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22 THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE, Thursday, May #1, 1956 Quebec's Voyageurs Civilization's Vanguard {who were the motive power of the canoes he made -- the Montreal fur trade, and whose backs and canoe of 35 to 40 feet, manned by paddles, in the century up to 1840, 14 men, for use on the big rivers opened the territory that is now and Great Lakes; the North canoe, western Canada and the northwest- 25 feet or so, on smaller streams y beyond Grand Portage accompanied by the irrepressible ern states, ; CARRIED OWN SUPPLIES spirit of these small singing men Much has been written of the And the manner of building and who drove the big canoes, these traders and the explorers, the were the rations that opened up a bosses. What this Minnesota his- continent. torian was after was the man with Peas, touched up with a bit of the paddle in his hand, the song fat pork, from, the St. Lawrence'on his lips, the incredible endur- to Mackinac, Corn from Mackinac ance in his body. aver the Grand Portage and on to To get him, she sought out the Lake Winnipeg. North and west detail in diaries and accounts, pub- from there, rubbaboo lished and unpublished, of travel- Rubbaboo? It was simply pem- Jers he carried West. He himself mican soup. Pressed and pounded left no private record. He could buffalo meat boiled in water, with neither read nor write. He could a bit of flour and sugar added only paddle and sing and lug great when such luxuries were on the weights. And, if one of his nas cards. |sengers . chanced to be a lady, LIVELY DESCRIPTION pluck wild roses for her from the The recipe for rubbaboo is one clefts of rock of a thousand small matters de- But, though he left tailed by Grace Lee Nute in her Miss Nute has found him living Miss Nute's voyageur was not book The Voyageur. They add up in the words of others. There are, only a paddle-man. Separate chap to a lively picture of these men for instance, the dimensions of the ters outline his role as settler, sol- THE BOOK CORNER By THE CANADIAN PRESS Peas, corn and rubbaboo Translated into muscle on the backs and arms of voyageurs, and strips of birch rind sewed together with red spruce roots, slipped over a thin white-cedar framework, and caulked with melted pine gum. In these days of service stations it is interesting to think of the voya- geurs carrying their supplies of gum--for the process had to be repeated daily or oftener to keep the craft watertight--and strips of bark for mending the breakage caused by rock or root. To drive these sensitive craft their thousands of miles, up and * down rivers, only small tough men would do no writing, space and leg-room repairing. The craft were built of of Big men took too much ger | dter and explorer. Voyageurs! ) in the Revolu tured and held Michili : for British Canada in the war of 1812 They were effective partisans, though wont to come on parade with pipes in their mouths, rations stuck on their bayonets, and to salute with a sweeping bow and a "bon jour, monsieur le colonel." The book, originally published in 1931, is re-issued by the Minnesota Historical Society of St. Paul, reprint is made possible by a Chie- ago enthusiast, proceeds to go into a revolving fund for assisting pub- lication of books in this field "Arsous-kiisi-rarpi,'"' or the man good heart, was the Indian name for Rev. Albert Lacombe sho went to the wilds as a young Oblate missionary and served the Indians and Metis of the great Northwest for his lifetime--he died in 1916 In The Bold Heart (Macmillan) Josephine Phelan of Toronto has written specially for younger read- ers. but for people of all ages it is an interesting study of the histori- cal events of the Northwest Terri- tories and of the work done by the 'black robes." Miss Phelan wrote two previous books in the same ral field of history, winning a governor-general"s award for her study of D'Arcy McGee in The Ar: dent Exile, and a work for juve- niles, The Boy Who Ran Away. 1 pola side The| SERPENT MISSING PETERBOROUGH (CP)--A 50- pound, four-foot-wide serpent 1s missing. The serpent, carved from | aire laminated plywood, was an orna-| I "It would take four years and a mental feature in the lobby of a | Philadelphia lawyer o find out hotel. Officials are wondering how everything he owns.' the thief managed to walk off with Listing