Lowe High School - Towers Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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T H K T () VV E K S Page Sixty-Nine LITECACy entennia 1 By- Winter MYRA PLAWUCK1 The first telegraph line was opened on De¬ cember 19, 1846, between Toronto and Hamilton. The mayors of Toronto and Hamilton exchanged greetings and the public was given free service during the day. Telegraphy was somewhat a curiosity, but with the coming of the railways in the 1850’s the practical value of the telegraph became firmly established. By the time the Great Wes¬ tern Railway came to the Detroit River front in 1854, Detroit was in touch by telegraph with the important centres in the Eastern United States and Canada. Early in the days of telegraphy, Windsor was also served with the telegraph. One of the early telegraphers in Windsor was Mr. George E. Copeland who also became a prominent Windsor book store proprietor. His widow, Mrs. Mary Morrison Copeland, now in her 90’s, lives at 2284 Victoria Avenue, Windsor. On Thursday, December 19, 1946, in the W. D. Lowe Vocational School, Windsor, Dr. Neil F. Morrison and his geography classes commemorated this anniversary by studying the topic “Canadian Telegraphy . Incidentally, Dr. Morrison also writes for the Windsor Daily Star every Saturday. 3u Jflemoriam (Continued from Page 62) when, in the greatest combined operation in history, the Allied Army landed in Normandy, and stayed there. After strenuous fighting France, Belgium and Holland were liberated, the Rhine crossed, and by the early summer of 1945 the Germans had had too much. In the meantime American, British, Indian, Australian and New Zealand troops were fight¬ ing and winning in the Pacific. As greater for¬ ces gathered, the atomic bomb was introduced and suddenly Japan collapsed. Through the War, The School played its part. Tech students flew with the gallant few in the Battle of Britain, kept the planes flying, fought the U-boat packs to get the convoys through to Britain and Russia, landed and died at Dieppe or lingered in prison camps. They swept the mines, knocked out the coast defen¬ ces and landed the invasion fleets; they faced HOWELL KNOWLTON JEWELLERS 131 Ouellette Ave. Windsor the flak and fighters to knock out industrial Germany; they broke the West Wall and fought through the mud and dust of Sicily, Italy, France and Holland into Germany. They served and died that democracy and all that it means might live; that we may at¬ tend the Synagogue, Central United or Sacred Heart Church, the Salvation Army Citadel or the Free Methodist Mission; that we may be¬ long to the C.I.O., the A.F. of L., the Masonic Lodge, the Rotary Club, the Boy Scouts, the Knights of Columbus or the A.K.O. Fraternity; that the motto of our famous police shall remain “Defend the Right”; that the concentration camp with its whip and starvation shall remain something we read about; that Habeas Corpus and Trial by Judge shall remain our birthright; that we may take our soap box to Lanspeary Park and explain to anyone who will listen, what is wrong with the Government of Mr. King, Mr. Drew or Mr. Reaume; that on election day all persons of legal age may in the secrecy of the polling booth mark their ballot to determine who will represent us in Toronto or Ottawa. They did their BEST: can WE do LESS? f “JLp Its” Campus Shop LYLE MOLYNEAU. Prop. MEN ' S FURNISHINGS LADIES ' SUITS AND TOPCOATS 1060 Drouillard Phone 4-7777

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