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by Wendy CoomberAshcroft Council is ready to address the

lack of burial plots in the Village’s one and only cemetery. The plots have been sold out for some time although there are still many places avail-able for ashes at the columbaria.

At its Jan. 25 meeting, Council decided to put the topic on the list for a future planning ses-sion.

“I think we need to get working on this,” said Coun. Doreen Lambert. She recalled a poster on the bulletin board at the grocery store asking if anyone had a burial plot to sell.

“It’s sad that we have residents who can’t be buried in their own town,” she said.

Coun. Barbara Roden said she had seen other posters around town as well as in The Journal.

“I think this probably will decrease in the fu-ture as traditional burials go out of style,” she said, but she agreed that it wa a situation that needed to be dealt with.

Village admininstrator Michelle Allen ac-knowledged that the current cemetery is sold out of traditional plots.

“There is room in the columbaria for cre-mated remains,” she said, “and the vast majority of people tend for cremation these days.”

Allen said “The land designated as cemetery on the mesa would require extensive develop-ment to make it safe and appropriate for a cem-etery,” and the Village has been reluctant to de-velop it.

“Development costs are reflected in cost per plot,” she said. “We want to make it affordable.”

In Vancouver, she said, where land is at a premium, a burial plot can cost several thou-sands of dollars.

Allen said the only land that may be at all ac-ceptable to the Village is across from the present cemetery, on the other side of Railway Ave. She said the subject will be discussed during budget deliberations.

“It’s a lot of paper work,” she said. The Con-sumer Protection Branch oversees the creation of new cemeteries and the maintenance of exist-ing ones. “It’s a huge amount of work for muni-cipalities.”

If Council does decide to create a new cem-etery, Allen says it is still Council’s decision whether a ew cemetery would take full-sized plots as well as cremated remains.”

Ashcroft will discuss a second cemetery

Get growingThe third annual Cache Creek Seedy Saturday was held over the weekend, kicking off the season for local gardeners and landscapers. Master Gardeners Elaine Sedgman and Phyllis Mader from Kamloops were present to answer questions and to talk about raising food. The annual event is put on by the Cache Creek Beautification Society.

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Ashcroft rcMP DetAchMent

POLICE REPORTWendy Coomber

Police looking for victimsSeveral residents have reported being

contacted by a telephone scam where the caller claims to be from the Canada Rev-enue Agency following up on outstanding bills. RCMP are asking to hear from any-one who has actually sent them money. There is a potential suspect in Toronto who is being investigated for carrying out this scam.

Fast and erraticFeb. 2 at 10 pm RCMP received a re-

port of an erratic driver on Hwy 1 just north of Cornwall Rd. The vehicle was spotted by Wastech and observed travel-ling at 72 kph as it entered Cache Creek.The driver and lone occupant, a 35 year old Prince George woman, said she was being tailgated by a vehicle with its high

beams on, causing her erratic driving. The officer issued her a ticket for speed-ing and noticed an odour of marijuana in her vehicle. A small bag of pot was seized. She did not display any signs of impairment and was allowed to continue on her way.

Spring burningFeb. 4 at 7:30 am police received a

report that a trailer was on fire in Wal-hachin. The area is outside of the local fire protection areas. Police arrived and found the fire to be a controlled burning

of wooden pallets by an employee at the Silva Gro Nursery.

Unwanted visitorFeb. 5 at 7:45 pm police were

called to the Castle Inn after an al-leged assault. The victim, a 61 year

old woman, had purposely entered the apartment of a 25 year old male. When she refused to leave, he removed her using as much force as was necessary. There were no injuries and no charges.

Pricey gamesRCMP were informed of a new inter-

net scam where a company called Lux-quiz offers games and monthly prizes, including an iPhone, on their site which people have to subscribe to first. The fine print, which they may not have noticed,

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Consensual bar fightFeb. 7 at 12:10 am police received an

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Canim Lake Band mulls treaty process

Clinton Cpl. investigated

Busy year for BeautificationGoing blind

Lee and Shauna Bolton of Ashcroft Interior Blinds donated installation services to give South Cariboo Elizabeth Fry Society office a facelift.

Local artists get exposureArtists Georgia Lesley (left) and Martha Dippo surrounded by their art at the new Lytton Klowa Art & Handcraft store on Main St. Photo by Bernie Fandrich

Cpl. Brandon Buliziuk, com-mander of the Clinton RCMP De-tachment, has been off the job since late January and his firearms have been seized by police.

Citing privacy, RCMP brass re-fused to comment on the nature of the investigation into Cpl. Buliz-iuk. It is unknown whether he is suspended or on leave.

Clinton Council was advised of the situation at an in camera meet-ing. Ashcroft Detachment com-mander, Sgt. Michel Grondin would not comment on the matter, but said it is having a slight effect on resources at the Detachment as his officers will have to cover some

Clinton matters.Buliziuk’s firearms remain in

the care of Kelowna-based Moun-ties looking into his case. Buliz-iuk’s lawyer consented to the ap-plication.

The RCMP investigator, Con-st. Peter Geldart, said the investiga-tion is ongoing.

“Our investigation continues,” he said. “Regional Crown will be receiving further information from investigators.”

Buliziuk, 30, served in Merritt for about six years, and Nakusp be-fore that, prior to taking the pos-ition in Clinton in 2014.

100 Mile Free PressMembers of the Canim Lake Band near 100

Mile House will be voting in a Feb. 11 referen-dum to decide whether they will continue with treaty negotiations.

Canim Lake is one of four Northern Secwepemc (Shuswap) te Qelmucw (NStQ)

bands involved in the BC Treaty Process since 1993.

The treaty negotiations with the federal and provincial governments cover a wide range of issues surrounding territory, governance and re-sources, and are seen by some as a path toward greater self-determination for First Nations.

Close to 600 of the NStQ’s 2,500 members are eligible to vote on Feb. 11.

The First Nations bands include Tsq’escen’ (Canim Lake), Stswecem’c/Xgat’tem (Canoe Creek/Dog Creek), Xats’ull/Cmetem’ (Soda Creek) and T’exelc (Williams Lake).

The Northern Shuswap Tribal Council and its affiliated NStQ Treaty Group is holding the Agreement-in-Principle (AiP) referendum.

The referendum will decide whether the NStQ membership wishes to continue into the final negotiations stage (Stage 5) of the six-stage made-in-BC Treaty Process. It is not a vote on the Treaty itself.

