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Cyclist killed in head-on Luxury sedan struck and killed Brad Dean riding on River Road Alan Campbell

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cyclist is dead and two more are in serious condition after they were hit by a car in east Richmond on Sunday morning. The accident happened around 10 a.m. in the 23000 block of River Road, where it meets Westminster Highway. According to Richmond RCMP, the three cyclists, who were travelling eastbound as part of a six-strong group, were hit head-on by a 2013 Lexus travelling in the opposite direction. As a result of the collision,

Brad Dean, 33, from Vancouver, was pronounced dead at the scene and two more victims, also from Vancouver, are in hospital in critical and serious condition respectively. The Richmond News understands that one of them is in a medically-induced coma, while the other sustained a broken pelvis. The other three cyclists have minor injuries and were not taken to hospital. It is believed that the group were travelling in single file at the time of the collision. All six of the cyclists were male and part of a group called Just

Giver 4 PD Cycling Club, which helps to raise awareness for Parkinson’s disease. A tribute posted on the cycling club’s Facebook page by its Richmondite director, Kelly Jablonski, told how Dean, originally from White Rock, was a “…a friend, a brother, a son, a grandson, a husband and most of all, an amazing individual that meant many things to many different people.” The driver, a 19-year-old male from Burnaby, remained at the scene and was cooperative with police. He did not sustain any injuries. The Richmond RCMP Road

Safety Unit (RSU) has taken the lead in the investigation and is being assisted by the Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Service (ICARS), the BC Coroner’s Service and the Richmond RCMP Victim Service’s Unit. “This was a very difficult collision scene for our officers to investigate,” said Richmond RCMP’s Cpl. Dennis Hwang. “To put it into some perspective, the carbon fiber frame and forks on one of the bikes was snapped in multiple places like twigs or matchsticks. See Cycling page 3

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embers of Steveston-London secondary school’s Rainbow Club pulled no punches when addressing the Richmond Board of Education Monday night to ask for an anti-discrimination policy that specifically protects and acknowledges the rights of gender and sexual minority students. “Richmond schools are still behind when it comes to the acceptance of LGBTQ+ students. Discriminatory slurs such as homo, faggot and tranny are all too common,” said student Alyssa Osten. Many (students) Citing studies that indicate LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, already struggle with transgender and questioning) youth face higher rates of unaccepting homes self-harm and suicide than and if schools aren’t others, the club asked the board to develop a policy that a safe place for them, goes beyond the Ministry of where else are they go- Education’s recent directive to all school districts to include ing to go?” LGBTQ students in its anti– Nathan Lee bullying policies. To date, the Richmond School District has relied on the B.C. Human Rights Code to address discrimination. It was only in July that the provincial government amended the code to include gender identity and expression as prohibited grounds of discrimination. Faced with the club’s petition of nearly 1,100 signatures, the board voted unanimously to develop such a policy, becoming

n Students from Steveston-London secondary’s Rainbow Club addressed Richmond’s Board of Education Monday night, asking the school district to fall into line with the majority of those in B.C. and institute an anti-discrimination policy for lesbian, gay, transgender and questioning youth. Photo by Graeme Wood/Richmond News

one of the last districts to do so in B.C. The students presented board chair Debbie Tablotney with the petition signed by students, teachers and community members, including Couns. Derek Dang and Bill McNulty and Richmond-Steveston MLA John Yap. Also backing their cause was Glen Hansman, president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. Yet, among the club’s key concerns was an alleged lack of understanding amongst some teachers in the district concerning such rights. The club’s Grade 12 president, Nathan Lee, said there are many instances that highlight the problem. In fact, he points to one situation in which he claims a substitute teacher suggested LGBTQ club members look into conversion therapy. “One of the reasons we’re asking for a (separate) anti-ho-

mophobia policy is for professional education for teachers” in the district, said Lee. The Richmond News asked the district about the conversion therapy incident. It made no indication whether or not such therapy is acceptable, but it did acknowledge that a student has made this complaint and human resources is looking into the matter. Tablotney said she personally disagrees with the concept, which attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation and is espoused by some religious fundamentalists. Richmond Teachers’ Association president Al Klassen said, “I’m pretty sure none of our teachers would go down that road,” adding such an incident would likely be a misunderstanding. See Understanding page 6

Cycling community mourns tragic loss of fundraising rider From page 1 “It is too early to tell what contributed to this terrible crash. The cyclists did appear to be wearing their helmets. This is the second fatality in Richmond within the last week.” Jablonski said Dean is survived by his wife, Adele, a brother and his parents. “It’s a tragic loss for the cycling community and his wife,” said Jablonski. “He was one of those guys, with anything he did, he was committed to being the best he could. It’s a huge loss. He was a close friend.” Jablonski said that Dean, a lifetime member of the Just Giver 4PD Cycling Club, was riding with friends and clubmates from Gastown Cycling, of which he was also a member, when he died. Jablonski posted on Facebook that “I have

had the privilege to call Brad my friend for a short, but brilliant five years. The passion for cycling is what brought Brad into my life as he joined our cycling club. I quickly took him under my wing and through the last five years spent so much time enjoying cycling, training, racing and all the fun stuff that goes along with it including various road trips. “The highlight was getting to share a trip to Santa Barbara together in 2015, that was five days I will never forget. Seeing Brad win his first race and the excitement of his first podium, will be unforgettable ... I will always be grateful of our time together.” The Facebook post asked cyclists to respect the legal process regarding the accident. “Please let the police and RCMP deal with how, what and why this tragic accident occurred as in the end that is what it is: a tragic accident. Please also wish the two others

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n (Above left) A photo of the Lexus shows damage done in the crash. (Right) Killed in the incident was Vancouver’s Brad Dean, a member of the Just Giver 4D Cycling Club. Photos submitted

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newly expanded playground at Homma elementary school was celebrated by kids, parents and members of the community who had a hand in installing the likes of a new tube slide and some monkey bars. As children squirmed

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ayor Malcolm Brodie wants to know: “Why are we allowing good food to go to waste?” In Canada, almost 200,000 tonnes of food ends up in landfills each year, which accounts for at least $31 billion in lost revenue and about four per cent of the country’s greenhouse gas inventory when it decays. The National Zero Waste Council wants to change that, and on Thursday announced that it has come up with a National Food Waste Reduction Strategy. The unveiling took place during the sixth annual Zero Waste Conference in Vancouver. “I think we know that food waste is a growing problem,” said Brodie, a Metro Vancouver board director and chair of the National Zero Waste Council. “Many Canadians are unable to access the food they need, yet perfectly nutritious food is being dumped in the garbage.” According to the council, Canada is lagging behind the U.S. and Europe in terms of reducing food waste, and lacks a co-ordinated, collaborative approach to the issue. Many communities have undertaken their own efforts —

such as Metro Vancouver’s organics disposal ban — but there has never been a national plan. The multi-year strategy has three pillars: new government policies, innovation in technology and community infrastructure, and shifting consumer behaviour. In the strategy, the council has suggested a national target of 50 per cent food waste reduction by 2030, which would align with the U.S. target. Another proposal is to introduce federal tax incentives to encourage businesses to donate excess safe and healthy food to charities instead of sending it to landfills — about 40 per cent of food waste happens through businesses or industrial food producers — and expand agricultural tax incentives for farmers to divert nutritious fresh food. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities backed the tax incentive component in September and has called on the federal government to take action. The council would also like to see clarification of “best before” and food expiry dates, to prevent consumer confusion, and implementation of local organics disposal bans. The strategy encourages investments in infrastructure to facilitate increased food donations to charities, such as new applications and virtual platforms.

n Mayor Malcolm Brodie holds a plate of greens from the buffet at the Zero Waste Conference in Vancouver last week. Photo by Gerry Kahrmann/PNG

Almost half of food waste happens at the consumer level, so public engagement is extremely important to the strategy, said Brodie. Developing a national food waste reduction campaign aimed at consumers is part of the strategy, along with educational materials to encourage separation of food scraps from garbage and

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n Members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters pack a school board meeting demanding an ‘inclusion’ policy. Photo by Graeme Wood/Richmond News

Richmond takes action on housing affordability and homelessness By Derek Dang Councillor Housing affordability continues to be a critical issue both regionally and in Richmond. I would like to clarify two important housing aspects: affordable housing and homelessness, and also summarize the many things the City is doing to continue our commitments to both. Every household should have the option of living in adequate, affordable and suitable housing. In Richmond we use a housing continuum as a framework to identify a spectrum of choices – starting at one end with housing for homeless and at risk (e.g. government supported housing such as shelters and transitional housing); then rental housing options, and at the other end of the spectrum, home ownership. Although the responsibility for affordable housing is primarily senior governments’, the City has a proactive history of responding to local housing issues. Key elements of this response include long range policy planning, research and response to emerging/specific issues, an affordable housing reserve fund, supporting and facilitating innovative housing projects and acquisition or designation of specific affordable housing sites within some of the City’s newer neighbourhoods. The existing Affordable Housing Strategy, adopted by Council in 2007, has been instrumental in securing 1,392 units to date and has provided significant

