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February 27, 1900 Last big battle of the Boer
War at Paardeburg.
May 10, 1900 First meeting of the recently
incorporated Japanese Fishermen's Benevolent Society (Dantai) at
the Phoenix Cannery in Steveston.
May 12, 1900 The ferry to North Vancouver
began operation as the first ferry with a regular service between
North Vancouver and the south shore of Burrard Inlet. It was later
renamed North Vancouver No. 1. After many adventures the boat will
later become a private residence, beached on a small island near
June 9, 1900 John Oliver, a future premier,
began his political career as the MLA for Delta.
July 1, 1900 A fishermen's strike on the Lower
Fraser. Overfishing by Americans is partly to blame for depleted
salmon stocks, as fish traps are still legal in Washington State
(until 1934). During the strike there was hostility between the
white fishermen's Union and the Japanese fishermen who lived in
cannery houses and depended on the canneries for food. Four hundred
armed soldiers arrived to protect the Japanese.
August 5, 1900 A letter to the Editor of the
Province: There are few residents in the city and particularly
in the West End who are not disturbed in their slumbers from 5 a.m.
by the fearful and nerve-killing noises made by the crows. A vote
should be taken as to whether the people want crows or not.
September 5, 1900 River frontage lots in Surrey
between 10 and 13 acres are advertised at $105 per lot, irrespective
of acreage. An 80-acre farm, partly cleared, with farmhouse
and small orchard was advertised at $40 per acre. A school teacher's
salary in Surrey at the time was $60 to $100 a month.
September 6, 1900 W.A.C. Bennett born in New
October 21, 1900 The bells at Holy Rosary
Church (it was not yet a cathedral) were blessed by a papal delegate
visiting Vancouver. The church was built (in 490 days) of sandstone
from Gabriola Island.
October 26, 1900 The Collector of Votes in
Vancouver, Thomas Cunningham, refused to put Japanese, including
naturalized citizens, on voters list. See next item!
November 1, 1900 A ball was held at the Hotel
Vancouver by Mrs. Shimizu in honor of Her Imperial Majesty, the
Empress of Japan.
December 15, 1900 The Hudsons Bay Co.,
after a few years in other locations, opened a four-storey emporium
at Granville and Georgia in downtown Vancouver. They have been at
that corner ever since.
December 30, 1900 A big civic parade in Vancouver
welcomed home troops from the Boer War.
Also in 1900
The Canadian Pacific Railway financed a film to promote
Canadian immigration to the west. It took two years to film because
the film-makers werent allowed to show snow.
At the turn of the 20th century fish canneries are
largely responsible for the ethnic diversity in the Fraser delta
area. Chinese men, often brought to Canada as indentured laborers
by a China boss, butcher and can the fish; native and
Japanese women clean the fish and fill the cans; and native, Japanese
and European men fish. More than 200 cannery and fishery workers
are needed to process 1,200 cases a day (57,600 pounds, about 26,000
Cannery owners formed the Fraser River Salmon Canners
Association to protect their interests against dissatisfied fishermen.
The Dewdney Trunk Road was built on the north bank
of the Fraser.
The name of the West School was changed to Dawson
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Vancouvers population was 29,000, up from
13,709 ten years earlier.
January 22 Queen Victoria died. Edward VII
became King.
Also in January The CPR bought out the Canadian Pacific
Navigation Co.
March 25 Vancouver requested and was granted
$50,000 from US steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie
to build a library. Carnegie agreed to give the funds only if the
city furnished a site and agreed to spend $5,000 a year. The city
council accepted the Carnegie gift and its conditions. A site was
chosen at the corner of Hastings and Main Streets for the new Carnegie
Library which will open in October 1903.
June 23 SNOW in South Vancouver!
July 23 Mr. and Mrs. B.T. Rogers had a housewarming
party at their new mansion, Gabriola, on Davie Street. It was the
grandest home in the city. Benjamin Tingley Rogers was one of the
citys leading industrialists, founder of the sugar refinery.
Today, the mansion is a restaurant, Romanos Macaroni Grill.
July 24 The Province reported that in the
year from June 1, 1900 to May 31, 1901 St. Paul's Hospital had admitted
561 patients, had discharged 506 of them, and still had 35 in beds.
Some 25 patients had died, 11 of them within three days of entry.
Catholics numbered 153, Protestants 383 and other religions 25.
Males? 393. Females? 165. (The last two figures add up to 558, three
short of the total. Hmm.) Fifty patients had been admitted with
typhoid fever, and seven of them had died. The statistics go on
for two long and detailed columns.
September 30 Vancouver's first royal visit
began with the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York
(later George V and Queen Mary). The city was gaily bedecked
with flags and bunting, the display being the most spectacular the
young city had ever seen. Events included a visit to Hastings
Sawmill, at which latter place they saw a forest giant being
cut up.
October 6 Musician Harry Adaskin born.
November 19 Headline in the Province:
KLONDIKE REVOLUTION? The San Francisco Call,
the paper reported, this morning devoted its entire front
page to the story of the unearthing of a huge conspiracy. It declares
that a plot exists to overthrow the Yukon government and establish
a republic with Dawson as the capital. It is said that the conspirators
are at Dawson, Skagway, Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle, and that
5,000 miners are awaiting a signal to overcome the mounted police.
We checked the date of the story. Yes, it was November
19, not April 1.
The Province went on to report that other
San Francisco newspapers later denounced the story as a gigantic
Also in 1901
The census recorded 365 people living in North Vancouver,
and the British Columbia Directory described the area as a suburban
This was a peak year for salmon. Forty-nine canneries
operated on the Lower Fraser, and nearly a million cases were packed.
The Moodyville Mill closed after being the largest
single source of export income for B.C. for 20 years. It was cheaper
to move the mill to the source of logs than the other way round.
John McLagan, founder and editor of the Vancouver
Daily World, died. His widow, Sara Ann McLagan, became the first
woman publisher of a daily newspaper in Canada. (She was also managing
editor, editorial writer, proof reader and occasional reporter.)
Sara McLagan was an interesting woman in her own right: she came
here from Ireland in 1858, age 3. Her father taught her telegraphy.
When she was 12 a major forest fire threatened their Matsqui home,
but Sara tapped a message through to New Westminster and that brought
help. At 14 she took over the New Westminster telegraph station!
As a result of pressure from the Vancouver Board
of Trade, a five-day steamer service from Seattle to Skagway, with
a stop at Vancouver, was inaugurated.
The City Hospital became incorporated under the name
of the Vancouver General Hospital.
William Shaughnessy was knighted, will become first
Baron Shaughnessy in 1916.
W H Malkin Co. was founded, with premises at 115
Water Street. In those days, the water came right to the warehouse
door. Later theyll move to #57.
1901 Rochet
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January 20 The Royal Brewing Company took
over a small brewery at Cedar Cottage and started brewing heavy
English ale.
March 29 With Mayor Thomas Neelands presiding,
Grand Master F. M. Young of the B.C. Grand Lodge of Masons laid
the cornerstone of the Vancouver Free Library, now Carnegie Centre,
at Main and Hastings.
May 27 Vancouver's baseball team beat the
University of California team 4 to 2 at Powell Street grounds (now
Oppenheimer Park, and still used for baseball).
Also in May The British Columbia Packers Association
began with the purchase of 42 canneries, and Alexander Ewan became
the first president. Today B.C. Packers is western Canadas
largest seafood company. Among its most famous products is Clover
Leaf salmon, first sold under that name in 1889.
June 25 The Province reported that
grave fears had been expressed over the rapidly deteriorating
condition of King Edward VII, with death expected at any time. The
story took up the entire front page. The king pulled through, lived
another eight years.
June 27 The Vancouver Information and Tourist
Associationprecursor to todays Tourism Vancouverbegan
operations at 439 Granville Street. A shingle hanging outside reads:
Headquarters for visitors and tourists - Free information
July 1 The Vancouver & Lulu Island Railway,
operated by the CPR, began. Built principally to serve the canneries,
the first train arrived in Steveston today. The line became known
as the Sockeye Limited, although it was not used to
export the canned salmon, as the canneries still preferred shipping
by boat. The line ran along today's Arbutus Corridor between False
Creek and the Fraser River to the foot of Oak Street, where a trestle
bridge crossed to Richmond; the rails then proceeded through the
countryside to Steveston's salmon canneries. The railway will serve
Steveston for 50 years.
