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-^ct/vt_X4^^Y' W / / 'i$i{ mure man uicpv,.iUUu nuig CP ship first into Montreal MONTREAL (CP) - The 6,000-ton Canadian freighter Beaverpiqe won a five-ship race upstream yesterday to become the first arrival of 1970 in the port of Montreal. The Beaverpine, of CP Ships, arrived at 12:19 a.m. with general cargo from London, Rotterdam and Liverpool. The master, Capt. J. W. S. Dunn, won the gold-headed cane presented annually to the captain of the first ship of the year to enter pprt. The victory hinged on good timing as well as speed. The Beaverpine was outstripped in the 90-mile race from Trois-Rivieres by the 4,500-ton Russian freighter Lena, but the Lena entered port just before midnight as the last arrival of 1969. The five ships left Trois-Rivieres yesterday after icebreakers smashed a path through a jam on the St. Lawrence River. B12 THE GLOBE AND MAIL COMPANIES IN THE Beavfer Mc Beaver Maritimes Ltd. of Montreal has a $2,775,221 contract from the federal Department of Public Works for construction of a dock at the new Digby, N.S., ferry terminal. The contract provides for building of a concrete crib- ____________________ work dock 461 feet long, lift ... °" '""Sen aH-noiioS" bridge abutments and devel- EAST-WEST DISPUTE OVER FIRST ARRIVAL'Jf\njL3'~ 7Zt^Z^t°\onzZ Jhe !irst SDh'P -in ^e Montreal harbor every year wins a gold-headed cane. The "STL^ (Steffi 5 ^^fd^i^MW^^ 'Tg ?hanCh0r' rec+eived ^ yesterday, but a the dock to accommodate the §°viet freignTer the LerrarTfeTT.p first and her crew contends she should have won Digby-Saint John ferry is trie symbol. Port officials say the Lena entered the harbor in the last hours of 1969. scheduled for next December. • %M t »»*»------