The yes-or-no question is: “Do you support the recommendation of the NStQ Leadership Council to proceed to Final Agreement Negoti-ations?”

Stage 5 can take anywhere from three to five years to complete, says an NStQ spokesperson.

“Once a ‘final agreement’ is negotiated, the NStQ membership will be holding a final vote whether to accept the treaty, before the ‘Imple-mentation’ (Stage 6) can begin,” says Brad Mc-Guire, the Northern Shuswap Treaty Society’s communications co-ordinator.

“The NStQ Leadership feels they need the support of the community members themselves, before moving forward in the process. They truly want this to be a ‘people’s process’ and not driven by only the governments of Canada, B.C. and the NStQ leadership.”

Over the past year, the treaty teams have held community meetings, urban meetings (for those members who live elsewhere – Vancou-ver, Kamloops, and Prince George), and more recently in the past couple of months have been meeting directly with families in their homes to provide as much information about the treaty as possible, McGuire says, adding “So members cast an informed vote on Feb. 11.”

Referendum results will be available after 10 a.m. on Feb. 12.

Cache Creek’s annual Seedy Saturday was part of the Cache Creek Beautification Society’s “Winter Market” experiment.

The Society, which has organ-ized the outdoor Farmer & Flea Market downtown at the main intersection since 2011, wanted to see if a monthly indoor market would be just as popular.

The vendors were enthusiastic to give it a try and the indoor mar-kets began in November on the first Saturday. This year’s Seedy Satur-day coincided with an indoor mar-

ket day and the two events blended nicely in the community hall.

The Society will be organiz-ing indoor markets for March and April and then vendors will head back outside to the old Esso lot next to Chums Restaurant.

The Society also organiz-es Cache Creek’s Communities in Bloom, the Winter Lights Celebra-tion and has plans for more pro-jects that build community.

TheirAnnual General Meeting is Fri., March 4 at noon in the Vil-lage Office. Everyone welcome.

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V I E W P O I N T SThe Editor’s DeskWENDY COOMBER

Published by Black Press Ltd. 402 - 4th St., Ashcroft BC V0K 1A0.Founded in 1895Editor: Wendy Coomber

So long and thanks for all the fish!

Congratulations and happy retirement!

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A SUNFLOWER HEAD from last year, dried up and beautiful

Deadline for the following issue is Friday 10 am

More LETTERS on p. 5

Dear EditorOn behalf of the Cache Creek

Beautification Society we would like to convey our very deep-est thanks and highest regard for Wendy Coomber’s work as Editor of the Ashcroft Cache Creek Jour-nal. We have benefitted from so many aspects of her work including her amazing photographs, her love for the people of the area, the vast array of sensitive, caring and warm-ly human editorials, her passion for nature and the earth, and her good common sense and deep respect for high ethical standards and good journalism.

From a Cache Creek perspec-tive, we thank Wendy Coomber for ensuring that our voice and the voice of our community was not lost but that our unique qualities as a Village and citizenry were under-stood and respected. We thank her for the many events where she was called upon to cover that were out-

side of ‘work hours’. We thank her for a quality job, done without fan-fare or self-aggrandizement. We thank her for helping us understand each other, our area, our history, our events, our concerns and the con-cerns of others, and for introducing and reminding us of some things that we ought to be concerned about.

In celebrating Wendy’s retire-ment we think of the many com-munity groups that Wendy has been a critical part of at the same time as her work as our local newspaper editor. We are aware of her work as Treasurer and Secretary of the Cache Creek Beautification Soci-ety, leading the way through our in-corporation as a society and leading many projects such as Commun-ities in Bloom, Seedy Saturday, and playing an important role in the management of the Cache Creek Market. We are also aware of many other groups that have benefitted

from her volunteer work including the Cache Creek Official Community Plan committee, Ashcroft

Branding/Wellness committee, the Ashcroft & District Fall Fair, her volunteer work connected with the Cache Creek Flood, leading the lo-cal Christmas Bird Count, teaching photography and herb gardening sessions, and playing recorder - just to name a few!  We are thrilled that she will continue to live in our area and that her contributions as a vol-unteer will hopefully continue. We also hope that Wendy will take time to do even more of what she loves and enjoys.  

Congratulations and happy re-tirement to not only a great editor but also a great and caring person.

Carmen Ranta President, Cache Creek Beautification Society

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“Nearly” 14 years doesn’t seem like a very long time to someone in their 50s, but a lot can happen in 13 years and 7.5 months. A baby becomes a teenager, plans are made and changed, people come and go, 42 becomes 56.

When I arrived here in 2002, Interior Health had just eliminated the hospital’s acute care beds and people in Lytton were protesting against the closure of St. Bar-tholomew’s Hospital; Gold Trail School District was finding out that it had to pay $2.5 million back to the Ministry of Educa-tion over the Distributed Learning program; Greater Vancouver Regional District was expecting to use part of Ashcroft Ranch for a new landfill.

But try as hard as I might over the past few days, nothing really stands out in my memory of my time here as much as they people that I’ve met and the people who have helped build their community.

Yes, there have been major events - the wildfires in 2003, the chicken blockade at the Cache Creek Landfill, fires and floods and much more... But people who have re-cently moved to town won’t remember those.

What will probably make more of an impression are the people who make things happen here, the people who make them laugh, the people who give them a friendly wave or a helping hand.

Being editor has afforded me the op-portunity to work with many of these fine people, who continue to inspire me. It is be-cause of them - you - that I plan to be more actively involved in my community, help-ing to make it a better place for all of us.

The Voice in my head has been telling me for months that I have other things to do while I still can. I am looking forward to balancing my personal hobbies with com-unity work and being able to go exploring whenever The Voice nudges me.

Tool Man is looking forward to it. He’s been retired for four years and he bare-ly sees me. Maybe I’ll be able to get him to finish those signboards before Spring!

Thank you all of you for supporting your community newspaper, and for your friendships. See you around!

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Ashcroft should vote on water plant borrowing

Thirty-year debt plan should go to a vote

Cache Creek water comes from a Spring

Dear EditorRe: Proposed Water Treatment

Plant.It is evident that there is a ground-

swell of opposition building against the Village’s water treatment proposal.

