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The Cookhouse bakery and the Cookhouse kitchen with ample working spaces, were able to provide the much revered quality food and baked goods to the community.8
The Cookhouse Kitchen, 1938.1938
The Cookhouse Restaurant Kitchen, Main Street, Bralorne, B.C
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Don Ingram R.C.M.P. 19491949
Bralorne 2nd Townsite, Bralorne, B.C. Canada
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With the growing community came the need for policing in the valley.11
Bralorne Consolidated School Buildings, 1950.1950
Bralorne Consolidated School buildings, 2nd townsite, Bralorne, B.C.
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Also necessary in the growing community was education. The earliest classrooms were held in the No. 1 bunkhouse until class sizes became too large to accomodate. At this point, makeshift classrooms were set up in the community hall. By 1942 the Bralorne Consolidated School was in place in the 2nd townsite. A highschool, extensions to the elementary school and an annex were also in place. By 1959 the school gymnasium was built and less than a year later, the gym burned to the ground and was not replaced due to the dwindling school population.13
1945, B.C. Telephone Co. Snowmobile.1945
B.C. Telephone Co. office, 1st Townsite, Bralorne, B.C
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The B. C. Telephone Company had an office in the 1st townsite. The telephone customers grew steadily to over 200 lines by the the 1960's. There was an outside crew that worked on land lines but in the winter, there was also a need for specialized equipment such as the snowmobile to get the crew over deep snow banks to buried lines.15
Miriam Kidd in front of B.C. Telephone Office.1945
B.C. Telephone Co. office in Bralone Townsite No. One
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Miriam Kidd was one switchboard operator in about 1945.17
One of three B.C. Telephone Company switchboards in use in Bralorne from 1938 to 1971.24 November 2004
Bralorne-Pioneer Museum Telephone Company Display, Bralorne, 2nd Townsite, Bralorne, B.C
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The B.C. Telephone office switchboard and payment counter is shown on display in the Bralorne-Pioneer Museum.19
B.C. Telephone office sign on display in Bralorne Pioneer Museum, used from 1938 to 1971.24 November 2004
Bralorne-Pioneer Museum Telephone Company Display, Bralorne, 2nd Townsite, Bralorne, B.C
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First Aid Competition winners 1946.1946
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