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Understanding lacking From page 3 Lee told the News the teacher told students to go online and explore the work of Joe Dallas, a prominent American conversion therapy advocate. Lee said, when he brought the matter to the attention of administrators, he was told to not speak about it — something he sees as further proof of the district’s broader lack of understanding of the issues. “Many (students) already struggle with unaccepting homes and if schools aren’t a safe place for them, where else are they going to go?” asked Lee, who believes Richmond’s socially conservative culture has shaped board policy. An active member within the Chinese Christian community, trustee Jonathan Ho said he supports the students’ rights, but acknowledged the board has received opposition from such parents concerned about “traditional values” and “parents’ rights.” Tablotney said delays in drafting a policy were due to the 2014 election (to include new trustees) and subsequent work elsewhere, such as replacing a retiring superintendent and the school closures process. She maintained the matter was being discussed. Trustee Sandra Nixon apologized to the students for the delays. This year, the Faculty of Education at the University of B.C. introduced programming to implement “inclusive” education of sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Thank heavens for the church this winter Dear Editor, A couple of weeks ago, St. Alban Church had an event inviting all homeless folks to come and meet with professionals. There were doctors, mechanics, people from the social service sector — even a portrait photographer. Folks were fed, given clothes, a haircut and a chance to seek help. Saint Alban also runs a shower program for homeless folks, so once a week they can come in and get cleaned up. St. Alban is a small church with a great history of community involvement, but it is struggling to stay afloat these days. Regardless, its members still reach out. There were some local and provincial politicians at the event. They saw, and had the opportunity to meet, the homeless folks, so now they know they are out there, but what is the city doing to help the homeless? I waited to see if any of the politicians would put something in this paper about their plans or accomplishments with respect to this issue, but I’ve seen nothing. I have been told that the City of Richmond has money slated for helping the homeless. What are they waiting for? We are moving into a wet, cold winter, it is past time to get something started. To leave on a positive note, when it gets really cold, the church will open its doors to help. They always do. Scott Stewart Richmond

Enough tragedy, let's build more bike lanes Dear Editor, The recent accident where a car struck six cyclists, killing one rider and scattering bikes and bikers into ditches — coming after a previous fatality a week ago — underlines that it is time for more action on providing safer bike lanes for cyclists. Newspapers tell us that more than a million people are going to move into B.C. in the next 25 years. If all of these people use cars to commute, be prepared for serious gridlock, an increasing number of accidents and significantly higher transit taxes. The city of Copenhagen is aiming for 50 per cent of commuters to be cyclists by 2020. They are already at 48 per cent. What is our cyclist goal in Richmond? Should we aim to raise the Richmond goal to one per cent? Richmond is flat and easily bikeable. It’s time to choose whether motorists want 60 cars in front of them or 60 cyclists on a separated bike path. We need to stop thinking of cyclists as annoyances with limited rights on the

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road and recognize that, unless a lot more people take up biking, commutes are going to get more and more dangerous and unpleasant. At the moment, there are still too many disconnected and unprotected bike paths, which creates danger for cyclists and frustration for motorists. How many more dead and injured cyclists do we need to scrape off the

roads and car doors before we take the time and effort to create a safe cycling space for everyone. Thank you to the many drivers who give bikers space when they pass and who are careful when opening doors. Richmond is a model of diversity...I think we can handle this problem, too. Brian Roodnick Richmond

Remember 'R' word on Nov. 11 Dear Editor, Here in the beginning of the 21st century, the one R missing in today’s world is “respect.” That word is far greater in my mind than “reading,” “writing” or “rithmatic.” I also notice that the very meaning of the word is absent from most daily lives. Do any of you remember when men stood up as a woman entered the room? Do you also recall the days when men rose as a woman left the room? Not that long ago, a man raised his hat on meeting a lady in the street. He also removed his hat when entering a house or room. These customs from a few years ago are unfashionable or no longer practised in our present world, I wonder why? When I was a young man on Remembrance Day, at exactly 11 a.m., everything in towns or villages would come to a sudden stop. Buses and taxis, trucks and pedestrians would all stop whereever they were, to show two minutes of silent respect to remember the service men and women who paid the ultimate price for our freedom. Men removed their hats and bowed their heads. Women stood silently, heads

bowed. A single church bell sounded to end the two minutes of silence and everyone carried on with their busy day. Another example lost to history is the respect shown by people on the street as a funeral procession slowly drove past. Again people stopped, men removed their hats and bowed their heads as the cortege slowly passed. None of this is seen today. The one, annual ceremony we still maintain is honouring those who made the ultimate sacrifice in wartime on Remembrance Day, Nov. 11 each year. In my lifetime, I have even seen changes in this event. Local towns and villages no longer show their respect by stopping whatever they are doing for a mere two minutes at eleven o’clock on that special day. Perhaps doing that today would cause too much trouble in the world of commerce? Respect is something missing from today’s busy lives. Sometimes we see a young person offer their seat on the bus or train to an elderly person. Or perhaps a man offers his seat to a pregnant woman, but these respectful gestures are few and far between. This action proves the custom is not completely dead.

However, oftentimes patience is coupled with respect, and if one part is missing, the part remaining doesn’t work alone. This situation is often seen on our roadways. Impatience quickly followed by lack of respect causes accidents and worse. This is called “road rage,” and it’s becoming far too common. Respect for another’s property is one of the most obvious factors missing in the 21st century. Too many people younger than 60 seem to look for reasons to be disrespectful. Is it the nerve, the excitement of showing off or just plain ignorance that causes this kind of behaviour? Whatever the answer is, respect, as it seems to be now, is fast disappearing from our daily lives. What’s worse is that the millennials of today don’t appear to want to retrieve this honorable habit. Is everyone in too much of a hurry, to get as much as they can, of everything they want, at the cost of a little patience and respect for those around them? The answer, it would seem, is yes. M. Denny Lalonde Richmond

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Dear Editor, Re: “Folks gagging in Lung Month,” Voices column, Nov. 4. I read with interest your column in the and would like to add my perspective to the reason why Richmondites are having to endure this terrible smell emanating from Harvest Power. I don’t expect to get much support for my opinion, as I appear to be the only person who is taking this stand. I feel the responsibility for the smell is on the City of Richmond and Metro Vancouver for taking on an over-ambitious recycling program that couldn’t be supported by the old and out-dated facility operated by Harvest Power. In order to successfully support a comprehensive compost recycling program, the region needs a state-of-the-art plant to process all the compost gathered by the municipalities. A modern plant should have been built first and the recycling program implemented

after. Now, we have to wait for a number of years while Harvest Power undergoes a complete retrofit. During that time, the smell will continue, unless the regional district does its part by taking necessary measures to drastically reduce its recycling program. I don’t see them doing this, as it would mean that they would have to admit to making a mistake in the first place by not being as informed as they should have been when they gave the initial licence to Harvest Power. This is embarrassing for the regulators, as they didn’t do their homework and we, as citizens, are suffering the consequences. Instead, the regional district is posturing. They are happy to have Harvest Power take all the blame, while they do nothing other than appear to be officious and heavyhanded. Kathleen Beaumont Volunteer, Harvest Power Community Liaison Committee

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Air apology smells off Dear Editor, Re: “Folks gagging in lung month,” Voices column, Nov. 4. I strongly appreciate and thank you for your column in Friday’s paper. You express the same sentiment and frustration that all Richmond residents are experiencing when confronted with the devastating effects of the toxic gases from Harvest Power. Many residents still do not know what’s causing the smell and many think is just a smell from the farms. Fortunately, your paper is doing a great service in educating community members,

many of whom are unaware of the health risk present in the air we breathe. It is an irony, ideed. Yesterday our mayor was in his role as chair of the Zero Waste Council at the annual Zero Waste Conference in Vancouver, while our children had to play soccer, breathing air contaminated by gases from Harvest Power. I read the Harvest Power appeal (against the permit conditions) and could not believe it. Their intentions are far from their “we are sorry” advertisement from Nov. 2. Carlos Alfaro Richmond

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Call us 'Stinking City, by Nature' Dear Editor, Richmond has been my home for the past 13 years. Over this time span, I have witnessed many changes in town, both good and bad. None, however, matches the “punch-in-thenose” caused by the pungent odour emitted by the composting facility on York Road, mostly noticeable mornings and evenings. While many today won’t disagree that selective collection of household waste has a positive impact on the environment, it is hard to believe that Richmond residents, who pay to have their organic waste collected, only to

see a third party profit from the process, are at all happy to be at the receiving end of the stinky, volatile by-products of the composting operation. While a lot of speculation on the reasons for this state of affairs can be done, one thing is true — when I first moved in, it was refreshing to be greeted by the signs calling Richmond “Garden City by Nature.” Now, I imagine city officials won’t mind changing that to “Stinking City.” So much for appeal and livability. Paulo Sgarbi Richmond

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We may have crossed safety line Dear Editor, Re: “Jaywalkers could face $50 fine,” News, Oct. 26. It is interesting to note, as reported by Richmond News, that pedestrians will face $50 fines for jaywalking. The planners should also consider that in certain areas there is a need for controlled crossings in place of general crossings, where pedestrians start crossing as soon they hit the button. These are crossings such as the one at Granville Avenue, leading into Minoru Park. This is a very busy pedestrian crossing,

which means motorists have to wait while they sometimes cross in small numbers. Along with pedestrians, we see a lot of cyclists crossing over while still mounted on their bikes. Moreover, a major shopping mall has been built on Alderbridge, which links to the East-West Connector. It is creating a traffic jam where there had never been one before. One wonders who will take the responsibility for any mishaps that may take place. We pray for sanity to prevail. S.Ramji Richmond