“Turbidity” is a characteristic of rivers and has been with us a long time; it has never been regarded as a serious health hazard. Morever, to undertake a major expenditure at a time when we are losing business-es (viz. convenience store/gas station; Central Cafe; the sandwich and coffee shop) does not make economic sense.

The residents of Ashcroft and area deserve - and should demand - a pleb-iscite on this issue.

Jake EckardtAshcroft

Dear EditorThe Peter Principle is alive and

well.I would question the statement that

Cache Creek water comes from an aquifer at 20 mile. Here are the rea-

sons why.When I came to the area 60 years

ago come the end of this month, the ar-tesian wells at the Perry Ranch were the talk of the town. Harry Case had used divining rods to locate the wells and they were flowing out into a ditch. Harry claimed that the source was the mountains behind Hat Creek this side of the Fraser River. I think he was right because both ranches have been water-ing their fields for over 60 years.

I had 312 woodlot 7 km west of Cache Creek for about 30 years and there is a spring at the highest part (about 3500 ft.) that never went dry, even in the driest years. I would think that the wells in Cache Creek are also tapped into this water. It should be easy to check. Take samples from the wells at the Perry Ranch, Village wells and from the spring on woodlot 312. Send them to an independent lab to see if they are from the same source.

I don’t have much respect for con-sultatnts. I think they are people who borrow your watch and then tell you what time it is. The only thing you learned was that they could read your watch but have no way of knowing if it is the correct time or not.

I would be willing to go up to woodlot 312 when it thaws out in the Spring to show the Cache Creek may-or where the spring is.

Chuck WinslowAshcroft

Dear EditorChuck Winslow is right. (Feb. 4:

Rethink this expensive water treatment plant). Ashcroft’s intended compliance with an order from Interior Health that would put us into astronomical debt for the next 30 years is incomprehen-sible. Ashcroft is poor. These are the same bureaucrats who dismantled our hospital year after year, leaving us with no alternative but an hour drive to an already overburdened hospital in Kamloops, and a three hour drive for cancer treatment in Kelowna.

We’ve had no indication, other than boil water advisories during the heat of the summer, that the community is suffering gastro intestinal disorders, or worse. We’ve had no outbreaks that imperil the health of the elderly or our children. Common sense seems in short supply in that order from Interior Health.

Anyway, I can’t under-stand how an order from Inter-ior Health can override the usual referendums for plans as cost-ly as this. Do the people not real-ize the new equipment would not last long enough to cover the debt that will take 30 years to pay?

It doesn’t make sense. Our federal government is struggling to educate us about debt. How to get out of it. How to avoid get-ting into it. We are being con-tinuously reminded in the press

and by our finance ministers that the average family has debt in excess of $25,000.

This is clearly evidence that the bureaucrats are not listening to the government.

Who are we going to listen to? Every taxpayer in Ashcroft should be demanding a referendum. Sure, it costs a few thousand dollars. But compared to the millions this poor little village would be saddling itself with, that’s peanuts.

Esther DarlingtonAshcroft

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by Wendy CoomberLocal cowboy, the late Henry Schneider, will be in-

ducted into the BC Cowboy Hall of Fame on March 18 by the BC Cowboy Heritage Society during the Kam-loops Cowboy Festival.

Schneider (1917-1991) was nominated for the hon-our by Jean Jordan (nee Hughes) whose family was neighbours of the Schneiders.

“I had known the Schneiders ever since I was 6 years old,” she recalled. “I used to stay summer holidays over in upper hat creek with them. We lived in Pavilion.

“They never had children of their own so lots of neighbour kids would stay with them. While I was in Grade 2, our parents moved for a short time to Kelly Lake and were not close to a school, so with four chil-dren at home, two teenagers were home-schooled and Elsie Schneider, who had been a teacher, offered to take me and home-school me, so I spent some special quality time with them.

“In the winter Henry used to take me out on the sled pulled by horses while he fed the cattle. He would wrap the reins around the post and let me hang on to the end of the reins, think-ing I was actually driving them when in fact they were listening to his voice command.

“The people who were kids at that time all have fond memories of Henry and Elsie. I wish I had known about the Cowboy Hall of Fame before Elsie passed as I would have done it before then.

“Henry and Elsie used to have neighbourhood New Year’s Eve par-ties and our family always went to help with Branding. Henry was a super horseman and we loved to watch him

work with his horse in local rodeos.

“Henry was born in Ashcroft hos-pital and him and his parents spent his first night on his way home at the Hat Creek House. The following is the story I sent with my brother Bud (Hughes)’s help to the BC Cowboy Association:

“Henry Schneider’s parents, John and Lena Schneider, were both born in Germany but did not meet until they had moved to the United States. Af-ter they were married they crossed the border into Alberta with a four horse team and covered wagon, a buggy with a team and a couple of saddle horses. Everything was shipped by rail to Ash-croft.

“John then filed a claim to home-stead in Upper Hat Creek. John and Lena had three children with Henry being the middle child and only son. Henry, his two sister, Edna (Schneider) Lehman and Helen (Schneider) Kerr all turned out to be great, hardwork-ing ranchers, being more at home in the saddle than anywhere else.

“Henry met a school teacher Elsie Johnston, from the prairies who moved to Ashcroft to teach school and a couple of years later in October 1951 they married. They never had children of their own, but their love for children was great and many friends and neigh-bours’ kids happily stayed with them on holidays over the years giving them

the biggest family of all.“Henry raised cattle on the property homesteaded by

his parents. He ran about 200 head of cows and kept the calves until they were long yearlings. He was an excel-lent grass manager and cattleman and his yearlings al-ways brought top price.

“Henry and Elsie kept a couple of milk cows, a couple of pigs and a bunch of chickens and raised their own hay and grain to feed these animals. Henry was also a very good horseman and cowboy, and participated in some of the local rodeo’s in both calf roping and team roping. He was particularly good at heeling calves and was in great demand as a heeler at the various brand-ing operation in the Upper Hat Creek valley and Ash-croft area. He was also a great friend to all who new him.

“They sold the ranch in 1965, worked on the Harp-er Ranch for a while, had two addresses in Cache Creek then moved to 16 Mile. Henry spent the rest of his life cowboying around the district for whoever needed a hand.

“It was a once in a life time pleasure for me to have Henry inducted into the hall of fame where his name so rightly belongs,” said Jordan.

