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As the founding commissioner of the Prince George Senior Lacrosse Association, he revived Canada’s national summer sport and gave the best players in the city a place to showcase their talents, earning the Moose a place in the Prince George Sports Hall of Fame. He was a devoted husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, a former radio personality and a member of the Citizen family for his work selling advertising for Prince George This Week, the Prince George Buy and Sell and special publications in the daily Citizen. A few weeks ago, Glen and his wife Patricia were featured in the Citizen in a column written by Kathy Nadalin which is reposted below. Watch for more on our website later this weekend about the man we called Moose. ....
Longtime retired president of Local 9 of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada (PPWC) union, Len Shankel was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia in 1937. Len and a fellow hunting and fishing friend Jim Smith left their hometowns back east and eventually ended up in Prince Rupert in the 50s. Len arrived in 1956 and worked as a longshoreman on the docks in Prince Rupert. It was a point in time when the hiring procedure for casual workers went like this: the dispatcher would stand on a table and look down over the crowd of people looking for work and randomly select what he thought would be a good worker and Len got the job loading and unloading ships docked at the port. ....