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Dance Without Limits, held Thursday until Nov. 24 from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. at the East Richmond Community Hall (12360 Cambie Road) offers a safe, active environment for children and youth with various disabilities to have fun while exploring dance, creative movement and games. This is a free, inclusive program. For more information, contact the Cerebral Palsy Association of BC at 604408-9484, or email Admin@ bccerebralpalsy.com. Join Ben Nuttall-Smith, member of the Writers’ Union of Canada and a past president of the Federation of British Columbia Writers, in The Dynamic Presenter, a voice and performance skills workshop for writers, poets and public speakers on Nov. 10 from 6:30 – 8:30

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Come out and enjoy South Arm’s 41st annual Christmas Craft Fair on Nov. 12 from, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the South Arm Community Centre (8880 Williams Road). More than 90 vendors will be on site with hand-made and home-made items for sale. This is a great opportunity to get your Christmas shopping done and also be a part of a fun and festive event. For more information, call 604238-8060. Explore the green heart of Richmond’s City Centre during the Walk Richmond event Nov, 12 from 10 – 11 a.m. which begins and ends on Clement Track before heading around the Minoru Lakes

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Learn about turning raw metal and rough stone into polished works of art at the Gem and Mineral Show from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Nov. 13 at the Richmond Nature Park (11851 Westminster Hwy.). Through presentations from members of the Richmond Gem and Mineral Society visitors will see first-hand the process of the age-old practices of silversmithing, soapstone carving and lapidary (polishing stones). Other displays include collections and works created by society members along with various rocks and fossils used in lapidary, such as agate.

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tion because the properties are likely considered as inventories. Any resulting pro`ts would likely be considered as business income that would not be entitled to the principal residence exemption. Third, the principal residence exemption for individuals requires the individual taxpayer to `le with the Canada Revenue Agency (the “CRA”) a prescribed form, Form T2091. However, CRA’s previous administrative position was that Form T2091 was not required to be `led for individuals if the principal residence exemption eliminated all of the taxable gain. There are also speci`c principal residence exemption rules relating to personal trusts which are outside of the purview of this article. See Exemptions page 14

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With the recent changes in reporting requirements, it may be wise to consult your lawyer before a sale or a purchase of a property.

signi`cant changes to its administrative position regarding the reporting of principal residence dispositions. Amongst other things, the CRA stated the following: Starting with the 2016 tax year, individuals who sell their principal residence will have to report the sale on Schedule 3, Capital Gains of the T1 Income Tax and BeneVt Return. Reporting will be required for sales that occur on or after Jan. 1, 2016. You will complete Schedule 3 and Vle it with your T1 Income Tax and BeneVt Return for the year you sell the property. If the property was your principal residence for every year that you owned it, you will make the principal residence designation in your Schedule 3. In this case, the year of acquisition, proceeds of disposition and the description of the property are the information that will have to be reported. Schedule 3 will be modiVed accordingly. Form T2091 (or Form T1255) will still be required for the designation in the case the property was not your principal residence for all of the years that you owned it.

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erek Pipes not only has a fitting name as a junior hockey goaltender, he’s proven to be a very valuable addition to the Richmond Sockeyes too. The rookie stopper, who celebrates his 18th birthday on Saturday, has been superb in a near month long stretch that has seen the Sockeyes shoot up the Pacific Junior Hockey League standings with six straight wins. The Victoria native turned aside 28 shots in Richmond’s 3-1 victory over the Ridge Meadows Flames last Thursday at Minoru Arenas. The result improved the Sockeyes record to 9-6-1, leaving them in third place in the Tom Shaw Conference and suddenly just five points back of the frontrunning Grandview Steelers. It was back on Oct. 14 when general manager Richard Petrowsky pulled the trigger on a significant trade to break a logjam in Richmond’s goal crease. The club sent a pair of goalies — longtime veteran Curt Russell and Jack Stradiotti — to Ridge Meadows for future considerations. At the time, the slumping Sockeyes had won just two of their last nine games. The goaltending reigns were turned over to Pipes and the Shawnigan Lake Hockey Academy product has made the most of the opportunity — going 6-1-0 with a 1.78 goals against average and a sizzling .942 save

percentage, along with a pair of shutouts. He leads the league in all three categories. Ironically, Pipes squared off against Russell in the win over the Flames. The Sockeyes chased their former teammate by jumping out to a 3-0 lead by the 14:10 mark of the opening period on goals by Ari Sky, Vaughan Bamford and Alex McLeod. That was more than enough for Pipes, who made 28 stops. One night earlier, he was superb in a 2-1 road victory over the Harold Brittain Conference leading Aldergrove Kodiaks, as Richmond was outshot 36-21. Brendan Marfleet’s goal in the late stages of the second period broke a 1-1 deadlock and proved to be the game winner. McLeod had given Richmond a 1-0 lead after 2-0 minutes. The Sockeyes welcomed back captain Tyler Andrews last week who had been sidelined since Sept. 22. They return to action Thursday when the Port Moody Panthers visit at 7 p.m. Icing... The Sockeyes also have a potential veteran option in net after they acquired Seafair Minor Hockey product Jacob Latrace from the Delta Ice Hawks. The 19-year-old has been juggling his junior hockey career around a fullcourse load in UBC’s engineering program.

■ Richmond Sockeyes Jeevan Sidhu is turned back on the doorstep during his team’s recent 3-1 victory over the Surrey Knights. Six straight wins have vaulted the Sockeyes up the Pacific Junior Hockey League standings. They host Port Moody on Thursday at 7 p.m.

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or the first time in 18 years there will be a European flavour to the Richmond Bantam Midget Hockey Tournament. The Hungarian U16 national team will be competing in the Midget Major Division. The last European entry in the Richmond Minor Hockey hosted tournament were teams from Belarus and Germany back in 1999. This year’s 36th annual event takes place Dec. 26-Dec. 31 and will feature 72 teams in six divisions. The Richmond Ice Centre, Minoru Arenas and Richmond Olympic will all hosts

games. Longtime tournament director Wendy Steadman said the Hungarian team had reached out to a tournament sponsor — West Coast Prep Camp — looking for a competition in B.C. over the holidays. The team is coached by Glen Williamson, a former scout with the Los Angeles Kings and assistant coach with the Winnipeg Jets, who has served as National Team Development and Program Mentor for the Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation since 2012. Last year, he guided the Hungary team to top honours at annual Kamloops International Bantam Ice Hockey Tournament (KIBIHT), becoming just the third European team to skate to victory in

the event’s 48-year history. In Richmond, they will be part of what is expected to be a highly-competitive Major Midget Division with teams from the B.C. Major Midget Hockey League, the Canadian School Sport Hockey League and beyond. “We are very excited to have them,” said Steadman. “We are hoping to get the word out the community early and they will get some support behind them since they are such a long way from home.” Hungary will tune-up up for the tournament with an exhibition game against Alaska on Boxing Day. The Richmond International continues to grow with three tiers now being offered at

the Bantam level — an age group that was added three years ago. “We did it for a couple of reasons,” added Steadman. “It gives us more (Richmond Minor) teams which means additional parent help for a tournament of this size. Scouts also suggested it would be really good to have a Bantam Division so they could watch those games too. “We also have out-of-town associations that are now bringing two teams here. In some instances they have the same coach for both teams and we coordinate (the round-robin) schedule around that.” In total, a whopping 195 games will be played over the six days.

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Richmond wrestler finishes 7th at World Cadet Championships A remarkable journey that began last spring has concluded with Calista Espinosa being among the top eight in the world. The Richmond wrestler wrapped up her competitive season by finishing seventh in her weight class at the recent Cadet World Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia. The Grade 11 St. Patrick’s High School student opened the 40 KG competition with a stunning win over her Belarus opponent in just 38 seconds. Espinosa then moved onto the quarterfinals where she lost to the eventual silver medalist from India. She still had a shot at reaching the podium but dropped a repechage match to her Moldova opponent. Still, she was the first Canadian to win a match at the Worlds and one of only two female national team members to taste victory. It was last April when Espinosa earned a spot on the Canadian team in just her third year of competitive wrestling after taking up the sport at her high school. She won her weight class in Calgary, then duplicated the

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feat a day later at National Team Trials. She would later represent Canada at the Pan American Cadet Championships in Lima, Peru where a bronze medal finish secured her invitation to the Worlds. The trips came with hefty price tags. Espinosa was able to find generous sponsors to attend Pan Ams, but the journey to Georgia was at her own family’s expense. It means there will be some consideration about at-

tending more international competitions in 2017 if she once again earns national team status. Her achievements and potential also has her nominated to train with the Canadian Sports Institute — home to B.C. based Olympic team athletes. In the meantime, Espinosa is focused on her studies and the high school wresting season with St. Pat’s. She typically trains with Burnabybased Coast Wrestling.