When Henry passed away in 1991, then Journal editor Barry Tait wrote:

“I had intended to do a piece on Henry Schneider who I was proud to call a friend and neighbor, but when I heard Gordon Parke’s eulogy at Henry’s memorial ser-vice last week, I decided my humble effort could not possibly top it. The following is the context of Gordon’s words:”

“My own early memories of Henry go back quite a few years. Once when I was a lad and Henry a young man, he called in at the ranch on some business one day.

Schneider added to Hall of Fame

Henry Schneider with his horse and cattle

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West Fraser DonationOn Monday, Feb. 1, Adrian Plante, Gener-

al Manager of the West Fraser Chasm Sawmill presented a cheque for $3,000 to Clinton Fire Chief Wayne Walch.

This is to go towards a sprinkler protection unit. The unit consists of sprinklers and hose that can be placed on houses or other structures in the event of a wildfire. It was units like this that protected the properties on Jesmond Road during the 2009 Kelly Creek Wildfire.

The unit will be carried on Clinton Fire De-partment apparatus during the wildfire season. It will be used to protect the Village of Clinton Fire Protection Area, which includes Chasm Sawmills, in the event of a wildfire.

The Clinton Fire Department thanks Chasm Sawmills for their generous donation.

Fire Smart PresentationAlso on Monday, Feb. 1, the Village of Clin-

ton hosted a presentation of The Clinton FireS-mart Program in the Clinton Memorial Hall.

Forty-six Clinton and area residents took advantage of the information available to help safeguard their properties from wildfires.

The program is a joint effort by the Prov-ince of BC, Village of Clinton and West Fras-er Sawmills.

The Province provided a Fire-Smart grant of $10,000 for the program. The Village of Clinton is coordinating the program and acre-age owners can receive assistance from West Fraser to enact their individual FireSmart Plan if they wish.

It was stressed that any information col-lected on a FireSmart Plan will not be shared with anyone other than the home/property owner. Data that measures the success of the program will not reveal any individual property information.

Village of Clinton Mayor Jim Rivett was master of ceremonies for the presentation which included (for the province) Krista Dun-leavey, Fire Center Manager for the Cariboo, Shelly Harnden, Forest Protection Technician for 100 Mile House Zone and for West Fraser, Adrian Plante, Chasm Sawmill Manager and Chad Swanson, Woodlands Manager, 100 Mile

House.Shelly Harnden outlined the FireSmart Pro-

gram and why it is important to carry out pro-tective measures on your property. With graph-ic phots of what can and does happen to hous-es, etc. during a wildfire, and how a property can survive intact if properly protected prior to a fire, it was obvious that the program would be a benefit.

A FireSmart Plan includes completion of the “Home and Site Hazard Assessment” and “Other FireSmart Considerations” forms. These give the home/property owner an evalua-tion of their property.

Home owners in the Village can call on Robin Fennell to help with their confidential evaluation. Robin is a 30-year fire fighter and long term resident of the Village.

Acreage owners where treed areas are a concern can ask Steve Law, Registered Pro-fessional Forester for assistance with their confidential Home and Site evaluation and advice on their forested areas.

West Fraser Mills will work with home-owners who wish to have trees removed from their acreages to make the safer. The Mill will purchase logs and help with the FireSmart implemen-tation.

Anyone who missed the presenta-tion and would like more information is welcome to drop by the Village Of-fice during regular of-fice hours. The evalu-ation forms are also available at “BCWild-fire.ca” for those who wish to download and complete them on their own.

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First class cowboy, quietly competent

Annual Bean Supper on March 14

Seven United Church ladies met for our second meeting of the new year on Feb. 2.

Jacklyn Desrosiers lead the devotion-al with a reading from the booklet God’s Little Lessons on Life for Women. It was about peace which is not necessarily the absence of noise and confusion but the calmness and assurance of God’s Love for us. The bible readings were Romans 5:1, Psalm 37:11, Isaiah 55:12 and Phil-ippians 4: versus 6 and 7.

The agenda was adopted as printed and the minutes of the last meeting were

approved as written.Old business was dealt with as

we handed in three valentines each to be given to residents of Garden Oasis at the hospital for their use.

Next was correspondence - new Daily Bread booklets for March,

April and May were handed out and also a newsletter from their ministries about a young couple who were struggling to make ends meet. Because of the radio program “Unquenchable”, they were able to turn their lives around and be drawn to the Lord and their children too. We also had newsletters from the national UCW and one from Carmen Salacsacan in the Philippines, a missionary whose work we help to support.

Reports were given and Shirley Dob-son, our new treasurer, handed out her

written report which was voted on and accepted. Verbal reports were from Dorothy Pears for Sunshine, Phyllis Gray for Publicity, Archives

given by Reta in Hilda Drinkwater’s ab-sence, and Outreach by Reta.

Our United Church will be hosting Soups On Feb. 12 at the Anglican Church hall. Reta said she had been given many Campbell labels and thanks to all those who save these for us to help with Chris-tian work elsewhere. Please make sure the bar codes and labels are intact.

We then paused for refreshments and a brief time of Fellowship.

New Business brought us together and it was noted that the AnglicanChurch will be hosting the World Day of Prayer on March 4. Two of our ladies will help with the planning for this.

We next made plans for the 70th Bean Supper to be held on March 14 with two

sittings, the first from 5-6 pm, and the second from 6-7 pm in our church hall. We could not do this without the help of many U.C.W. friends. This is a milestone event for our little church and for Ash-croft: our annual Bean Supper is the long-est ongoing social activity in Ashcroft, starting in 1946.

We are to bring three Easter Cards each for our next meeting on March 1, to be given to Garden Oasis residents to use.

Devotional and Refreshment ladies were chosen for the March meeting. Any ladies who are interested in our work would be most welcome to join us or come as a visitor.

We closed the meeting by repeating together the Mizpah Benediction.

There will be posters up and a notice in Coming Events of The Ashcroft Jour-nal about the Bean Supper so watch for these.

UNITED IN SPIRITUnited Church Women

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My brother, Alan and I had put a pipe between two

cottonwood trees and we were practicing some fancy moves on the high bar when he drove in. Alan and I stood back and watched as Henry went to the bar, reached up and proceeded to do several spins and flips landing neatly on his feet at the end. He also bent the bar into a big bow but that didn’t matter, we were very impressed.