July 28, 1902 Al Larwill got notice to move
from the Cambie Street Grounds. He has lived, reported
the Province, in the small cottage on Cambie Street
Grounds since the year of the fire [1886]. Every game known to Britons
has been played on the grounds, and Al was the father of them all.
Baseball gloves, lacrosse sticks, footballs, cricket bats and all
kinds of athletic paraphernalia found a ready storehouse in his
shack. Als dining room was the dressing room for every team
that played on the grounds. Now that Vancouver is to buy the land
from the CPR and enlarge, grade and level the park, it will be necessary
for Old Forty to move.
We havent yet learned the reason for his nickname,
but youll be pleased to learn that the grounds were renamed
Larwill Park. For many years the park was the site of
Vancouvers bus depot, and then it was converted to a big parking
August 9, 1902 The first B. C. Chapter of
the IODE (International Order of Daughters of the Empire) was established
in Vancouver, on the occasion of Edward VIIs Coronation Day.
September 12 Charles Woodward (who had opened
a small store on Westminster Avenue-Main Street-in 1892) incorporated
Woodward's Department Stores. Three days later excavations began
at the northwest corner of Hastings and Abbott Streets for the eventual
construction of a four-storey emporium.
The lot itself (big enough to hold a building 66
feet wide on Hastings and 132 feet long on Abbott) hadn't cost Woodward
much: it was a swamp eight feet below the sidewalk elevation. The
city drained it for him. The new store would open November 4, 1903.
October 31, 1902 The Pacific Cable was completed
from Vancouver to Brisbane, Australia, with the first message sent
by Sir Sandford Fleming. The all red cable is so called
because it linked the British Empire around the world. Vancouvers
mayor, Thomas Neelands, wired greetings to King Edward VII. The
Vancouver Board of Trade had lobbied hard for this connection.
November 21, 1902 Entertainment seekers were
informed they could see THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT PELEEBY ELECTRICITY
at the Electric Theatre on Cordova Street. (This was a reconstruction,
in a studio, of an actual natural disaster.)
November, 1902 Edward G. Prior became premier
of B.C. He will be in office until June 1903, about seven months.
Prior Street in Vancouver is named for him.
December 17 The Privy Council of Great
Britain, The Province reported on Page 1, has
reversed the decision of the Full Court in British Columbia, and
has decided that it is within the power of the Legislature of the
province to prevent Japanese from voting." The case had been
launched by a Vancouver man named Tommy Homa, a naturalized British
subject. "He applied to the Collector of Voters in Vancouver
to have his name placed on the list, but the Collector refused .
. . The Electoral Act provides that no Chinese, Japanese or Indian
shall have his name placed on the list.
Also in 1902
Capitol Hill in Burnaby is logged by L.I. Dundas
using oxen.
John A. Cates launched the Terminal Steamship ferry
fleet, the new name for his Howe Sound ferry service. The Britannia
is added to the fleet. Built in the shipyard of his brother George
E. Cates in False Creek, the Britannia can carry several hundred
passengers and has plush covered seats.
Work restarted on Keith Road on the north shore,
but two bridges were swept away by creek flooding just after completion.
The District of North Vancouver opened its first
school at 4th and Chesterfield, and the influx of new residents
meant two teachers were needed. Renamed Central School, it grew
Peter Larson built the Hotel North Vancouver on West
Esplanade. It became the community centre where public gatherings
were held. Larson Avenue in North Vancouver is named for Peter Larson.
Canada's first permanent cinema was believed to be
the Edison Electric Theatre, opened in 1902 on Cordova Street in
Vancouver by John A. Schulberg. It offered, wrote movie
historian Michael Walsh, the latest in novelty entertainmentshort,
silent pictures that moved and occasionally told stories.
James Skitt Matthews, 24, who will eventually become
Vancouvers first official archivist, fell ill with typhoid
and spent three months in Vancouver General Hospital. There he met
the woman who years later will become his second wife.
Moodyville, a small independent place on the north
shore of Burrard Inlet that began as a settlement around Sewell
Moodys sawmill (1874), was absorbed by North Vancouver City.
The first European resident in Kitsilano, realtor
Theodore Calland, built the mansion Edgewood (now demolished) just
west of the CPR property at Boundary Street, now Trafalgar Street.
Construction was completed on the Church of the Holy
Redeemer on McMillan Island at Fort Langley. This historic
Roman Catholic church, wrote architectural historian Harold
Kalman, was built for the StÇ:lo Nation under the supervision
of the Oblate Fathers from St. Mary's Mission in Mission. Logs were
cut across the Fraser River, on reserve land near Ruskin, and rafted
to the Royal City Mill in New Westminster. The sawn lumber was then
brought to Fort Langley by scow. The pointed-arched windows give
the attractive church Gothic Revival airs. It remains the church
of the Langley Band, administered by St. Joseph's Parish in Langley
The Marpole Bridge, a low-level rail bridge carrying
the Vancouver and Lulu Island Railway (a CPR line), was built over
the North Arm of the Fraser River. Today, the bridge and track are
leased by the Southern Railway of B.C.
Thomas Fletcher Neelands became mayor of Vancouver.
After being burned out of the flour and feed business in the
Great Fire, wrote Donna Jean McKinnon in The Greater Vancouver
Book, he became involved with the Pacific Building Society
offering mortgages by lottery to members who paid dues to build
up the fund.
Burnaby pioneer Charles F. Chaffey built his family
home, Fir Grove, at Kingsway and Chaffey. Chaffey-Burke Elementary
School in Burnaby is partly named for him, partly for another pioneer,
William Burke.
New Westminster pioneer James Kennedy, born in Ireland
in 1817, died. Both an architect and a builder, Kennedy designed
and constructed many of the city's first buildings. His wife was
the first white woman in New Westminster. Kennedy Elementary is
named for him.
The first union of women workers, a local of the
Shirt, Waist and Laundry Workers International Union was formed
in 1902. In that same year, researcher Randy Wick wrote, the Trades
and Labour Council heard a complaint that a local hatmaker had employed
a woman apprentice without pay for a year, then offered her $1 a
week at a time men workers were making $10 to $15 and other women
workers made $2. No young woman could live a virtuous life
on $2 a week, the Labour Council declared.
The first B.C. table tennis championship was played
in Vancouver. Men, women and boys competed.
The building at 333 Chesterfield Avenue in North
Vancouver City opened. It was originally a school, then became City
Hall, including a court room and jail cells. Finally it became Presentation
House Arts Centre, primarily a rental facility. The building is
also home to a gallery which specializes in photo-based exhibits,
the North Shore Museum and Archives and the North Vancouver Arts
Governor General Lord Aberdeen commissioned artist
James Blomfield to work on a modified version of Vancouver's coat
of arms and in 1902 he presented this work to the visiting Duke
and Duchess of Cornwall. Todays arms are a modified version
of Blomfields design.
John Hendry, manager of Hastings Sawmill, telephoned
Imperial Oil, managed by Charles Merle Rolston, for gas for his
new automobile. Rolston provided it in four-gallon cans, the first
sale in Canada of gasoline for cars.
William Lamont Tait, lumberman and financier, opened
Rat Portage Lumber, a shingle and saw mill on False Creek. Taits
Shaughnessy mansion, Glen Brae, is now Canuck Place.
1902 Mercedes Simplex
January 6, 1903 Vancouver Business College
opened with four students.
January 29, 1903 From the Province: GOOD WORK
OF THE TOURIST ASSOCIATION ALREADY SHOWING RESULTS . . . it
is confidently expected that during the month of June there will
be 5,000 visitors to the city. The chief attraction during that
month will be the meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in Canada, which will convene here on the 10th.
