Echoes from the past
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Updated: June 24, 2009 12:24 PM
50 Years Ago, 1959
Arnold McCombs won a scholarship awarded by Canadian Forest Products Ltd. for the highest standing in 3rd year Forestry Engineering at UBC.
Chehalis Canoes won most of the events at the Lummi Island Water Carnival on the weekend.
Four men from Spring Creek owed their lives to the fact that they carried a flashlight on board their canoe and that the Tipella was tied up near the camp. When the men did not return as expected, the crew of the Tipella scanned the water with their searchlight until a faint flashlight glow was spotted out in the water. All four men were found clinging to their overturned canoe.
A cougar was seen only a few feet away from a small child enjoying the sun on the beach at the Bear Creek logging camp. People noticed and chased the animal away by waving towels and shouting. The game warden tracked down and killed two very thin, obviously hungry animals.
Donald McRae flew to Montreal to attend the 100th birthday celebration of his sister, Mrs. Katherine Farrell. The McRae family was among the first settlers in the Agassiz Valley and Donald was the youngest of 12. He was the original owner of the Hatt farm. In 1957, Mr. McRae was knocked down by a car in Vancouver and awoke to find himself in the morgue, where he had been taken as a dead man.
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