E.P. (Ned) Painter was a boat builder who established a business on the Tyee Spit, Campbell River in 1924. He specialized in building wooden clinker-built rowboats which where used by local sportfishing guides to fish local waters.
View looking west towards Alder Street, the Lourdes Hospital is the large building on the hill. Buidling on the hill on top right is the Sister of St. Ann's residences, known as Floracita Cottage.
The Campbell River Wharf, built in 1906, with the CP Steamship Princess Beatrice tied up at the wharf. Photograph was taken approximately from the front of the third Willows Hotel. The wooden boardwalk that ran along the beach side of the Island Hwy, visible in the photograph.
One of the Thulin Family operations was a dairy farm known as the Strathcona Dairy. Jack Phillips used to deliver the milk, collect the empty bottles, wash them, milk the cows, and fill the bottles. These had 'Strathcona Dairy' molded into the side of them.
Robin Maier, Carihi's top academic student and citizen for the year, receives a watch from a representative of Janssen's Jeweller's and Rolex Watch Company. John Young, Carihi Principal, stands at centre. Oct. 13, 1965