The first names were) | * written .in the visitors book | CO ; Aug. 1 and by the first week of | i * ; , 3000 ee ee ee computers Five hundured exhibits, some j that are 200 years old are on VANCOUV..R (CP)—You go : display and the amazing fact | to the library for a specific * is that none of the items were | book. euch. “They” were, aihered | a cert nea 9s ak jw the entire Prince History by X -X. eee ' . ‘ —and you go to the a _4 Dr. J. H. Blanchard of Char- | it isn'( there. > “Jottetown “had been insisting: You -ask-the-librarian te-re-|- years an Acadian Museum | serve it for you when the bor- £ Bogen eta be- rower brings it in, but the book perpetua memory never shows up. + of the Acadians and to show the Neither you nor the ‘ibrarian paemes of bee © earlier eee eee ; days depicted museum. placed on a shelf, borrowed . Dr. Blanchard is now an of- DR. BLANCHARD by another library or just kept “ficer of the Museum AS80-| for the future. by the individual who borrowed {“@lation. Farming, carpentry,/ Invited Island government of- jit. . . + fishing and blacksmith shop | ficials, including Premier Wal-| Traditional methods of keep- implements, all dating over 100 | ter R. Shaw were present at the |ing track of books have their * years old are on display as well | Aug. 25 opening. The museum |!mitations -but there's oa ex- ; as spinning looms and musical | wil] reopen this year in June. |Pensive a-swer or the horizon + instruments used by early! History was made that day| Basil Stuart-Stubbs, librarian * Acadians. as the Miscouche Band and the |@t the University of British Co- _ Anong «=o antique =‘ furniture Acadian Choir aided |mbia, says the only thing + shown are kitchen and cooking | in the opening ceremonies holding libraries back from us- ' utensils which were used over! Two people most ing computer service is the + 0 years age. From France |were Sister Saint uel who | assering cost of the equip- * come a crystal glass of ithe mus- : * years old and a cradle 30 years 7 could younger. aime | Dating back 90 years are old _ books, documents and deeds. | Copies of the first maps made cae. Bt and AS different his- ttories of the province are . shown. + One of the more significant “facts about ‘he operation of the | museum is that historic articles are continually being collected Your Saturday Night oo SOUTHPORT -ESSO m, Your f Pee ik ACADIAN MUSEUM DRAWS VISITORS The Guardian - The Evening Patriot Pe Ree € d | a f | FOR THE CHARLOTTETOWN, | SHERWOOD and ROYALTY AREAS | See these ESSO dealers " Ess0) FOR SURE SAFE DEPENDABLE SERVICE ' GRAFTON ST ESSO Your Friendly Dealer: “H. W, (Red) 163 Grafton St. DIAL | 49219 — all stock = complete litte of Atlas Tires, Batteries and Accessories pia to Ea eter Shy gd bales bi RT is i aa “STEWART WESTAWAY” - ™_ |in. them or for some other un- | known reason, there, will never | be built a | | constructed |Yard in New Bru pty 'Geo’town harbor again rings with hammers of shipbuilders | By J.W. LAVERS In Georgetown where once the is a progress report dated Feb. 8 on the work on this dragger: Wood planking in fishroom sides, 50 per cent fitted. Crew's cabin bunks and lockers com- menced fitting. Shelving fitted in forward store. Wheelhouse deck and captain's cabin floor insulated, and plywood sub-floor laid. Ventilators fitted in mate’s and captain's cabin. Heating convectors fitted in. wheelhouse, captain's cabin, crew's wash- place, crew's cabin, lower deck cabin, store room forward. Steering gear piping fitted com- plete and tested to 300 pounds pressure. Forward and aft fish- room bjige suction piping com- plete. Main engine driven bilge pump piping to overboard com- plete. Hydraulic winch piping 3 per cent assembled for weld- ing Fish finder and radar display unit fitted in wheelhouse. Radar alternator fitted in deck house. Wheelhouse front paneling fitted. Port side generator electrically wired to switchboad. Hangers and clips fitted to electric cab- les in engine room and lines to wheelhouse pump and starter connected to switchboard. Cables fitted for intercom system Main engine aligned, shims fitted and bolted On Hull No. 11 the Gulf Guard has aft panel engine opening main deck fitted and welded in main frames-shaped,-marked and cut port and starboard On Hull No. 12 the main sec- tion has been 50 per cent shap- ed, marked and cut port and starboard, the center girder, tank top plating and decks part- ly assembled for unit section No. 3, center girder frame part- ly marked and cut. Tank mar- gin plates 30 to 39 port and star- board marked and cut and 25 per cent of main deck beam cambered with beam bender On Hull No. 14 the keel bar has been marked out and cut, center girder frame 4 to 49 marked and cut, center girder, tank top plating and floors 30 to length of the waterfront was lined with shipyards, building wooden ships that plied the sev- en seas, once