Editorials

A look back in time

This is a photo of three trucks in parade trim c.1941 taken at the Logan Garage which was at the intersection of the Old Hedley Road and the Merritt Road (where N&L Repair is today). The building still exists but has been added on to. Photo from the Logan Collection/Princeton Museum. Courtesy of K. Stanich.

Woe betide the enthusiastic educator who tries to confiscate a phone during an instruction period

This is a photo of the railway turntable at the Copper Mountain mine. You can see the men manually turning the locomotive. Regulations specified that the locomotive must always be at the front of the train, therefore, it was necessary to turn the engine around and move it to the front of the line for the return trip. Photo courtesy of the Harry Day/Princeton Museum collection.

This is a photograph of a parade moving past Veterans Square onto Vermilion Ave. probably in 1944. The man on the pickup truck is acting as Adolf Hitler and there are sarcastic statements on the sandwich boards concerning him.

This is a picture of the Princess Patricia's Light Infantry Marching Band in front of the Princeton School during a display by the Canadian Military in the Centennial year of 1958. Photo courtesy the Goodfellow/Princeton Museum collection.

Our History in Pictures

Bluffs at Bromley Rock present many dangers

Few people would have mourned infamous serial killer Robert Pickton, who died on May 31 after he was attacked in a Quebec prison. Pickton,74, was serving a 25-year sentence for killing six women in British Columbia. Originally charged with 26

Fire statistics disturbing in light of past wildfire seasons