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Fujian Evangelical Church welcomes you to Sunday Worship Services • English Services: 9:00 & 10:45 a.m. • Mandarin Service: 9:00 a.m. • Minnanese Service: 10:45 a.m. 12200 Blundell Road, Richmond, B.C., V6W 1B3 Phone 604-273-2757 • www.fujianevangelical.org

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Richmond's getting ready to remember “(This is) most impressive, especially given that these are small local businesses. And they all do it because they understand how important Remembrance Day is.” The City of Richmond will be providing the coffee, tea and hot chocolate and guests will be serenaded by the Richmond Youth Honour Choir. The Friends of the Richmond Archives will also have yet another interesting display with a Remembrance Day theme. “We will have about 20 volunteers who support this event and many of them have been with me since the beginning, including my dad,” added Hutson. “I could not put on this event without them! Everyone loves being a part of our Remembrance Day reception. …the City of Richmond continues to be a key partner.”

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ore than three hours before the veterans line up for the official Remembrance Day parade, cadets from the Richmond Army Cadet Corps will stand-a-post with a sunrise vigil at the cenotaph at city hall. At 7 a.m. the cadets will “guard” the memorial on No. 3 Road and Granville Avenue to kick off the Nov. 11 events to mark those who have fallen in conflict all over the world. Around 10:20 a.m., the official parade will start in the parkade at city hall and will include members of the Royal Canadian Legion, Canadian Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans Association, Richmond’s permanent Canadian Forces Unit 39 Service Battalion and members of local public safety agencies and cadet organizations. The parade will march around the perimeter of city hall, with official ceremonies at the cenotaph set to begin at 10:40 a.m. There will be two minutes of silence at 11 a.m., followed by a wreath-laying. Due to the space constraints at the cenotaph, the full Remembrance Day service will be streamed online. To access the live webcast, click on the Remembrance Day information in the news highlights section on the home page of Richmond. ca. The ceremonies will also be simulcast into city hall council chambers, where everyone is welcome inside. First seating preference will be given to those who may not be able to stand outside for the duration of the service. On Remembrance Day, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., some streets will be closed for the parade and ceremony: Granville Avenue will be closed in both directions from Minoru Boulevard to Buswell Street; No. 3 Road will be closed in both directions from Park Road to Bennett Road.

n Veteran Robert Young gives a poppy to Mayor Malcolm Brodie for Remembrance Day. Young served in the Royal Canadian Air Force for around 30 years and was stationed in both Canada and Europe, working in communications and radar. Photo submitted

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There are several places to enjoy some refreshments postceremony across Richmond. At city hall itself, where Richmond’s official Remembrance Day ceremony will take place, there will be a reception for the sixth year running, where local companies pitch in to put on a light spread for the veterans, their families and all who attend the ceremony at the cenotaph. This year, according to reception organizer Judith Hutson, the contributors are: Diplomat Bakery; Steveston Bakery; Broadmoor Bakery; Belle’s Bake Shop and The Butler Did It Catering Co. “As usual, they are going to be donating large numbers of delicious sweet treats,” said Hutson in an email.

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n After being closed for eight months, the Royal Canadian Legion 291 on Bridgeport Road is re-opening on Remembrance Day with a free lunch for those participating in the official parade. According to Scott Stewart, chair of the legion’s management committee, the lunch is being laid on by the branch’s Ladies Auxiliary from around noon on Friday. “We’re expecting quite a few people to drop by, given that we’ve been closed for so long,” said Stewart. “The key to of all this, though, is to remember, and that’s the most important thing.” Stewart said the branch at 11131 Bridgeport Road, near Shell Road, has been closed since March due to “administrative difficulties” so its business could be “straightened out.” n The Army, Navy & Airforce Veterans Unit 284 at 11900 No. 1 Road in Steveston, will be open Remembrance Day from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. for members and their guests. n The Sherman Armoury on the DND Lands, on No. 4 Road and Alderbridge Way, is opening its doors to the public from 12:30 p.m., with finger food and $4 beers at the bar.

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t is, once again, a time of remembrance across Canada. In fact, the 52 members of the Commonwealth of Nations (except Mozambique) commemorate the war dead with a Remembrance Day ceremony. The first Remembrance Day, on Nov. 11, 1919, was created at the request of King George V, to remember those who died in the service of their king in the Great War, which burst upon Europe in a series of tragic events set off by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914. The failure of diplomacy, and an incredibly complex system of international treaties brought Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire into armed conflict with Russia, France, Great Britain and several other minor nations. In the matter of Great Britain, her entire empire was therefore “at war” and that included Canada. Canada’s role in the Great War was substantial. Eight per cent of our country’s population enlisted, five per cent served overseas. Fourteen per cent of those who served overseas were killed in service. We tend to recall the Great War as an endless series of mud-filled trenches, cold, wet misery and random death from shellfire. And that is a good place to start. But Canada’s first Great War casualties occurred far away, off the coast of Chile, in what is known as the Battle of Coronel.

Four young Canadians were serving in the Royal Navy and two battleships were sunk with all hands, including Midshipmen Malcolm Cann, 19, John V. W. Hatheway, 19, William Archibald Palmer, 20, and Arthur Wiltshire Silver, 20. The Great War churned through another 61,000 young Canadians, including Lt. Col. John McCrae, who wrote In Flanders Fields in the midst of combat in 1915. This poem is recited around the world during this season of remembrance, and on Friday, Nov. 11, the fabulous choir from RC Palmer secondary will perform their deeply beautiful version of this classic Canadian work of art. Col. McCrae would himself become one of those who lie in Flanders Fields, dying of pneumonia while serving in a hospital in France, in 1918. The Great War was ended by an Armistice, signed at 5 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918. The wording of the Armistice called for the guns to cease fire at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, less than six hours away. But the fighting continued to the very last minute. Pte. George Lawrence Price, a 26year old Nova Scotian, conscripted into the army in 1917, was involved in a small-arms operation clearing houses in a Belgian village. At 10:58 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, Pte. Price was shot through the chest and died just two minutes before the end of the war, becoming the final Commonwealth casualty, and showing the world that Canada gave right to the bitter, bloody end. Remembrance Day commemorates the dead. Every single one of them. From every Canadian military mission, around the globe,

n Members from Richmond’s Royal Canadian Air Cadet 655 Squadron were busy selling poppies at Ironwood Mall on the weekend in advance of Remembrance Day ceremonies this Friday. Photo by Gord Goble/Special to the News

across the seven seas seas, and those who have given their lives to Canada here at home. Remembrance Day demands from all of us the minor sacrifice of pausing for two minutes every year, at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11 to think of Canadians who died in the service of our country. The poppies that grow so abundantly in Flanders Fields have become the worldwide symbol of remembrance, which is why so many of us choose to wear the poppy at this time of year. The Richmond Remembrance Day Committee, acting jointly for the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 291 (Richmond) and the Army, Navy and Airforce Veterans In Canada (Steveston Unit 284), have organized this year’s Remembrance Day service on Friday Nov. 11, at the Richmond Cenotaph outside Richmond City Hall on No. 3 Road. Richmond’s two Army Cadet Corps, 2947 12 Service Battalion, and 2381 BCR Irish

Fusiliers will mount a ceno Fusiliers, cenotaph vigil at 7 a.m. The parade and ceremonies begin at 10:20 a.m. The City of Richmond and the Richmond RCMP provide greatly valued support in presenting this event, which will feature almost 1,000 parade participants. In addition to outdoor viewing, the City of Richmond broadcasts the event inside city hall, and on-line. Visit Richmond.ca for the online broadcast. After the service, the Richmond Remembrance Day Reception is held in the city hall galleria. Everyone is welcome. The committee invites you to join us for this most important event. Check the forecast and dress appropriately. Above all, wear a poppy, and remember. Matthew McBride (Royal Canadian Navy., Ret’d.) is chair of the Richmond Remembrance Day committee

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n Len Rigg proudly displays the French Legion of Valour medal that will be officially presented to him by France’s ambassador to Canada on his 100th birthday on Dec. 13. Rigg was among those who survived the D-Day landings in Normandy, France during the Second World War. In 1956, he moved his family to Canada from the U.K., settling in Richmond in 1962. Photo by Cerys Raphael/Special to the News

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t’s going to be quite a birthday celebration on Dec. 13 for Steveston’s Len Rigg. “I never thought I’d make it,” says the DDay veteran, who will not only mark a century of living, but be recognized by the French government with its Legion of Honour medal that was established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte and is the highest decoration bestowed in France. Scheduled to make the official presentation is the French Ambassador to Canada, Nicolas Chapuis. “It was for fighting on French soil,” Rigg said. “I was surprised when it came because I never expected anything from France. “Now, I’m not sure where it should go on my jacket, separate, or with the rest of my medals,” he said with a wry smile. “Wherever, it’s quite the honour.” Rigg’s daughter, Eileen Campbell, said she first became aware of the availability of the medal two years ago when a group of local veterans were invited to a ceremony in Downtown Vancouver where both the French and Dutch governments bestowed their thanks and medals on vets who helped liberate their countries. Knowing that her father also qualified for the honour, she gathered all the required paperwork and applied for the medal. According to the declaration that came with Rigg’s award, it attests to the recipient’s courage and devotion and the ideals of liberty

and peace. “This distinction illustrates the profound gratitude that France would like to express to you,” it states. “It is awarded in recognition of your personal involvement in the liberation of our country during World War II. Through you, France remembers the sacrifice of all of your compatriots who came to liberate French soil.” While the recognition is arriving about a lifetime after D-Day, the significance of the medal for Rigg remains, as does the memories of how he earned it. He was not yet 28 when he was packed into a train car along with the rest of his group in the British Army’s Corps of Royal Engineers

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and shuttled to the seaside town of Newhaven, just west of Eastbourne on the southern coast of England. The train stopped about 15 yards from a small armada of troop-carrying landing craft at the wharf that would ferry Rigg and his fellow soldiers across the English Channel. “They had locked the rear door of the train, so there was only one way out and that was towards the boats. There was no escape,” he laughs. Prior to boarding the boats, each of the soldiers was given a shoebox-sized, cardboard container that was filled with rations designed to last 24 hours. Among the items inside was a special tin of Campbell’s Soup.

