Festival events shape week in The Pas with dances and contests
Festival plans unfold across The Pas with Mushes Banquet Elk’s Hall Rendevous Ukrain ian Parish Hall Queen Ball and Grand March. Bevy of activities includes Dog Derby prize boost to 3000, ice racing, Soap Box Derby, fish eating contests, street dances, and a Queen pageant with fur prizes.
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Guy Hall
Rendevous
Elk’s Hall
Pas
Legion Hall
Exhibition Grounds
Ice Palace
Third Avenue
Cambrian Hotel
Lido Theatre
Manitoba
Miss Friendship Center Queen Contestant 1963
Anne Shirley Bignell, 22, runs for Fur Queen in the 1963 Trappers Festival sponsored by the Indian and Metis Friendship Center in The Pas. Her campaign avoids The Pas proper and is separate from Miss The Pas race between Trudy Crest and Doris Chestlock. Bignell stands 5'7", resides on The Pas Reserve, with vital stats 36-25-36 and enjoys skating, swimming, and softball. She is daughter of Chief and Mrs Cornelius Bignell and enters as Miss Friendship Center.
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Anne Shirley Bignell
Miss Bignell
Indian and Metis Friendship Center
Pas
Trudy Crest
Doris Cheslock
Cornelius Bignell
Carol Festival Tonight at United Church
The Community Carol Festival sponsored by the Indian and be organization features ten local choirs performing tonight at 8 p m in the United Church.
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United Church
United Church the Indian and Metis Friendship Center
Town Assessor Reports at Rotary Club Meeting
John Dominick Town Assessor spoke at the Rotary Club about assessment governance. He noted Municipal Corporations once fell under a Municipal Assessment Commission and could only appeal to the Courts. He described provincial reforms, training, and limited council control over the Assessor.
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Rotary Club
John Dominick
Municipal Assessment Commission
Pas
Dominick
Government of
Manitoba
Court of Revision
Municipal Board
Assessment Appeals and Court Jurisdiction Highlighted
In a discussion about assessment appeals Mr Dominick noted that court action is needed only for jurisdictional issues. He cited the right to assess Canadian National Railways and the Hudson Bay Railway. He said he trained in 1958 and returned to The Pas to re assess the Town, increasing the assessment from $2.5 million to over $5 million.
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Ter
Deminick
Canadian National Railways
Hudson Bay Railway
Dominick
Pas
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Jeffrey Hunter
Man
Island
Tues
Gary Lockwood
the Magic Sword
Merry Christmas
Alice
Jack Abram
Girls
PAL
Office Equipment Ltd
McBrine
World Maker
Underwood
Arrow
Tip Top
Fishman's
the Herald
Fishman’s
Art Fishman
Lawrence Herman
Barbara Lamb
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