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THE SCARLETT O'HARA EARLY NAVIGATION Canadian Norih Preserves Relics By JIM WHELLY Lake Athabaska they were used Canadian Press Correspondent under sail but the strong rowing FORT SMITH, N.W.T. (CP)--A arms of from four to six voy relic of the early days of naviga- ageurs were the power for river tion in the Canadian north can be travel. | seen on the top of the steep west] Members of the York boat fam-| bank of the Slave River. |ily varied in size from those like It is a well-preserved York boat|the Scarlett Ohara with a keel and its resting place is about length of 24 feet to some with 30- halfway between Fort Fitzgerald, foot keels and an over-all length Alta., and Fort Smith, N.W.T., on|of 42 feet, a nine-foot beam and Alberta's northern border. |inside depth of three feet. The boat is the Scarlett Ohara] At their peak, the softwood but it was apparently built many hoats are believed to have num- years ago and there is no indica-/pered at least 200 and provided tion that the name has anyfhing occupation' for more than 1,200 to do with the hercine of Gone voyageurs, carrying everything With the Wind, the Margaret from six-pounder guns to live Mitchell novel published in 1936. buffalo along Canada's inland York boats were once the big- waterways. gest freight carriers on the Atha-| yu. glave River boat is on an baska, Slave and Mackenzie|,q trai] 75 feet above the water rivers, each capable of carrying noun a5 Mountain Portage, part JPore than three tons of cargo 10 of the gverland route which skirts ar northern settlements. [four sets of rapids ONE OTHER BOAT : SQUARE STERN This craft is of special interest! 1; is a slightly modified version because only one other York boa! of the York boat because it has a is known to exist. The Hudson's square stern. Its stern plate is Bay Company brought that one|marked "Fort Smith, N.W.T.," from Norway House to Lower pi how or when it came to rest HIGH MALARIA TOLL JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Six thousand persons have died in a malaria epidemic in central | Java since October, officials re-| Transport Minister Hees ported Sunday. By JOHN YORSTON |icebreaker service already was Canadian Press Staff Writer [stretched to the limit, providing QUEBEC (CP)-- Quebec City protection for coastal shipping, has come through its first full|serving Atlantic ports and keep- season as a winter port with flagsiing the St. Lawrence free ol flying. |flood-producing jams. Although the relatively mill] Several ways of skirting the winter on the St. Lawrence River|problem of shortage of icebreak- did not provide a severe a ei have been mentioned. One shippers and businessmen feel|would be 'to copy the Scandina- winter shipping has proved itself/vian example of imposing tariffs and that Quebec now is a year-jon all ships in relation to their round port. Some predict 35 ships rated performance in ice , The will come this way next winter. better prepared the ship, the Between mid-December and|lower the rate. mid-March, 22 ocean ships had| Charging one shipper $1.25 a sailed in and out of port carrying ton compared with 25 cents for an estimated 174,000 tons of cargo|reinforced ships would be a way valued at $55,000,000. Of this, of telling those with poorly-equip- 72,000 tons was imported and/ped ships they weren't wanted. 102,000 exported. PRIVATE ICEBREAKER Quebec City Proven As Year-Round Port After a weekend in the ice, both were freed by the icebreaker| Wolfe, which also freed two| coastal ships from the same field. Nearly every vessel coming] here this winter was designed | specifically for navigation through ice. They are little ice- breakers in themselves. DAN SHIPS Leading the way were the Dan ships owned by J. Lauritzen Lines of Copenhagen which has a fleet of 19 trading to the Arctic and carrying scientific expeditions to the Antarctic. Canada Steamships Lines en- tered the new Eskimo which made two round trips. On its first voyage it plowed on to Trois Rivieres, 75 miles below Mont- But the heady wine of econmic Another solution reported under ' s. | : : change can produce hangovers. | ,o,cidoration by Quebec business- The department of transport has one in trying to serve both the Maritimes and Quebec with ice- : breakers. The Maritimes, losing a Small icebrepies. difficulty for some of their traditional winter) ginning on the St. Lawrence this cargo, have an economic one. | winter. One captain said his trip EAST COAST STAND |was like a summer voyage. The department had been asked| Only one incident marred the to supply icebreaker protection season. The Helga Dan, Danish- for ships coming here. Maritime owned pioneer of winter naviga- |interests say the men and shippers was the pos- sibility of building or chartering must not improve service to onelice field off Father Point in Janu- y as she drew inshore to drop area to the economic detriment a of another. h ilot, The Egyptian vessel said Port 'before the season started that iterranean, also was government [tion here, became caught in an| Said, designed for the Med- caught. Anglo-Canadian Pulp and Paper] Mills Limited had the Granwood THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesday, Merch 22, 1960 7 which carried 15,000 tons of newsprint and 800 tons of pulp to Britain in two voyages. Imperial Oil company brought the small tanker Maplebranch out of winter harbor at Sorel, Que., and made four quick round trips between the company refinery at Dartmouth, N.S., and Quebec. But the darlings of the winter shipping season are the tidy, red- painted Danish freighters. Four members of the Dan fleet--the we had a mid-winter, we are happy with the experiment and will probably do it again next winter." Among other things, winter shipping provided 200 longshore- men with off-and-on work. Tho: mas Richards, business agent for the International Longshoremen's Association (Ind.), saldcthe men earned $80 to $90 a w when chell said perhaps 80 per cent of the cargo handled in Quebec would have gone through Mari- time ports, ""This port has possibly lost 50,- 000 tons of cargo," he said, "But 1 cannot say the people who are going to Quebec are making any money, It's a publicity stunt to a certain extent, a ploneer spirit." Harry Mathers, chairman of the ts committee of the Hal- hi ships were in. In about 450 longshoremen are employed full time, but in previous winters the only men hired were about 15 freight handlers working in storage sheds. HALIFAX Helga, Frida, Thora and Anita-- called here at least once. NO TROUBLE They were all ahead of sche- dule, said a spokesman for the line's agents here. They had no trouble, The reaction in Halitax was The vessels, capable of carry- ing between 3,000 and 5,00 tons, Simos the opposite to the happy were full both ways. Halifax Port Manager J.R. Mit- ifax Board of Trade,'said any cargo going to Quebec is a poten- tial loss to the Maritimes. "It's not a logical winter port anyway," he said. A business source here said the Maritimes may some day be happy to have winter shipping in Quebec. "The two economies have something 2 common in many real, == FLA | Science Fi A world stands: still in Attention, Golden Amazon future by John Russell Fearn. What would happen if earth reached a state of perfect equilibrium? | I You'll find out in "The Standstill Planet", this | week's action-packed Star Weekly Novel. | polar department, said next win. 1 «..Yes! and feather. ter may be tougher, but the Dan light and crackling ships will be back. crisp because they're 4 An official of Anglo-Canadian "AQUAFLAKED™ said the company was pleased with winter navigation. "Granted | @ baking process | exclusive 10. + ¢ ction Fans! the newest novel of the (IER Qleators CRACKERS & SALTINES com You've admired Corvaii's style! You've taken your Fort Garry on the Red River 18 miles north of Winnipeg in 1935 and it is on display there, York boats 'were patterned after the fishing boats of the Ork- ney Isles by employees of the Hudson's Bay Company during the 18th century. 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