IT WAS A LONG haul for George Bremner, left,
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Bus drivers
come to end
of the line

TWO NORTH VAN _ bus
drivers who started their
careers driving streetcars in
the 40’s retired Friday.

Harold Stackhouse, 62,
and George Bremner, 61,
drove their last runs after
working for Metro Transit
for 38 ahd 35 years respec-
tively.

When Stackhouse began
driving streetcars on
Lonsdale Avenue in 1945, the
pace on the North Shore was
slower.

**Fhe pace was different
. . . it didn’t have the popula-
tion it does now,”’ he said.

Stackhouse drove a street-
car that picked up and drop-
ped off commuters going to
Vancouver via ferries at the
bottom of Lonsdale. Two
years later, North Vancouver
switched to buses.

Most bus drivers have at
least one tale of a close call
on the road. Stackhouse has
one, too. Once while driving
south through Stanley Park
during the evening rush hour,
a car coming the other way
swerved into his lane and only
stopped at ‘‘the last second.”’

Stackhouse stopped his
bus, and investigated. The
driver had blacked out.

**It was a little scary at the
time,’’ admitted Stackhouse.
‘*But when (the other driver)

By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAL

came out of it, he was ail
right.”’

Bremner has driven on the
North Shore since 1950, and
drove street cars in Van-
couver for a brief time in
1949, just before the switch-
over there. He said one big
difference between modern
buses and streetcars is the
brakes.

To stop a street car “‘*you
just threw on the air brakes
and prayed,’’ he said.

Bremner and his wife plan
to vacation in California for
a few months. He said he’t
miss his passengers and the
other bus drivers. ‘‘Most of
them are very nice people,”’
he said.

Stackhouse said he plans to
swim, camp, fish and play
golf now that he’s retired. He
and his wife sometimes travel
to the northern interior to
pan for gold.

‘*‘But we don’t find
anything at all,’’ he said.

Stackhouse said during his
final bus run, he’d be think-
ing that ‘‘. . . it’s the end of
one period of my life, and the
beginning of another.

‘‘iCll take a while to get us-
ed to it,”” he added.

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