US NO NEW LONG WHITE NO LARGE FIRM US NO GREEN US NO LARGE US NO WAXED SPANISH retirement party Township Council the evening purse Examiner Photo MONTREAL CP Since the November provincial elec tion here the rest of Canada wants more than ever to under stand the Quebecois say two Montrealers who have just edited an unusual and wide ranging anthology called Voices FROM Quebec Michael Thomas and Philip Stratford have compiled 214 ages containing 85 selections oohenchCanadian writers The anthology is organized as setits of confrontations be tween the Bench and English politics and protest sports and entertainment love and fan tasy and the past and present The work of 40 translators is included although Stratford lanky professor of English at the University of Montreal did about third of the translations himself Stratford says there is no other book of this kind in Can ada It has to be the best repre sentative work he said Selections include Work by Andre Langevin Roch Carrier MarieClaire Blais Gabrielle Roy and Rejean Ducharme songs by Gilles Vigneault Beau Dommage and Robert Chars lebois theatre ieces by Anto nine Maillet Michel Tremb lay plus poetry photography cartoons and painting reproductions lot of material had to be rejected and other selections greatly reduced We had an embarrassment Few amenii HEINZ 28 OZ CHICKEN SWEETIE FRUIT FLAVOR SCOTT ROLL PAPER DRINK MIX 2¢ Makes 64 Fl 01 WELCHES is 01 Chain Price 83 Save 24 Limit of Chain Price ll7 Save 48 It9 109 20 HOUSE AND GARDEN 122 01 99 Chain Price 249 Save 50 SHERRIFF 3402 SCALLOPED POTATOES 3539¢ Chain Price 65 Save 26 FRESHIE FLAVORED DRINK MIXES 49 Large Can Chain Price 185 Save 36 KLEENEX 200s FACIAL TISSUE Chain Price 72 Save 17 BROOKSle I6 01 COFFEE PERT PKG OF I60 RED ROSE PKG OF 100 TEA BAGS 23 Chain Price IS9 Save 36 MAXWELL HOUSE OZ INSTANT COFFEE TROWLOCK ISLAND Eng land CP Less than 14 miles from the heart of London in this small island in the River Thames is community of 23 men and women 11 school chil dren four babies seven dogs sundry cats and parrot Progress has almost bypassed leafy sausage shaped Trowlock island though it is within sight of the busy shopping town of Kingston and most of the islands inhabitants would rather have it that way They live contentedly without street lighting roads pubs theatres movies or shops and until fairly recently they were without electricity or running water There was one tap on the island from which they filled gallon cans daily and they filled their bathtubs with water pum ped out of the river Now the islanders have both electricity and water out of tap but there still is no sewage system and they make do with the kind of enclosed toilets used in deluxe motor cruisers The nearest storea fairly comprehensive corner storeis two miles away and the island ers reach it by rowboat punt or flatbottomed chain ferry pro pelled across the 45 feet of wa ter separating them from the mainland The ferry is used chiefly by young mothers with prams and pushchairs and fathers with bi cycles Some of the fathers cycle two miles to the nearest railway station check their bi cycles into the baggage room Chain Price 149 Save 50 Reg 99 Save 40 Chain Price 439 Save 40 FRESH FROZEN SEA HERRING or MACKEREL FRESH NEVER mom gem guvm Cut from Canada Grade Beet BLADE OR SHORT RIB ROAST SCHNEIDERS SKILLET STRIPS SCHNEIDERS CORNED BEEF or MINI DELI Cat from Canada Grade Beef CROSS CUT STEAKS IN OUR DELI HYGRADE COOKED Cut from Canada Grade Beef BLADE STEAKS Schneider Quality Lb MINI SIZZLERS STORE HOURS MonFriL9 Saturdays Sundays 107 Swifts Premium Clerk honored Earl Richardson had his cake and ate it too last weekendA for the vetern clerk of Vespra Township was held at the Minesing Community entre Saturday and over 200 friends and family turned out Organized by Vespra even featured skits portray ing Richardsons life from childhood to the present Reeve Alan Johnston MPP Art Evans and former reeves Roy Hickling Carl Doran and Wellington Dobson were among the wellwishers Richardson received plaque from the On tario government also photograph television set and Quebec Voices unique anthology of riches Stratford said It was gruesomejob We refused to put in the old fashioned picturesque idea of Quebec except for two exam ples Louis Hemons Maria Chapdelaine and Aubert de Gaspes description of An Old Fashioned Feast Stratford and Michael Thomas an English consultant for the Protestant School Board of Montreal spent year read ing discussing and deter mining selections Included is the FLQ mani festo which most people havent seen Then there is Pierre Elliott Trudeaus essay on the Sorry Tale of FrenchCanadian Na tionalism written in the early 19605 In the selection Trudeau bears down hard on sparatism its brand of nationalism and the antiSemitism among some separatists Stratford said there is nothing from the Parti Quebecois politicians recently elected but we have the voices feeding them the grass roots ideas expressed by ar tists You couldnt read this book and not make connections he says They are all there One voice from the past is that of Mere Marie de lln carnation an amazing woman who in letter to her son gives an account of the devastation of an earthquake in Quebec City in 1663 ies here but residents happy and take an electric train to their employment in Kingston Richmond Wimbledon or Lon don few have cars garang on the mainland NEIGHBORS EMIGRATE Mr and Mrs David Hooper have occupied spacious five room bungalow on this island for more than 30 ycais and have no desire to live anywhere else though many neighbors have come and gone during that time and some have emigrated to Canada and Australia couple who went out to British Columbia with their two children some years ago still write to the Hoopers and de clare they lived more primi tively on Irowlock Island than in the Canadian North We have acquired elec tricity and running water since they left Mrs Hooper said but we are still fairly isolated My husband keeps his car on the other side of the river and drives to his work in Twicken ham about five miles from here Our daughter has married and moved away but she al ways enjoys visiting us with her childrenand most teenagers revel in the swimming boating and fishing they get here Some years ago all the in habitants were driven off the island when fastmelting snowfall raised the river by several feet and the floors of their homes though protec tively raised above the ground were flooded to depth of three and four feet INSULATION Just Arrived The FULLY FIREPROOF Materials Fibreglass Rockwool Insulate Now Free Estimates LIMITED SUPPLY Control the Heat Simcoe Economy Insulation Scott Muir Minesing 728I 267 VW ouwwewmw yen11