“Henry was different things to different people. To some he was an excellent horse-man. He rode a horse more miles, probably, than most people drive a car in a lifetime and no person knew this country better. He always had a good horse and he always had a useful dog. Both were trained to do his bidding and they DID his bidding.

“To others of us, Henry was a first class cow-boy and top roper. To work with him sorting cat-tle was always a treat. Never in too much hurry and always in the right place making the right moves. As a roper he was quietly competent and few brandings took place for miles around with-out Henry to help “drag them to the fire.”

“To me he was all these things and also a first class cowman and rancher. Henry was a neighbour of ours in Upper Hat Creek until he sold out some years ago and we often saw his big Hereford cows with the HS brand on their left rib. I don’t think I ever saw a poor one and they were always on their property side of the fence. Henry’s ranch was truly well care for - he was as much at home with an irrigation shovel over his shoulder as he was astride a horse.

“He was a quiet and capable man who never tried to impress and because he didn’t try to im-press he inevitably did. Once when I was driv-ing some friends from the city into the valley we saw a lone rider with his dog coming over a hill and down toward the road. I recognized Henry and stopped to say hello as we often did. That simple everyday encounter would mean little to any of us but to my friends from the city the im-pression Henry made stuck with them for many

years and they made mention of it often on later occasions.

“Henry won the respect and affection of all who knew him. I am proud to have been a friend as everyone here must be. Ranch-ing, cattle and horses were Henry’s life.

“He was the best darn cowboy I ever knew.”

Gordon Parke was, himself, inducted into the BC Cowboy Hall of Fame approximately five years ago as a Ranching Pioneer.

The BC Cowboy Hall of Fame is located in the Museum of the Cariboo-Chilcotin, 113 North 4th Ave., Williams Lake.

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Giving life af-ter death is a beauti-ful gift, and one or-gan/tissue donor can save the lives of up to eight people and help improve the lives of up to 75. It’s also one of those topics people don’t normally think of unless it personally affects them or some-one they care about – despite the reality that anyone can end up on the waiting list.

Many Canadians think they’re already donors, but long gone are the days we could easily sign up for a decal on our driv-er’s licence and for-get about it. We now have to go to the extra trouble of filling out a form online. This pro-cedure only takes a couple of minutes, but since it’s usually not top of mind, the vast majority of us are not registered.

In fact, less than 25 per cent of us are. Among developed countries, our nation ranks near the bottom of the list of donation

rates. As a result, or-gans and tissue that are medically suitable for transplanting are buried or cremated rather than going to someone in desperate need. In 2014 alone, 195 people died while waiting for an organ.

Over 4,500 Can-adians are currently hoping for a life-sav-ing transplant. With 90 per cent of us in fa-vour of participating, there should be no wait at all.

There’s a tried and true solution to pre-venting these needless tragedies: an opt-out program, also known as presumed con-sent. What this means is that everyone of a legal age is con-

sidered a donor unless they de-register their name. This would re-quire less administra-tive work, and save precious lives.

Spain provides an outstanding example of how well this has worked. In 1989, when their donor rates were at only 20 per cent, Dr. Rafael Matesanz, a kidney specialist, was hired to improve the system. Spain is now a world lead-er in organ and tissue donation, with a vast majority of its citizens

embracing the bene-fits for all.

“It’s a source of national pride,” Matesanz has said. “We are very proud to contribute to the sys-tem.”

Some argue there are ethical and reli-gious reasons why this isn’t a good idea. Not only are most re-ligions on board with this life-saving con-cept, the easy and confidential ability for any individual to opt out at any time re-futes that objection.

Shelley Hunt from B.C. and Jessica Roy-an from Alberta are passionate about this cause and they have

personally watched too many patients needlessly die when they should have been saved. They have also witnessed the life-support treatments such as dialysis that countless people must endure for lengthy periods of time as they do their best to hold on.

The compassion-ate women created the “Because I Can Pro-ject” with a goal to eliminate that wait. They have worked tirelessly to raise

awareness about or-gan shortages in our country, and they’re actively petitioning for a revamp of the registration process nationwide.

As it stands now, the opt-out program is easily within reach if in the right hands. Hunt and Royan wrote and requested

a meeting with the previous minister of health many times, but their concerns were never addressed. With a change of gov-ernment, they’re now hoping to get a meet-ing with Prime Min-ister Justin Trudeau to explain the superi-or plan that would im-prove thousands of lives and save hun-dreds. In the mean-time, they, along with their fellow activists, will keep encouraging petition sign-ups and organ registrations.

There is no age limit. Canada’s old-est organ donor was 93 and oldest tissue donor was 102. It’s not enough to just register, however. A lot of donations are lost due to family members rejecting the intended donor’s de-cision while experien-cing grief. It’s import-ant those wishes are communicated with them clearly ahead of time.

It’s not necessary to wait until death be-fore giving the gift of life. Healthy people can donate a kidney or part of the liver, lung, intestine, pan-creas, bone marrow, or blood to another person.

Hunt became a live donor over a year ago when she gave one of her kid-neys to save the life of a stranger. The young mother of two received some criti-cism for taking a risk, but after extensive re-search, she was con-fident in the safety of the procedure. It also gave her an unexpect-ed advantage.

“It might seem crazy, but it will ac-tually put me in a safer position than most other Canadians,” she explained. “When you become a live donor, you’re auto-matically moved to the top of the list, and if I ever need an organ in the future, I’ll get one sooner.”

To check if you’ve registered, to sign the petition for the opt-out program or to get more informa-tion, please visit Be-causeICanProject.com. Once this initia-tive is finally adopt-ed, waiting lists will cease to exist in our country, and treasured lives will be saved.

Lori Welbourne is a syndicated colum-nist. She can be con-tacted at LoriWel-bourne.com

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Golden Country presents... Past, Present & Beyond

GOLDEN COUNTRYBARBARA RODEN

Only one man came back - Pt. 3: A horrible sightThere were � ve cases on the docket of the Spring

Assizes in Prince George in May 1931; two for mur-der, one for manslaughter, one for permitting the de� lement of a girl, and one for the abduc-tion of an heiress. But, noted The Prince George Citizen on April 30, “The murder case of Rex vs. Fredericks is regarded as the one of most general in-terest.”

