GC115NX Crossword Cache, 33 Across - Clock Tower (Traditional Cache) in British Columbia, Canada created by Queens Borrowers

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A cache by Queens Borrowers Message this owner

Hidden : 4/15/2007

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's Blitz 07: Crossword Cache, 33 Across

This is only one of fifteen crossword microcaches located in and around New Westminster.
In each microcache you will find a logbook with a word that is assigned to be the answer on the main crossword page here
When you have completed the crossword, the final cache location should reveal itself.

Welcome to Maillardville Village...

Labor Shortage

In its July 4, 1906 report on the Board’s meeting the previous evening, the Province had this: “The shortage of labor consequent on the shutting out of Chinese by the $500 headtax was brought to the attention of the board by Alderman Heaps, who declared that all the sawmills in the country were now in a somewhat crippled condition because of labor shortage. He suggested that it would be a good idea if labor could be brought in from outside points, and mentioned that French-Canadians would be a desirable class.”

That triggered a memory and led us onto the net for a history of Maillardville. We found, on this site www.coquitlam.ca this relevant quote: “Mill owners, in search of workers, turned their attention to the experienced logging culture of Quebec"

And on September 28, 1909 the first contingent of 110 left Montreal by special CPR train to work in Fraser Mills in the southwestern part of Coquitlam. Father Maillard, a young Roman Catholic Oblate from France, arrived with them.
The group lived in baggage cars for two weeks while homes were built by their new employers. Their residential settlement, built with company help, becomes known as Maillardville, named after community leader Father Edmond Maillard.
The first service was held in a room above a store. Maillard opened Our Lady of Lourdes Church on Dec. 10, 1910. When it burned down in 1911, he rebuilt it. After he left the community in 1912, the post office adopted the name Maillardville in his honor (1913).
In 1937, he returned to France to teach at a Franco-Canadian College in Rhone.

August 3, 1966 Edmond Maillard, Fraser Mills confessor, died in Ste.-Foy-Les-Lyon, France.

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