Restigouche in history
Twenty-five years ago
(1983)
No plebiscite on recreational facility
There will be no plebiscite held during the May 9 municipal elections to determine if a new recreational facility is to be constructed in Campbellton.
City council Monday night approved in principle the construction of a new recreational facility which would be built in phases. Councillor Arnold Firlotte, chairman of an ad hoc committee on recreational facilities, noted that the entire cost of the project would be $7,735,000.
This would include a 3,100-seat arena with lounge facilities, box-type seating, administrative offices, a second ice surface, squash courts, and a multi-purpose area for recreational and social activities.
Phase One would see the construction of the arena with 2,000 seats at a cost of $3,335,000 while Phase Two means the addition of 600 seats. Offices, etc. would be included in Phase Three while Phase Four would have the addition of a further 500 seats. The cost of the second ice surface is $1,668,000 while the cost of the squash courts etc is set at $662,000.
Tide Head properties to be expropriated
The New Brunswick department of transportation has initiated expropriation proceedings for land in the Sugar Hill area at Tide Head. The lands are owned by Ralph Sharp and Carmel Duguay and title to these lands is being sought because the department intends to relocate and upgrade Highway 17. A spokesman for the department noted that the hill is steep and that upgrading was needed.
After being served with the notice of intention to expropriate, the owner or tenant of the lands or any person whose land, in the opinion of the expropriations advisory board, may be injuriously affected, may file an objection to the expropriation. However, objections must be filed within 30 days and a hearing under the provisions of the Expropriation Act will be held upon the filing of objections.
Plans unveiled for Rec Centre
Plans for a recreation centre, being sponsored by the Campbellton Lions and Richelieu Clubs and to be constructed at Sugarloaf Park, were unveiled at a press conference at the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge. A drawing of the proposed $2.8 million centre was unveiled by Municipal Affairs Minister Yvon Poitras.
The conference was chaired by Adrien Allard, a member of the joint Lions-Richelieu committee. He noted that a long-term land lease agreement has been obtained from the tourism department and pointed out that nine swimming pools in various locations were visited to gather information on construction, operating costs, and public use.
The committee has deposited $100,000 in trust for the project and both clubs and committed an annual fixed sum. Applications for grants have been made to various levels of government and it is hoped that close to 90 per cent of the construction costs will be raised through these grants. A financial drive is also planned. The project will be completed in phases, including site preparation, water and sewerage, foundation, and actual construction.
Fifty years ago
(1958)
Call tenders for wharf
The Public Works Dept. in Ottawa has announced that tenders are to be called later this week for the construction of a new year-round port at Dalhousie, at a cost estimated to be between $800,000 and $1,000,000. The new wharf will be part of a project to provide year-round shipping from the Shiretown.
Efforts in this direction have been made by J. C. Van Horne, MP, here for the past four years as part of an intensive campaign to improve economic conditions in this county. Construction is to start this summer and is scheduled to be completed in eight months. Transport department icebreakers are to be used to keep the harbour open during winter.
Cost of maintaining the installation in the lumber and paper manufacturing centre is to be shared by the New Brunswick International Paper Company. The company, which now operates its own dock, has agreed to pay $10,000 a year for the use of the new facilities when completed.
Van Horne means progress
At rare times in the history of a nation or community, there is afforded an opportunity when it is given to the people of that nation or community to decide their own fate and by a simple "yes" or "no" cast the die for progress or virtual stagnation. Such opportunity is ours next Monday.
Tenders have been called for the bridge, which will cost more than $4,500,000. It is announced from Ottawa that tenders will be called at once for the year-round port of Dalhousie at a cost of $800,000 to $1,000,000. Plans are being rushed to completion for the new Federal Building in Campbellton at a cost of about $1,000,000. At the same time, the provincial government is planning a $1,000,000 extension to the provincial hospital here in the fall. The full benefits of these achievements may not be entirely appreciated by many of us for some time. But they will mean that in the coming years Campbellton and Restigouche County will achieve a prosperity and progress we have never before known. FULL CREDIT FOR THIS MUST BE GIVEN CHARLIE VAN HORNE.
Along with many others throughout this district, we were much disappointed last week to see that the editor of our contemporary had allowed himself to be bullied by Liberal party hacks and turn on Mr. Van Horne after he had so lavishly praised him for his achievements over the past months. Why does The Graphic - and many other Liberal supporters - find things going so well until an election comes along and then, suddenly, all is wrong. This sudden and unhappy about-face makes The Graphic a mere camp-follower who would discard Mr. Van Horne, after he has done so much for this community, and replace him with a sorry "economist" who neither knows nor cares about us or our problems.
No-one had ever heard of Mr. Azzie until he descended on us from Ottawa last June to announce grandly that he would condescend to act as out MP. After he was coldly rejected by the voters, he once again disappeared from sight. Now he suddenly re-appears, double-crosses the Restigouche County Liberals who wanted the nomination for a local lawyer, and brazenly declares that he wants Van Horne's seat in Parliament because "he has broken his promises and I can do so much better."
The complete ridiculousness of the Liberal candidate's claims and the vulgarity of his personal attacks on Mr. Van Horne can only be bettered by the stand which the Social Credit candidate has taken. Surely, there will be very few citizens of these two counties fooled by such mumbo-jumbo tactics.
Seventy-five years ago
(1933)
King of Hobodom makes stop
A notable visitor to Campbellton this week is Joseph Leon Ben Morris Cohen Sigal Lazarowitz, King of Hoboes. The Hobo King gives his age as 27 and Brooklyn NY as his home address.
Unmarried, he has wandered over practically the entire world and has visited every country with the exception of Russia. In North America, he claims to have visited every state in the United States and every province of Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
In discussing his itinerary through New Brunswick he stated he has visited Edmundston, St. Leonard, Woodstock, Saint John, St. Andrews, St. George, St. Stephen, Sussex, Moncton, Newcastle, Chatham, and Bathurst. When asked as to why he migrated northward during the cold winter months, he replied, "To avoid competition."
The Hobo monarch left early this week on the next lap of his pilgrimage to Toronto, where on April 10 he will preside at the quarterly meeting of the Hobo Board. While in town he was the guest of Mr. Felix Glickman and his sister, Mrs. S. Rosenhek. He spent the week-end in Dalhousie.
New inspector of RCMP here
Inspector Blake of the RCMP is in town ready to take charge on April 1 of the new district that has been created with Campbellton as headquarters. The local detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police which has had quarters in the Taylor Building on Roseberry St. for the past year is this week changing the location of its office and barracks to the Sharpe Building one door west. This building will provide room for offices and increased staff that will be necessary for the policing of the new district. No official announcement as to the scope of the new district has been made as yet but from information received it will in all probability include the northern part of New Brunswick and the southern shore of the Gaspe Peninsula.
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