When the case opened on May 14, the courtroom was packed. Karl Fredericks, a German native, has been ac-cused of killing two fellow-countrymen - Herman Peters and Max Westphal - at Trem-bleur Lake, north of Fort St. James, in early June 1930. That was when the three men had vanished into the bush, with Fredericks emerging a few days later and leav-ing the area. The bodies of Peters and Westphal, both badly mutilated, had been found in a carefully con-cealed grave in a small campsite on the lake.

The Citizen noted that the case was expected to take some time to hear, as the accused had, since his arrest, told con� icting stories about the part he played in the tragedy. It also noted that the major-ity of the Crown witnesses were Indians from Tachie, many of whom spoke little English, and that the ac-cused had German as his � rst language, which would require the use of a second interpreter.

Things went slowly on the � rst day, with some 19 witnesses from Tachie brought forward by the Crown. They testi� ed about what they had seen and heard when they took the three Germans north from Tachie in early June 1930, and then encountered one of the trio back at Tachie two days later, claiming to be ill.

“The courts generally have a lot of trouble with Indian testimony in that there is usually consider-able variation in the stories as told after intervals in the several stages of the prosecution,” noted The Citizen, “but in this case the variation was not very great. The manner of life lived by the Indians is also a factor in Indian testimony. In some matters their perception appears dull, but in others it is surprising-ly acute. . . . Their eyesight and hearing is generally keen and their testimony on such matters is often sur-

prising.Although Fredericks’s English

was not good, he followed the trial closely through the assistance of his in-terpreter, John Assman, and conferred frequent-ly with his counsel, Mr. A. Young. When Young stood to begin his defence, he asked that a handwrit-ten statement made by his client following his arrest in November 1930 be ad-mitted.

The prosecuting law-yer, Mr. A. M. Johnson, argued that the statement should not be admitted: in part because it might be argued that, having been given

voluntarily and without the proper police cautions, it could be ruled inadmissible in the case of a guilty verdict, and in part because of the length of time be-tween Fredericks’s arrest (on Nov. 21) and the date of the statement (Dec. 8). Justice W. A. MacDonald, presiding over the case, initially declared the state-ment inadmissible; but when Young made his request Johnson offered no objection, and the statement was presented.

In it, Fredericks told how he had met Westphal and Peters, who were trying to put together a grub-stake that would allow them to go prospecting. Fredericks joined them and the men got work with George Cameron, a farmer north of Vanderhoof. In his statement Fredericks said they worked for Cam-eron for four weeks, and that he personally earned $150. Their stakes secured, the men headed north with a boat, provisions, and several weapons: a 30-30 Winchester belonging to Fredericks, a .22 ri� e be-longing to Westphal, and a 45-90 ri� e belonging to Peters.

Fredericks asserted that Peters had been a brutal man. The trip north from Fort St. James had been dif-� cult, and when the men attempted to negotiate the dif� cult rapids in the Tachie River, Westphal and Fredericks had grown so discouraged they wanted to give up the expedition. Peters, however, had threat-ened to shoot them if they turned back, and later kicked Fredericks into the river. After making camp at Trembleur Lake, Westphal and Peters repeat-

ed their determination to turn back, and Peters once more threatened to shoot them.

On the night of the murders Fredericks claimed that Westphal had retired to bed after dinner. Fred-ericks decided to go hunting for bear, and had walked about a quarter-mile from the camp when he heard loud words, and then a shot. He turned back to the camp, and had got halfway there when a shot whirled past his head. Two more shots followed, and he said he could see Peters shooting at him. Fredericks dropped to the ground, and Peters obviously thought he had been hit, for there were no further shots.

Ten minutes later there came another shot from the camp, followed by silence. Fredericks waited, crouched in the bush, for an hour, then made his way back to the camp. He found Westphal dead on his bed, his head half-blown off, and Peters dead near-by, shot through the head. It was a case of suicide fol-lowing the killing of Westphal, said Fredericks.

It was a horrible sight, two men without heads, and Fredericks claimed he was stiff with fear. Terri-� ed, he left the camp and did not return until mor-ning. Assuming he would be held responsible for the deaths, he did not go to the police. Instead, he stripped most of the clothes off the bodies to prevent identi� cation, and hid them, then covered the bod-ies with rocks and driftwood, so the grave would go undetected. He burned the men’s papers, and threw everything that was heavy into the waters of Trem-bleur Lake. Then he loaded the provisions into the boat, and returned the way he had come, to disappear into the east.

To be continued

A boat navigates the rapids of the Tachie River. At this point in their journey, two of the three men heading north apparently wanted to turn back.

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After the Lytton joss house - Chinese Gods in a Lytton woodshedby Bernie FandrichA vacant lot in the south end of Main

Street in downtown Lytton was once the location of a Chinese Joss Temple. An interesting and amusing story about the temple appeared in the Vancouver Prov-ince in 1933. It was written by George M. Murray, a journalist, newspaperman, publisher, and politician who served as a BC Liberal MLA for many years begin-ning in 1933, and a federal MP. He and his famous outspoken wife Ma Mur-ray co-founded the Lillooet Bridge Riv-er News in 1934 (Ma Murray is a Lilloo-et legend).

The Joss House site has recently re-

ceived Chinese Heritage status. Here’s the story:

Gods in a Lytton Woodshedby George M. MurrayThe Chinese Republic had made pro-

tests to Great Britain and to Ottawa about it; but the Chinese joss house at Lytton has passed legally into the hands of Si-gnor Guiseppe (his mark) Taverna, native son of Italy and as reliable a track patrol-man as the Canadian Pacific Railway em-ploys.

It took 21 long years to win the joss house. And now the Chinese gods and goddesses, tenants there since 1881, rest in Taverna’s woodshed. Every son of

Han in interior British Columbia is angry about it. The Chinese consul at Vancou-ver has written strong words about it to home government at Nanking, and Nan-king has written the British and Canadian authorities about it. But Taverna, a man with an iron will, has won out. He now owns the joss house. And to prove that a devout Christian respects even the idols of old China, the Lytton deities are now snugly housed by Taverna free of cost.

The story of the Chinese joss house at Lytton is officially recorded in the land office at Kamloops. There is a file of let-ters there, some inches thick, which give in detail the various steps in the strug-

gle of Guiseppe Taverna to obtain the land and build-ing so sacred to the Chi-nese of the district. Taverna was next door to the joss house. He had a small lot. His family was growing. He looked across the fence and dreamed of the day when he would be able to extend his boundaries and annex the joss house properties.

