A35 Returning the Minto whistle

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Document Date: 1986-06-26 - --

Donors: Arrow Lakes Historical Society

Keywords: 1980s, Captain G.O. Sutherland (tug), Celgar (Columbia Cellulose/Canadian Cellulose), Pakula; Jeanette (Henke), Pakula; Robert 'Bob', Schafthuizen; Cory, SS Minto, SS Minto whistle return (1986), tugboats, and Upper Arrow Lake

Locations: Nakusp

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1 photograph : col. ; 12.5 x 8.7 cm

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Former Celgar Big Bend mill employee Cory Schafthuizen waving from atop the Celgar tug Captain G.O. Sutherland alongside fellow former employees Bob Pakula and Jeanette Pakula (right) during the ceremonial return of the whistle of the SS Minto to Nakusp, Upper Arrow Lake, 26 June 1986. After having been in use at the Celgar mills in Nakusp and then Castlegar following the 1954 retirement of the Minto, the whistle would be now installed at the new Nakusp visitor centre.

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