- ?b?"DALE, Arthur Lyon Clarence?/b?- In hospital, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 1966, Arthur Dale, beloved husband of Luella Dale, 2635 Marple Crescent, in his 83rd year, father of Mrs. K. E. Davidson (Margaret), Mrs. N.H. Green (Amy), Mrs. Edward Flowers (Elaine), Mrs. R.D. Sully (Helen), Harold, Ashton, John and Milton, survived by 11 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
Resting at Veitch-Draper Ltd., Bank at Carling. Service in chapel Friday , 11 o'clock. Interment Capital Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Canadian Cancer Society".
"Service Medal" "Honor Arthur L. Dale" "It was a proud day for Arthur L.C. Dale, former lockmaster at Hog's Back, when he recei ved a medal from the King this morning for his 38 years service on the Rideau Canal. It came as rather a surprise to Mr. Dale, too, who considered that his canal days were officially over. But as A. R. Whittier, superintendent engineer of the Rideau Canal explained , "These things take time." Shortly after 67 year-old Mr. Dale's retirement last September, the Department of Transp or recommended him for the Imperial Service Medal. Permission was duly granted by the King and Mr. Whittier made the presentation at the locks this morning. Onlookers at the presentation included Mrs. Dale, members of the Dale family, and Leslie Watt, the new lockmaster at Hog's Back. Never Tardy during Mr. Dale's entire tenure as an employee of the Rideau Canal he has never been late for work his records shows. That includes the time he worked as lockman at Hartwell Locks .
He started there in 1912 employed then by the old Department of Railways and Canals. In 1924 he went back to Hog's Back as lockmaster. "I'm not sorry that my job is finished now," he told newsmen this morning. But he admitted that he came back to the locks "every day". He lives less than a mile away on the Brockfield Road so the urge to "keep an eye on things" is easy to gratify. But far be it from Mr. Dale to interfere with Lockmaster Watt. He expressed every confidence in Mr. Watt's ability to tend the locks, but he likes to go back and recapture some of the old memories lingering around the grounds. A canal is like a highway and a lockmaster sees a good deal of life passing by.
Mr. Dale was born on a Shawville farm and worked there for his father a few years before moving to Cobalt where he worked in the mines. Later he moved to the mines at Porcupine and Haileybury before beginning his canal career.
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1884 - 1966 (82 years)
