Ald - Friday, December 21, 1984 - North Shore News

NV writer turns back clock

First book for 70-year-old ("7

“WHAT 1 thought was an abating blizzard prov- chill that ed to be merely a short lull in a vicious storm. The Pages. wind began to increase in velocity and | began to Robinson, now 70, 1s stl

. . 7 ; “ a big man who grips hard experience my first real taste of arctic Cold. I can

; : when he shakes hands. He only estimate the wind chill factor. However, the — didn’t, he says, start out to

wind velocity seemed to vary between 40 and 60 _ be a writer although “‘l had miles per hour and Tom later told me that the 4 feeling something Lke this post thermometer read minus fifty-eight degrees “Ould happen

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: . : . y WO y Fahrenheit. The twin caribou parkas, reintorced the me ans he ase bs my heavy underwear, shirt and sweater, were — through the spoken word insufficient in’ withstanding this weather. Cold “lowas working with B.C penetrated and stabbed at my back as if needles — Flestre when a tnend took of ice were drive right through my garments.’ me to a Toastmasters mos ; meeting, Robison recalls

this wasn’t tor me, but then

Wilham Robinson was in I tigured that a man’s got to his 20s when he survived that the NOR I H get up oon his hind legs and arehe storm: and closing in make a speech once ina

on his TOs when he wrote while and maybe | should.”’ about it 7

By MARK HAMIL TON E ; My first thought was that NOVICE in

His “‘break’’ came at a Toastmasters meeting one evening when one of the Speakers didn’t show up. Robinson was pressed into service and gave a 10 minute speech about his lite in the Arctie

“My wite was with me that evening and when [| got finished she said ‘Next time vou take holidays whs don't you write a book?’ Robin

son says “'That spurred me

The paragraph is taken trom Robinsen ss Novice in the North. released last month bs Hancock House, the first of what he says could be as tnhansy as three books taking him trom the north, to the war and finally to B ¢

And while Noviee may not make it on to the bestsellers list, Robinson say he was on cloud nine when the tirst

copy arrived ano his) hands to trys my hand “ He's pretty much back down drawings and with Robinson didn't write a now, he says. but walking photographs. many of them book Instead he churned mto a bookstore and seeing taken by Robinson with a out |S articles and short oon the shelves as still a tolding Brownie camera that Stories that were published in kick he stil has Cand that soll a Variety of magazines Robinson became ad novice takes pood prtures”” The book was put on hold mo Canada’s north on the NONowiee an the North os because “In the late 1960s | middle of the Depressron a good one or two nights read, wound up ino the computer

NEWS photo Terry Peters leaving behind farm hte on preferably in front of a warm See page A15 BILL ROBINSON with a narwhal tusk. one of the souvenirs of his (ime with the Hudsons the Pramies for a oa paving fire ta deal with the arctic Bay Company in the ( anadian Arctic yobo a rarity in those days

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