“You’d never believe this, and I’ve never seen it since. But in the middle of the tin was a candle. You lit it, and by the time it burned down to the bottom it was ready to eat,” Rigg says, adding it didn’t make the soup too hot, but enough to make it palatable. “I thought it was a great idea and that after the war you’d see that everywhere,” he says. “But I never saw another one.” Crossing the English Channel was incidentfree as the waters were relatively calm. But when they landed on the beaches of Arromanches-les-Bains, Normandy, the full fury of war was unleashed on them. “The first guy I saw get killed just before we got off the boat was a dispatch rider (messenger) on a motorbike,” he said. “He was riding across the sand on the beach and all of a sudden he went straight up in the air, both him and the bike. “He had hit a mine.” Rigg knew a thing or two about the dangers of mines. Originally, he was assigned to a Bailey (pontoon) bridge unit. But once he had finished his training, he became ill and was in hospital for two weeks. When he emerged, he was sent to another unit as a mine-layer and clearer. That was to be his task on D-Day. “When I discovered that, I thought to myself, what have I done now,” he said. “On my way over on the boat, I thought to myself that I’ll never see England again.” But Rigg did. He survived D-Day and was among the Allied Forces to take part in a victory parade in Berlin, once the war had ended. “All the big shots were there,” he said, “Stalin, Churchill and Montgomery.”

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uddled under a small umbrella as the relentless rain pulsed over the west dyke from the Strait of Georgia, Harold Steves pointed to the bedroom window where, as a four-year-old boy, he stared out in awe at the anti-aircraft guns being fired a few yards away from his family home. In close proximity to the powerful artillery — which was partially protected from enemy fire by the dyke — were two, 18-pound anti-ship guns, mounted on the west dyke, right next to Steves’ farmhouse, ready to be aimed and fired at any unidentified vessels trying to approach Steveston and the B.C. coast. Barbed wire extended across the marsh to protect ammunition, while army barracks for the 75-strong battalion were planted 250 yards east of the dyke. Steveston Highway was also closed off at Sixth Avenue with a barricade and an armed sentry; the Steves family of four being the only civilians allowed in and out. As he mopped the precipitation from his brow with a hankerchief, 79-year-old Steves peered through the gloom along the dyke at what was known as Fort Steveston, fullymanned and operated from 1939 to 1945 by the 58th Battery of the 15th (Vancouver) Coast Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery. “(The army would) tell my folks that they’d better open the windows a little,” grinned Steves, recalling that, when the regiment was testing the guns, his parents had to open their farmhouse windows, lest the glass shattering with the piercing crack of the artillery. “I remember as a little kid, we had to open the windows often and we would be in there, with the curtains blowing all over the place and rain coming in. “I could see them firing the guns from my bedroom window; the naval gun was right in front of my bedroom window and the antiaircraft gun was right in front of the house; we watched that one through our front window.”

Veteran city councillor Steves also remembers with some amusement the sight of the soldiers doing practice runs with First World War Howitzer guns, wheeling them up and down Steveston Highway to the dyke, from a camp between Sixth and Seventh avenues. “I think they kept (the fort) for gunnery practice for a few years after the Second World War,” added Steves, noting that the primary role of the fort was to support the Royal Canadian Navy in protecting the south arm of the Fraser River. “I remember having our windows blacked out with tar paper and, one time, a soldier standing guard at our breakfast table with a gun to make sure we didn’t open the windows. “You don’t forget those things; these are very vivid memories I have about being a little kid here.”

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n Above, Harold Steves, as the resident, four-yearold mascot for the Royal Canadian Artillery regiment stationed in Fort Steveston. Left, Steves, now a 79-year-old, veteran City of Richmond councillor, still has the perfectly preserved mascot uniform. Photo by Alan Campbell/Richmond News. Above left, the anti-aircraft gun that used to boom on the dyke, right outside of Steves’ bedroom window during the Second World War. The base on Steveston Highway was also home to anti-ship guns. Photos submitted

wound the clock back to the evening of Dec. 7, 1941, the infamous day the Japanese launched its devastating attack on Pearl Harbor. With his parents glued to the grim commentary from the announcer, Steves — despite being only four-years-old— remembered clearly what he was doing at that fateful moment in history. “I remember clearly my parents sitting there, intently listening to the broadcast and I was playing, having a merry old time, as Pearl Harbor was being bombed,” smiled Steves. “I remember climbing into a cardboard box, pretending to be the radio announcer broadcasting the news of the bombing of Pearl

Harbor. That’s the reason I kept (the radio).” One of the many unconfirmed wartime reports of those tentative, post-Pearl Harbor days was of a Japanese submarine bombing a remote location off the west coast of Vancouver Island, with the possibility of an enemy submarine advancing unmolested down the Strait of Georgia. Steves doesn’t recall who told his family, but he does recall the ears of a young, inquisitive boy pricking up now and again. “I know that my parents were sworn to secrecy, but (the army) generally told us what was happening and I overheard them as See Submarine page B7

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Submarine spotted in the mouth of the Fraser River From page B6 well,” he laughed. “I’ve heard of the apparent shelling by the Japanese further up the coast, but don’t know any more details. “I do remember there was a concern that the Japanese would come down the strait, but nobody seems to know why they turned around and went back. I’ve tried to research this, but found very little.” There’s also a little, shiny nugget of knowledge, said Steves, about a sub being spotted in the mouth of the Fraser River, although he has not been able to find anything of record. “George Fentiman was the keeper of the lightship at the end of the Steveston jetty and he apparently saw, in the moonlight, a submarine,” said Steves.

n Game warden, owl were the only Fort Steveston casualties

An imminent Japanese invasion aside, growing up in the shadow of Fort Steveston, the only true enemy Steves could recall was that of the local game warden, who used to guard the west dyke and its seasonal snow geese population from illegal hunters, including the fort’s soldiers. However, patrolling the same patch during the war effort were MPs (military police), who were less discerning in who they rounded up if caught roaming on the west dyke marsh. “The game warden was out there in the marsh, dealing with some soldiers who were hunting snow geese, illegally,” laughed Steves, who learned to hunt the geese on the dyke while tagging along with his uncle and, sometimes, the soldiers. “But the MPs ended up arresting the game warden, as well. So, the warden got thrown into the guard house — at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Steveston Highway — with the soldiers; it was the talk of the camp for days. “I remember we were quite happy to know that the warden was out of the picture for a little while. “So, the only arrests made at Fort Steveston were the game warden and, I think, an injured owl.”

n Sgt. Adams takes the salute of the 1st Searchlight Battery, as ‘Lt. Col.’ Harold Steves inspects the guard. The original Steves barn and the barricade across Steveston Highway are in the background. Photo submitted. Below, Steves shows off the original pie safe, from which his parents used to feed the troops. He plans to put it, and other Second World War items from his home, on display for the public in his basement. Photo by Alan Campbell/Richmond News

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“He saw a guy standing there on the tower of the sub. He put it in his diary and reported it to the authorities; apparently he saw it two nights. “(Fentiman) was my dad’s best friend, so we got that story pretty fast. However, there was a suggestion it was maybe a German sub; maybe due to the shape of the tower? “I was on a radio show in the 1960s talking about this and, afterwards, some German guy called me up on the phone and said he was on that sub and was stationed in the Strait of Georgia out there. I’m not sure how true that is! “I do also recall hearing what we believed to be depth charges getting dropped in the river, but I can’t find any record of that either.”

Being the only kid on the block (fort), aside from his baby brother, Steves was the natural choice for the regiment’s resident mascot, a job which came with a replica, scaled down army uniform and the responsibility to periodically inspect the troops. After gently producing from a clear, sealed plastic bag (his mom took care to preserve artifacts) the same uniform he wore 75 years ago, Steves remembered with fondness his “duties.” “As mascot for the camp, I inspected the troops all the time; it was quite formal, as I recall,” he said. “We were the only family inside the military line there at Sixth Avenue and, as the army were, in effect, renting half the farm from us, I think they liked to include us when they could.” Steves’ parents also created in their basement an unofficial, army camp canteen, which had the soldiers lining up outside. And like many things in the Steves house, it has been well preserved; so much so that he

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“We had this pie safe, as well, which would have been filled with home-made lemon meringue pie and apple pie. “Breakfast and lunch was served and the soldiers would be lined up outside the door waiting to come in. I grew up with these soldiers in the house.”

