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MAIL BOx Natives should hold a

Mad avout Moody matters

Dear Editor:

Jam writing to criticize the editorial explanation and the nasleading comments in “Moody saved struggling mill” by Janell Hilton (July 8, News, page 19).

One statement in the article is totally wrong.

“Huge flumes carried the logs down to the harbor ...” states an impossibility which would be self-evident to anyone who stops to consider the weight of green fogs.

Shingle-dolts were transported by flume, bur they were segments only four fect, cight inciies iong split from large logs.

‘The editorial comment az the end of the article was scandalously inaccurate in one cf its claims: Roy Pallant would never have said

that flumes transported huge fogs.

He is the best informed living historian of the North Shore and is fully informed of Moody’s operations.

Although there is no quotation directly attributed to Mr. Pallant, an uninformed reader would naturally and logically infer from the editoria] comment that the gress error about flumes came from, or was approved by, Mr. Pallant.

I feel thar our best historian has been insulted by the “Down Memory Lane” arti- cle, his professional competence has been called into question.

I think you owe Mr. Pailant an apology. Harvey Burt North ‘Vancouver

Emergency education needed

Dear Editor:

During, the last few months there has been a great deal of discussion regarding emergency preparedness in case of 21 earth- quake,

As a dialysis patient receiving treatment at St, Paul’s hospital, I have found that there is very little education directed to those of us who rely on this life-saving procedure.

Not only patients but many caregivers also live on the North Shore and at present we would not know what to do or where to

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go in case access to Vancouver was cut off.

I feel we should conduct an education seminar and include those people such as the North Shore Emergency Services, Red Cross, St. John Ambulance and others.

If any of the doctors, nurses and patients are interested please contact me at phone/fax 987-0088 or e-mail rmsmith® direct.ca

Thank you for your attention.

RM. Smith North Vancouver

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Friday, July 24, 1998 — North Shore News - 9

thanks to British Day

Dear Editor:

Re: Land claims cost and “Sorry Days.”

Recent commentaries in vour paper by Managing Editor Timothy Renshaw and North Vancouver-Seymour MLA Daniel Jarvis should have Canadians rearing on their hind legs in anger over the land grabs by native peoples, aided and abetted by gutless politicians here and in Orrawa.

In Australia the scenario is being enacted to an equally absurd degree almost too identical to be called coincidence. Australians recently held a first “Sorry Day,” renaming Botany Bay’s National Park as an apology to the aborigines for Captain Cook's arrival near Sydney in 1770. The more recent immature generations are even signing “Sorry Books.”

Your readers may carefully consider the words of the Rev. Cedric Jacebs OBE, in Healing a Divided Nation, and substitute the word Canada where “Australia” appears.

“While it is important that we look back at history, and do not minimize the many injus- tices which one group has done to others, it is destructive to attempt to exploit past evils. Christians must reject this attitude, preaching reconciliation through Christ ... present day Australians cannot be held responsible for what some of the carly settlers did to the abo- rigines.

“The great majority of present-day Australians, including those of non-British background, are not even distantly related to

_ the early settlers.

“There has been an anti-Christian campaign to create a guilt complex among Australians, conditioning them to accept a land rights pro- gram which has already created tensions where none or few existed before, and which imple- mented would virtually create two nations.

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This is the aim of some revolutionaries!”

An English writer in the International Express (June) suggests that these apologics, so fashionable iately, might appeal to the Emperor of Japan, mindful of Second World War atroci- ties. Everyone is “sorry” for the Irish potato famine, the African slave trade, and the slaugh- ter of North American Indians. The U.S.A. might say “sorry” to Mexico for gobbling up Texas, New Mexico, and California.

On the other hand, Canadian natives may reflect on their ancestors’ joy at being brought out of the Stone Age.

They cagerly grasped the guns, cookpots, knives ctc. while scoffing quietly at the stupid “whites” who only wanted some home grown animal skins in exchange.

Canada’s native people should perhaps feel grateful that the British won the War of 1812, that the Hudson's Bay Co. out here precmpt- ed their being made pawns or even slaves of the Americans, or subject to Spanish cruelty, or economic captives of the Russians out of Alaska.

So — how about our native people holdin a “Thank You Very Much Day” fur the small minority remnant (38%?) of an endangered species of British descent to be found around here on the West Coast?

Russell C. Shelton West Vancouver

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