plorer Henry Larsen.

So far, more than $2,000 in
donations has come from the
community in which the stur-
dy, Royal Canadian
Mounted Police ship, the St.
Roch, was built back in 1928,
and which later became the
first schooner to travel from
the Pacific Ocean to the
Atlantic via the Northwest

Passage with Larsen at its
helm.
The bid to honor the

Norwegian-born seaman has
been in the works for nearly
20 years, with the first: pro-
posal made to North Van-
couver City Council by Van
couver archivist Major
Matthews

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Dr. Ernie Earnshaw, chair-
man of the club’s’ fund-
taising drive, says the current
catalyst to erect a life-size
statue is the development of
the Lonsdale Quay, where a
site — to be called Larsen’s
Landing — has been set aside
by council.

‘“*Back when Matthews
first approached the city,
there was no appropriate site
nor the financial resources,”
for the project to go ahead,
barnshaw said “‘Council ts
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front, so the statue we have
in mind fits in quite well with
that.”’

North Vancouver resident
Joe Olsen, Larsen’s mate on
the St. Roch between 1928
and 1929, agrees with Earn-
shaw that it’s high time the
project get off the ground.
‘*He was a fine captain and a
good man It would've been
difficult for the RCMP to
find a better suited person to
command the St. Roch,’’
Olsen said, an RCMP sailor
who remained a. lifelong
friend of L.arsen’s.

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January 11,

Olsen, now 79, recqunted
Larsen’s fascination with the
Arctic and his dreams to ply
through the ice-clogged Nor-
thwest Passage.

Back when Olsen was on
the St. Roch, which was
designed as a patrol vessel,
crew members navigated the
western Arctic, supplying
goods to remote Eskimo set
tlements and preserving law
and order

It was not until 1940, when
Canada was at war, that
Larsen received the go-ahead

to sail from Vancouver to

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Passage in a bid to establish
sovereignty in the north.
Leaving in June of that year,
the ‘‘ugly duckling,’’ as
Larsen described the vesel,

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ABOARD the St.
Roch boat is Joe
Olsen, the 79-year-

old North Van-
couver resident who
once sailed on the
boat with Henry
Larsen at the helm,
the Norwegian
seaman who ex-
plored the Northwest
Passage, travelling
from Vancouver to
Halifax. The famous
RCMP boat built in
1928, was placed in
dry dock at the Van-
couver Maritime
Museum in 1954.

slowly made its way along the
northern edge of the
continent.

Caught twice in ice, forc-
ing crew members to spend
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