four companies which he the serpent without being seen. said Murchison controls or owns, Mr. Rea sstimated their total as- sets at $2,285,250,000 "Yet oy 'cannot raise $80,000, 000," he said. also will put the Senate in a posi-| tion for fast handling of the pipe-| line bill, by which the government proposes to Jd Trans - Canada 'ipe Lines Lid. up to $80,000,000) ., inlv to build the western leg of the pro-| Certainly, posed 2,200-mile Alberta-to-Mont- Motes, but the spelling -- oh real pipeline this year. | dear!!" Britain's production , of metal { Rorking machine tools rose from £6,000,000 in 1935 to £66,000,000 in LAST (night gave a new name to the com- "Trans- 't raise the mon 4 ANBE RRA (Reuters) Aus. &! yy ay: TORONTO (CP) Wage currently short of dock work hour Has Billions (he said in mock seriousnéss in the introduced in Parliament Wednes- {800 members of the United Steel Then he went on to talk about € onto Spadina, Wednesday T e issi tion immediately called a one-day getting set for fast action--whether a conciliation board under judge ---- per empmm---- i gove of $708 ene -- |versial gas pipeline bill.. Utilities schedule to be established by Janu- is $87,000,000, They are getting to buffalo days when Father La- zte notice WedneSday night he will retroactive to last Feb. 1. o only $8,250,000. He lived through these days into permit the Senate to move any |Murchison, Texas multi - million. Rupert's Land from the Hudson's unanimous consent of the House came other great chapters in the this time each session when the the second Riel outbreak and the funds to carry it through June, or Lacombe's earlier and more pre- This legislation usually gets to The author has captured the color|through so royal assent can be sir, I can read my . . Rustralia Rppoints Senate Stri S 'Steep Rock Mines Rea Says {pany that is to build the Alberta: Waterfront Cont 1 {to-Montreal natural gas pipeline: aleriro ontrolers Giv P H t ves Pay Hois h tralia's turbulent waterfront, n- in- rans- an a {Canada Pipe Lines Lt, rags tu 0 Co! " stantly threatened by strikes ind or ast out creases averaging 22.8 cents an These poor little millionaires," are included in a new con- o will be administered in future oy {tract announced today between Commons. Maybe they are ! y 7 /i ill} | St k Mine a new body provided for in a bill] n 1 £ ine eep Rock Iron Ore Mines and OTTAWA (CP)--Charles E. Rea. ! : i tyke wg AT . ite Ip : the holdings of shareholders in day night. workers Union at Atikokan. rogressive Conservative member qm. Canada. The Waterside Workers' Federa- OTTAWA (CP)--The Senate is The settlement was reached by for : i d |{Company~"1 fing" that this com: shutdown on the waterfront June it be on emergency supply legisla. Walter Little of Parry Sound. It an hac) a total invested capi 6 to discuss the hill. [tion or the government's contro- provides for a base rate of $155 SALLY'S SALLIES pg a apts: (an hour and a job classification eee ------ 14 3790.000,000, Corpora: The Bold Heart is a heart-warm-' Solicitor - General Macdonald, tion--""Their total invested capital ing account of Indian life in the government leader, gave the Sen- ary, 1957. The wage increases are her be a poor comp "i combe first became a missionary move for a suspension of certain Canadian Delhi il Co.--"'Assets and trusted friend to the Indians. Senate rules. Their suspension will hv Speaking of individual sharehold: the new era in the West started piece of legislation through all its ers, Mr. Rea referred to Clint by the government purchase of stages in a single day without the! Bay Company. Senate rules barring one - day Along with the land transfer passage usually are suspended at story of the West--the Riel upris- government puts through an in- ing, the transcontinental railway, terim supply bill to provide it with rapid growth of white settlement. until all government departmental They signalled an end to Father estimates have been approved. ferred life of working among the the Senate only at the last minute Indians and Metis of the plains. and there is need to push it of the period in her lively account given. of the missionary's eventful life. In this case, the rule suspension 21 BOND W. LAST 2 DAYS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE of these SENSATIONAL BARGAINS FRIDAY EVENING 1:00 P.M. 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