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Graphic Story of Men Who Opened Up Continent

Prince Rupert Dally News:

Thursday, , June

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1, 1956

Spring is, Here

See Us.Now for. Your

@ Bulbs

@ Seeds
-@ Fertilizers @ Pet Supplice

PRINCE RUPERT
FLORISTS

300 3rd Ave, W.

Dil 2347

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hy The Canadian Press

Poas, corn and rubbaboo.

Translated into musele on the
backs and arms of voyageurs, and
avcumpanied by the irrepressible
epirit of these small singing men
who drove the big canoes, these
were the rations that opened up
‘a continent,

Peas, touched up with a bit of
fat pork, from the St, Lawrence
to Mackinac, Corn from Mack-
inac oyer the Grand Portage and
on to Lake Winnipeg. North and
west from there, rubbaboo,

Rubbabvo? It was slmply pem-
mican soup, Pressed and pound-
led buffalo meat. polled in water,
with a. bit of flour and sugar ad-

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NOTICE OF

 

MEETING

A Special General Meeting of the Civic

Centre Association of. Prince Rupert vill be held

 

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Thursday: June 7, 1956 of 8 p.m, in the Civic
Centro Main Lounge.

The ‘order of business will be Lo make changes in the

By-laws
their study of (he

at Che Civie Centre. In addition to approve the expenditure

aS recommended by the Board of Directors, from

jivic Centre Commission Report. Copies J
of the full notice of motion are available for-any member

of funds for {he purehiase of new chalrs,

Any member iy good standing of the age of 19. ‘years
and over will he entitfed te voting privileges,

Prudhomr

heating. Radi

Rupert exchange.

A year round residence or occasional resort
' on future paved highway
Su'table for residence or club purposes.

$8,000 Cash
G, HELGERSON LTD.

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Fred Jones
General Secretary,

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MAIN HOUSE- “running wate’, inside ‘aude, ae
chen, dining room, slecping room, hall, bathroom
Large veranda, sidewalks. Gas cooking, refriger-
‘ator. 3500 watt light plant, 110 volts A.C. Oil
o telephone connecting with Prince
Fully furnished and equipped.

cv $10,000 Terms

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q:Grand Portage. 5

rendurance in his ‘yody,

detail in diaries and accounts,

“himself le{t no private record. He
could neither read nor write. He

‘a lady, pluck wild roses for her
‘from the clefts of rock.

are, for instance, the diracnsions

   

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old in The Voyageur” by Minnesota Historian |

Paul, The reprintis made pos-
sible by a Chicago enthusiast,
proceeds to go into a revolving
fund for assisting. publication of
books fn this field, :

ded when such luxuries were
the cards,

The recipe for ruvbahao is one
of a thousand small matters de-
tailed by Grace Lee Nute in her
hook “The Voyageur.” They add
up to a lively picture of these!
men who were the motive power]
of the fur trade, and whose backs
and paddles, inthe centary up'to:
1840, opened the territory that is
sow western Canada and the
northwestern states,

Much has been written of the
traders and the explorers, the
bosses. What this Minnesota his-
torian was efter was the man
with the paddle in his hand, the
song on his lips, the ineredible

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THE BOLD HEART .°.
“Arsous-Kitsl-rarpl,” . or. the
man of good. heart, was' the In-
dian name for Rev, Albert La-
combe who went to the wilds as
a young Oblate -nisslonary and
served the Indians’ and Metis of
the great Northwest for his
lifetime—he died in’ 1916,°

In “The Bold Heart” (Maemil-
lan} Josephine Pheta® of Toron-
to has written specially : for
younger readers, . However, for
people of all ages itjds an inter-
esling study .of. the historical
events of the Northwest Terrl--
tories and of the’ work done’ ‘by
“he of the black--robes.””

