S. C. E. Whist Drive Set to Start Friday
The S. C. E. Whist Drive begins Friday January 11 and continues on the second and fourth Fridays of each month thereafter.
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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 10, 1924
Page
4
The S. C. E. Whist Drive begins Friday January 11 and continues on the second and fourth Fridays of each month thereafter.
Local and Personal column notes the Sons of England will host a series of Whist Drives with ball admission of 35 cents. Miss Beatrice Thompson visited Alex White's last week. Wm Baily visited Brandon. Mrs Rev S A Martin returned from Brandon Hospital. Mrs Jas Brown spent several days in Winnipeg with her sister in law Miss Mary Brown of Hamilton Ontario.
Banff hosts a grizzly bear barbecue during the Winter Carnival in February. The Eastern International Dog Derby draws ten Canadian and three U S teams, to run February 21 22 and 23 in Quebec. Other notes report Saskatchewan sodium sulphate use in Redcliff glassmaking and BC industrial loans totaling 1 176 694 across 60 plants with 55 borrowers repaying principal.
The piece outlines a mountaineering route from Strawberry Flats and Hope along the Fraser River into British Columbia’s interior via the Dewdney trail. It traces Coquihalla and Nicolum valleys, Skagit river corridors, and notable camps like Defian Camp and Silver Daisy mine, describing switchback ascent to Strawberry Flats and the view from the summit, plus transprovincial highway plans and fossil spots near Princeton.
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