March 6 The Province reports on a Handsome
Book on Vancouver Its a 1903 publication by the Tourist
Association, titled Vancouver, The Sunset Doorway. The
. . . booklet is a credit to the city. From the handsomely lithographed
covers to the smallest detail of illustrating the art-mechanical
work has been well done. In its hundred pages there is every possible
detail of information, from the physical features of the city and
its environments, to sketches of its growth and history since the
days when Vancouver was a hamlet . . . special articles, like those
on Coast Indians and Vancouvers Chinatown, present descriptions
of native and Oriental life in original and striking character.
There are dozens of photographs . . . By the end of the week 5,000
copies of the booklet will have been mailed by the secretary to
all parts of the world.
March 10, 1903 The Fraser River Sawmills company
was formed and operated out of the old Ross McLaren mill in Port
Coquitlam. It will grow to become the largest lumber shipper in
the British Empire.
April 15 Union activist Frank Rogers was shot
and killed on a Vancouver street. His life, and the end of it, is
the focus of a really interesting article by Janet Nicol that appeared
in B.C. Historical News Vol. 36, No. 22. The City of Vancouver has
reproduced the article
here. It throws light on union activism at the time,
and why working conditions led to union agitation. Rogers' killer
got away with it.
Summer A steel cable suspension bridge, the
first commercial tourist attraction in North Vancouver, was built
over the Capilano Canyon. It replaced an earlier, rougher version.
August 26 The Vancouver Museum was created
out of The Art, Historical and Scientific Association.
Fall The first North Vancouver District Municipal
Hall was built at the corner of First Street and Lonsdale Avenue.
Since incorporation in 1891 the Council had been meeting in various
buildings over in Vancouver, except for one obligatory meeting a
year in the District.
October 1 The Vancouver Public Library, now
with more than 8,000 books, moved into the Carnegie Library building
at Main and Hastings Streets. Sparked by a $50,000 grant from U.S.
steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, this was the citys main library
until 1954. Today, its a community centre for the Downtown
Eastside, a very busy place, and contains, among other things, a
library! For a history of Vancouver's Public Library, go here.
Also on October 1 A fascinating story from the Province
of an event that occurred at the corner of Burnaby and Cardero Streets
in the West End. Mr. W. S. Holland, who lived at that corner, heard
a disturbance at 3 a.m. in the chicken shed in the rear of his residence.
His entire poultry colony, he said, began to squawk.
Mr. Holland got out his shotgun and blasted away at what looked
like a large dog chasing his chickens. Then he went back to bed.
When he got up later that morning he found a dozen dead hens, and
one big, dead timber wolf. Repeat: at the corner of Burnaby and
October 8 The first Mission to Seamen, a social
centre for sailors, was established in St. James Hall in Vancouver.
November 3 Crows made the news with a plan
to allow sportsmen into Stanley Park to exterminate the pest.
A bounty of five cents per head up to 5,000 head was
offered and the park was closed to the public. Although a by-law
banned the discharge of firearms within the park, officials said
they would look the other way. (And today? Every day near the Willingdon
exit on Highway 1 in Burnaby, about 5,000 to 8,000 crows gather
as dusk falls.)
November 4 Charles Woodward opened a four-storey
department store at the northwest corner of Hastings and Abbott
Streets. That's the site occupied by a Woodward's building to this
November 12 The Province reported on
the Royal Banks new building at Hastings and Homer. The building
was put up by Jonathan Rogers, after whom the Rogers Building at
Pender and Granville was named, and one of the architects was Sydney
Morgan Eveleigh, after whom a tiny downtown street is named. The
new bank had the first safe-deposit box in the city, and two, count
them, two tellers cages.
November 13 The secretary at Vancouver General
Hospital reported that the hospitals expenditure during the
past month was $2,492.16. The house surgeon reported that there
were 38 patients (26 males and 12 females) in the hospital at the
beginning of the month.
November 18 The first military cadet corps
in Vancouver, the Vancouver High School Cadet Corps, was gazetted
to the militia as a unit.
December 17 When Vancouvers first streetcars
went into service in 1890 the electricity required to run the system
was generated by a little steam powerhouse on what is now Union
Street (a block south of Georgia, east of Main.) As the city and
the service grew, more power was needed. So the BC Electric Railway
Co. started looking for a spot near the city where hydroelectric
power could be generated. They found it at what was then called
Trout Lake (or Beautiful Lake), just east of Port Moody, and built
a tunnel to carry water there from Coquitlam Lake. The difference
in water levels between the two lakes Coquitlam was nearly
10 metres higher would provide the motive force to generate
the power. An annual rainfall of about 3.7 metres didnt hurt.
The BCERs general manager, Johannes Buntzen,
a Dane, supervised the construction of the system, the first hydroelectric
powerhouse on the mainland, and it went into operation today. Buntzens
work didnt end there: he went before Vancouver city council
and urged them to attract new industry that could use this new source
of power. Hes been called the grandfather of electricity
Everyone was so pleased with the results they renamed
the lake for Buntzen
Also in 1903
The Royal Vancouver Yacht Club was formed. It catered
to both power and sail.
The first taxi was driven in Vancouver by H. Hooper.
It was described as a wheezy, two-cylinder Ford.
A recession ended, and North Vancouver District Council
at last raised enough money to rebuild the Capilano and Seymour
bridges, destroyed 10 years earlier.
Ladner's Landing changes its name to Ladner. Ladner
was never incorporated as a town or village but has always been
a part of Delta. It has never had a government of its own, and has
no official boundaries.
A new railway line connected Cloverdale and Port
Guichon, near Ladner, making it possible to travel from Brownsville
in North Surrey to Victoria by railway. The trains are infrequent
and often very late.
The population of Delta reached 2,000; 350 of those
are Chinese, mostly cannery workers, who live in a Chinatown along
the dyke.
Thomas Sullivan and his brother Henry acquired the
timber rights to the land at Johnston and Bose in Surrey; the area
is known to this day as the Sullivan District.
Alfred Graham Ferguson, the first chairman of the
Vancouver Parks Board, dies in San Francisco.
Nicolai Schou, the first elected reeve of Burnaby,
died in office.
The three Latta brothers scaled both peaks of the
Lions. Hearing that climbers often used ropes for mountaineering
ascents, they packed some along, but had no idea of how to use them,
finally threw them away. Their technique was to grasp the small
shrubs and bushes growing out of the cracks in the rock, a style
that would be considered rather poor form today!
Construction began on Vancouver General Hospital.
(See November 13 item above).
The head tax on Chinese immigrants was increased
to $500 per head. The result (intended): immigration virtually stops.
The Princess Victoria arrived in Vancouver from England.
As a fast and luxurious liner, she set the pattern for the B.C.
Coast Steamship Service.
Saba Brothers open a shop near Woodward's.
The Pacific Coast League (baseball) begins.
Stained-glass depictions of Spenser, Milton and Shakespeare
are installed in the main branch of the Carnegie library. Theyre
there to this day, beautiful things.
Henry John Cambie, Canadian Pacific Railway engineer,
moved to Vancouver. He was in charge of CPR surveys from 1876 to
1880. His survey from the Yellowhead Pass to Port Moody set the
route to the lower Fraser. Cambie Street is named for him.
John Wallace deBeque Farris came to Vancouver at
age 24 as the citys first Crown prosecutor.
Harvey Hadden, philanthropist, bought 160 acres in
Capilano Canyon, sight unseen, from architect Sydney Morgan Eveleigh.
He will build Hadden Hall, a sort of Garden of Eden in the
forest. Today its Capilano Golf and Country Club.
John Lawson, the Father of West Vancouver,
came west from Ontario as a conductor with the CPR.
Future poet Robert Service ended up in Vancouver,
flat broke, after a temporary job on a Duncan dairy farm. He got
a job with the Canadian Bank of Commerce here.
Road builder Francis V. Guinan moved to Vancouver.
January 20 The Canadian government disallows
a B.C. Act restricting Chinese immigration.
April 19 It's not local, but the item is irresistible.
A great fire in Toronto caused $10 million damage (likely equivalent
at the very least to 10 times that today) and destroyed great sections
of the city. Remarkable film footage of the blaze, made 102 years
ago, can be seen here.