Miss’ Phelan. wrote tivo: prev-,
jous books-in.the general. field
of history, winning a governor-
general's award for her study. of
WArcy McGee in The Ardent
Exile, and a work for. juveniles,
‘The vey. Who Ran. Away,

“The dold. Heart. is. a heart-
warming account of Indian life.
0 the buffalo days when Father

Lacombe first.became.a mission.
ary and trusted friend ‘to the,
Indians. He jived through these

To get him, she sought out the

published and ‘unpublished, of
‘travellers he carried West, He!

,could only paddle and.sing and
‘lug creat woizhis -And, if one
‘of his passengers chanced to he

But, (hough he left no writing,
Miss Nule his found him living
‘tn (he words of olhers. There

of ‘ihe cannes: ‘he. 7! ‘made—the
Montreal canoe ‘of: 35 to 40 feet,
manned by 14 men, lor use on
the big rivers and Great Lakes;
the North canoe, 25 feel or so.

on smaller streams beyond purchase of Rupert's Land from

the Hudson’s ‘Bay. Company,
"Along with: the ‘land’ transfer
came othet great ° chapters in.
ihe story of the West—the Riel
uprising, the transcontinental
Jailway, the second Riel
break and the rapid growth of
white settlement. They signalled

CARRIED OWN SUPPLIES

And the manner of building
and repairing,..The craft were
built of strips of birch rind sew-
ed together with red spruce. roots;
slipped over uw thin white- cedar

 

wees eiing to think of the ‘voyageurs

framework, and: caulked with jan end to, Father~.
‘melted pine gum.. In these days
iof service stations it is interest-!
and. Metis of: the plains.
icarrying their supplies of: gum—
for the process had to be repeat-
red daily or oftener to keep the
craft watertighi—ana strips: of
‘bark for mending. the breakage |.
reaused: by rock or root.

. To drive these sensitive craft
their thousands of miles, up and
‘down rivers, only sinall tough |
‘men would do, Big men took:
too much space and leg-room. |
Miss-Nute's voyageur was not |
cane a peddte-insn, Separate
chapters outline his role as sete 2
‘ues, suldier and€x xplorer. Voy-:
-ageurs fought ; ‘on bok sides in|
‘the Revolution. captured and |
‘held Michilimackinac., for British |
Canada in the war of 1812,
'  Vhey were effective partisans,
{though-wont to come on: parade}
Fwith stpes"in thefe moths; raf
;lions stuck on (heir buyonets,
“and to salute with a sweeping,
‘bow and a “bon jour, monsicur le;
!eolonel.”
The book, criginal., y published
| 1 1931, is re-issued bv the Min- |
| nesola Historical Society of ‘St.

account of the missionary’s
eventful life

 

 

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The same muse ‘that. Anspired
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With: Cadiz as. his. -atarting |
point,’ Mr, Helm shows, us ‘arches,
churches and museums and rem-
inisces about the romance of the
past,” He: even preflicis a. third
golden epoch: for this city, located
ab the door of two seas, '

he: enjoys the: vineyards, sampl- .
ing: everything from, ‘bodegas to.
Napoleon champagne, Before he
becomes: ‘engrossed -in- ‘the com-
parisons of Moorish and Gothic
architecture,: however; he ‘takes

 

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churches,

“city's. great
“There! ‘we.’ ‘see:. ‘the’

the'/,conventional : Pachecos,
through; baroque to, Velasque.; and,

 

days into the new era in’ the |
West started by -the government,

outs:

Lacombe’s
earlier and more preferred. life
of working among the Indians word pictures. -

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{show the baroque painter at. ‘the
i height of. his lyrical power...

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Romans. Moors end ‘Arabs: who|-
preceded the present inhabitants:

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which we are-introduced to. pow- |.
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the. past and the present on ‘every

page. of. Mr.-Helm's. book,. whisks |;

us back.and forth through space.
and: time.”
sational ‘end - readable.
is just. incidental. to.the: ‘creation
of his almost,’ three-dimensional
Spring in Spain

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the past, is interwoven with that t.
of, the. present. pe hay e

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morning, before the. two-hour}
noon rest period; in midafternoon

>In Seville, Mr: “Helm takes the .
transition 0; the art forms. from

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