by Candace A. McQuatt
40 years ago
Curry Construction was digging away on the old Capitol Theatre site where Bellanca Developments was developing the Scotia Centre Building.
The project, when completed would be ten storeys and provide a further 120,000 square feet of retail/office space.
First phase was scheduled for occupancy by December, 40,000 square feet, two level retail mall and office space structure with the Scotia Bank as the prime tenant.
By the fall of 1979, developers were hoping to have a further eight storeys and 80,000 square feet of office space available for occupancy.
Bellanca Developments at the time were also involved in the Bellanca Building and the new Precambrian Building.
30 years ago
Nerco Con Mine lost part of their power supply when a floatplane coming in for a landing on Back Bay clipped and severed the power lines feeding the mine from its Bluefish power plant.
The mine lost power from the plant for about three hours when the plane's pontoons severed two wires, said Darrell Spilde, then Nerco Con Mine general manager.
No one was injured in the incident, reported then Fire Chief Mickey Beauchamp.
20 years ago
These three men were in town to decided the fate of the Yellowknife Curling Club's bid to host the national 1999 McCain TSN Skins Game in December.
Pictured were Doug Maxwell, selection chair, Barry Duller, creative director for TSN, and Scoop Fredstrom, director of public relations for McCain Ltd.
The trio stopped by the Yellowknife Golf Club, one of the many spots they toured during their 18 hour stay in the city.
The men had to decide whether Whitehorse or Yellowknife would get the nod to host.
Unfortunately the trio later chose Whitehorse to host the 1999 McCain TSN Skins game, and Wayne Middaugh's rink from Ontario won $58,900.
10 years ago
The city was considering buying a full-power generator for the Multiplex arena as a result of a four-hour citywide power outage experienced the month before, which caused an emergency evacuation of 1,000 bingo players from the arena.
At the time the Multiplex had a small back-up generator but it couldn't sustain electricity for long periods of time.
City programs manager Brian Kelln, said the arena use to have a more powerful generator but council had removed it several years prior to reduce costs.
Councillors expressed support for the plan during their committee meeting and expected to a new Multiplex generator in the next year's budget.