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‘page 3. - February 18, 1976 - North Shore News.

by Shanie McCune

‘According to the federal government, Tight.
‘house. keepers are too expensive, and all
lighthouses i in Canada will have to be automated.

“According to Jim Barr, the federal government
- _ doesn’ t know what it’s talking about. a ~ .

Barr, 63, has spent ‘his which employs © about: 14.
aduit life in the company of — people in.a combined light- -
‘ships and. the sea, and has house and weather station, .
been a lighthouse keeper on . Barr became the chief keeper.
the coast of B.C.’s mainland of the Point Atkinson light i in’-
and Vancouver Island for the . ‘West ‘Vancouver last March.
past seven years. ,

“We “were. packed - and*
**When : I started asa ‘ready to leave Estevan at the —
- fighthouse keeper, the de- end of 1974,” recalls Barr,
partment of transport’ said ‘“‘but we couldn’t get out .
full automation was 15 years uniil spring because of the
away,”” says Barr. ‘‘After -weather.”” re To
that, they. hired people-on .
six- or seven-month status, |
gather than permanent con-
tract. Some of those: hired
_ back then are still rehired
every six months, but they.
put some on permanent
status at the beginning of
this year. :

After a year ‘at B.C.’s | most :
“‘eivilized”? lighthouse, Jim
Barr often misses the con-. f
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“The ‘people in "Ottawa
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Barr. “They keep... saying’
we’re going’ to. be fully:
automated, and the tech-
nicians keep saying it's :
° impossible.” —

quite a. drop in pay. and. we-

have to‘do our own shopping
| —and there’s the expense of.
; running a car.”

. Maintaining’ an ‘automobile

‘and doing the week’s shopp-. |
ing may not sound like .
onerous. chores, - but -when -:

After. 25. years. sof: working
in a Victoria- ‘Shipyard, Barr’

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