What was a joss house more or less? Taverna thought to himself. The Chi-nese pay little attention to it. Some days they come, bring a fat pig or chicken or imita-tion money and place it be-fore one of the idols there. They light a taper, burn some incense and go away. Then the tramps come from the main line freight trains, smell the cooked pork or chicken, enter stealthily, and then help the spirits hovering about the gods and goddess-es to consume the sacrificial offerings.

This went on year af-ter year. The fruit trees in Taverna’s yard spread their branches over the fence above the ground of the Chi-nese joss house. The Taverna grapevine was as anxious as its owner to get possession of the adjoining land.

In 1901 Guiseppe (his mark) Taverna addressed a letter to the Dominion land agent at Kamloops “Re: Lot 2, Block 13, Town of Lyt-ton.” Upon which was a cer-

tain house owned by Chinese, the house being a frame building, 18 by 27, on a lot of 50 feet by 33. In this letter he stated the lot and building was Dominion property, since the Chinese had no deed to the land.

At once the Dominion land agent looked into the matter. He consulted with the late Tom Earl, the rancher, one of Lyt-ton’s oldest residents, who had planted the first orchard in that part of the coun-try. The late Mr. Earl informed the gov-ernment agent that the Chinese had taken over the property there previous to 1881. There had been an epidemic among Chi-nese on C.P.R. construction and among Chinese miners along the Fraser and in the Cariboo. The late Mr. Earl said that the leader had decided that the ancient gods were merely expressing anger be-cause British Columbia Chinese has for-saken the gods of their ancestors.

In the records it was found that the first entry covering the land and joss house was made in 1901, when the fol-lowing Chinese had made application to purchase Lot 2, Block 13, Lytton: Hong Wo, Wo Pin, Foo Sang, Lee Seen and Lou (his mark) Alaak.

Taverna continued to apply to the land office for purchase of the lot. He, or his agents, wrote letter after letter. Taverna alleged that the lot was an eyesore. The building, he said (in 1911) would soon fall down of its own weight. The furnish-ings - which included Kwan Yen, goddess of mercy; Shen Nung, god of cereal and the god of medicine - were said of Tav-erna to be of no value whatsoever.

Kwan Yen, goddess of mercy, gives courage to her worshippers. She is the taking-away-fear goddess. Her powers must have passed to Taverna, because he went ahead fearlessly to gain control of the joss house property. The god of medi-cine must have had a beneficent influence on Taverna’s household. At any rate his family continued to increase and his need for more land continued more imperative. The god of medicine controls the six vir-tues - wisdom, benevolence, magnanim-ity, righteousness, loyalty and harmony. All these virtues Guiseppe Taverna pos-sessed and enjoyed as he went daily to his task on the C.P.R.: but he did want that joss house.

In 1917 the Dominion Government instructed the Kamloops land office to as-certain at once the value of the joss house. This was the result of a fiery letter writ-ten by the minister of the interior of that

See JOSS on p. 13

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Eviction notice reaches Chinatime by the late Mr. James Murphy, Ashcroft lawyer, brother of Mr. Jus-

tice Murphy of Vancouver. The late James Murphy had known Taverna for many years. Mr. Murphy was of Irish extraction, Taverna was a true son of Italy. Mr. Mur-phy had a keen sense of humour, and from the records at Kamloops entered heartily into the fight to gain the sacred edifice for his friend and client.

Adding to the correspondence from Mr. Murphy are further letters from Taverna. In 1918 there is a let-ter with Taverna’s mark alleging “it is a fire trap. Tramps go there to sleep and eat. They throw matches and ciga-rettes about. If it burns, my own house will burn as well and maybe all of Lytton. There will be loss of life.”

Mr. Murphy pointed out in 1918 that “Forty years ago hundreds of Chinese washed gold in that locality. The building was of value to them then, but had recently been more or less forsaken.”

Despite all this, the Dominion Government refused to move. In 1919 the Kamloops office was asked for a further report. The report went to Ottawa that the Chi-nese residents then in Lytton believed that while the joss house was not much use, that if it was destroyed the Chi-nese believe that they might all get sick again as they or their people did in 1881. The government of Sir Robert Borden apparently felt that it was no time, with the war being on, to arouse the anger of the Chinese gods in Brit-ish Columbia. They left the Lytton joss house alone.

Time passed, and in 1927, Taverna, having learned to read and write since he first began to apply for the lot, wrote in a bold script to Ottawa a letter, in which he said: “Children play in the joss house. Tramps sleep there. I offer $35 for the property.”

Then J.W. Benzie, homestead inspector, was ordered to report on the matter. He did so, declaring that the joss house itself was but 18 by 27 feet of frame. It would make a good chicken house. He suggested a valuation of $50.

The joss house was put for sale in 1928 at 2pm, at the Globe Hotel, Lytton. The sum of $42 was bid by Tav-erna. H.J. Parker, Dominion land agent at Kamloops, duly reported the holding of the sale to Ottawa.

Taverna also wrote to Ottawa asking what he should do with the building in that year.

No sooner had the sale been held than Chinese began to appear from all parts of the West to visit the joss house, to offer sacrifices before the idols which con-tinued as tenants.

Mr. Chenhow H. Pao, then consul-general for the Republic of China at Vancouver, addressed a letter to the Government of Canada, alleging that the contents of the joss house were valued at $3,000 and that the building and contents belonged to the Chinese Benevolent Asso-

ciation. Then Mr. Parker reported again to

Ottawa that “the building was very old and dilapidated, and it would not pay to have the build-ing demolished.” A patent was duly issued to Taverna in 1928.

The Chinese consul-general then replied, “It is true the building was very old and dilapidated, but has been repaired by the Chinese occasionally from time to time. It is unreasonably unfair to state the building has not been in use for twenty years. It is well decorated and the furniture is worth $1,000.”

The records further show that Chenhow H. Pao then reported the whole matter to Nanking to the government of President Sun Yat Sen.

Meanwhile, Chinese warned Taverna personally not to move the gods or goddesses.

Taverna did remove the gods and goddesses to his own woodshed. He then took over the Chinese joss house and converted it into a fine chicken house. Where the God of cereals, Shen Nung, once sat and received of-ferings, Taverna now throws scratch feed to his numer-ous fowls. A rooster crows where the god of anger once leered and winked. On land where Chinese of other days brought offerings of imitation money for the gods, Tav-erna now, by his energy and thrift, derives an income of real money. Tramps can no longer plunder the premises because the doors are well locked.