May 11 Future provincial archivist W. Kaye
Lamb was born. He will have an extraordinarily distinguished career:
Provincial Archivist and Librarian of British Columbia from 1934
to 1940, University Librarian of the University of British Columbia
from 1940 to 1948, Dominion Archivist of Canada from 1948 to 1968
and, overlapping with the previous, National Librarian of Canada
from 1953 to 1967. He died August 24, 1999 at age 95. There is a
terrific appreciation of Kaye Lamb and his accomplishments, by Basil
Stuart-Stubbs (University Librarian Emeritus, and former Director,
UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies) here.
May 20 A small schoolhouse with 18 pupils
is opened in Lynn Valley.
June Konstantin Alvo von Alvensleben,
Prussian count and financier, arrived in the city. He made a living
here first by painting barns, repairing fish nets, and shooting
ducks and geese which he sold to the Vancouver Club at 35 cents
each. He will become a stock promoter, make a fortune, and be a
prominent social figure.
July 23 The first bridge to span the Fraser
opened. It joined New Westminster to Brownsville (North Surrey).
Hailed as the engineering feat of the century and built for $1 million
by the provincial government, it carried trains on the lower span
and vehicles and pedestrians on the upper, just wide enough for
two hay wagons to pass.
July 25 The Bank of Nova Scotia opened its
first branch in Vancouver at 418 West Hastings Street.
September 10 Bill Miner was one of those outlaw
figures who becomes a favorite of the public. The Grey Fox,
so named for his white hair and sly ways, jumped into B.C. history
dramatically when he held up a train today at Silverdale, near Mission,
and escaped across the line into Washingtons Whatcom County.
November St. Andrews Presbyterian Church was
built on Lower Keith Road in North Vancouver, and Rev. J.D. Gillam
became the first minister of any denomination to settle on the north
Also in 1904
Frank and Fred Begg start the first auto dealership
in Vancouver, and the first gasoline-powered car was bought by industrialist
John Hendry.
Frank Kerr opened the first movie house in New Westminster.
He frequently had to glue the film together when it broke.
The Steveston Land and Oil Company was formed to
drill for oil on Lulu Island.
Charles Cates built a wharf in North Vancouver and
handled cargo from California destined for the Klondike.
Pioneer settler Miss Harriet Woodward opened her
private school on the northeast shore of Deer Lake. She also started
a post office in her home which she will operate for 45 years.
The number of wards in Vancouver was increased from
five to six.
Jack Londons novel The Sea Wolf was published.
Its cited here because Wolf Larsen, the title character, was
based on a B.C. sealing captain, Alexander McLean, who sometimes
lived in Vancouver.
After buying up a number of the smaller telephone
companies throughout the province, the Vernon and Nelson Telephone
Company changed its name to the British Columbia Telephone Company.
1904 Cadillac Model B
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January Vancouver High School (later King
Edward) opened.
March 5 UBC administrator Walter Gage was
June L. D. Taylor and others buy
the Vancouver World.
July 4 The first interurban tram arrived in
July 10 Construction started on the first
buildings at Colony Farm, the agricultural arm of the Coquitlam
Mental Hospital, informally called Essondale (now Riverview Hospital).
The farm won contests across Canada for the quality of its produce
and livestock.
September 4 The family of Chris Peters was
thrown into a panic by the visit of a large brown bear. The Peters
resided and Mr. Peters had his shoe store at the corner of Westminster
and Ninth avenues in Vancouver, now the corner of Broadway and Main.
Not too many bears are seen at that intersection these days!
Labor Day The first auto club race around
Stanley Park. Eleven cars start, five finish; all the finishers
are Oldsmobiles.
September 14 In a report on activities at
Stanley Park, the Province noted that the superintendent
reported the following animals had been donated to the parks
zoo: A monkey, Roy G. Stephens, 1700 Ninth avenue; a large seal,
W. Swallow, 664 Granville; four grass parakeets, Mrs. Bulwer, 1728
Georgia street; a fawn, W.T. Massey, 833 Pender street; a raccoon,
W. Selp, 621 Sixth avenue east; a canary, Mrs. Clark, 1555 Robson;
a seal, Mayor Buscombe; a black bear, G.W. Wagg, 108 Water street
September 16 A newspaper report: The
Fraser River is full of sockeyes, and ten canneries are packing
to-day to the full capacity of their respective plants, according
to reports received from Steveston and other cannery centres this
morning. The average catch of sockeyes last night was probably two
hundred fish to the boat ... fishermen reported that the water is
teeming with salmon.
Also in 1905
Glassware merchant Frederick Buscombe became mayor
of Vancouver.
The first professional baseball team, the Beavers,
was formed in Vancouver.
Construction began on a new Main Post Office. Today
its part of Sinclair Centre.
Alfred Wallace began Wallace Shipyards. By the end
of WWII, under his son Clarence, it had become Canadas biggest
shipbuilding firm.
Charles Kingsford-Smith, aged 8, arrived in Vancouver
with his family. (They werent here long.) Later he will become
the first man to pilot a plane across the Pacific Ocean. A school
in Vancouver is named for this Australian aviator.
The first bathhouse was built by the Parks Board
at English Bay at a cost of $6,000.
McDowell's Drug Store opened next to McMillan's Grocery
at 1st Street and Lonsdale in North Vancouver. It will continue
to be run by the same family until 1973.
One branch of Delta's Taylor family opened a post
office in Ladner and will operate it for 56 years, to 1961, passing
it on from father to son to daughter-in-law.
A tract of land between White Rock and Crescent Beach
(formerly known as Blackie's Spit) is named Ocean Park by Surrey
pioneer H.T. Thrift. He buys the land on behalf of a wealthy Winnipeg
philanthropist who wishes to develop it for the Methodist Episcopal
The Institute of Chartered Accountants was established
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Researchers at the University of Toronto have shown that playing shooting or driving videogames, even for a relatively short time, improves the ability to search for a target hidden among irrelevant distractions in complex scenes.
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Tasmania may be the smallest of Australia's six states, geographically, but what this lovely island lacks in physical size, is more than made up for with its great natural beauty and diverse recreational opportunities.
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No one is left out of being made fun of to the creators of "South Park". Now it's the Mormons' turn.
Religion meets satire on Broadway -- "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, along with and Avenue Q's, Robert Lopez, spent seven years creating The Book of Mormon. To date, this Broadway musical has won an incredible 14 Tony Awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Best Direction, Best Original Score, Best Book, and Best Choreography.
The Book of Mormon debuted on March 24 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City. The producers released its album on May 17 on iTunes. Hard copies of the musical's track will be available June 7 at the theatre.
The Broadway musical is about two young missionaries -- one fat and ugly, the other handsome and over-confident -- who are sent to Uganda to try to convert the people to Mormonism. Only one of them has ever actually read The Book of Mormon. The Ugandan people will have none of their preaching as they face issues like famine, poverty, murder, AIDS, not to mention a corrupt and murderous Ugandan leader. It is only when they stop preaching do the Ugandan people celebrate the religion and they are even baptized.
The "South Park" have said that they always wanted to do a musical, and that is why many episodes of "South Park" include the characters breaking out into song, or the musical-themed films South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut and Team America: World Police.
So, why write a musical about Mormons? Could it be that Matt Stone had an awful breakup with a Mormon girlfriend back in high school? Or the enthusiasm during the extensive interviews with missionaries and ex-missionaries? Or the 2003 episode making fun of Mormons?
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Mayo Clinic's Shift To Epic Eats Up Most of IT Budget
Anne Zieger is veteran healthcare branding and communications expert with more than 25 years of industry experience. and her commentaries have appeared in dozens of international business publications, including Forbes, Business Week and Information Week. She has also worked extensively healthcare and health IT organizations, including several Fortune 500 companies. She can be reached at @ziegerhealth or www.ziegerhealthcare.com.
Mayo Clinic has announced that it will spend about $1 billion to complete its migration from Cerner and GE to Epic. While Mayo hasn't disclosed they're spending on software, industry watchers are estimating the agreement will cost hundreds of millions of dollars, with the rest of the $1 billion seemingly going to integration and development costs.