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orn in China and raised in Richmond, 27-year-old Master Cpl. Cong Liu is, in many ways, a typical reservist at the Sherman Armoury, located at the corner of No. 4 Road and Alderbridge Way. “I went right into the army,” said the McRoberts secondary graduate, who works as a warranty claims technician for Finning Canada by day and moonlights as a Canadian Armed Forces reservist by night. Liu has spent the better part of the past decade committed to the Canadian military in various capacities. With numerous temporary full-time contracts under his belt to become an army vehicle technician, at one point Liu spent three months in Afghanistan fixing vehicles “inside the wire.”

His one venture “outside the wire” (beyond the base) and into Kandahar was uneventful, but eye-opening nonetheless. It was “hot, stinky and loud,” but the “people were nice,” explained Liu. Sherman Armoury, complete with an armoured tank on the front lawn, is home to 12 Company of 39 Service Battalion — a unit of B.C.’s 39 Brigade Group. The battalion serves to train about 130 reservists on an ongoing, part-time basis and has about 30 full-time troops stationed at the facility, which includes a 55-hectare forest behind it that is sporadically used for outdoor exercises. The battalion’s stated purpose is to provide the Canadian military with a competent reserve force for support services during domestic emergencies and international military and expeditionary operations, when required. Reserves learn to become specialists in support services, such as transportation logistics,

radio communications, cooking and mechanics. Liu, a veteran reservist, teaches other reservists, all of whom get trained to operate the standardissue C7A2 rifle. “Reservists are augmentation for regular forces,” explained Capt. Timothy Wong. “So, feeding people is very important. Without that logistics support, they aren’t going anywhere,” said Wong. Reservists with specialized support skills are particularly important during domestic emergencies. n Above, Master Cpl. Cong Liu shows off the standard-issue rifle he trains “Every domestic opreservists with. Below, Sherman Armoury reservists prep for Friday’s Reeration is not fighting. If membrance Day ceremony. Photos by Graeme Wood/Richmond News there’s a national emergency, it’s not the guys emergency military operations would likely be with the guns. . . We’re here to help people,” organized out of its sister unit in Chilliwack. added Wong. However, if a major earthquake shook Lulu Reservists, such as the ones stationed in Island and it didn’t result in major flooding, Richmond, can be called upon to help in the armoury could act as a logistics hub. natural disasters, such as major forest fires Importantly, the armoury is supplied with and floods. radio equipment, should cell phone networks Richmond residents ought not breathe too be destroyed. much easier for having the armoury so close Reservists are also called upon to provide to home, because in the event of the most preventative safety measures across Canada, likely emergency this city will face — a flood such as avalanche control. — the battalion would be under water and See 12 Company page B9

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12 Company reservists put best foot forward Nov. 11 From page B8 Inside the armoury’s mechanics hangar can be found a number of full-time soldiers who keep a fleet of transportation vehicles and military equipment up to snuff. The vehicles and equipment are moved around units in B.C. and Alberta, according to needs. Sgt. Dominic Drapeau specializes in maintaining howitzers (canons) and on the day the Richmond News visited the armoury, he was ensuring the components of a 105-mm C3 Howitzer were in good condition for the next time it’s sent out to a mountain pass for avalanche control. Many full-time staff members at the armoury are merely stationed temporarily in Richmond, as opposed to living in the city permanently. For instance, Drapeau was born in Quebec and spent about a decade stationed in Edmonton. He was transferred to Richmond earlier this year. Troops have to find their own living arrangements, something Drapeau said he found difficult. Meanwhile, reservists, such as Liu, are typically from Richmond, according to Wong. In many cases, such as Liu’s, reservists double-up their day jobs and their military contributions. For instance, Cpl. Steven Lo, a Vancouver resident and caterer by profession, signed up to become a reservist cook for the army. During military operations, troops get hungry, and it’s at the armoury where reservists, such as Lo, learn to cook large meals for the masses.

“It feels good to help the community,” said Lo, who added he not only contributes to the battalion but also takes away skills for his catering job by using the armoury’s large-scale kitchen. Reservists get paid a salary for the hours they commit to the battalion, however they are not obligated to deploy to an operation unless they voluntarily sign a contract that can range in length of time. Liu, for instance, signed his contract to deploy to Afghanistan and spent nine additional months training fulltime at CFB Edmonton, the closest army base to Richmond (B.C. has none). Wong said, because most of the battalion’s reservists are from Richmond, about 75 per cent of them are visible minorities — mostly ethnic Chinese. This makes 12 Company unique, said Wong, as it can serve to remind the community not just about the Canadian army but more specifically the contributions Chinese-Canadians provided to Canada in the Second World War, despite widespread discrimination. “We weren’t considered Canadians then. World War Two changed that. We got the right to vote. For us, that’s why this unit is very important demographic-wise in Richmond. A lot of people served here,” said Wong. He hopes the entire community comes to Richmond’s annual Remembrance Day ceremony at city hall on Friday. The ceremony is rehearsed each year within the walls of the armoury, as reservists and staff prepare to put their best foot forward for the city. At the armoury last week, veteran reservists

could be seen training newer ones the intricate details of standing guard at the cenotaph. Other preparations included uniform inspections, drill practices and transportation logistics. “Remembrance Day is a day to remember the soldier’s sacrifice for our freedom. This is the most important day, I think, as a soldier — that we pay respect to them and what they did for us,” said Lt. Tammy Ng, the battalion’s public relations officer. Notably, following the ceremony, the public is invited to visit the armoury to meet the troops and learn from the many war artifacts on display throughout the building. n Sgt. Dominic Drapeau raises the C3 Howitzer he is working on at the Sherman Armoury in Richmond. The weapon is typically used for domestic operations, such as avalanche control in the Rocky Mountains. The armoury has about 30 full-time troops stationed at it to provide logistical support throughout the province. Photo by Graeme Wood/Richmond News

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Burkeville helped Boeing's war effort soar n (Left) One of the completed Canso flying boats is rolled out in front of Boeing’s Sea Island plant. Vancouver Archives photo (Below) Sea Island historian Jack Baryluk displays a page from the original blueprint of the aircraft made for the air forces in Britain and U.S. Photo by Cerys Raphael/Special to the News (Below centre) Female Boeing employees work on one of the engines. Vancouver Archives photo (Below left) A model wears a vintage, Boeing coverall during a recent fashion show at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery. File photo (Bottom) An aerial view of Burkeville shortly after it was completed. Vancouver Archives photo

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o characterize the diminutive community of Burkeville on Sea Island as nothing more than an old, company town would be an understatement. So, too, would be the contribution its people and associated facilities made to the Second World War effort. For a start, 300 or so cottage-style homes formed Burkeville and was named after Stanley Burke, then president of the Boeing Aircraft company. The Canadian government built the homes to house workers at the nearby production plant who had families. At the aircraft production plant, a total of 362 U.S. Air Force PBY Catalina flying boats – and the Canso, its Canadian counterpart – were pieced together between 1942 and 1945. Jack Baryluk, whose entire working career in aviation maintenance has been on Sea Island, is a bit of a local historian. He said Burkeville was a thriving community, almost unto its own. “It had its own garage, church, and general store. That’s all gone now, but most of the houses remain,” said Baryluk, who up until about a year ago lived in one near the end of YVR’s south runway. It was torn down and replaced with a new home that now offers the former associate dean of BCIT’s aerospace campus, a clear view of air traffic. “People don’t realize that Boeing Canada produced the Catalinas, as well as hundreds of centre sections for the B-29 bomber, which were sent down to Seattle by train,” he said. “There were 7,000 workers here at its peak. It’s kinda hard to imagine that now. And it’s the reason Burkeville exists.” So, why was Sea Island chosen? “The Boeing plant in Seattle was maxed out,” Baryluk said, “and the RCAF needed the aircraft. So, instead of trying to find somewhere in the U.S. to build them, why not employ Canadian workers and build them here.” But it wasn’t the only aircraft plant that Boeing had in the Lower Mainland back then. There were a total of six others. “But the production plant here (near YVR’s South Terminal) was the biggest one,” Baryluk said, adding some workers who did not live in Burkeville were bused in on a special Boeing bus from the Marpole area of Vancouver. According to the Sea Island Heritage Society’s website, the Boeing plant was open seven days a week and Sunday was run on overtime. Workers were only granted half hour lunches and at first, with no breaks. But once a union was established, workers were granted two, 10-minute breaks per shift. About half of the workforce was made up of women. And all employees were required to purchase their own coveralls and sturdy shoes for the job.

And the women had to wear kerchiefs to keep their long hair from getting caught up in the machinery they were working on. Since it was wartime, security at such a sensitive site, such as the aircraft plant, was paramount. On entering or leaving, workers had to not only present their ID card, but open their lunch boxes to ensure nothing was being taken from the premises. Workers were paid between 40 and 80 cents an hour, which at the time was considered a decent rate. The aircraft they produced were longrange patrol planes that Canada needed to fly the coastline, Baryluk said. The majority of the others went to the war in the Pacific where an aircraft of that type helped determine one of the pivotal sea battles in that theatre. “It was a Catalina that discovered the Japanese fleet at Midway (Island) while doing a high altitude patrol. That allowed the Americans to get the jump on them.” Soon after the war ended, the Sea Island plant was shut down. “The provincial government of the day wouldn’t give them a tax break anymore and Boeing pulled out,” Baryluk said. “That’s a sad story, because in other places in Canada where Boeing operated – Manitoba and Ontario – the tax breaks continued. And Boeing still exists there, whereas we don’t have the benefit of a large manufacturer.” What remains on Sea Island today, in addition the remaining Burkeville homes, is the finishing hangar where the final touches were put on the aircraft before being tested and transported. Plus, there is a building that was once used for engine testing which is still in place. Other evidence of Boeing’s presence remains in Vancouver, where the rail shipping yards now house the Vancouver Flea Market on Terminal Avenue.