But over the entire property still hovers the spirit of evicted gods and goddesses. They rest under that cover of the Italian’s roof. But Taverna fears to destroy them and also dislikes the idea of continuing to board them. He might sell them, but he is not sure that he owns them. He came by them law-fully enough, he feels. But then, a god or goddess is not anyone’s property. Such deities are of the other world, the Chinese believe. They are not real es-tate and they surely are not holdings and they cannot be classed as furniture.

The latest development in this strange case is that the Chinese con-tinue to claim ownership of all that per-tains to this certain joss house at Lyt-ton. They are not unduly

loud in their protests about it. They are not going to court about it. But officially the matter is not yet disposed of as between the consul-general’s office at Vancouver and the land office at Kamloops.

Since Chinese point to the unemployment men-ace which affects the Chinese community of British Columbia so severely and declare that neglect of their gods is not unconnected with the present plight of Chi-nese labourers. There is not a wholesale dying off as in the eighties, when the building of the Lytton joss house helped to stay the hand of the Grim Reaper. But who can say what the future has in store. Taverna has not come under any blight as a result of disturbing the peace of the gods and goddesses. He and his family have flourished to the full. True, the death of Mr. James Murphy, the talented Ashcroft lawyer, who helped Taverna win the house, was under tragic circumstances. Many of the em-ployees of the Dominion land office lost their positions at Kamloops when the railway belt, in which the joss house stood, came under provincial jurisdiction. But that may or may not be connected with the affair.

The provincial god of the lot, Shen Nung, became a deity 2825 years before Christ. The god of the six virtues has ruled over happy families in China for more than 5,000 years.

(The Sunday Province, Vancouver, B.C. - 1933)

Joss from p. 12

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SLE-1 AWD MODEL SHOWN

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ON NOW AT YOUR BC GMC DEALERS. BCGMCDEALERS.CA 1-800-GM-DRIVE. GMC is a brand of General Motors of Canada. Offers apply to the lease of a 2016 Terrain SLE-1 AWD (3SA), 2016 Acadia (3SA) and purchase or fi nance of a 2015 Sierra 2500HD. License, insurance, registration, administration fees, dealer fees, PPSA and taxes not included. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Limited time offers which may not be combined with other offers, and are subject to change without notice. Offers apply to qualifi ed retail customers in BC GMC Dealer Marketing Association area only. Dealer order or trade may be required. †† Lease based on a purchase price of $31,345/$40,530, including $670/$670 Loyalty Cash (tax exclusive) and $500/$1,000 lease cash for a new eligible 2016 Terrain SLE-1 AWD (3SA)/ 2016 Acadia SLE-1 AWD (3SA). Bi-weekly payment is $184/$209 for 48/48 months at 0.9%/0.49% APR, on approved credit to qualifi ed retail customers by GM Financial. Annual kilometre limit of 20,000 km, $0.16 per excess kilometre. $0 down payment and a $0 security deposit is required. Payment may vary depending on down payment or trade. Total obligation is $19,104/$21,648, plus applicable taxes. Option to purchase at lease end is $13,036/$19,467. Price and total obligation exclude license, insurance, registration, taxes and optional equipment. Other lease options are available. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Limited-time offer, which may not be combined with other offers. See your dealer for conditions and details. General Motors of Canada Company reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. * Offer valid to eligible retail lessees in Canada who have entered into a lease agreement with GM Financial and accept delivery between February 2 and February 29, 2016 of a new or demonstrator 2016 model year GMC model excluding GMC Canyon 2SA. General Motors of Canada will pay one month’s lease payment or two biweekly lease payments as defi ned on the lease agreement (inclusive of taxes). After the fi rst month, lessee will be required to make all remaining scheduled payments over the remaining term of the lease agreement. PPSA/RDPRM is not due. Consumer may be required to pay Dealer Fees. Insurance, licence, and applicable taxes not included. Additional conditions and limitations apply. GM reserves the right to modify or terminate this offer at any time without prior notice. See dealer for details. ^ Offer available to qualifi ed retail customers in Canada for vehicles delivered between February 2 and February 29, 2016. 0% purchase fi nancing offered on approved credit by TD Auto Finance Services, Scotiabank® or RBC Royal Bank for 84 months on select new or demonstrator 2015 GMC Sierra 1500 Double Cab 2WD 1SA / Crew Cab 2WD 1SA and Sierra HD’s 1SA 2WD with gas engine. Participating lenders are subject to change. Rates from other lenders will vary. Down payment, trade and/or security deposit may be required. Monthly payment and cost of borrowing will vary depending on amount borrowed and down payment/trade. Example: $45,000 at 0% APR, the monthly payment is $535.71 for 84 months. Cost of borrowing is $0, total obligation is $45,000. Offer is unconditionally interest-free. Freight, air tax ($100, if applicable) included. License, insurance, registration, PPSA/movable property registry fees, applicable taxes and dealer fees not included. Dealers may sell for less. Limited time offer which may not be combined with certain other offers. GM Canada may modify, extend or terminate offers in whole or in part at any time without notice. Conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. ®Registered trademark of The Bank of Nova Scotia. RBC and Royal Bank are registered trademarks of Royal Bank of Canada. † $12,000 is a combined total credit consisting of $1,000 Loyalty Cash (tax inclusive) and a $11,000 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for a 2015 Sierra HD gas models (excluding 1SA 4x2), which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and fi nance rates. By selecting lease or fi nance offers, consumers are foregoing this $11,000 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. ¥ Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any model year 1999 or newer car that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2015 Sierra or 2016 model year GMC SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between February 2 and February 29, 2016. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) and credit value depends on model purchased: $750 credit available on eligible GMC vehicles (except Canyon 2SA, Sierra 1500 and HD); $1,000 credit available on all 2015 and 2016 GMC Sierra models. Offer is transferable to a family member living within the same household (proof of address required). As part of the transaction, dealer may request documentation and contact General Motors of Canada Company to verify eligibility. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. Certain limitations or conditions apply. Void where prohibited. See your GM Canada dealer for details. GM Canada reserves the right to amend or terminate offers for any reason in whole or in part at any time without prior notice.

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