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121 West 14th St., North Van.
980-0581

CORRECTION NOTICE

The District of North Vancouver 1996 Local
Government Election Brochure which was
distributed to householders in the District of
North Vancouver contained a typographical
error regarding the spelling of one of the
Candidates for School Trustee. The correct
spelling is as follows:

VANGERVOORT, KRISTINA, 3615 Mount
Seymour Parkway

In addition, the Projected Timeline chart in the
Referendum Overview should read:

TOTAL $26,000,000

| $40 MILLION "MINI-
| WHISTLER" SLATED

| FOR CYPRESS

| PROVINCIAL PARK!

What impact will this have on West Vancouver?

Loss of public parkland and green
4 space?

. Increased traffic, noise,
4 pollution?

Overloaded sewer system?

4 Increased risk of watershed

contamination?

. Increased pressure to develop
ce | above the 1200-foot level?

The BC Government has asked
West Vancouver Council to
approve asi application for a $2
million, provincially funded,
15,000 person/day capacity,
j_ water sewer utility connection
| from West Vancouver to the 4
4 park. Ask candidates for
Mayor and Council where
they stand on these issues!

| Paid for by:
Friends of Cypress Provincial Park

MOonpDAY, NOVEMBER 11.

le are still

But they ask to be remembered

By Geoffrey Wallen Burnett
Contributing Writer

FOR Remembrance
Day last year, the
North Shore News
published an article
deploring the Canadian
government’s unjust
treatment of an almost
forgottea minority, the
British and Canadian
Merchant Navy (M.N.)
survivors of World War
Il. Tam one of them.
The article suggested that
there is no reasonable expla-
nation for the government's

decision to not recognize the
M.N. as war veterans, and to

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compensate them as such.
There are reasons. Here are
three of them:

The most significant one is
that che MLN. survivors were
unable to come together after
the war to press for fair weat-
ment. We were relatively few
in number and were stili man-
ning vital supply lines all over
the world. Indeed we were
not permitted to leave our
ships until well after the war
ended and the “veterans”
were taken care of. Our
Canadian government took
advantage of this,

A second reason is to be
found in this statement by
Senator Jack = Marshall,
Chairman of the Senate
Council on Veteran’s Affairs:
Moe although they suffered

roportionate- racemes

IV higher casu-

alties than the

uniformed ser-

vices, M,N,

survivors were

not given the

special benefits

offered to

other service-

men .... Post-

war policy

toward the

9,500 sur-

vivors of the

wartime M.N.

was based cn

the government's desire to
encourage expansion of the
peacetime merchant navy. To
further this objective, it decid-
ed to deny M.N. survivors any
benefits which might help
them to resume careers of
their own choosing.”

The third major reason was
the prevailing belief that the
M.N. was highly paid.

Atter I was released, I
attended U.B.C. with five
other M.N. survivors who
were also denied educational

"Photo submitted:

GEOFFREY Burnett stands beside one .
of the guns mounted on the. Merchant.
Navy assault ship the Empire Halberd.

benefits. § We
researched. the
matter of war- -
time pay scales,
and sent our
report to the
overiment. Probabl
ecause it refuted this belicf,
and because. we were
undoubtedly regarded as a
“rag tag” nuisance, we
received no response whatso-
ever.

My pay during: the five-
plus years of war-time service
was overall about the same as
a naval officer’s with training,
responsibilities and experience
almost equal to mine. For my
first three-and-a-half years in
North Atlantic convoys, I

existed on an at-sea officer’s -
training 8 pay of about $48 per. .
month.. I could. not afford” to
go home on leave’ for four .:
years. I paid for my own’:
clothing, -shoreside. trans-.
portation, nautical. college...
fees, insurance, ‘medical etc.,
and received practically none :
of the “perks” that my Navy”,
friends seemed to be constant-
ty gerting.

eeo ;
LEST We Forget. How do |
you think this sits with. us

who, for 50 years, have tried ©
to forget?

See Feelings page 32

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