again ships are being built but this time they are ships of stee] and their con- struction is by an entirely dif: ferent method than the wooden ships of by-gone days Today the ship building plant of Bathurst Marine Limited is a |hive of activity as work pro- |ceeds on the building of two | new steel draggers, with a third |}to follow. Construction of what |. jis in the trade termed as Drag- ao ae ree 14 is now! underway and Hull 15 will fol-| 39 assembled for unit section low. Whether it is because of the’ No. 1 double bottom. On Hull No oft time mentioned superstition | 14 the above wofk has been papain hemp soy tases shivs and/oassed by the Lloyds Surveyor 0 down to the sea | as equivalent to keel laying, for | Progress payment. Tied up at the Railway Wharf 11 Number 13. in Geor:; | | getown are Hull No. 10, Later the dragger hulls will be | named Gulf Gallant and Hull given names, as were the ones | No. 11 named Gulf Guard. Both in wewick. Old | ent cnine had the hull con- . struction done in Bathurst, N.B. | soe Nanas be amazed to wit- | during the time the acengny ness ne method used in the operated there and were towed wee on those ships. | to Georgetown, where work has re is no formal keel laying,}and is being carried out on oo in so far as it used to| equipping them as completed nown. draggers. Both those draggers At the start the ship is actual-| are of the 94 foot long fins ly built upside down, until con-| Hulls No’s 12 and 14, now under struction reaches a -certain construction are of the 128 foot stage and then it is turned over. | long class. #ptterns from the mould loft of! WORK PROGRESSING frames are cut out of steel and| To give the public an idea of attached to the keel. Keel bars how work is progressing on buoy stowage bars fitted. The bunks and furniture for the BORDEN LEGION HOME ACTIVE CENTRE Fuel tank transfer | | are marked out and cut andj Hull No. 10 (Gulf Gallant) belbw\crew’s quarters and the cap-|thickness and varies in height |tain's cabin have been made in the plant workshop. Both the Gulf Gallant and the Gulf Guand are equipped with a. Norwegian made 48~ horsepow- er Bergen diesel engine. Each engine weighs 15 tons. At present the company em- ploys 79 hourly paid employees apd a staff of .office personnell ati foreman’ numbering 25. It is estimated that as construction advances that from 14 to 15 |hourly paid employees will be | working at Bathurst Marine | Limited. | MODERN OFFICES | At the site where the Bathurst | Marine Buildings now stand in the fa}l of 1963 there was only vacant land. Now there has risen a modern, motel type of- | fice building equipped with all the latest in intercommunica- |tions systems; and furnished | with all necessary office equip- ment and furnishings. | This building, located on the |morth side of the site and run- | ming east and west with a south- |ern frontage, measures 116 by 34 feet and: is of wood frame construction. It has a cement foundation reinforced by three- quarter inch steel rods. The foundation is six feet high and eight inches im thickness and a j three foot wide cement footing jruns the length of the building from east to west to support the position. Gantry top and mizzen |center wall; and two wall foot- | was painted top mast fitted for welding. Life- | ings run north and south across lior that received the most ex- the building. A boiler room mea- suring 37 ft. by 17 ft. is im’ the basement. +® The building. of ‘wood. frame | cénstruction..and has asphalt shingles on the roof. The exter- for is finished in permanent as- bestos siding and aluminum ver- tical trim. The building provides for offices for the ‘president, “‘Tvicé- president, “personnel tman- | ager, purchasing agent and | stenographic ‘and secretarial | staff and also contains a draft |} Toom. The interior floors are covered with vinyl tile and the lower walls with PV_. Ww | grains. The upper walls are fin- ished in Donaconna and the ceil« ing is white accoustic tile. Ma- hogany trim is used tn interior finish and all windows are dou- ible glazed. Flourescent lighting is used and the heating is hot water with convector type ra- diators. | The largest building on the | site, known as the fabrication | Shop, and in which the draggers are built is of steel frame con- struction and measures 220 feet by 80 feet and is 40 feet high in the posts. In the construction of this building it was first neces- yy. 7 A New Transportation Link Between Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia _ Northumberland Ferries Limited reported a record breaking year in 1964. All types of traffic - showed increases and in the month of August al- most as much traffic was carried as during the whole of the 1957 season. Over 900 vehicles were carried on several days during the season-and on July 26 a new high of 947 vehicles was estab- : lished. . 