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By PAT RICH

weeks before.

And in West Vancouver
Wednesday night the entire
contents of the Shoppers
Drug Mart store on Marine
Drive were damaged by a
fire which is being termed
“suspicious.”

roperty toll soars

An arson fire gutted the
Restaurant on Marine Drive in North Vancouver
Thursday night finishing off the business that had
been badly damaged in another arson fire just two

AT NV INQUEST

crane- dri ver
licensing

Old Country

The fires are the sixth and
seventh suspicious fires on
the North Shore simce
August 5, and the restaurant
blaze was the third fire in the
same block in that time.

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Investigations into the possibility of licensing
crane operators have been launched following
two North Shore inquests into industrial ac-
cidents.

And while the investigations
are not linked directly to the
inquest results, they may
provide some salisfacvon for
the mother of a young man
killed in the ac
cidents, who feels ber hands
are Ged in trying to upgrade
industrmal safety

Glen MacDonald aged
21. was killed May 25) when
he was run over by a mobile
cranc

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Meroe

one of

while working at

McKensic Barge & Marine SUNDAY:
Dotlarton Maghw ay Morning cloud
The results of the inquest or fog,
“FIRE CAPITAL OF CANADA” is the unenviable tide being earned by the North Shore lollowing (wo more blazes which coneluded late last otherwise
lant week. Upper picture shows firefighters Thursday night on the roof of the Old Country Restaurant, 1045 Marine, month found a lack ol sunny and warm.
North Van, battling the second outbreak there in 16 days. The previous evening Shoppers Drugman at 1583 Marine. several safety precautions at MONDAY:
West Van (lower picture) saffered heavy interior damage tn its second fire in four ycam. Sce story for details of other the site Litthe change.

big North Shore fires since Aagust 5. (Eric Eggertson and Ellsworth Dickson photos) CONTINUED ON PAGE ALO