Soft-spoken engineer shares sto

Vik&i Finkbeiner
Contributing Writer
BILL HALL knows

what it’s like to eat
moose to survive.

Civil engineer on the
move, that was Bill. He has
tramped around ins rugged
terrain, curled on naturalice,
mined fer gold, joined the
RCE and was on Vancouver
Island the night it was
shetled by the Japanese.

This son of Portage La
Prairie, Manitoba decided
very young that farming was
nor for him, so he found
work with the Department
of Highways until he com
meneed his studies in civil
engincering at the
University of Alberta.

After graduating, — Bill
continued to work with the
Deparrment of Highways.

Remembers Bill: “The
project was surveying a loca-
tion for a shortcut from
High Prairie west to Grand
Prairie — not an easy feat in
that rough terrain.

“One winter we lived ina
tent and ate mostly moose
meat, we had no_ other
choice,” he recalls.

That spring they were
assigned to survey work in
the Portland Canal area.

The Depression years
found Bill doing civil engi-
neering work and gold min-

ing

In Vancouver, he conun
ued gold mining with the
Priaatcer Mining Compan
at Zebalos, on the west coast
of Vancouver Island.

Thinking back, Bil says:

“LP ospent the winters at
the mines doing surveys,
keeping records, plans, ct
cetera, and the summers
doing exploration work and
development througout
B.C.”

That arrangement was
agreeable to Bill, who
helped build a Red Cross
vight-bed hospital on the
west coast of Vancouver
Istand. It was there that he
met his furure wife Eileen,
who was on staff at the hos-
pital.

He remembers vividly:
“One evening im 1942 a
group of ladies gathered at
our home for a meeting, and
suddenly all the hydra power
was turned off. Estevan
Point had been shelled by
the Japanese.

“Being anxious about
their families and frightened,
the girls scrarnbled over the
rocks in the dark to get back
to their homes. It was quite
a night.”

BiH staved with the
Privateers Mining Company
until he joined the army
(RCE) and went overseas.
When the war in northwest
Europe ended he returned

NEWS photo Terry Peters

BILL Hall celebrated his 90th birthday in August at
North Shore Winter Club, where friends in the senior
men's curling club threw him a surprise party.

to Canada and jeined the
engineering department of
the City of Vancouver where
he staved until he reured 28
vears Liter,

This soft-spoken. gentic
engineer Was a) founding
member of the Burnaby
Winter Club, but moved to
the North Shore to be near
his children.

This past August. curling
buddies threw oa surprise
90th birthday hincheon
party atthe North Shore
Winter Club for Bill: and
another YO-vearold. his
triend Svd Finkbeiner.

Bilband Eileen have trav-
celled estensively, bur espe:
cially enjoved their week of
curling in Edinburgh and
attending the Silver Broom

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“Now we take eruises and |
ain still active in curling,
horseshoes, and
bridge.”

Leaning, back in his com
fortable chair, he adas: “We
like living on the North
Shore, we are close to every:
thing, including our many,

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