The Clinic said in 2014 that it would invest $1.5 billion in IT infrastructure over multiple years, according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Then last year, it announced that it would replace Cerner and GE systems with an Epic EMR. Now, its execs say that it will spend more than $1 billion on the transition over five years.
Given what other health system spend on Epic installations, the $1 billion estimate sounds sadly realistic. Facing up to these costs is certainly smarter than lowballing its budget. Nobody wants to be in the position New York City-based Health and Hospitals Corp. has gotten into. The municipal system's original $302 million budget expanded to $764 million just a couple of years into its Epic install, and overall expenses could hit $1.4 billion.
On the other hand, the shift to Epic is eating up two thirds of the Mayo's $1.5 billion IT allowance for the next few years. And that's a pretty considerable risk. After all, the Clinic must have spent a great deal on its Cerner and GE contracts. While the prior investments weren't entirely sunk costs, as existing systems must have collected a fair amount of data and had some impact on patient care, neither product could have come cheaply.
Given that the Epic deal seems poised to suck the IT budget dry, I find myself wondering what Mayo is giving up:
- Many health systems have put off investing in up-to-date revenue cycle management solutions, largely to focus on Meaningful Use compliance and ICD-10 preparation. Will Mayo be forced to limp along with a substandard solution?
- Big data analytics and population health tech will be critical to surviving in ACOs and value-based payment schemes. Will the Epic deal block Mayo from investing?
- Digital health innovation will become a central focus for health systems in the near future. Will Mayo's focus on the EMR transition rob it of the resources to compete in this realm?
To be fair, Mayo's Epic investment obviously wasn't made in a vacuum. With the EMR vendor capturing a huge share of the hospital EMR market, its IT leaders and C-suite execs clearly had many colleagues with whom they could discuss the system's performance and potential benefits.
But I'm still left wondering whether any single software solution, provided by a single vendor, offers such benefits that it's worth starving other important projects to adopt it. I guess that's not just the argument against Epic, but against the massive investment required to buy any enterprise EMR. But given the extreme commitment required to adopt Epic, this becomes a life-and-death decision for the Mayo, which already saw a drop in earnings last year.
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Summer is biting insect time, and not only are mosquitoes annoying, they can transmit diseases such as West Nile virus and encephalitis. There is a plethora of repellent sprays on the market to ward off these pesky bugs. Most repellents need to be applied as a cream or oil, but a new type features a patch worn on your skin instead.
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My 10 years of freedom: From human trafficking victim to survivor and advocate
It has been 10 years since I have been free, flying like a bird! In the mid-1970s, at the age of 15, I was sold for $200 to a man who I supposed to be working for, which was not true. He was my trafficker. I was kept in his house for more than five years against my will. During those long years I endured the worst abuse you can imagine. The abuse started after 3 days of being in his place. He was terrorizing me with witchcraft. He raped me and beat me and abused me verbally and emotionally. He said he was going to kill my family and burn their houses. He told me I was going to go to jail because he had satanic powers. The abuse happened daily and I felt like I was in a cage.
My family filed a report and asked the police to help them find me. The police did not do anything. Their answer to my family was that if I did not report anything on my own to them I must have been okay. The abuse continued and continued. My trafficker had a garage guest room and rented it out to a couple. One day my trafficker was bothering the tenant's wife by torturing her with his witchcraft making sexual advances. Her husband could not take it anymore and he killed my trafficker. The husband called for me and gave me a piece of wood and told me to put it under the house. I did not know what was going on. I did what was told of me and followed his directions, which how I learned to survive in that home.
The day he was killed, I went into shock. I felt free from him physically, but not emotionally. I did get to enjoy three days at my sister's house even though I was not all there emotionally due to the trauma. But, my freedom only lasted for a very short three days because I was arrested and sent to jail for placing the piece of wood under the house as I was directed to do by the husband.
I spent a year fighting my case. Unfortunately, I had very poor legal representation. I was my attorney's first criminal case and he had already been disbarred for selling and using drugs. But he fought my case with an immigration attorney's bar number. With this poor representation I ended up being sentenced to 25 years to life and sent to prison. During the trial I did not understand what was going on. I did not speak any English. I had arrived to southern California from Mexico a month before I was trafficked. I sometimes think that speaking English would not have helped me either way because I was suffering from deep emotional trauma. The trauma started as soon as he started the abuse. I suffered the trauma from the day I arrived to his house until his death and afterwards. I did not know what was happening to me or the meaning of my sentence until years later.
As soon as I got to prison I enrolled in school and started to learn English. I was very disappointed with the system, with the police, judge, and society. I started to learn more about my case and sentence and I felt disappointed in how people knew about this monster and no one did anything to help me. I felt that society, instead of helping, sent me to jail with the goal of not letting me out. I felt they put me behind bars and threw the key away so no one could open the gates.
Due to the fear I had of his witchcraft I used to dream of him and he would torture me in my dreams. My sweet mother told me to pray for him and to forgive him. She also told me to a saying when a death person comes to your dreams and doesn't let you sleep. It is a prayer in Spanish: If you don't leave me alone I will send you to sweep the streets of Saint Tomas. He did stop coming to my dreams. I prayed and asked God to help me forgive my trafficker and for God to take care of him. Eventually I was able to forgive him.
I spent 22.5 years in prison for this crime I did not commit. After all those years, I thought I was going home with my family. But no! I did not go home. The INS picked me up and held me for 5 months and 7 days. This time I was told I was going to be deported. But this time I was able to get help from three very good pro bono attorneys who helped me prove that I was a victim of human trafficking. I was able to stay in the United States with a T-Visa and later on I was able to obtain my green card. Today I'm in the process of getting my citizenship and will hopefully get it very soon.
I remember, on May 24, 2004, while sitting in the cafeteria area during my INS detention and waiting to go out for recreation time, a bird came to my window. I cannot remember details, but I do remember a bird coming to the window and knocking with his beak, calling my attention. I looked to the side and saw the bird and right away I knew that bird was bringing me good news. The bird came for the second time and knocked on the window. Sure enough after recreation time I was told to contact my attorneys. I called them and the news was that I was free. On that day I felt like the whole world was mine, but I had to keep my release secret from anyone in detention with me.
The next day, May 25 of 2004, I walked out of INS detention. I didn't know exactly what to do, but I knew I was coming home. My beautiful family and friends were there waiting for me. I was so overwhelmed that while walking towards my family and hugging them I started to faint and lost consciousness. I remember waking up at my sister's house and not knowing how I ended up there.
Today marks ten years of my freedom and I can tell you that those ten years of freedom have been heaven to me. In my freedom, I have learned to follow my heart and desires, which has been to help others that might be in the same situation I was in before. I want to prevent them from taking the same steps I took. I want society to be educated and to learn about Human Trafficking, for everyone to know that Human Trafficking does not discriminate based on color, age, race or gender.
Remember, human trafficking is like a monster that has a lot of heads. If you catch one trafficker, get rid of one head, there are still many others who continue damaging and causing pain to our society. Let's educate ourselves about this horrible issue and let's prevent others from getting hurt. Let's help our new generation be more aware of human trafficking. Let's advocate and stop the monster from hurting the new generation and others.
Help stop human trafficking in Los Angeles: If you're interested in raising awareness about human trafficking in Los Angeles Country, become a volunteer with NCJW/LA.


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Business Intelligence Middle East (BI-ME) carried this news on 20 October 2009:
"Apartment rental rates in the Northern Emirates continued to fall in the third quarter of 2009 but at a slower rate than previously, according to a report by Asteco, the largest property services company in the United Arab Emirates."
"The average decline in apartment rental rates has slowed considerably to 4% compared with 12% in the second quarter and 21% in quarter one of 2009," says the Asteco Northern Emirates third quarter 2009 report.
"However, there has been limited activity in the market due to the summer holidays coinciding with Ramadan, both traditionally quiet periods."
The report by Asteco, which carries out comprehensive property market analysis across the UAE, also found:
Fujairah recording the smallest decline of 2% to an average of AED29,625 per annum, making it the second most affordable place for apartments in the Northern Emirates.
