THE White Pass and Yuken single-gauge raiiway is celebrating its one hundredth birthday this year with a

Golden Spike Centennial Cetebration at Careross, Yukon Territory or; July 29.

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‘Indians moved north .from
old Metlakahtla, 200 miles to
the: = south: «i
Columbia. Strongly opposed
to-alcohol,-Duncan had bro-

ken "with. ithe Church of

England over ordination and.

the . serving of Communion
wine.)

“In New Metlakatla, I visit-
ed the’ artan house where
Duncan lived undil his death
- in 1918, ‘and. the. double-

’ spired William Duncan

Memorial. Church,

homé’ to ‘the ® ‘Assembly “of
” Ged>:. However, Duncan’s
ideals ‘prevail in this ‘Indian
reserve of 2,000. . Mctlakatla
remains. dry,” and «nearly

. everyone belongs to one of a :

:: dozen churches. :
Finally, -in Ketchikan; I

sas among several dozen pas-*
ho chose to fly into:

sengers wi
“the... 2.3-million-acre. Mist
Fjords: National -Monumen'

in “large ‘twin-Otter. aircraft. ©

Layers :of cloud that sat'on

the coastal peaks looked like

esh whipped cream: -
he.” plane “manouevred
Omnimar-like

British. -

“topped . pontoons.

between?”
4,000-foot rock faces, lifted .

ing over fic

over glaciers and snowfields,
and swooped into frozen,
grecn- tinged alpinc lakes.
After setting down on the
waters of Rudyerd Bay, some
of us climbed carefully out
onto one of the plane’s flat-
As I
peered into dark-blue water

. that goes down hundreds of

feet, the co-pilot noted that
the lake bottom is filled with
cameras.

. Ketchikan’s century-old

Creek Street sits on pilings

embedded in the rushing
waterway. Among the weath-

-er-beaten buildings is Dolly’s

House, ‘a private museum

“that was once. one of more
than 30 bawdy houses in a

city-sanctioned red light dis-
trict.
‘Dolly Arthur ran her one-

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988-2239 I
£110 Fol Ave, North Vancowery

ris and g

woman operation from 1914,
through the ’30s, when boor-
legged liquor was lifted from
small boats at high tide
through trap doors in the
floor, until the state closed
the houses in 1954. .

Arthur’s period furniture,
clothes and persona! effects,
including a bathroom cup-
board filled with salves, med-
icines and assorted knick-
knacks, remains much as it
was when. she. diced in
Ketchikan in 1975.

On our return voyage, off
the northern . end of
Vancouver Island, hundreds

of playful Pacific white-sided °

Photo Alison Appolbe

aciers

dolphins swam alongside the
ship for more than an hour,
diving and leaping, some-
times in clusters of five or six.
At one point, the passengers
lining the rails applauded.

It was a hugely impressive
performance that took -place
in B.C.’s own Inside Passage

— that parr of che voyage:
that the cruise line had large- |

ly overlooked.
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