HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Bayfield Bulletin, 1964-10-29, Page 5It wasn't "a noisey noise"
that disturbed the oysters in
Malpeque Bay on the shores of
Prince Edward Island, it was
a critical disease of epidemic
proportions that finished off
beds which earlier had been
seriously diminished by over
fishing. By 1915 these oyster
beds disappeared almost com-
pletely for many years. In
1922 there were signs of re-covery but improvement was
so slow that the then Deputy
Minister of Fisheries, D r .
Found, asked the Fisheries Re-
search Board to appoint a bio-
logist to study oyster fanning
as a means of restoring the
fisheries.
In April of this year Ellers-
lie-Bideford Biological Station
oyster hatchery was officially
opened with Hon. H. J. Robi-
chaud, Canada's Federal Minis-
ter of Fisheries, officiating.
Oysters they claim are like
olives, an acquired taste. I be-
came addicted to gulping down
these bivalves when I could
still run untior a bed standing
up. They were "put down"
each winter in huge oaken
barrels of oyster bed mud in
our cellar in Summers-ide. I
early learned to sit like a hun-
gry puppy at the feet of my
father while he opened a dozen
or more for a stew or scallop.
Every once in a while he would
hand me one and I would slurp
it down raw straight from the
shell with great relish. That
probably accounts for my inter-
est in thisrogtstry and the
news of .p being made
in scientific oyster farming.
On one of my jaunts I visit-
ed the Ellerslie station but, un-
fortunately, it was a Saturday
and not a soul or sound dis-
turbed the spat or bedders in
their various stages of develop-
ment. All I garnered from the
visit were two dozen scallop
shells to use as containers for
culinary purposes. These I
found in abundance on the
shores of Bideford Inlet.
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about the loon seeking his lost
mate through all eternity does-
n't seem to stir the Cree hearts.
I was with two Indian lads in
a lapstrake boat and kicker,
who found it high sport and
rewarding too, to chase loons
and shoot them for food. They
explained to me in the midst
of the chase that when a loon
dives to escape his enemies, he
invariably swims in a straight
line under water, and the point
where he will emerge can be
predicted very accurately.
So it was that the 12-gauge
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Diary af a Vagabond
Introducing Canada's 1964 amateur Sewing Queens
wearing the prize-winning clothes that have just won
them national awards. They're the Canadian finalists,
in their respective age groups, in the 1964 Singer Young
Stylemakers competition which this year attracted
40,000 entries from the U.S.A. and Canada. Left to
right: Dawn Eltherington , 16, Preston, Ontario; Marlene
Tamaki,13,Regina and Lorraine Paquet,19,Quebec City.
CANADA'S SEWING QUEENS
The Oysters' World
Thursday, October 29, 1964—Bayfield Bulletin—Page 5
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Crown Teenage
Sewing Queen
For North America
Dreams have just come true
for three Canadian teenagers,
Dawn Eltherington, 16, Pres-
ton, Ontario, Marlene Tamaki,
13, Regina, and Lorraine Pa-
quet, 19, Quebec City, who have
been named by the Singer Com-
pany of Canada Ltd. as the
best amateur sewers in this
country between the ages of
10-21.
They're the Canadian final-
ists in the 1964 Singer Young
Stylemakers Contest, an an-
annual international amateur
sewing competition which this
year attracted more than 40,-
000 entries from all parts of the
United States and Canada.
Each of the three Canadian
girls completed ten advanced
lessons from a sewing centre
last summer and than sat down
determined to make herself the
finest outfit she'd ever sewn in
her life. The finished dresses
were entered in the Young Sty-
lemakers competition.
link button closing.
Results
Dawn Eltherington has been
named best seamstress in Can-
ada between the ages of 14 and
17. Last week in New York she
defeated all United States fin-
alists and was also crowned
Teen Sewing Queen of North
America.
Marlene Tamaki is rated the
best amateur sewer in Canada
in the 10-13 group. Lorraine
Paquet has been crowned Can-
adian Sewing Queen in the 18-
21 age group.
Each of the Canadian cham-
pions won a fitted sewing case,
a new Singer Touch & Sew
nlaehine, a Singer partible
typewriter, a cash award of
several hundred dollars, and a
fun-pneked trip with their mo-
thers to Montreal and New
York where they lunched and
dined with leading Quebec and
New York fashion consultants
and modelled their prize win-
ning ensembles.
For Da w n Eltherington
there's still an added surprise
to come. As teen Sewing
Queen of North America. she
and her mother will be flown
to Paris for a week's visit with
some of the world's leading fa-
shion houses of the Chamber
Syndicale de la Couture Par-
isienne.
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In far Northern Ontario Alex
Mathias and I were camped
on a mining property a few
years ago, and got some good
laughs out of a persistent red
squirrel which came back time
after time to lift a slice of
bread out of the grub pile and
whisk away with it through
the trees. By the time he had
whisked away half a loaf, the
laughter faded and the Rem-
ington semi-autorniatic came
out. Poor squirrel. He just
didn't know when to quit.
Rabbits hold intricate and
formal ceremonial dances in
the moonlight, skipping around
circular paths in the snow,
something after the fashion of
children playing fox and goose.
Otters have fun like children
too, sliding down mud banks
into the creeks, playing the
same game of tag you can see
in any schoolyard.
They are amazingly human
in their ways of playing, loving
and fighting, all in the course
of an hour or so on a sunny
Autumn afternoon.
Loons are generally consid-
ered sad and lonely creatures,
and certainly their weird cries
coming across the lake in the
evening send little shivers up
the spine.
However, when watched by
an old expert like Tom Aldous,
my prospecting mentor and
first partner, they respond in
amusing fashion. Torn, who
had about 30 years in the hush,
had learned their gabble, and
could elicit immediate response
from a loon hundreds of yards
away out on the lake. Torn
could gabble away at them and
get an answer every time. He
never told me what the mes-
sag was, but he certainly got
answers.
The old traditional story