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Romance spans country for sailor and his girl NADINEJONES Contributor

was one of the first women to join the Canadian Women’s Army Corp (CWAC) at Work Point Barracks in Victoria in l941. The CWAC was not yet properly organized. We didn’t have uniforms, simply a red arm band with CWAC superimposed in yellow. Behind a weak Navy band, we actually went on route marches in high heels dodging puddles. I met and fell in love with a sailor. My sailor and I were married on June 21, 1941. We lived in a dream world. I was a very young 18 and he was a very young 20-year-old member of the Royal Canadian Navy. We slept a lot of nights in the broom bushes in Beacon Hill Park in Victoria when

we didn’t have money for a room. I climbed an oak tree and waited for him to come from barracks every night. We knew he was going to be shipped overseas, but tried not to think about it during the three months we had together before he left. I worked for the Royal Canadian Engineers at Work Point Barracks as a typist. One night he came “home” to our tree and told me it was rumoured that he would be leaving within a couple of days. As I said, I was 18, madly in love, and my sailor was leaving. So, what to do? At that time the CWAC hadn‘t had time to enlist a doctor for women, so I devised a plan. I would tell them I was pregnant, get a medical discharge, go east to be with my husband until he left for overseas and then say I had suffered a miscarriage and rejoin the CWAC. My grandfather was a captain in the British Army during the Boer War in South Africa, and my father was in the Canadian Mounted Rifles in the First World War for four years. My only sibling, a sister, joined the CWAC when she was old enough, so I was a proud member of a military family and had every intention of rejoining the army. Within a week of the rumour, my love and I travelled by boat (the old Princess Marguerite) from Victoria to the train station

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at the foot of Granville St., in Vancouver, where we kissed goodbye. I went back to Victoria to set my plan in motion. It worked. Now, all I had to do was round up the money for train fare to Halifax. Sitting up for five days and nights on the train in an old wooden Colonial coach was not a lot of fun.

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Homecoming both joyous and horrific for survivors From page B12 We spent 11 wonderful days together in a ghastly room with a broken window. The room was above a café where a juke box played Mares eat oats and does eats oats and little lambs eat Ivy all night. I still hate that song. Day after day, I sat at the window at dusk watching the freighters and navy ships stealing quietly out of Halifax harbour to form convoys to brave the North Atlantic, wondering if my sailor was on one of them, but every night he came home, until one night, he didn’t. It was Dec. 12. Another sailor knocked on our door, saying my husband said he loved me and goodbye. So, there I was in Halifax, alone and broke. A military family was allowed one free move across Canada to relocate. So, I went to the Navy Control Board and told them I was from Victoria and would they please send me home? They did. This time, with a berth. But the joke was on me. And after all that planning, in fact I was pregnant! My sailor didn’t come back until our baby girl was almost three years old. He came home on “survivor’s leave” when his ship, the HMCS Athabaskan, was sunk off the French coast. That was both a joyous and horrific homecoming for him, because all the mums and dads, wives and sisters of the crew of the sunken Athabascan wanted to know if he had “seen their loved one” in the water, on a raft,

n Newss contributor Nadine Jones Jones, with her young daughter in Victoria. Photo submitted

picked up by a German craft, anywhere at all. We were so young when he left we didn’t know if we would recognize each other when he arrived at the platform where we had kissed goodbye so long ago. And his small daughter thought his picture was “daddy” whom she kissed good night every night and didn’t relate to him in the flesh at all. Like so many other wartime marriages, ours failed. Our baby girl is now a grandmother. My sailor was killed in a one-person road accident in northern B.C. on May 24, l970. And I’m an old lady with lots of memories. Nadine Jones is a former journalist with the Vancouver Sun and currently a resident at The Maple Residences in Steveston

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Following service: Annual Rememberance Day Reception, City Hall Galleria. Everyone is invited. Ceremonies simulcast and online The service will also be simulcast into City Hall Council Chambers. Everyone is welcome inside and space is limited. First seating preference will be given to those who may not be able to stand outside for the duration of the service. The ceremonies will also be streamed online. To access the webcast, click on the Remembrance Day information in the news highlights section on the home page of www.richmond.ca. Road closures In order to facilitate the event, streets will be closed and trafﬁc patterns will be changed between 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. During this time, there will be restricted road access. •

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uring the Second World War, Canada in 1940 encouraged civilians across the country to grow victory gardens to support the war effort. These were vegetable and fruit plots that contributed to overall food production during the war. It was largely an urban phenomenon that promoted patriotism on the civilian front. The basic idea behind victory gardens was that the more produce that Canadians grew in their yards, in flower gardens, in vacant lots, the more railcars and transport trucks could be used to move other strategic goods to allies overseas rather than used for moving food locally. I had a conversation with Ron Schuss, who has lived in Richmond all of his life, and was raised on a small farm in Richmond during that time. During the early ‘40s, most people in Richmond had one to two acres of land, he said. Everyone grew their own fruits and vegetables. It was a necessity at the time because they were no longer getting produce from international sources. His mother grew plums, apples and all types of vegetables. Much of the fruit and root vegetables were stored in root cellars or canned in mason jars. Schuss remembers his mother having 140 jars of canned beans, which he got pretty tired of seeing on his plate at mealtime! There was quite often an excess amount of food, so his mother set up a fruit stand in front of his house. Many people came into Richmond from the Shaughnessy area and other parts of Vancouver to purchase his mother’s bounty. The victory garden produce was also an important part of promoting a healthy diet, according to Canada’s Official Food rules created in 1942. This was a precursor to our

n A poster from the Canada Food Board campaign for victory gardens in 1918. Photo submitted

current Canada’s Food Guide. During its peak in 1944, Canada’s 210,000 victory gardens were estimated to have produced 57,000 tonnes of vegetables! In the end, the real value of victory gardens was more symbolic in the way they linked a wholesome form of domestic labour that included the entire family and was highly visible to friends and neighbours. In other words, victory gardens provided a powerful domestic venue to participate in the war effort from the home front. Today, we have organizations again promoting homegrown produce, such as the Richmond Garden Club and Richmond Food Security Society. Community gardens have popped up throughout the city and many people are again, planting fruits and vegetables in flower gardens, front and back yards. Our “victory gardens” today are focused on promoting healthy eating of local fruits and vegetables to take care of our environment and to promote access to safe and nutritious food. We encourage everyone to grow a victory garden this year. Big or small, fresh fruits and vegetables from our own gardens will go a long way to contribute to a healthy body and healthy environment! Lynda Pasacreta is the current president of the Richmond Garden Club

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he violence and brutality of war are not my idea of enjoyable subject matter. Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road is indeed a story of war. But it is also the story of best friends. Their physical journey from the Ontario bush to the trenches of Europe mirrors their interior journey — from peace and solitude to horror, and back again. Elijah and Xavier are two young men from the Cree nation who join the Canadian army in World War One. Both are experienced hunters who are comfortable in the bush. The choice to immerse themselves in a European war is mostly Elijah’s, but Xavier follows. Elijah is accustomed to life in a remote wilderness, but before going to live with Xavier and his auntie Niska, he spent years in a residential school. On the surface, he appears unscathed by this experience, despite the abuse that he has undergone. He blossoms around people and quickly wins over his fellow soldiers. His charm and wit become legendary in the Canadian army and his facility with language allows him to find a place with his compatriots. Xavier, however, is happier in the company of animals than in the atmosphere of forced

companionship of the army. His English is poor, and he often relies on Elijah to translate for him. Both Elijah and Xavier prove themselves to be skilled with firearms. They quickly become a team of snipers, at times given privileges the others are not. But while Xavier cannot reconcile the idea of killing another man, Elijah thrives on it. He becomes progressively more obsessed with killing, all the while charming officers, lieutenants and privates alike. Xavier watches his best friend descend into a flurry of slaughter and madness, and must then ask himself whether he has the power to stop him. The war narrative is interspersed with Niska’s tales. Niska has great power inherited from her father and has tried to pass her skills onto Xavier. Her stories of the Wendigo, a spirit that can possess a person, are particularly powerful. Xavier’s traditional knowledge may be his saviour in this world of indescribable misery. Three Day Road is a graphic and unflinching portrayal of trench warfare, contrasted by the love that exists among Elijah, Xavier and Niska. Their history and stories are poignant and beautiful. Somehow, in this novel, the beauty wins out. Christine McCrea is a librarian at Richmond Public Library

