In 1983 BCGEU went on strike. On Hornby the ferries and the teachers walked the picket line.
Glen Hadden supplied his fishboat for transport of essential cargo to the island.
Glen Hadden, Brian Kittleson, Rusty Harrison(Co-op manager),Bob Thompson(Thatch Owner).
In 1995 Barney inherited a boat.
The road to the Cove was a lot narrower before 1978. That year I was working for the Department of Highways when we took on widening the dirt road.
An Airtrack, one of the noisiest machines invented. In the mid-sixties I worked with one of them at the WAC Bennett dam. This was before anyone wore ear protectors.
Dynamite! (George Cowie on the right)
It was a few years yet before it was paved. It was determined that the tree on the left could constitute a danger to traffic so we put a cable on it and tried to pull it over with the backhoe. Didn’t move an inch, still there today.
I worked lots of overtime that winter and spring; hours of snow removal and this job. In those days, instead of money you were allowed to take time off with full pay. I took advantage of that and we did a road trip to Disneyland.