7 . The new ferry vice on May 23rd and public. Figures for the 1964 traffic between Wood islands and Caribou with those for 1963 in brackets are as follows: sary to drive 125 epruce piles,; Another building f the can each 30 feet in length. They | penter shop and mould loft. This were driven in clusters of four, |is a wood framed building with placed 20 feet spar’ around the the carpenter shop on the first perimiter of the building to syp- | floor. It measures 72 feet bv 30 port the structure feet. It sits on a foundation of This building is located on the | creosoted vilcs, 25 feet in ‘ength, east side of ie site and runs driven around the perimiter, at north and south. The reinforced : on s ter feet avery is ei sn w and r are cov concrete wal) is eight inche with slyweoll The reef lo cones. ed with asphalt shingles. This building, in the carverter «hop section contains sanders, saws, planers end all necessary eavin- ment and it is here that doors, bunks. ven boards. kee! hiocks and many other furnishings for the draegers are made In the large building where the draggers are constructed is from six feet ‘to about 12 feet on the south end of the building where the ground slopes away. | Above each cluster of piles, con-| lerete pads were built. Each) | pad is 24 inches-square and pro- trudes inside the wall to form a | base for the upright columns of | steel. These upright steel col-| jumns rise 40 feet. into the air} land support the steel cross| located two 10 crenes « which jbeams and roof frame. Steel} run o head on tracks. Here is | workers from Norence Stee) located a” large’ press, plate Company in Montreal we fe’ bending rolls. gulliotine shears. brought here to erect the steel, double ended pimching shear frame afd. roof:’ The rdof andj|and various types of portable |} walls are closed in with galvan-| machinery. : ized sheathing, which is insulat-| A fourth building. the mach- ed on the inside. A concrete |ine shop is connected to the floor covers the interior of the (large fabrication shop. This building. building is of steel frame con- This building is large enough! struction and is 80 feet bv 61 to allow the construction of two | feet and one storey high. The draggers, side by side and aj building contains two lathes, \launchway runs from the large |two drills, two grinding machin- doors at the south end into the es, a shaper and has a three-ton harbor. ‘overhead crane. | Major renovations given legion home | Georgetown Branch No. 16 of|and winter months successfu! the Royal Canadian Legion car- |cribbage tournaments are held ried out extensive improvements At the annual meeting com- during 1964, to its home OND /rade Alex Arsenault was re- Glenelge Street. The exterior elected as president for his but it was the inter-|¢hird term. Other successful |functions participated in by the | im-/jigcal branch during the past | provements | Year was the part they played in | A mew automatic oi! furnace the mammoth picnic held on the | was installed with ducts distri-|former Stafford Gordon Farm | buting the heat ¢o both the first in Brudenell in honor of First |and second floors. Sewage facil-| World War veterans; their suc- | ities were installed and improve-| cessful Remembrance Day ac tensive renovations and | ments made to the bar facilities, {pin the installation of new: alu- aginum sinks and hot and _ cold — water. The water is {trie heater. | Following the moving of the home from its former loca- tion on Richmond Street, it be- heated by a new, modern elec: | tivities and wreath and poppy sales and their participation in L 3rgetown's Centennial Day celebr . — A re-organization ana -__ive- nation of the Ladies Auxiliary recently took place and already plans are in the process of be- ing carried out whereby the aux- PRINCE NOVA | came apparent that many ma)}-/iliary will assist in more ‘egion or improvements were immed- ‘activities and functions. iately.mecessary. | Difing the year the branch | ». SNOW FALI | played.ifést..t Ver Legion | *_ ‘ | some rallies. ee ne Snow trystals fall individu- | of the Branch’s * Ladies also | ally: when the temperature is | hosted other Auxiliaries at a| far below freezing, and only | zone rally. The branchspresent- | collide to form. large flakes led new Red Ensigns to the | When warmer air is’ met. |school and the court house for | flying during Centennial Year.. | 1° PRINCE’S TITLE At a ceremony held in April | Kyi they honored the Legion's’ -un- _ ~ Fhe Black Prince, popular ty Service Office, Comrade D.F. |:title .eqnferred upon the eldesi Campbell. |son of King Edward Ill of | Card parties are held weekly | England, was the first duke |amd each year during the fall | created, in 1337. THE M. V. M.V. Prince Nova entered ser- proved popular with the Passengers 223,348 ( 179,216) Automobiles 70,565 ( 55,970) Trucks . RTHUMBERLAND FERRIES. » . « «11,918 ( 10446)