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CONSTRUCTION OF THE 25,000 -FOOT ADDITION to General Coach at Hensall, which is
now in use, was rushed to completion in record time. The 110 x 235 -foot building, made necessary
by an increasing demand for General Mobile Homes, is shown during construction as caews began
the erection of the roof trusses,
MOBILEHOMES PLAY MAJOR ROLE
IN PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION
A housewife prepares to go down
town. Another irons and simultan-
eously entertains her next door
neighbors. And another wields a
broom while her two -and -a -half-
year -old helps with a miniature
mop.
Just ordinary every -day happen-
ings. But there's a difference. The
homes are not ordinary, They are
mobilehomes. The women are
wives of men working on the
Peace River -Huntingdon pipeline.
They are Canadians and Ameri-
cans. And they have been in Chil-
liwack only a few weeks.
According to the Chilliwack Pro-
gress, there are some 20 pipeline
families living in mobilehomes in
Chilliwack. Many of them met
friends they knew in Alberta when
the Pembina oil pipeline was laid
in Buck Creek and Drayton valley,
or in Be., when the Trans-Moun-
CONGRATULATIONS
To General Coach Works of Canada Ltd.
on the opening of their enlarged plant.
KEYS TRANSPORT
Hensall Ont.
We Are Proud
To Have Installed An
Alexander -Murray Roof
On the Modern New
GENERAL COACH WORKS
NORTHERN ROOFING CO. LTD.
685 Hamilton Road, London Phone 4-7524
tain oil line from Edmonton to
Vancouver was completed.
Most of them have seen more
of this land than the average fam-
ily. Some have lived in mobile -
homes for years. Othertare en-
joying their first taste of mobile
living—and they like it.
Mobilehomes relieve them of
finding places to rent and this can
be a real problem at whistle-stop
towns where available room is
scarce. In some towns, inhabi-
tants crowded together so pipelin-
ers could have a roof over their
heads. In other towns, rents sky-
rocketed' to prices the newcomers
could not afford.
"Drayton valley was nothing un-
til the oil came in," says pipeliner
Barry Lee. The pipe -liners left
more than 5,000 people there.
The valley boasted one store and
a small butcher shop. •And there
were "not enough schools for the
kids," says Mrs. Lee.
Pipeliners slept in trucks, cud-
verts, barns. The hotels were full
and --married people could not come
in unless they had a mobilehome.
The people of Sedgekick, Alta,
built a mobilehome court right on
the school grounds and fed the
pipeliners in the dormitories. The
newcomers stayed a month.
Eight persons, members of two
families were all living in one
mobilehome near Edmonton once
because there was no place to
stay.
"We helped to make Camrose
(Alta.) a city," laughs Mrs. Lee. A
census of names .was made while
the pipeliners were there and, de-
spite their protestations that they
would be there only a short time,
their names were taken too.
"It drives you nuts .when you
first go in," Mrs. Barry says of a
mobilehome. "But you get used
.to it and then a house seems to
large."
The Lees are originally from Al-
$ vey,'but pipe , es fad
:WO to say e • e•from-
°Mat's the. question," Mrs.
Fred' Morrison says. And after
ening for a whiledecides it J8ary. .�
Mr, and Mrs. H. E. Kennedy,
originally from Eldorado, Kapp.,
ave Pulled their mobilehome from
irginia and Pennsylvania p to
Utah and Arizona, from North
Dakota to Oklahoma.
The Kennedy's present home is
their fourth house on wheels. A
relative newcomer to this mode of
living among the Kennedy, but
one who has lived in mobilehomes
all her life, is two-and-a-hialf-year-
old Gaytha Ann.
Mrs, Kennedy's chief praise of
mobilehomes is that "you , don't
have to pack." Her compact lit-
tle home carries everything she
and her family need.
This is the Kennedy's first time
in Canada. To much -travelled Mrs.
Kennedy, Chilliwack is the same
as any other place but averages
more rain.
Another American couple are Mr.
and Mrs. Ted Anthony. Listen to
Mrs. Anthony and you know she
comes from the south. The An-
thonys hail from Oklahoma.
They were in Canada in 1952
and '53, when Mr. Anthony worked
on the Trans -Mountain oil line.
Since then he has worked in
Colombia while Mrs. Anthony, used
to her husband's going abroad
(he's worked in Arabia too), wait-
ed for his return in Bellingham.
Now with the Huntingdon pipe -
are backe and their hope is to h, the live
in Canada.
Special feature in the mobile -
home include indirect lighting in
addition to the regular lighting, a
garbage disposal and a fan over
the propane stove which takes hot
air outside.
A mobilehome takes about a day
to set up, Mrs. Anthony says.
Sometimes it needs some new gad-
get because the connecting system
is different from previous places.
She says mobilehome living . is
"more convenient than renting
homes because I can take so much
more with me."
Mr. and • Mrs. P. J. Reid, Toron-
to, have lived in their 22 -foot mo-
bilehome since May. They had
never been in British Columbia
before, arriving in Chilliwack a
few weeks ago.
in To ontodandh bought a home
ee-
room — bedroom, kitchen, living
room and bathroom—mobilehome.
Later they hope to purchase a big-
ger one.
In the meantime, Mrs. Reid says
of mobile living: "We would not
change it. We like it. It's easy
to keep clean and it's the only
way to.travel when you're in this
kind of business."
The Reids have enjoyed them-
selves in Chilliwack and, if they
settle down, may do so in the
west.
Like Anthony, J. W. Duncan
worked on the Trans -Mountain
pipeline for two years. The Dun -
cans have lived in a mobilehome
since 1951.—(From the Canadian
Mobile Home.)
Canusa Building Products
LIMITED
203 Wentworth N. S.
Hamilton - _ - Canada
Salutes and Congratulates
eneral Coach Works of Canada Limitd
on the occasion of the
bringing into use of their
enlarged plant facilities.
m.
CONGRATULATIONS _
General Coach Works of Canada Lirnited
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