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hen, if ever, is a war really over? Is it over when those who lived through it are no longer alive and their memories have died with them? The end of the Second World War was declared in 1945, but more than two decades later, recollections of the war still tormented my mother. And a few years ago, towards the end of his life, my father finally told me about some of his war experiences. Those wartime memories did not die with my parents. They have imprinted themselves on my mind. What is war, anyway? In school we learned war was a period of armed conflict, with battles marking its key moments. Battle came into English via the late Latin “battualia” (military or gladiatorial exercises) from the Latin “battuere,” to beat. The word war, however, doesn’t derive from the Latin word, which is “bellum.” In English, “bellum” is at the root of words such as belligerent, meaning hostile, and bellicose, signifying aggressive. Another English word linked to “bellum” is rebel (related are rebellion, revolution), from the Latin “rebellis,” referring to someone who, after being defeated, declares war anew. Interestingly, not even the romance languages, Spanish and Italian, based their words for war on the Latin “bellum,” choosing instead the same source as English. The word war comes from the late Old English (12th century) “werre,” based on the Old French

“guerre,” meaning dispute, fight. It’s related to the Old High German (8th-11th centuries) “werran,” the word for confusion, strife, which is also the source of the modern German “verwirren,” to confuse. Before the 12th century, Old English referred to war with the Germanic term “winnan,” which signified struggle, strife, exertion. At the same time “winnan” meant to acquire, take possession of — it’s the source of the modern English win. The modern German word for war is “Krieg” from the Middle High German (11th-14th centuries) “krieeg,” meaning exertion, the endeavour to obtain something, and eventually opposition, combat. “Krieg” is also the basis of the German “kriegen.” In Middle High German “kriegen” meant to exert oneself, to struggle, and later to acquire, obtain, which is its significance in modern German. Thus, over time, the idea of war was shaped by the concepts of exertion, strife, struggle, acquisition, but also confusion, discord. It was a fundamental part of the human condition, eternalised in personal names like Hildegard, a combination of the Old High German “hild” (battle) and “gard” (protect). Textbooks chop up history into manageable bits, making wars appear to be neatly demarcated episodes. But my sense is that war — the exertion, struggle, possessiveness, confusion of humanity — courses through history like an irregular tide, sometimes barely perceptible, other times surging with destructive force. “Only the dead have seen the end of war,” wrote the philosopher George Santayana in his Soliloquies, 1922. We, the living, have the memories.

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hatever it was, it was coming at them fast. Peering out of the windows at the ground below, the crew of the Royal Air Force (RAF) Halifax bomber, including its navigator, 22-year-old Flight Officer Douglas Milton, couldn’t quite make out what type of antiaircraft ordnance was being lofted upwards at them. But it was rapidly rising on a column of smoke and flames that lit up the dusky night sky. “We’d seen all kinds of ack-ack fire before. This was something different,” recalled Milton, now 95 and a resident of The Maple Residences in Steveston. “It was coming right at us. But we managed to get out of the way and it flew up and past us.” The sighting, as they flew over occupied Europe, was so unusual the crew made a point of reporting exactly what they had seen on their return to base, noting a detailed description and best estimation of its origin from the ground. Good thing, too, because what RAF experts realized from the information was what they had witnessed was not intended to try and knock Milton’s bomber out of the sky. It’s true target was much further away, since it was a German V-2 rocket — the world’s first longrange (320 km), guided ballistic missile that was designed to rain down on Allied cities. “I am hoping that perhaps, because of what

we saw and reported, we were able to stop more of them being launched,” Milton said. That is one of many stories the Regina, Sask. native can tell from his time during the Second World War that included completing an impressive 43 missions over enemy territory. For accomplishing that feat, and more, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, bestowed on those who demonstrated acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty. “We were pretty lucky,” Milton said. “The average lifespan for a bomber crew was 10 missions. We managed to do a lot more. “It was scary, though, no doubt about it. I remember my mind going blank the very first time up, most of it from not knowing what to expect, and not being able to remember how to properly plot the course. But we managed,” he said. “You couldn’t dwell on the fear you experienced, because you knew you’d be back up there again pretty soon.” He credits his pilot, a Scot named Bill Foote, for their longevity. “He was a very good pilot. Very safe,” Milton said. “He never took any silly risks. You’d hear about other pilots doing things like flying low to chase cows and end up killing the whole crew. Bill never did anything like that. He got us back home safe. “And the rest of the crew was good, too, and concentrated on the business at hand all the time.” That wasn’t to say the seven-crew RAF Halifax didn’t get a scratch. There were plenty along the way. Milton particularly remembers the furious bombardment German antiaircraft batteries waged on flights of Allied

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n Douglas Milton, with a photo of himself wearing his Flight Officer’s uniform in the RAF. He was part of a seven-man crew aboard a Halifax bomber that completed 43 missions over enemy territory during the Second World War — a feat that helped earn him the Distinguished Flying Cross. Photo by Cerys Raphael/Special to the News

targets bombers as they neared their targets. “We once came back with about 50 holes in the fuselage from the ground fire we had to fly through,” Milton said. “That plane had to be scrapped. It was way beyond being airworthy anymore.” While Milton trained with the Royal Canadian Air Force, when he reached England a bureaucratic mix up landed him in the RAF. It didn’t matter though, as his crew members accepted him and another fellow Canadian, Jack Patterson, as one of their own. That sense of camaraderie also extended beyond Milton’s group. He recalled that, on one occasion, his Halifax was so badly damaged by German anti-aircraft fire that they had to make an emergency landing, well short of their home airfield. “We landed at one run by the Americans,”

said adding they were not the only crew he said, seeking emergency refuge that night. “There was a German plane that was in trouble and made a landing there, too,” he said.” And what always struck me was that when you see stories of situations like that in movies, these enemy pilots would be in danger of being massacred when they landed. “But in actual fact, on that night, the Americans welcomed us and the Germans into their mess for something to eat and gave us all a place to sleep.” Milton said he wasn’t surprised at the reception. “We never had any particular animosity towards these Germans who were trying to kill us,” he said. “It (the war) wasn’t their fault, as individuals. “They were doing their job the same as us.”

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Veteran recalls cresting the first wave as a Wren she said, adding the short-hand and typing skills learned previously in business school Staff Reporter destined her for a position in communications PRAPHAEL@RICHMOND-NEWS.COM at the navy’s signal distribution office. And that meant she, and others in her ancy Talbot remembers a distinct sense group, were frequently entrusted with decodof adventure during her Second World ing messages laced with vital information. War time experience as one of the first waves “I was in that office for three years, while of women to serve in the Canadian Navy. many other people came and went,” she Born in east Kelowna, Talbot — now 94 said. “That either meant I was good at my and a resident at The Maple Residences in job or my superiors forgot where I was,” she Steveston — signed up quipped. “But I enjoyed it, and then embarked on a although it was long hours four-day train trip across for three years.” You had these big books and the country in 1943 and She was also sworn to ended up at Canadian secrecy. the back of the book was Forces Base Cornwallis in “The decoding was Deep Brook, Nova Scotia. always covered with lead. interesting,” she said. That was the country’s “You learned that. You had So, if it was aboard a ship, training centre for memthese big (decoding) books bers of the Women’s Royal it would go straight down and the back of the book Canadian Naval Service was always covered with to the sea bottom so no one (WRCNS) who were nicklead. So, if it was aboard named “Wrens.” a ship, it would go straight could get it. Asked why she decided down to the sea bottom so – Nancy Talbot to join the navy, Talbot no one could get it.” said plainly, “I knew I The communications didn’t want to join the office was open around the army. I had a friend in the clock and Talbot was on army and she was a bit of shift work that only granted her a weekend off an orangutan and I didn’t want to get mixed just once a month and two weeks of vacation up with her.” each year. Earlier, Talbot’s brother had joined the air For that she was paid $30 a month. force and she wasn’t keen to possibly be on “You’d go to work at eight in the morning the same base as him. and get off at five at night,” she said. “The “And the navy had just started (acceptnext day, you’d go at five at night and get off ing women) and I thought, I’d join them,”

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at eight in the morning.” Talbot said she would spend her vacation travelling home to Kelowna, only to find many of her friends were not there. “Most of them had joined up, as well,” she said. But that didn’t dampen her enthusiasm for the job. “I liked the navy, the uniform and the idea of being involved with the war effort,” she said. “The uniform was smart. It was a navy blue suit with a white shirt and black tie. And we never wore slacks, unless you were a signal person and had to go up the ladders,” she said. When the war ended, she went back to a civilian life that, to her, seemed somewhat blasé. “After three years of shift work, working nine to five nearly drove me goofy,” she said, adding that she later got married and moved to Richmond in 1953, since her husband, a vet, wanted to be close to the horse racing action at Lansdowne Park. Richmond is where she also raised three sons. “Richmond was about the size of a country store back then — not much to it,” she laughed. About six years ago,Talbot made a trip back to re-visit the navy base in Nova Scotia and found some of the old buildings still remained in place. “Some of them are now being used for sea cadets,” she said. “But I was able to recognize the building I worked in for so long.”

n Nancy Talbot was among the first to serve in the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service during the Second World War. Her job took her to Nova Scotia for three years where she worked in communications. Photo by Cerys Raphael/Special to the News

There were regular Wren reunions every five years or so. “But now, I think I am the only one left,” she said. “It’s been a good life. And I’d do it again, no question, if I had my life to live over again. “It was interesting work. Long hours, but you just did it. “It was an important job.”

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