Hide Article Text (OCR)
nia express company.Social life in the earlier davs was not marked bvk %the lines that characterize it to-day. The people were almost like one large family, and at times they met for jollity and pleasure; balls and impromptu dances in winter, at which Donald .McLean general!) scrapedthe fiddle; horse-racing and other sports on such public holidays as were observed in the little town. Hut a change was at hand. The C. P. R. was coming slowh but steadih nearer. The shrill w histle of the locomo-tivewassoon heard at Savona, and in the winter 1NS4the grading of the roadbed between that point and Kamloops was under way. Kamloops was now a busy place, with a constant stream of people going and coming, and it w as not w ithout its distinguished v isitors. October, lKK'J, had seen the Marquis of Lome in Kamloops, and three years later the Marquis of Lans-downe, his successor to the (iovernor-Generalship, \ isited the tow n.
Newspaper Details
Kamloops Wawa
Kamloops, British Columbia, CA
Wed, Jun 01, 1904
Page 29
Full Page
Clipped by
Donna S.
CA 02 Jan 2021
Other Publications Near Kamloops, British Columbia
Kamloops Wawa
