Parker Gun Shop Opens in Moberly Lake Area
Ralph and Rose Marie Parker longtime residents and gunsmiths opened Parker Gun Shop in the Moberly Lake area in May. Ralph, with over thirty years of gun collecting, offers gun repair and shell loading, and the shop carries Remington firearms, ammunition, fishing tackle and rods, plus a selection of antique items.
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Ralph
Rose Marie
Buddy) Parker
Chetwynd
Moberly Lake
Parker
Ralph Parker
Parkers
Remmington
BC Proposes New Business Licence Act to Modernize Fees
Finance Minister Hugh Curtis introduces legislation to replace the 1888 Trade Licence Act with the Business Licence Act, extending licensing to categories not covered and aligning non municipal rates with municipal nearby areas. The aim is cost recovery and fair competition across unorganized British Columbia regions.
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Hugh Curtis
British Columbia
B.C
Curtis
Finance Ministry
Gravel contracts tendered for 65 000 tonnes in Dawson Creek
Tenders will be opened on July 17 for the first of two gravel crushing contracts in the Dawson Creek Highway District. The project aims to supply 40 000 tonnes of gravel, with the total tendered quantity reaching 65 000 tonnes. Officials Alex F Fraser and Don Phillips announced the plan.
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Dawson Creek
Transportation and Highways
Alex F
Fraser
Industry and
Don Phillips
South Peace River
Forest fires surge in British Columbia due to lightning
A week tallies 152 new fires in BC with a detector system logging over 10 000 strikes in 24 hours. 1 163 fires have burned 47 275 hectares this season, costing 10 045 800 dollars. Crews mapped early fires and will crush and stockpile gravel for highway patching near Hart Highway. The Parkers, former traders, moved to Moberly Lake in 1954 and ran a trading post and gun shop.
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Victoria
B.C
Nelson
Kamloops
Regenerating the forests Prince George Region planting drive
The Prince George Forest Region planted 24.3 million young trees this year over more than 17,617 hectares in coordinated spring efforts. Most saplings were spruce with some pine and fir, plus 3,000 tamarack on an experimental basis.
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Prince George
B.C. Forest Service
Prince George Forest
Yukon
Alberta
Valemont
Endako
Forest ‘Service
Sherb
Forest Service
Canadian history this week overview
This week highlights key events in Canadian history: Wolf's forces repulse the first attack on Quebec on July 31, 1759. British Columbia abolishes slavery on August 1, 1834. Henry Hudson discovers Hudson Bay on August 3, 1610. The Atlantic cable carries the first message from North America to Great Britain on August 5, 1858.
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Wolf
Quebec
British Columbia
Henery Hudson
Bay
North America
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Forest Fire Report
Hank Doerksen
Ministry, Protection Branch
Pouce Coupe
Lemoray
Hart Highway
Azouzeta Lake
Kathleen Creek
Edmonton
Paisley
Ontario
Canada
Hudson’s Bay Company
Uranium City
Bear Island
Buddy
Jim Sherb
E. Roy Cochrane
Allen Vander Linde
Chetwynd Centre
Cochrane & Co
Barristers & Solicitors
Ave
Chetwynd Confectionary
Girard's
Wildmare
Gemini
Box
English Bay
Stanley Park
Vancouver
Davie
10Th Street
Harvey Martin
Chevron
Roger Olsen
Caryly
Phba
C.S.A
U.S
Llih
Young’s
J.A. Teslyk
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