Drilling crew involved in project to destroy Ripple Rock
Photograph taken by local author Francis Dickie for use in an article he wrote about one of the attempts to remove Ripple Rock. Dickie's caption read: "Men of drilling crew: brave men who rode a continually active "sea-earth-quake" in the heart of perhaps the most dangerous tide...
The original Lourdes Hospital at Campbell River, BC, built in 1914. Another portion was built on in 1929, and later used as the village offices before being demolished in 1960. The house at the right side of photograph was an old nurse's home, and the building just glimpsed over the trees may...
Troll fisherman Henry Naknakin from Cape Mudge. Henry married Catherine Glendale, Elizabeth’s younger sister. The couple had two children, Mercy and Cathy (Cookie). Henry drowned while at the Fraser River fishery in 1956. He was 28 years old.
The original Bee Hive, built in 1918 was a an ice cream parlour and a saloon with pool room, operated by W. Hansen. In 1929 Carl and Margaret Thulin took over operation of the Café and opened the new store seen in the photograph.
In the lead is the Mayor of Duncan, Jim Quaife, followed closely by Campbell River's Mayor Skip McDonald, with Frank Ney, Mayor of Nanaimo, in the rear. August, 1968.