Link to Read Entire Article:
Rents Still Falling in UAE's Northern Emirates, BI-ME, 20 October 2009.
Dr Geoff Pound
Geoff can be contacted by email at geoffpound(at)gmail.com on Facebook and Twitter.
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I have a few of my favorite books that I keep reading and rereading. These are usually the kind of books in which plot and action are less important than the beauty of language and the emotions they evoke. The Journey Home by the marvelous Icelandic author, Olaf Olafsson, is one of these works. It doesn't matter that I know the story by heart. Each time I read it, it moves and delights me anew.
THE JOURNEY HOME deals with several journeys: the physical journey that Disa, a sensitive and tenacious woman, is compelled to take to her home country, Iceland. She lives in England where she runs a country inn together with Anthony, her friend and companion. It's also about an emotional journey, a painful and joyous journey into the past, a journey of memories of the conflict with her mother, of the destiny of her German-Jewish lover, of the fateful happenings in the family of her former employer.
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Palate: Dark, sweet liquorice to start, with woody spice sitting behind, providing more body. Damp wood develops with rich blackberry tarts and blackberry leaf. A touch of water brings out 'old' flavours - earthy wood and hints of forest floor. It also reveals more of the sweet vanilla from the nose and some sharp stone fruits - apricot and peach.
Finish: Digestive biscuits, dark fruit, and liquorice.
Comment: Fantastic stuff - old school in style and packed with flavour. One to sit and unpick over an evening.


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- serves 8
1 ½ cup chocolate wafer crumbs
⅓ cup butter, meltedFilling
½ cup whipping cream
1 8 oz package cream cheese, cubed
1 cup smooth peanut butter
2 Tbsp butter, softened
1 Tbsp vanilla
1 cup icing sugarTopping
6 oz bittersweet or semisweet chocolate
½ cup whipping cream
2 Tbsp chopped roasted peanuts
1. Preheat oven to 350º F (180ºC).
2. In bowl, toss crumbs with butter. Pat into 9-inch (23 cm) pie plate, without covering rim. Bake in centre of oven until firm, about 8 minutes. Let cool.Filling
1. In bowl, whip cream; set aside. In large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth; beat in peanut butter, butter and vanilla. Beat in icing sugar until fluffy. Fold one-quarter of the whipped cream into filling; fold in remaining cream. Spread over crust. Cover loosely and refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours.Topping
1. Meanwhile, chop chocolate finely; place in heatproof bowl. In small saucepan, warm cream over medium-low heat until bubbles form around edge; pour over chocolate and stir until melted. Let cool. Drizzle over filling; sprinkle with nuts.
2. Cover loosely and refrigerate until set, 2 hours. (Make-ahead: Refrigerate for up to 2 days.)
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Every time I see the words Amish Face on this post, it makes me squash up my face with repressed giggles. AMISH FACE! Coming soon to a theater near you!
In the blahblahs, I would like you to tell me what you think the plot of Amish Face would be. Set your imaginations free!
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Maine - February 8, 2005 - 3:07 PM - ℓ
"Amish Face"? Definitely an indie arthouse thing. Shot in black and white.
Two lovers decide that in order to make their fading relationship work, they will attempt to live in an apartment in New York City with no modern amenities at all. The only heat they will know must come from the love in their hearts.
"To live, to love, to kiss... this Amish Face."
srah - February 8, 2005 - 10:14 PM - ℓ
A hooker with a heart of gold discovers one day that she's grown a face on her stomach. But not ANY face - the face of a elderly Amish man, ready to scold her at every turn! How will these two learn to get along and share one body in peace? Oh, the hijinks!
*cut to scene of hooker churning butter*
kira - February 8, 2005 - 10:18 PM - ℓ
You know what I can't stop laughing about? Did anyone else watch the premiere of American Dad (I think) on Fox Sunday post-superblah? I have a weakness for bad bodily function humour, and the father got his son a decrepit, leper of a dog to impress the girls. The dog lifted his leg to pee, and a little cloud of dust came out with a sad little squeaky poof. I just crack up every time I think about it...
jamelah - February 9, 2005 - 7:55 AM - ℓ
There's been a murder in Amish country, and a young idealistic lawyer (name: Jack) must defend the suspect, who is a guy in his early 20s named, uh, Jebediah. Yet as Jack hears more of Jebediah's story, he's convinced that Jeb is innocent. All signs are beginning to point to Jebediah's sister Ruth, a young girl Jack is beginning to fall in love with, despite all forms of reason. Jack knows what he has to do in order to save his client, but can he do it? Or is he too entranced by Ruth's AMISH FACE?
Of course, first this has to be a novel by John Grisham.


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Discovery of novel plant interaction determinants from the genomes of 163 root nodule bacteria
Root nodule bacteria (RNB) or "rhizobia" are a type of plant growth promoting bacteria, typified by their ability to fix nitrogen for their plant host, fixing nearly 65% of the nitrogen currently utilized in sustainable agricultural production of legume crops and pastures. In this study, we sequenced the genomes of 110 RNB from diverse hosts and biogeographical regions, and undertook a global exploration of all available RNB genera with the aim of identifying novel genetic determinants of symbiotic association and plant growth promotion. Specifically, we performed a subtractive comparative analysis with non-RNB genomes, employed relevant transcriptomic data, and leveraged phylogenetic distribution patterns and sequence signatures based on known precepts of symbioticand host-microbe interactions. A total of 184 protein families were delineated, including known factors for nodulation and nitrogen fixation, and candidates with previously unexplored functions, for which a role in host-interaction, -regulation, biocontrol, and more, could be posited. Lastly, these analyses expand our knowledge of the RNB purview and provide novel targets for strain improvement in the ultimate quest to enhance plant productivity and agricultural sustainability.
- Authors:
- Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA (United States)
- Murdock Univ., Murdoch (Australia)
- Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA (United States); King Abdulaziz Univ., Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
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- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
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- Journal Volume: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Research Org:
- USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; applied microbiology; comparative genomics; data mining; symbiosis
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Highlands and Islands Labour MSP, Rhoda Grant, said she is concerned by the revelations coming from the Scottish Government over the growing concern that is NHS Western Isles dentistry.
Mrs Grant who has been fighting for constituents who wish to have a normal dental service on the Western Isles and hopefully to take advantage of the Government's "Lifetime Registration" has again contacted both NHS Western Isles and the IJB on behalf of concerned constituents.
It would appear now that the Population Health Directorate has admitted that the Western Isles Health Board figures are somewhat distorted.
Mrs Grant said,
"The patient registration figures from the Information Services Division have long claimed an 80% registration rate for the Western Isles population.
"These figures have been found to be at odds with a Freedom of Information request to the Western Isles Health Board.
"Under the Freedom of Information request the figures are 50.6% in Lewis and 53.2% on the Western Isles as a whole.
"This distortion reflects the confusion surrounding the Government's statistics and indeed their legislation."
In 2011 NHS Western Isles opened a Dental Centre on a huge scale which they claimed to be "one of the most significant healthcare developments in the past decade".
However given Government constraints there has been difficulties attracting and retaining dentists.
Mrs Grant added,
"The situation facing dental patients in Stornoway is desperate given the figures we are seeing now and the difficulties in attracting and retaining dentists, and I fear that the SNP is trying to push down the road towards private dentistry in the Islands."
She concluded saying ,
"This, in conjunction with the unacceptable situation surrounding the sudden announcement to close Lochboisdale dental practice, just seems to be adding to the pain and suffering of those seeking a normal dental service on the Islands."


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The conference explored Manchester's experience of developing its creative industries with the support of the City's Council and how this has driven growth in the city's other creative industries and established an increasingly attractive city brand. The Russian delegates learnt about the partnerships that exist in Manchester, how these came about, the ways in which creative organisations push boundaries when programming events, and how these templates might be duplicated in their own city, while overcoming the challenges which currently exist there.
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Bonnivere Polos Eisenstein,nee Freeman, beloved wife of the late Gus G. Polos; loving mother of Karen (James) Kuhn; cherished grandmother of Dean and Mary Kay; adoring great-grandmother of Amanda, Jessica and Lauren.
