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F. Janzen Ihz (Ehtlltwark rogrm NOTICE THE CHILLIWACK PROGRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1973 408 Young St. South Phone 795-5761 i Seek grant to buy learning aids nSlimie French language planus three years the extra teacher will not be needed. Board trustees decided not to list priorities on their grant application although the French committee had indicated they felt the elementary and secondary needs would have a higher priority over Mr. Fulford's personal request.

Trustees decided to take an optimistic view that the full grant may be accepted by the department. Some revisions will be necessary, the board agreed, if they are cutback from $31,000. Trustee R. G. Henderson stressed that the board's support of the grant submission does not involve any district funds.

Some of the ground work for the proposed program this September in selected schools has already been laid by French language classes which have been held this year at Little Mountain Elementary School. French study committee member Mr. McLeod began this year at the school by combining his own initiative and knowledge of French with the interest of his students. Plans for next year call for this basic beginning to expand to selected elementary schools and all junior secondary schools in the district. French language committee has also recommended the continued study of the total immersion system in order to establish current statistics and data before definitive recommendations may be made.

rtfV I ii ft'-' IVY M-M rr i inn. I i- it i 11 T--f. HI 1 La Bande" French instructional films, 200 cassette recorders which will be distributed to five secondary schools, 750 cassette tapes, 10 audiotronics recorders for teachers use, six complete sets of Larousse Illustre French encyclopedias and $3,400 to cover the expenses of visiting resource persons. Initial purchases for elementary schools through the grant would be textbooks, tapes and other materials: tape recorders and related mobile units; and funds for 20 teachers to cover the of tuition and expenses at a summer school course in elementary school French. Final $1,000 would cover tuition and expenses for Raymond Fulford when he attends McGill University in Montreal this summer.

Mr. Fulford is the French department head at Chilliwack Senior Secondary School. Total grant submission will be examined by the provincial department of education which has an estimated to $1,000,000 of French language instructional support grant funds, provided by the federal government. Mr. Kope told the board on Wednesday some of his committee members believe strongly that itinerant teachers will be needed to start the program in September.

He said the feeling was that existing staff members will not be able to cope with the planned curriculum but he estimated that in two or Materials needed for the start of a French language program in grades five, six and seven form the major part of a request for a $31,000 grant that has been submitted to the provincial government. Proposal of School District 33's French study committee to start instruction in the language in those elementary school grades was accepted and ratified by the board of trustees on March 14. The program will start initially in "a few schools" and will be expanded as interest arises. Later it will be expanded downward to kindergarten if and when the elementary program is well accepted and successful. Funds to supply all five district junior secondary schools with materials and resource people total $20,000 while $10,000 has been set aside in the submission for elementary schools.

This grant application is the latest result of year long studies which have been conducted by the French language study committee which is chaired by the supervisor of secondary education J. F. Kope. Included on the committee are Mrs. O.

McSweeney, Mrs. H. Hurst, Miss H. Braun, D. L.

Few, William McLeod, C. Hesketh and J. Y. Hal-crow. All are teachers or principals in School District 33.

Grant submission for secondary schools would purchase one Britannica Audio Visual kit, one set of "Toute mm Liil TAKEN BEFORE THE turn of the century this rare photograph shows the original Chapman home on Chapman Road. John Chapman's wife Harriet is pictured with three of her four daughters and her youngest son Norman who lived in the house until January of this year. End of a chapter in history No Chapmans Ihmm Gloadl 0(323337 fiED (SB 3SI3EIfl3S i3? mmm MT mm One hundred years ago, just as the fledging corporation of the township of Chilliwhack was receiving its charter from the capital of the new province of British Columbia, Emanuel Chapman was sitting in his home in Huron County, Ontario deciding whether or not to move. Since the order of that day was "go west, young man" and Emanuel Chapman was a young man, he decided he would move west. He packed his eldest son, Benjamin, on a train in Chicago and the two of them set off for California.

From the port of San Francisco, the father and son caught a steamer and sailed into Victoria. They set out for the "interior" of the province. They did not get very far. Emanuel Chapman sent for his wife, three daughters and two more sons, John and George. He had decided on the small town of Chilliwack.

The year was 1875. Emanuel and his Ontario family received their 160-acre farm from the government. He decided he would try his hand at homesteading. The site they selected was near to the few facilities in the late nineteenth century community. He put his house, a small log cabin, on the site where the vast Chilliwack Senior Secondary School now stands.

His sons also drew their 160 acres. Benjamin selected an area on Rosebank Island near Jesperson Road. George took a piece near Little Mountain. John got acreage near Rosedale. He built a road to the property and called it Chapman Road.

Mr. and Mrs. Norman Chapman and bachelor brother! David have moved into town. They are experiencing, for the first time, the conveniences of modern home facilities. Their old home, the original Chapman house, now more than 80 years old, still stands.

Mrs. Marion Chapman, the widow of Frank, has sold her portion of the farm and will also be moving into town. The only property in that area which remains in the Chapman family belongs to Edger-ton's son Norman Leroy whose farm actually faces Camp River Road. David, who still lives with his brother Norman, still owns the 100 acres his father helped him buy in the, early part of this century. But the Chapmans of Chapman Road have finally moved.

It is the end of a chapter in the history of Chilliwhack. iflff Mm KjzL Benjamin died shortly after, George left for the Yukon but John stayed on. He planted Maple trees along the entire route of the where it met his property. He was Chilliwack's first blacksmith. His house, later to become 10944 Chapman Road, was built in the early 1890's.

Harriet Chapman gave birth to four sons and four daughters in that house. Before John died in October, 1930, the old Chapman homestead was divided between three of John's sons: Edgerton, Frank and Norman. John helped his second-eldest son, David, buy 100 acres of property near his home. David remained a bachelor and stayed with his youngest brother Norman and his wife. They lived in the original Chapman house.

Frank built a home next door, while Edgerton built his home on the Camp River side of the 'property. This year, for the first time in nearly 100 years, there will be no more Chapmans on Chapman Road. The Maple trees will still stand, but the surviving grandchildren of Emanuel Chapman, one of the original pioneers of this community, will have gone. Delegates attend Big Brothers' meet TRUCKING BULLDOZING SAND GRAVEL and SHALE Call LYLE HAMILTON 795-3125 9280 McNaught Road SPIRES BMW Aim PH. 795-9314 108 KIPP AVE.

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Mr. Fogel reported a provincial total of 742 active relationships currently. One major constitutional change made at the meeting will now make it possible for women to be elected to board of directors at both the provincial and local level. Reports from the local chapters indicated a generally healthy' state of affairs. Areas where at least part-time paid help has.

been available to supplement the work of the volunteers seemed to indicate the greatest progress. Chapters were encouraged to make sure they planned to send representations to a seminar that will be held in conjunction with Big Brothers of Canada to take place early in June in the Vancouver area. Newly elected president of the provincial body for the coming year will be Al Smoker with Herb Phillips acting as first vice-president. Will elect four FVMPA directors Members of Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Association will cast ballots tomorrow (Thursday) to elect four directors. There are six candidates for office, three of them existing directors.

At last week's annual meeting of the association, Don Bryant was named returning officer. Resolution to abolish proxy voting was defeated. Nominees, in the order they were introduced to the meeting, are Peter Vanderveen of Rosedale, Jake Van Leeuwen of Sumas, Edgar Smith of Courtenay, and existing directors J. C. Cherry of Mt.

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