8 - Friday, August 23, 1985 - North Shore News

STORY DIDN'T FiT

THIS ISN’T my story..

you will agree that it was worth stealing. It’s a

But when you *ve read it

wonderful advertisement for Wimpland.

As you may know, it has
become more or less criminal
* to recall the military glories

of the distant Canadian past.

I got my first whiff of that
over 20 years ago when. a
CBC producer suggested to
the brass that the Battle of
the Plains of Abraham

saxgood | di
_. drama. :They nearly fainted.
’ French power being on the

t

increase,: “the... establishment.

“was already : pretending: that:

‘no such battle ‘had ever
taken place. : More’ recently,’
the National’. Film: Board:

THE HIGHRISE controver-
sy in West Vancouver is once

ed :-20 "Storey ‘apartment
“development at: 2120 Argyle
Avenue, ..:-:
The proponents) have ap-'

and ‘council has scheduled ,a

, By ROSS MEEK.

revealed
the: most. ‘likely ‘cause of
death was’ slow-acting rat
poison.” Brandi: was the
‘ Strench’s family dog.

‘-Shaughn Strench doesn’t
think. the; poisoning was in-—

=A postmortem”

tentional’'but he.wants to”.
warn other Lynn Vailey dog © [~~
possible: .. |.

“owners about
poisoning.

He is’also concerned Tesi-
derits aren't taking proper
precautions with poisons. -

“7 never thought ;
poisoning was intentional,’’-
gaid Strench but dogs are at
risk of being killed by’ resi-.

dents using poison to control | ~

- racoons.

* “1 shy away from thinking .

people poison racoons
either,’? added Strench but
he thinks that’s probably
how Brandi was poisoned.:

: Residents wrap up the

rtrashed Billy Bishop.) *- °°

already expressed their con-
“-again'< raising’ its.. ‘head ‘aS
-, coun \E prepares:. to ‘hold::a"
public ‘meeting on“a-propos- ©

development

plied “for: a_building . permit.:

public hearing for September ;

the aa

Such nonsense pales,
however, compared with Ot-
tawa's effort to wipe
Madeleine de’ Vercheres
from the slate\of history.
For what the de Vercheres
“incident shows is! ‘that today,
‘there can’t eveh be any
‘French-Canadian \heroes or

. by Doug

! “heroines _ - especially if they
fought the Indians. The In-
_ dians might not like it, you

see.
The story has been written
up by Ted Byfield, publisher
.of that excellent magazine’
Alberta Report... \
Madeleine v was a ASyear-

: i

Residents of the area‘have

1

cern to council through a 58

-signiature:-: petition: “which

stated they were “concerned
with the location of ‘the new
because jas
shown it would take away a

“considerable portion of our

eastern view -- particularly

Lions Gate. Bridge."" .
Mayor Derrick” Hum:

phreys told several residents

poison and leiive it in’, their
, garbage, for ‘the. racoons,

: gays Strench. If a dog finds

the. ‘poison, - slow: death -

begins.

Brandi didn’t show overt
signs of being poisoned, said
Strench. She just became
lethargic. She even. became
more affectionate: There
were no’outward symptoms .

‘that the dog was suffering.

Brandi’s vet told the.

a And last year 900

out 100 fate what PED. stands for:
Personal Floatation Device.
More visible from a distance,
warmer in cold water, a PED. will
keep you afloat more comfortably
; than a lifejacket. Play it Safe.

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old who fought off an Iro-
quois attack on her father’s
seigneury in 1692. The at-
tackers butchered every
white they could find in the
fields and, her father being
away, Madeleine took over.
“She positioned her two
younger brothers and an old
man at the stockade, and
held off the attack for eight
days until the Indians, per-
suaded that the place was

get this straight

Collins.

manned by a company, of
troops, withdrew.”

All this became. pertinent
recently, writes Byfield,
when a lavish brochure was
sent out by the Secretary of
State’s office as part of a
National Salute To Youth.
“Throvghout our history,’

at Monday’ s council meeting
that the-area was ‘‘zoned
highrise and they have every
right to apply fora permit. "

However, Humphreys did
point out that when council

looked at downzoning, the

area in 1980, it was rejected;
despite him being i in favor of
it.

Meanwhile, the
municipality's _Advisory

Strenchs it the dog had been
brought in earlier the
debilitating affects of the
poison. ‘could - have been
reversed.

Strench hopes other dog
owners’ will learn to

recognize the affects of the
slow acting poison before
_ their dogs die. He also hopes
it will.encourage people. to
be more careful when using
poison.

“Canadians found

hearing is held.

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stated the brochure, ‘‘there
have been many young Ca-
nadians who have ac-
complished heroic feats or
significant achievements...."”

The Madeleine de Ver-
cheres story. was’ in the
brochure, and Glenn Gould,
Wayne Gretzky and Terry
Fox were: mentioned. But
then some. human rights
zealot in the ‘department
sounded ‘the.talarm.
Madeleine's story didn’t fit
in. She had- fought the In-
dians. - :

The - next - “step - defied
belief, says: Byfi eld, “The
minister’s; staff“ went over
10,000: “copies’’-(6f the
brochure with*marking pens
covering tip, or’trying to, the’
offensive item on: Madeleine

de Vercheres.” In. this*condi--

tion the document was sent
to members of ‘parliament,
media, municipalities,
chambers of commerce, and
7,000 youth-oriented
organizations,”’

The arrival of such an ex-
traordinary item in the mail
— an official document with
a big black smudge in the
middle — inspired Byfield’s

1 troversy rises
. Van

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curiosity. Was it, perhaps,
some horrible typographical
error? An obscenity inserted
by a disgruntled printer? No,
he wrote. The only cbscenity
was the Department of the
Secretary of State’s ‘“‘ineptly
attempting to re-write our
history by expunging from a
list of recommended heroes
the name of Madeleine ‘de
Vercheres.’’

Byfield believes there was
more to this than simple fear
of offending the Indians.
“Beneath the department's
black smudge lurks another
sentiment: Madeleine: is
repudiated not just for
fighting. Indians,
fighting at all.

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Do-gooders rewrite history

_are all to be non- belligerents

— pianists, novelists, the
odd hockey player... but no
soldiers, please, male or fe-
male.... Having smeared Bil-
ly Bishop, we are now work-
ing on Madeleine de- Ver-
cheres.””

It was a- departmental
do-gooder who sounded the
alarm. But it was the
minister — Walter McLean
-— who'made the final deci-
sion to expunge Madeleine,
He has just been dumped.
But not because of his activ-
ities as a censor, you can bet
‘on that.

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