Family services and interment at Camp Butler National Cemetery will be private.
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In an effort to better understand the needs of its driver-members, the Women In Trucking (WIT) Association recently used a research class to conduct a member survey. Dr. Jeanette Kersten's University of Wisconsin-Stout graduate students assist nonprofit associations in conducting research that they might not have access to due to financial considerations.
"The results from the students' study will allow us to learn how we can attract new members and give our current driver members better value for their dues," said Ellen Voie, WIT's President. "The findings have been shared with the board of directors and will be a topic of discussion at our upcoming strategic planning session in January." Voie added.
There were 139 drivers who responded to the online questions. Most of them (65 percent) had joined in the past two years. As expected, the majority (88 percent) was female, but eleven male drivers who are members of the association completed the survey. The average age of the respondent was between 50 and 59 years old.
The economic condition of the driver population was evident in the responses, as the most commonly cited reason for non-renewal was financial. "Have not had the extra month to renew, even though the dues are very low," wrote one driver. Nearly one fifth of the drivers stated they were no longer driving as the reason for non-renewal.
When asked what they would like to see as benefits for joining, drivers asked for insurance plans, discounts on products and services and more merchandise from the association. Drivers also asked for more opportunities for networking and communication with other members.
A portion of the survey was dedicated to the Salute to Women Behind the Wheel (salute2women.com). Half of the drivers have not attended this celebration devoted to honoring female drivers, but the top reason was because they could not get time off to attend the event held every March in conjunction with the Mid-America Trucking Show.
The UW-Stout graduate students, Melisa Entinger, Jeremy Senstad and Erin Steffeck recommended that the association focus more efforts on marketing toward students and to male drivers, who might not be aware that both men and women are welcome as members.
"Thanks to the excellent work by Dr. Kersten's students we can use this data to determine how to meet the needs of the driver population," Voie stated. WIT currently has 1,800 corporate and individual members (men and women) with about 35 percent being professional drivers.
Women In Trucking Association, Inc. (womenintrucking.org) was established to encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry, promote their accomplishments and minimize obstacles faced by women working in the trucking industry. Women In Trucking is funded by its members and the generous support of Gold Level Partners; Bendix, Frito-Lay North America and Walmart.


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Miley Cyrus: "No Comment" on Vanity Fair Photos
Here are the very first pictures of Miley Cyrus resurfacing after flashing her green bra and posing semi-topless for Vanity Fair.
The 15-year-old Hannah Montana star was seen out and about with a family friend and her kid sister, Noah, 8. The trio were seen shopping at Target in Nashville, Tennessee.
Miley was all smiley as she chatted on her cell phone and chugged on a Red Bull. Noah playfully ran around Miley, asking her if she could say hi to "Peter". Miley was also overheard telling "Peter" about a fall she had and laughing about it.
When photogs asked Miley about the infamous Vanity Fair photos, Miley smiled and said "No comment."
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Oregon Top 5: Best Portland hikes for hipster and non hipster alike
What more really can be said about Portland at this point?
Oregon's largest city has its own television show, is full of celebrities so hip they're not really celebrities (Cheryl Strayed) and features an estimated 879 bijillion brewpubs.
Plus, every conceivable species of hipster can be found there, which makes for great people watching. The eco-hipster, gluten-free hipster, locovore hipster, DIY hipster, Greenwich Village circa 1959 hipster, yuppie hipster, redneck hipster (they wear trucker hats), elitist hipster, nerd hipster, facial hair hipster, culture-vulture hipster, Shakespeare-quoting hipster (do you bite your thumb at us, sir?), militant-revolutionary-cyclist hipster, makes-fun-of-other-hipsters hipster. The list goes on.
In all fairness, though, Portland does have a few things going for it. And one of those is hiking trails within the city.
Few places in America have such sublime urban green spaces, offering views of the Cascade Range and solitude within the city.
And so, we give you the top five hikes in Portland — produced by Statesman Journal outdoors writers Zach Urness and Alisha Roemeling, in collaboration with a number of local experts. The list without question will be mocked by the ubiquitous "always-smarter-than-you hipster," but luckily, nobody cares what they think.
HONORABLE MENTION: Oxbow Regional Park
Better known for steelhead fishing and close-to-the-city camping, this park near Gresham offers a 3.3-mile loop that includes long stretches along Sandy River and beautiful old-growth forest.
The best hike heads inland — make sure to pick up a map — following trails N, O and G into what's called "ancient forest." Large, hundred-year-old trees rise above the trail — the most scenic in the park — before swinging back along the river.
Make sure to bring your rod for a fun day of hike-fishing.
Directions: Take I-84 outside Portland to Wood Village exit 16. Drive south on 238th Street (which becomes Hogan Drive) for 2.7 miles to Division Street. Turn left on Division for 5.5 miles to a four-way junction. Turn left following a park sign, and continue 1.6 miles to a tollbooth at the park's entrance.
A state park inside a major metropolitan area, just minutes from downtown Portland, Tyron Creek State Park offers many activities within its boundaries. This 659-acre park has several good hiking trails to follow as well as biking paths and a horse trail.
Here's one easy option for the whole family: a 2.7-mile loop. Starting at the visitor's center, follow Old Main Trail, Red Fox Trail and Cedar Trail. High Bridge, lush creek and great forest are highlights.
Directions: From Interstate 5, take exit 297 and follow Terwilliger Boulevard 2.3 miles to the park. GPS coordinates: 45.44425, -122.6744721
This easy 3.5-mile loop offers a place for picnics while enjoying views across East Portland and the Cascade Range — Mount St. Helens, Hood and Adams — while hiking through a quiet wooded area.
The 608-acre Powell Butte Nature Park coexists with a 50-million-gallon reservoir buried beneath the summit meadow. The unseen tank is the hub of Portland's water supply.
From the red restroom at the main parking area, start up paved Mountain View Trail through a meadow until the pavement ends after about 0.6 miles.
For a longer hike, turn left onto the Orchard Loop Trail for a 0.8-mile loop around the summit. Also consider Goldfinch Trail, Mount Hood Trail and Cedar Grove Trail. Forest and views of Mount Hood highlight these routes.
Directions: From I-5 north, take exit 288 for I-205 north toward the Dalles/ Seattle. After 18.5 miles, take exit 19 for U.S. 26/Powell Boulevard toward Division Street. Then turn right onto SE Powell Boulevard, go 3.5 miles and turn right onto SE 162 Ave. GPS Coordinates: 45.500554, -122.306408.
Powell Butte Nature Park Statesman Journal
Beginning at the Lower Macleay Park, the Wildwood Trail makes its way up to this historic mansion for a 5.4-mile out-and-back hike that climbs 1,000 feet. The trail follows a small creek through lush forest that climbs the west hills of Portland to views of the city and a mansion.
To get started, park at the Lower Macleay Park and walk under the Thurman Street Bridge to a map. Walk upstream along Balch Creek until you run into Wildwood Trail at the Stone House, and continue straight on the trail.
There are multiple trails to choose from, but stay on Wildwood Trail to reach your destination.
At the top, you'll find beautiful views of downtown Portland and Mount Hood as well as the Historical Pittock Mansion, which is open for tours from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
Directions: From I-5 north, exit onto Highway 217 toward Beaverton and Tigard. Exit onto Barnes Road and follow it 1.4 miles. Turn right onto Cornell Road to the park. GPS coordinates: 45.52837, -122.719727.
A 2-mile hike from the 60th Avenue Trailhead brings you to the top of a dormant volcano with beautiful views of downtown Portland and Mount Hood.
There are various routes to complete the hike with many things to admire along the way such as playgrounds, picnic areas, statues and a small reservoir. Once at the top, a circular road surrounds the mountaintop (it's closed to motorized vehicles.)
Directions: Take I-5 north to I-84 east, then take the 58th Avenue Exit to 60th Avenue. Turn right onto 60th Avenue, left onto SE Stark Street, then take the first right onto SE 60th Avenue and the second left onto SE Yamhill Street. You can park at the bottom of the hill to take various paths up, or drive nearly to the top of the hill and park. There also are areas between the top and bottom to park. GPS coordinates: 45.528611, -122.603056.
