Alberni Pioneer News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-04-09
issued: 1909-12-18
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note: L ■ t,.~\^yr ALBERNI PIONEER NEWS.« VOL. ALBERNI TO HAVE ELECTRIC LIGHTS Water Record Granted and Plant Is To Be Installed. The application of Lewis Crook, of Victoria, for a water record on Beaver Creek, was heard before Commissioner Rayson on Wednesday morning and granted. H. C. Keefer, of the legal firm of Eberts & Taylor, appeared for the applicant. A written protest from Mrs. Helen Sutton, who claimed that her property would be affected by the granting of the record, was read. The protest had been received shortly after the application was posted in July last, ' and Mrs. Sutton was given regular notice of the time and place of the hearing. As she failed to appear in person, or by attorney, her protest was not recognised. It is the intention of Mr. Crook, who is a mechanical-electrical engineer, and who had some capital associated with him, to commence the installation of an electric power plant early next Spring. The record covers 15 cubic feet of water per second of Beaver Creek, on the mountain side, where there is a big fall. The water is to be returned to its natural channel, and the difference in altitude between the point of diversion and the point of return is approximately 3,000 feet. Death of Mrs. McNaughton. C. A. McNaughton, New Alberni, returned on Tuesday from Brockville. Ont., where he had been called on account of the serious illness of his mother. A week after his arrival his mother died. The following obituary notice appeared in the Brockville Recorder: . Brockville lost another good citizen last night when Mrs. Malcolm McNaughton breathed her last at her residence, Victoria Avenue. She had been in ill health for several months and although she was given every care and attention she gradually failed un- till death intervened. Born at Lachine, P. Q., sixty-nine years ago, the late Mrs. McNaughton was the second daughter of the late Archibald and Martha Ogilvie. In 1863 she was married to the late Capt. McNaughton, who pre-rieceased her by five y…
note: Alberni Pioneer News ran from 1907-08-17 to 1912-02-24. The name was changed to Port Alberni News starting 1912-03-02.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Port Alberni (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0441022
language: English
lat: 49.234444
long: -124.805833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Alberni, B.C. : R. J. Burde
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text