26 — Sunday, September 28, 1997 — North Shore News

it is —
you see something from
the past and sometimes
it’s strong enough to
confuse you.

The “oiden days” are with
us quite a bit really. “Do you
remember so-’n’-so” comes
often to our lips.

Tt was the little B.C. Rail
hut that took me back, seeing
it sitting down there on the
edge of Lonsdale Quay. B.C.
Rail and I go a long way
back.

I was born in Prince
George, and in the twenty-
odd years I lived there, never
a day passed but someone
said, “Ah, but just wait tli the
train gets here. All that will
change.”

Well, I waited twenty-five
years and there was still no
sign of this wonderful choo-
choo that would give us
direct north-south connection
to The Coast, as we always
called it. We were still taking
the Grand Trunk to Jasper,
hanging around until CP Rail
arrived to carry us to the
promised land. Vancouver was
Nirvana, in my youth.

It wasn’t freezing cold, for
one thing, and it had all sorts
of shops in which everything
was the “very latest.” In our
town, we had possibly four
places to choose from if you

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were looking for rolied oats,
but looking for a new and
stylish dress took you to
Hughes and Drakes, period.
He tried hard, Mr Hughes —
no one knew where Drakes
came in — but what he car-
tied still looked liked Prince
George, “the bush” in other
words.

Of course, the Eaton’s cat-
alogue provided the bulk of
our household purchases. All

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our long johns — that place
was cold, man — and our
tumberjack socks and our
toques came to us in a big
parcel picked up at the train
station.

Nothing really glamorous
came out of Mr. Eaton’s
emporium, and we all longed
for something nice.

When we were kids, of
course, it was sufficient thar
we were warm and dry, but

was hard to look lumpy for
months at a time, Winter
tuok itself very seriously in

erated considerably. Lucky
kids these days.

Really, there were many
good things to remember.
People were very aware of
each other and help was

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when one was in the teens, it

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ers. A party was 2 sometime
thing, but when one hap-
pened, everyone came and
everyone conuibuted. It was
a place where you had to put
our, just to stay alive, and
where companionship and
neighborliness were everyday
commodities.

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Taking a train voyage down memory lane

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make a good home and that
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It was the only place Teved

lived where I could count on
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ern lights. Walking home :
from a dance at three in the
morning and watching them

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shift and hearing them rustle Say

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