Deep woods and mountain views highlight the best hike within Portland at this gem of a park.
An easy 3.6-mile loop to Hoyt Arboretum offers a nice slice of the Wildwood Trail — which extends over 30 miles — but offers views for a longer trek.
The trail begins and ends at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial where signs for Wildwood Trail are posted throughout the hike. After about 1.7 miles, you'll reach a viewpoint for the Japanese Gardens. Continues on Wildwood Trail into Hoyt Arboretum. Here you will wander through a diverse combination of trees and wildlife until you reach a footbridge over a small creek. Follow the Creek Trail and Hemlock Trail to complete the 3.6-mile loop back to the memorial.
Directions: Head west from Portland on Highway 26 (Canyon Road) toward Beaverton, take the zoo exit and park at the far end of the zoo's huge parking lot beside the MAX station, opposite the World Forestry Center. GPS coordinates: 45.511979, -122.718539.
Other great hikes: Marquam Nature Park to Council Crest and Rocky Butte


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ART100 Introduction to Art History
Lead Faculty: Ms. Annette Cyr
Course DescriptionSurvey of the main periods in art history, with emphasis on the complex relationship between art and society. Explores the development of Western art from Prehistoric to Contemporary.
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- Discuss artworks in the light of their historical, social, and cultural contexts.
- Demonstrate critical thinking, reading and writing skills in analyzing works of art.
- Demonstrate critical awareness of the major eras and cultures in Western art.
- Discuss visual art as a key to understanding human values.
- Compare and contrast the style characteristics of selected works.
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Horns Gets a Longer Trailer, Daniel Radcliffe Gets the Power of Persuasion
And an American accent, too.
Along with everything else that debuted at ComicCon, here is a longer trailer for Horns — the movie where Daniel Radcliffe swears he didn't kill his girlfriend ... and then grows a pair of devilish horns. According to this new trailer, the horns apparently come with the power of persuasion, so finding his girlfriend's killer shouldn't be that difficult? Just ask around.


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Romney's health reforms will be tricky
It's long been a go-to applause line for GOP nominee Mitt Romney in front of friendly campaign audiences. "I will repeal Obamacare," Romney promises as the audience roars, "on day one" of his presidency.
Promising repeal helps to bolster Romney's sometimes-shaky credibility with his party's conservative base, and it is so popular with them that House Republicans have voted nearly three dozen times since January 2011 to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which they have dubbed Obamacare.
But as voters are beginning to pay attention to the Nov. 6 general election, Romney has offered himself a loophole for his repeal-and-replace plans that could make them more attractive to a wider audience.
"I'm not getting rid of all of health care reform," Romney said last Sunday during his first appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" in almost three years. "There are a number of things that I like in health care reform that I'm going to put in place."
Coverage remains issue
But pulling popular strands out of the massive and complex health care law is likely to at least partially unravel the whole ball of twine, analysts say.
"You can't provide coverage to people who are sick through magic," said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation and an expert on health insurance. The Menlo Park nonprofit has done some of the most extensive research and polling on the health care law signed by President Obama in 2011.
"It either involves public money to pay for that coverage or a series of regulations and subsidies to make private insurance accessible," Levitt said.
Americans are far from sold on the health care law: 43 percent of those surveyed by Kaiser in August have an "unfavorable" opinion of the law, while 38 percent have a "favorable" one. Romney proposed cherry-picking some of its more popular provisions, according to polls.
Chain reaction
He said he wants to make sure that "those with pre-existing conditions can get coverage," and he wants to allow individuals to keep family members on their policies "up to whatever age they might like."
Romney also wants "individuals to be able to buy insurance, health insurance, on their own as opposed to only being able to get it on a tax-advantaged basis through their company."
The health care law requires insurers to provide coverage to people whether they have been continuously insured or not, regardless of their health status.
But, Levitt said, "that requirement sets in motion a whole bunch of other stuff."
To help pay for people with pre-existing conditions that may require costly treatment, the law created a larger pool of health insurance consumers by requiring everyone to buy health insurance - also known as the individual mandate. Those who decline to buy insurance would have to pay a penalty, which the Supreme Court described as "a tax" when it upheld the health law in June.
Romney is familiar with the individual mandate - it was a centerpiece of the health care reform law he signed in 2006 as governor of Massachusetts that later became the model for Obamacare. But since then, he has backed away from it.
Who will pay for it
"The majority of the court said it is a tax, and therefore it is a tax," Romney said after the high court's decision was announced.
But without the mandate, analysts say Romney hasn't been clear on how he'd fund covering individuals with pre-existing conditions.
"If you're going to require everyone to be insured, you've got to provide some help for people who are low- or middle-income, because they can't afford the whole premiums," said Levitt, who worked to develop Massachusetts' universal health care system. "So there are the tax credits and subsidies for people, which, of course, costs money, and you've got to raise money to pay for those."
Family policies
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the federal government will spend $1 trillion on subsidizing private insurance for low- and middle-income Americans from 2014 to 2022.
Analysts say Romney's hope to allow people to keep family members on their policies "up to whatever age they might like" would be easier to put in place because the health care law allows children under 26 to be carried on their family's plan.
"There are no technical or budgetary challenges to keeping that in place," Levitt said.
Joe Garofoli is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @joegarofoli


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APSPDCL Recruitment 2018 online application form with job notification for 4000 JE, AE, Lineman and various posts available to apply online at www.apeasternpower.com :
APEPDCL Recruitment 2018: Andhra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution Company Limited is going to publish most famous and awaited job notification for 4000 vacancies of Junior Engineer, Assistant Engineer, Lineman, Electrician and Dy. Engineer available for both technical and non-technical cadre on its official website at apspdcl.in. Dear candidates who have looking for Govt Jobs in AP are eligible to apply online application form for various jobs wise before closing date.
About Andhra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution Company Limited: This Company started in the year of 31st of March 2000 declared formally formation of Distribution Companies in this procedure. APSPDCL was formed for following 6 districts of Andhra Pradesh and main headquerters located in Tirupati city.
About Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited: It was established in the years of 31st March, 2000 and main office located in Visakhapatnam. As we know that this board is the leading Indian power utility serving a consumer base of over 4.97 million spread across five districts.
Recently, higher authority members has decided to announcement of APSPDCL Notification 2018 via main site. There are total 4000 vacancies available for eligible candidates who have completed academic qualification and who belonged to AP state are eligible to apply online registration form. Here we have listed eligibility criteria for Andhra Pradesh Power Distribution Jobs.
Candidates are you seeking Government jobs inAndhra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution Company Limited so keep visiting on this site we are providing all details of all Government Jobs and if you are from Andhra Pradesh and searching job in Andhra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution Company Limited so in upcoming days if Andhra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution Company Limited releases any kind of notification so you can view that on the same page.
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Total No. of Vacancies: Approx 4000 posts
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Type of Job: State Government Jobs
Job Location: In A.P. state
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- Dear aspirants are advised to copy official site URL at www.apspdcl.in and paste new tab.
- Navigate to main page and go to "News Updates section.
- Find out "APEPDCL Recruitment 2018 Advertisement" link and open it.
- Download file as PDF file on your PC and refer carefully all the listed instructions.
- Now you can click "Apply online"
- Enter all basis and work experience related information.
- Dear candidates are requested to don't any type of mistake because one mistake in this form, your application form is rejected.
- Upload all necessary documents as JPEG format i.e. scanned passpost size photograph, signature etc.
- At the last verify all entered data of application form and then press down "SUBMIT" button.
- Save or download system generated filled form on your computer.
- Take a print out for future reference.
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Official APSPDCL Official Notification 2018
APSPDCL Recruitment 2018 Apply Online
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Fall Program Registrations Open Create an Account, then click the activities page to register. You can Browse Activities by age or grade. As a reminder you are not registered for any program until payment has been received.
Please call weekly to confirm office hours, as there may be times when the office is closed and the staff is working off site at other locations, attending meetings, or program planning and coordination.